Controversies in the Surgical Management of Spinal Cord Injuries by Ahmed M. Raslan, Andrew N. Nemecek

“…The controversy surrounding whether reduction is safe, or not, and whether prereduction magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to rule out traumatic disc herniation is essential is discussed. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF CONTRAST–ENHANCED HIGHRESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) FORTHE DETECTION OF RETINOBLASTOMA by Muhammad Faisal

“…Conclusion In conclusion, the results of this study suggest that MR imaging proved to have a high diagnostic accuracy as well as positive predictive value in the detection of retinoblastoma taking histopathology as the gold standard. …”
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Accurate Anisotropic Fast Marching for Diffusion-Based Geodesic Tractography by S. Jbabdi, P. Bellec, R. Toro, J. Daunizeau, M. Pélégrini-Issac, H. Benali

“…Using geodesics for inferring white matter fibre tracts from diffusion-weighted MR data is an attractive method for at least two reasons: (i) the method optimises a global criterion, and hence is less sensitive to local perturbations such as noise or partial volume effects, and (ii) the method is fast, allowing to infer on a large number of connexions in a reasonable computational time. …”
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Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Thigh: Presentation of a Rare Case and Review of the Literature by O. D. Savvidou, V. I. Sakellariou, O. Papakonstantinou, E. Skarpidi, P. J. Papagelopoulos

“…The inflammatory markers were elevated and the MR images showed a well-defined intermuscular lesion with mild heterogeneous enhancement. …”
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Intracranial Hypotension with Multiple Complications: An Unusual Case Report by Swetha Ade, Majaz Moonis

“…We present a patient with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) who had an incidental ophthalmic artery aneurysm on MR imaging, and this presentation led to coiling of the aneurysm. …”
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Rare Suprasellar Chordoid Meningioma with INI1 Gene Mutation by Imad Fadl-Elmula, Rania Giha, Sawsan AH Deaf, Lamyaa Ahmed El Hassan, Ahmed M. Hassan, Mohamed AR Arbab

“…Cranial magnetic resonance (MR) images demonstrated a 28x15 mm mass in the sellar region, which showed iso-to low intensity that enhanced vividly after gadolinium with upwards displacement of the Optic chiasm. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Reconstruction of Single-Breath-Hold 3 mm HASTE Improves Abdominal Image Quality and Reduces Acquisition Time: A Quantitative Analysis by Felix Kubicka, Qinxuan Tan, Tom Meyer, Dominik Nickel, Elisabeth Weiland, Moritz Wagner, Stephan Rodrigo Marticorena Garcia

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PDIA3 rs2788: An Independent Risk Factor for Hypertension and Its Interaction With Antihypertensive Medications by Hongtao Lan, Yingbin Xi, Baoxu Kang, Zhoujie Tong, Jie Peng, Wei Zhang, Ming Zhong, Huiping Gong, Zhihao Wang

“…First, Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses were performed to assess the causal link between PDIA3 and hypertension. …”
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Apocalypse Now: Dombey in the Twenty-First Century by Jennifer Gribble

“…The narrative injunction to Mr Dombey, ‘awake, doomed man,’ has a Carlylean, Miltonic and biblical source, but it also strikes a significant key-note for early twenty-first-century readers. …”
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Characterization and Application of the Thermal Neutron Radiography Beam in the Egyptian Second Experimental and Training Research Reactor (ETRR-2) by M. A. Abou Mandour, R. M. Megahid, M. H. Hassan, T. M. Abd El Salam

“…In this work, the radial neutron beam for the thermal neutron radiography facility has been characterized and the following values were determined: thermal flux of 1.5×107 n/cm2⋅s, nth/γ ratio of 0.1×106 n⋅cm−2⋅mR−1; a Cd ratio of 10.26, a resolution of 0.188 mm, and L/D ratio of 117.3. …”
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‘Only Brooks of Sheffield’: Conversation, Crossover Writing, and Child and Adult Perspectives in David Copperfield and Its Juvenile Adaptations by Hannah Field

