Tortuous Common Carotid Artery: A Report of Four Cases Observed in Cadaveric Dissections by Joe Iwanaga, Koichi Watanabe, Saga Tsuyoshi, Yoko Tabira, Koh-ichi Yamaki

“…Case 3 was an 86-year-old woman who died from bladder cancer and who also had a right tortuous common carotid artery without arteriosclerosis. …”
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Organotin Compound Derived from 3-Hydroxy-2-formylpyridine Semicarbazone: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Antiproliferative Activity by Joanna Wiecek, Dimitra Kovala-Demertzi, Zbigniew Ciunik, Joanna Wietrzyk, Maria Zervou, Mavroudis A. Demertzis

“…Compounds 1 and 2 have been evaluated for antiproliferative activity in vitro against the cells of three human tumor cell lines: MCF-7 (human breast cancer cell line), T24 (bladder cancer cell line), A549 (nonsmall cell lung carcinoma), and a mouse fibroblast L-929 cancer cell line.…”
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Benign mature teratoma of the conus medullaris in a 57-year-old-female: case report and literature review by Daniel Yamba Yamba, Dramane Cissé, Oualid Mohammed Hmamouche, Faycal Lakhdar, Mohammed Benzagmout, Khalid Chakour, Mohammed El Faiz Chaoui

“…She has normal bowel and bladder function. The neurological examination found reduced lower limb power, where the right and left proximal power were 0/5 and 2/5, respectively. …”
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Analysis and research on water hammer protection measures based on KY PIPE for long distance pumping station water transmission engineering with pump stoppage by Zhen Zhou, Zhenwei Mu, Honghong Zhang, Mengqiang Zhang, Yuanhao Gu, Xiufu Shi, Baien Zhao

“…At the same time, the negative pressure in the pipeline can be eliminated, and the installation of a water hammer relief valve can effectively reduce the volume of the bladder surge tank by 77.5%. The results show that the use of joint protection equipment in a long-distance water transmission project has a better effect on the water hammer pressure in the pipeline. …”
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DNA Ploidy and S-Phase Fraction in Carcinoma of the Gallbladder Related to Histopathology, Number of Gallstones and Survival 1 by Ulf Gustafsson, Curt Einarsson, Lennart C. Eriksson, Virgil Gadaleanu, Staffan Sahlin, Bernhard Tribukait

“…We studied DNA ploidy and cell cycle composition by flow cytometry in archival specimens from 52 gall bladder carcinomas in relation to histopathological grade, tumour stage, gallstone number and survival. 69% of the gallbladder carcinomas showed aneuploidy. …”
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Histopathological Study of Gallbladder Associated with Gallstone Disease by Seerwan Raheem, Ismail Kakey

“…The present study aims to examine the histopathological changes in the mucosa of the gall bladder in patients with cholelithiasis. The study involved 81 patients who were treated with a gallbladder removal operation due to cholecystitis. …”
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Metastatic urothelial carcinoma in multiple appendicular muscles of a cat by Eduardo M Hernández, Pedro J Ginel, Beatriz Blanco, Yolanda Millán, Maria T Jiménez, Elena Mozos

“…Although this neoplasia typically originates from the urothelium of the urinary bladder or renal pelvis, the primary tumour could not be detected in repeated abdominal ultrasound examinations. …”
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The “Mother Load” and Return to Sport: A Case Report of Returning to Professional Netball Following Cesarean Section by Alexandra Diggles

“…Assessment included readiness and fear of movement screening, dynamic pelvic floor muscle function, structural integrity of the CS wound, levator hiatal dimensions, bladder neck descent, and early global neuromuscular screening. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms Contributing Bacterial Infections to the Incidence of Various Types of Cancer by Salah A. Sheweita, Awad S. Alsamghan

“…., and Proteus mirabilis has been found to cause bladder cancer. These microorganisms produce a high level of N-nitrosamines which are metabolically activated leading to the generation of alkylating agents that damage DNA and other macromolecules. …”
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Robot-assisted Kidney Transplantation in Patients Undergoing Cystectomy with Urinary Diversion: First Cases Reported by the ERUS-RAKT Working Group by José Ignacio Pérez-Reggeti, Begoña Etcheverry, María Fiol, Angelo Territo, Luca Afferi, Oscar Buisan, Luis Riera, José F. Suarez-Novo, Alberto Breda, Francesc Vigués

“…We present the first RAKT series reported for patients undergoing simple cystectomy and UD for benign bladder disease. The first case involved simultaneous robot-assisted simple cystectomy with intracorporeal UD and RAKT. …”
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Consensus on Rehabilitation Assessment and Treatment for Full-Cycle Rehabilitation of Elderly Lung Cancer by Rehabilitation and Respiratory Experts by Jia Jie, ², Chen Xin³, He Jing⁴, Dong Anqin⁵, Ding Yipeng⁶, Liao Weijing⁷, Zheng Jiejao⁸, Yu Binbin⁹, Chen Zuobing ⁰, Fang Yuan, Yao Liqing ², Zhu Yiping ³

