To interpret and analyze the changing patterns of histology and direct immunofluorescence findings in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis by Pragnya P. Nayak, Pranati Pradhan, Dilleswari Pradhan, Nachiketa Mohapatra, Sarojini Raman, Pranabandhu Sahoo

“…Materials and Methods: This is a prospective observational study carried out in a tertiary care center over a period of 2 yrs. …”
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Clinical-histopathological concordance in head and neck lesions. by Sahily Espino Otero, Julio Romero Rodrígez, Yordany Boza Mejías, Odalys Acevedo Sierra, Iván Quintana Hijano, Phede Selme

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a descriptive, retrospective, observational study was developed in a series of cases (360 patients) to determine the clinical diagnostic scope in relation to the histopathological techniques used in the Maxillary Surgery Service of “Gustavo Aldereguía Lima” hospital between June 2006 and 2007. …”
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The fundamentals of Indian personality: An investigation of the big five by Tanisha Shetty, Nitha Thomas, Ravindra Neelakanthappa Munoli

“…Settings and Design: This was a cross-structural observational study conducted in Udupi and Mangalore. Methods and Material: 400 community participants (200 women) from diverse socio economic backgrounds were recruited for the study and were assessed on either an English or Kannada version of the BFI-2-S. …”
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Relation between the morphometric parameters of Thymus and fetal weight. by Carmen Niurka Piña Loyola, Marta Rosa Gonzalez Debén, Alfredo Quiñones Ceballos

“…<strong><br />Methods</strong>: A correlational, descriptive, observational study was carried out in the period between May, 2003 and May 2008. …”
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Management of Patients with Graves’ Disease and Orbital Involvement: Role of Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography by Alice Bruscolini, Maurizio La Cava, Magda Gharbiya, Marta Sacchetti, Lucia Restivo, Chiara Nardella, Marco Marenco, Alessandro Lambiase

“…Thirty-six eyes of 18 patients with GO and 36 eyes of 18 age-matched control subjects were included in this retrospective observational study. All the subjects underwent a complete ophthalmological evaluation, including clinical activity score (CAS) and exophthalmometry. …”
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Profiling Laboratory Biomarkers Associated with COVID-19 Disease Progression: A Single-Center Experience by Maria Khan, Noman Shah, Hina Mushtaq, Valeed Jehanzeb

“…In a single-center, observational study of 50 in-hospital patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and admitted to the intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in Peshawar, infection biomarkers, including hs-CRP, serum ferritin, serum creatinine, ALT, ALP, cardiac troponin-I, and IL-6 were analyzed. …”
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Platelet mass index, systemic immune-inflammation index, and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as practical markers in childhood brucellosis by Hilal Koyuncu, Ayşe Tolunay Oflu, Ayşe Güngör, Ayşegül Bükülmez

“…Methods: This retrospective observational study included 69 patients with brucellosis and a control group of 69 healthy children. …”
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Review of interruptions in a pediatric subspecialty outpatient clinic. by Tyler Lee, Hinette Rosario, Elizabeth Cifuentes, Jiawei Cui, Emery C Lin, Victoria A Miller, Henry C Lin

“…<h4>Methods</h4>An observational study was performed at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pediatric Gastroenterology clinic. …”
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Significance of histopathological features in the diagnosis of Budd–Chiari syndrome on liver biopsies by Pallavi Prasad, Anurag Singh, Alka Singh, Prabhaker Mishra, Narendra Krishnani

“…Materials and Methods: A 5-year retrospective observational study was conducted. The clinical, laboratory, and histological findings of liver biopsies in patients with a clinical diagnosis of BCS were studied. …”
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Clinical and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiographic Features in Patients with Postcataract Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Endophthalmitis by Lu Chen, Dahui Ma, Jieting She, Miaohong Chen, Jian Zeng, Jiantao Wang, Guoming Zhang

“…A retrospective observational study of 4 patients who developed S. maltophilia endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. …”
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Efficacy of alternate mucosa–submucosa clip closure in preventing postoperative adverse events for patients with gastric mucosal lesions after endoscopic submucosal dissection: a m... by Lu Chen, Jingjing Jiang, Hongxia Li, Xin Yin, Xiajiao Tang, Yinnan Zhu, Wei Chen, Qin Lu, Ruihua Shi