“…The rules of conversation are suspended in mixed-age companies, as is most powerfully expressed in my titular example: an adult joke turning on the child David’s non-comprehension of a remark by Mr Murdstone. Nonetheless, other conversations show sensitive adults mitigating power differentials between child and adult, and present the child David as unusually perspicacious (in line with his overall characterization). …”
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A Foreign Body Granuloma of the Buccal Mucosa Induced by Honeybee Sting by Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Yohei Nakayama, Yumiko Matsusue, Miyako Kurihara, Takahiro Yagyuu, Tadaaki Kirita

“…The mass was 20 mm in diameter, elastically firm, partly mobile without pain or tenderness, and covered with almost normal mucosa. MR image did not delineate the lesion clearly. Under clinical diagnosis of a benign tumor, the lesion was excised under local anesthesia. …”
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Comparison of Multiparameter Selection Processes for Potential Application of Titanium Alloys in Coronary Stents by Felipe Morales Romero, Leonardo Contri Campanelli, Danieli Aparecida Pereira Reis

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Banki w roli multiplikatorów rozwoju najuboższych regionów Unii Europejskiej. Niektóre konstatacje z badał w regionie warmińsko-mazurskim by Andrzej Sołoma

“…Bankowość spółdzielcza oraz część banków komercyjnych wpiera rozwój rolnictwa i obszarów wiejskich, głównie za pomocą kredytów preferencyjnych z dopłatami do oprocentowania ARiMR zaliczanymi do form tzw. pomocy krajowej. Tego rodzaju kredytów w latach 1994-2006 w skali kraju udzielono na ponad 90 mld zł. 2. …”
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Robust Diffeomorphic Mapping via Geodesically Controlled Active Shapes by Daniel J. Tward, Jun Ma, Michael I. Miller, Laurent Younes

“…In this work, we seek to use template surfaces to generate segmentations of the hippocampus with three data attachment terms: surface matching, landmark matching, and inside-outside modeling from grayscale T1 MR imaging data. This is formulated as an energy minimization problem, where energy describes shape variability and data attachment accuracy, and we derive a variational solution. …”
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Tryptophan Kynurenine Pathway-Based Imaging Agents for Brain Disorders and Oncology—From Bench to Bedside by Erik Stauff, Wenqi Xu, Heidi H. Kecskemethy, Sigrid A. Langhans, Vinay V. R. Kandula, Lauren W. Averill, Xuyi Yue

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The Mercosur-European Union agreements seen from the perspective of Argentina’s foreign policy by Alejandro Cesar Simonoff

“…A close scrutiny of the final drive to successfully conclude negotiations between Mercosur and the European Union during the closing stages of Mr.Macri´s administration is performed. A qualitative method has been used, based on a detailed inspection of official sources, press reports and news stories covering the talks. …”
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A Review on Structural Development of Magnetorheological Fluid Damper by Xianju Yuan, Tianyu Tian, Hongtao Ling, Tianyu Qiu, Huanli He

“…Significant differences of structures occur in diverse fields due to the respective requirements, thus obtaining a large number of MR dampers. Having a good understanding of types, technical characteristics, comprehensive performance, and developing trend and their dependencies on structures are extremely conducive to innovative developments and a market selection. …”
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Biochemical and Clinical Features of Insulinoma in a Patient with Turner Syndrome by Darius A. Schneider, M. Zare, F. Behnia, M. Matesan, T. Tylee

“…Biochemical work-up following a 72h fast revealed detectable, inappropriate for low glucose insulin levels and elevated proinsulin and beta-hydroxybutyrate (BOHB) levels. MR and multiphase CT showed a solid 2.5 cm pancreatic tail mass with absent uptake in the 111In-pentetreotide (Octreoscan) scan. …”
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Banki w roli multiplikatorów rozwoju najuboższych regionów Unii Europejskiej. Niektóre konstatacje z badał w regionie warmińsko-mazurskim by Andrzej Sołoma

“…Bankowość spółdzielcza oraz część banków komercyjnych wpiera rozwój rolnictwa i obszarów wiejskich, głównie za pomocą kredytów preferencyjnych z dopłatami do oprocentowania ARiMR zaliczanymi do form tzw. pomocy krajowej. Tego rodzaju kredytów w latach 1994-2006 w skali kraju udzielono na ponad 90 mld zł. 2. …”
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