“…Functional impairments encompass multiple aspects, including pulmonary function, cardiac function, exercise capacity, pain, psychological issues, cognition, speech, swallowing, sensory functions, and bowel and bladder dysfunction. The consensus offers comprehensive academic guidance and clinical practice recommendations for rehabilitation professionals across various healthcare settings. …”
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Asymmetric Omphalopagus in a Triplet after In Vitro Fertilization: A Rare Case of Conjoined Twinning by Samir Jabari, Roman Carbon, Manuel Besendörfer, Arndt Hartmann, Oliver Rompel, André Hoerning, Stephan Söder

“…We found a rudimentary rectum with a nonpervious anus, a kidney, ureter, urinary bladder, and a blind-ending urethra. The blood supply of the parasite was connected to the vessel system of the autosite. …”
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Enhancing Medical Image Classification With Context Modulated Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion by Renhan Zhang, Xuegang Luo, Junrui Lv, Junyang Cao, Yangping Zhu, Juan Wang, Bochuan Zheng

“…The experimental results demonstrate that MSFF significantly outperforms existing methods in multiple performance metrics (including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), Kappa coefficient, Area Under the Curve (AUC), balanced accuracy, and geometric mean) on four datasets (Endoscopic Bladder Tissue, Kvasir, SARS-COV-2 Ct-Scan, and Thyroid Nodule), showing its excellent performance in the task of medical image classification.…”
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Scraping and moxibustion therapy and nursing of a breast cancer patient with COVID-19 in convalescence (1例乳腺癌患者新型冠状病毒感染恢复期应用刮灸疗法的护理体会)... by YAN Kang (严康), LIU Shuhong (刘书红), ZHAO Yanan (赵亚楠)

“…On the basis of Traditional Chinese Medicine syndrome differentiation, the Du meridian (Dazhui) and the bladder meridian (Feishu, Pishu) of the patient were treated with scraping and moxibustion once a day. …”
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Origin of Serum Affects Quality of Engineered Tissues Produced by the Self-Assembly Approach by Stéphane Chabaud, Melissa Simard, Isabelle Gendreau, Roxane Pouliot, Stéphane Bolduc

“…Effects of sera on thickness of these two compartments were measured and quality of the epithelial differentiation was evaluated. For bladder mucosa substitute reconstruction, the use of postnatal sera failed to produce an adequate uroepithelium whereas the fetal sera supplementation did. …”
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Development and Validation of a Specific Stability Indicating High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Methods for Related Compounds and Assay of Solifenacin Succinate by B. V. Rami Reddy, B. Srinivasa Reddy, N. V. V. S. S. Raman, K. Subhash Reddy, C. Rambabu

“…Gradient, reverse phase liquid chromatographic methods were developed separately for the related compounds and solifenacin succinate, an active pharmaceutical ingredient used for the treatment of overactive bladder. Gradient LC method was employed for related compounds. …”
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Effects of perioperative oxycodone as the sole opioid on immunity within a multi-modal analgesia framework in patients undergoing cervical cancer surgery: A randomised controlled t... by Jingjing Liu, Sumeng Chen, Jianxiao Chen, Hailian Liu, Weiyi Li, Haomin Chi, Xiaowei Ding, Shaoqiang Huang

“…Within 24 h postoperatively, the visual analogue scale (VAS) scores for resting and movement-evoked pain were lower in Group O than in Group C (all P < 0.001), and the same was observed at 48 h postoperatively (both P = 0.002), as was the incidence of catheter-related bladder discomfort (P = 0.001). The VASs for postoperative analgesia satisfaction were higher in Group O than in Group C (P = 0.006). …”
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Risk Factors for Urgency Incontinence in Women Undergoing Stress Urinary Incontinence Surgery by Leslie M. Rickey, Liyuan Huang, David D. Rahn, Yvonne Hsu, Heather J. Litman, Elizabeth R. Mueller

“…Further research is necessary to elucidate the pathophysiologic mechanisms that explain the associations between these medical conditions and bladder function.…”
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Barriers to Implementing Intermittent Catheterisation in Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, Southport, U.K. by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Tun Oo, Peter L. Hughes

“…Intermittent catheterisation is the preferred method of managing the neurogenic bladder in patients with spinal cord injury. However, spinal cord physicians experienced problems when trying to implement an intermittent catheterisation regime in some spinal cord injury patients in the northwest of England. …”
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African Swine Fever Outbreak at a Farm in Central Namibia by Alaster Samkange, Borden Mushonga, Douglas Mudimba, Bernard A. Chiwome, Mark Jago, Erick Kandiwa, Alec S. Bishi, Umberto Molini

“…Necropsy findings included large amounts of unclotted blood in the pleural and peritoneal cavities, diffuse carcass congestion, splenomegaly, consolidation of both lungs, hemorrhagic and frothy airways and trachea, hepatomegaly and congestion, congestion of the gastric mucosa, enlarged and congested kidneys, ecchymotic epicardial, and endocardial hemorrhages, and very enlarged and congested urinary bladder. All the remaining pigs were euthanized, burned, and buried under state veterinary supervision. …”
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