“…Design: Multicenter retrospective observational study. Methods: Data from 924 patients who underwent ESD for gastric mucosal lesions were retrospectively collected and categorized into completely closed and unclosed groups based on postoperative wound management. …”
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Admission Decisions Made by Emergency Physicians Can Reduce the Emergency Department Length of Stay for Medical Patients by Yuri Choi, Jinwoo Jeong, Byoung-Gwon Kim

“…The study was a retrospective observational study comparing the ED LOS of patients admitted to the internal medicine (IM) department before and after the policy change regarding admission decisions that was implemented in October 2016. …”
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Anti-N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Encephalitis as Paraneoplastic Manifestation of Germ-Cells Tumours: A Cases Report and Literature Review by Claudia Geraldine Rita, Israel Nieto Gañan, Adriano Jimenez Escrig, Ángela Carrasco Sayalero

“…This retrospective observational study was performed in patients whom positive anti-NMDA receptor antibodies have been tested, associated with clinical manifestations that suggest autoimmune encephalitis and a germ-cell tumour confirmed by pathology. …”
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Intramuscular Olanzapine in the Management of Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms in Hospitalized Older Adults: A Retrospective Descriptive Study by Silvia Duong, Kam-Tong Yeung, Feng Chang

“…A retrospective observational study of inpatients 65 years or older with at least one order for olanzapine IM during admission in urban Ontario Canada was conducted. …”
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Study of the association of the known prognostic variables with EGFR expression in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas by Toyaja Jadhav, Ajay Malik, Ahmed Waheed Kashif, Divya Shelly, Prabhashankar S. Mishra, Ajay Kumar Baranwal, Rajesh Sahu

“…Aim: To study the association of the known prognostic variables with EGFR expression in HNSCCs and to correlate it with the clinical outcome Settings and Design: Cross-sectional observational study. Materials and Methods: A total of 170 patients of HNSCC were evaluated for EGFR expression and followed up for at least two years, with correlation of EGFR expression with various histopathological factors and their clinical outcome. …”
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Stand-Alone Cervical Cage for Cervical Radiculopathy: A Retrospective Study by I Ketut Martiana, Reyner Valiant Tumbelaka

“…Methods: This is a retrospective observational study on every patient who underwent a stand-alone cervical cage procedure for cervical radiculopathy at our hospital institution from 2013 to 2017. …”
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Prevalence of advanced hepatic fibrosis and individualization of associated risk factors by Bayesian analysis in MASLD patients in French cardio-metabolic health networks. by Michel Doffoel, Frédéric Chaffraix, Archia Chahard, Dominique Gras, Odile Bonomi, Corinne Bildstein, Simona Tripon, Maude Royant, Nicolas Meyer

“…Overall, 712 patients aged ≥18 years with a female predominance were included into a prospective, cross-sectional, and observational study. Advanced fibrosis and severe steatosis were evaluated using transient elastography (FibroScan®). …”
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Eyes that Do Not Meet the Eligibility Criteria of Clinical Trials on Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Proportion of the Real-World Patient Population and Reasons for Exclusion by Jae Hui Kim, Jong Woo Kim, Chul Gu Kim

“…This retrospective, observational study included 512 eyes of 463 patients diagnosed with treatment-naïve neovascular AMD. …”
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A cross-sectional study exploring the positive aspects of caregiving in opioid dependence and its relation with quality of life, social support, and caregivers’ burden by Priyanka Saha, Sayan Saha, Gauri Shanker Kaloiya, Siddharth Sarkar

“…This exploratory observational study aimed to assess the positive aspects of caregiving for opioid dependence and evaluate the association of these positive aspects with caregiver quality of life, burden, and social support. …”
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Anatomical regions of residual hemorrhage in chronic subdural hematoma by Abdullah Emre Taçyıldız, Melih Üçer, Kübra Gezici, Gökhan Canaz, Aydın Sinan Apaydın

“…Methods This retrospective, observational study reviewed the demographic, clinical, functional, and radiographic outcomes of 74 patients who underwent surgery for CSH between January 1, 2017, and October 1, 2021, at a single-center. …”
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