Acute Appendicitis: An Extracolonic Manifestation of Clostridium difficile Colitis by Ali Ridha, Shoaib M. Safiullah, Sarah Al-Abayechi, Amin Ur Rehman Nadeem

“…Although both appendicitis and C. difficile colitis are common conditions, they are rarely diagnosed concurrently. …”
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Implications of the Incidental Finding of a MYCN Amplified Adrenal Tumor: A Case Report and Update of a Pediatric Disease Diagnosed in Adults by Anna Koumarianou, Panagiota Oikonomopoulou, Margarita Baka, Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos, Stylianos Argentos, Theodoros Piperos, Maria-Ioanna Christodoulou, Kakoulis Theodoulou, Theodoros Mariolis-Sapsakos

“…While neuroblastoma is one of the most common childhood malignancies, in adults it is extremely rare and its treatment is based on pediatric protocols that take into consideration stage and genotypic features, such as MYCN amplification. …”
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Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome (SOS) in Multiple Myeloma with Renal Failure by Urvi A. Shah, Sengottuvel Viswanathan, Beamon Agarwal, Aditi Shastri, Ioannis Mantzaris, Murali Janakiram, Noah Kornblum, Ira Braunschweig, Amit Verma, Yang Shi, John Reinus, Olga Derman

“…Although, melphalan and cyclophosphamide cause SOS less commonly than alkylating agents such as busulfan, physicians must use caution when administering these drugs to patients with underlying comorbidities such as renal failure that may increase the likelihood of development of SOS. …”
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Non-Operatively Treated Thoracolumbar Burst Fracture with Posterior Ligamentous Complex Injury: Case Report and Consideration on the Limitation of Thoracolumbar Injury Classificati... by Woo-Keun Kwon, Jong-Keon Oh, Jun-Min Cho, Taek-Hyun Kwon, Youn-Kwan Park, Hong Joo Moon, Joo Han Kim

“…Fractures at the thoracolumbar region are commonly followed after major traumatic injuries, and up to 20% of these fractures are known to be burst fractures. …”
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Ileocecal intussusception in a patient with ileal melanoma metastasis: clinical case and review of the literature by M. A. Danilov, A. O. Atroschenko, S. V. Pozdnyakov, G. G. Saakyan

“…Intestinal intussusception is a rare condition, especially in adults, which can develop due to both benign and malignant neoplasms. Commonly intestinal intussusception is an accidental diagnostic finding, however cases of clinically severe intussusception resulting in impaired passage of intestinal content are described in the literature. …”
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Two Brothers with Bardet-Biedl Syndrome Presenting with Chronic Renal Failure by Cem Sahin, Bulent Huddam, Gulhan Akbaba, Hasan Tunca, Emine Koca, Mustafa Levent

“…Renal failure accompanying the syndrome, especially in the advanced stages, is the most common cause of mortality. Therefore, as one of the major diagnostic criteria, renal damage is of great importance in early diagnosis. …”
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Pneumomediastinum and Bilateral Pneumothoraces Causing Respiratory Failure after Thyroid Surgery by Michael Koeppen, Benjamin Scott, Joseph Morabito, Matthew Fiegel, Tobias Eckle

“…Because pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum might be more common than reported, and considering increasing cases of thyroid surgery, staff should remain vigilant of pulmonary complications after thyroid surgery.…”
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Sarcoidosis and Its Splenic Wonder: A Rare Case of Isolated Splenic Sarcoidosis by Khushali Jhaveri, Abhay Vakil, Salim R. Surani

“…The pulmonary interstitium is most commonly affected but extrapulmonary involvement can occur in almost any other organ system. …”
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Role of Genetic Alterations in the NLRP3 and CARD8 Genes in Health and Disease by G. V. Paramel, A. Sirsjö, K. Fransén

“…The complexity of a common inflammatory disease is influenced by multiple genetic and environmental factors contributing to the susceptibility of disease. …”
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Influence of the stress gradient on the fatigue life calculation of a martensitic high strength steel by Igor Miloševic, Gerhard Winter, Florian Grün, Martin Kober

“…Nowadays lifetime calculation in the high cycle fatigue region is commonly based on S/N curves which are modified by different influences to ensure accurate results. …”
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Non-uniform Fourier transform based image classification in single-particle Cryo-EM by ZiJian Bai, Jian Huang

“…In the single-particle Cryo-EM projection image classification, it is a common practice to apply the Fourier transform to the images and extract rotation-invariant features in the frequency domain. …”
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Extractive Spectrophotometric Methods for the Determination of Etoricoxib in Tablets by Kamal Shah, Alka Gupta, Pradeep Mishra

“…Recovery studies gave satisfactory results indicating that none of common additives and excipients interfere the assay method. …”
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Quelle est la relation entre les troubles musculo-squelettiques (TMS) liés au travail et les facteurs psychosociaux ? by Susan Stock, Nektaria Nicolakakis, Karen Messing, Alice Turcot, Hicham Raiq

“…Moreover, there is no common definition of the organizational and psychosocial work environment and of psychosocial workplace factors. …”
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Lanthanum-Induced Radiopaque Intestinal Precipitates: A Potential Cause of Intestinal Foreign Bodies by Jason Galo, Bianca Madrid, Warren Kupin

“…Lanthanum carbonate is a commonly prescribed oral phosphate binder for use in patients with acute or chronic kidney disease. …”
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Managing Southern Chinch Bug in Warm Season Turfgrasses by Eileen A. Buss, Brianna Whitman, Adam G. Dale

“…Augustinegrass is the most common turfgrass used in Florida. The ubiquity of this single turfgrass species makes southern chinch bug an economically important pest in the state. …”
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The Exit Time and the Dividend Value Function for One-Dimensional Diffusion Processes by Peng Li, Chuancun Yin, Ming Zhou

“…Then, as some examples, we solve the closed-form expression of the Laplace transform of the exit times for several popular diffusions, which are commonly used in modelling of finance and insurance market. …”
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De Novo Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis (FGN) in a Renal Transplant with Chronic Hepatitis C by Edward J. Filippone, Christine Chmielewski, Rakesh Gulati, Eric Newman, John L. Farber

“…Glomerulonephritis (GN) of the renal allograft in the setting of HepC most commonly manifests as type 1 membranoproliferative GN (MPGN), either representing recurrence of the original disease or arising de novo. …”
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A Review of Side Effects of Artificial Preservatives on the Human Health by Zahraa A. Hussein Al-Tameemi

“…This review article's primary topic is the adverse effects of some specific preservatives commonly used in food and cosmetics, such as [sodium benzoate, parabens, and sulfites], to preserve or enhance their quality. …”
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Effects of tributyltin on placental and reproductive abnormalities in offspring by Charles S. da Costa, Hanin Alahmadi, Genoa R. Warner, Maria Tereza Nunes, Glaecir Roseni Mundstock Dias, Leandro Miranda-Alves, Jones B. Graceli

“…ABSTRACT Tributyltin (TBT) is an organotin compound and a common persistent environmental pollutant with endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) actions. …”
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Effect of wavelength on propagation of high-power femtosecond laser pulses in diamond by T.V. Kononenko, E.V. Zavedeev, K.K. Ashikkalieva, V.I. Konov

“…The wavelength of the modeled beams is varied in a wide range (400 nm, 532 nm, 800 nm, and 1064 nm), which covers the most common ultrashort laser systems. For all the wavelengths analyzed, a limitation in the growth of laser energy density inside the diamond crystal with increasing pulse energy is found. …”
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