Upper Gastrointestinal Manifestation of Bezoars and the Etiological Factors: A Literature Review by Samiullah Khan, Kui Jiang, Lan-ping Zhu, Iftikhar-ahmad Khan, Kifayat Ullah, Saima Khan, Xin Chen, Bang-mao Wang

“…Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is the standard diagnostic and therapeutic method for gastric bezoars. …”
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Lone Hepatocellular Carcinoma: An Isolated Chest Wall Malignancy by Joseph Allencherril, Sebastian Bruera, Ronan Allencherril, Richard J. Hamill

“…The liver, spleen, and pancreas were unremarkable. Diagnostic labs were unremarkable. The patient had no history of hepatitis, alcohol abuse, or illicit substance use. …”
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The Immune Response Is Involved in Atherosclerotic Plaque Calcification: Could the RANKL/RANK/OPG System Be a Marker of Plaque Instability? by Fabrizio Montecucco, Sabine Steffens, François Mach

“…Although some studies showed some interesting correlations with acute ischemic events, at present, more evidences are needed to evaluate the predictive and diagnostic value of serum sRANKL and OPG levels for clinical use. …”
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Prognostic Impact of DNA-Image-Cytometry in Neuroendocrine (Carcinoid) Tumours by H. Raatz, A. Böcking, S. Hauptmann

“…Moreover, parameters determined by diagnostic DNA cytometry like the 5c‐exceeding rate, the 2c‐deviation index, DNA‐grade of malignancy, DNA‐entropy and the type of DNA histogram were found to be of prognostic relevance. …”
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Reactive Lymphoid Hyperplasia of the Liver Incidentally Found in a 55-Year-Old Woman with a History of Ulcerative Colitis by Noritoshi Mizuta, Takuya Kikuchi, Shunsuke Kusano, Nobuya Sano

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Case Report: Gastric Carcinoma Diagnosed at the Second Trimester of Pregnancy by Tayfur Cift, Begüm Aydogan, Murat Akbaş, Burcu Aydın, Fuat Demirkiran, Dogu V. Bakkaloglu, Sennur Ilvan

“…Although the patient considered the condition to be related with pregnancy and underestimated its importance, her complaints persisted over the following weeks and she was hospitalized for investigation. The diagnostic workup revealed a metastatic gastric cancer. …”
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Paraduodenal Pancreatitis: A Deceptive Abdominal Mass with Unique Histologic Findings by Jonathan Zadeh, Anthony Andreoni, Christopher Febres-Aldana, Kritika Krishnamurthy, Jyotsna Kochiyil, Cristina Vincentelli, Kfir Ben-David

“…If the identification of eosinophilic concretions in a background of inflammatory changes was to be accepted as a diagnostic criterion for PP, patients such as ours could be spared the morbidity associated with surgical resection.…”
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Simultaneous Laparoscopic Surgery for Bladder Diverticulum and Urachal Remnant: A Case Report by Masaki Murata, Kohei Inui, Moto Hasegawa, Yohei Ikeda, Yuki Nakagawa, Noboru Hara, Tsutomu Nishiyama

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Machine Learning Classifiers and Data Synthesis Techniques to Tackle with Highly Imbalanced COVID-19 Data by Avaz Naghipour, Mohammad Reza Abbaszadeh Bavil Soflaei, mostafa ghader-zefrehei

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the urgent need for rapid and accurate diagnostic methods. In this study, we evaluate three machine learning models—Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR) and Decision Tree (DT)—for detecting COVID-19 trained on preprocessed imbalanced datasets with 5086 negative and 558 positive cases. …”
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Open-Source Telemedicine Platform for Wireless Medical Video Communication by A. Panayides, I. Eleftheriou, M. Pantziaris

“…Experimental results show that adequate diagnostic quality wireless medical video communications are realized using the designed telemedicine platform. …”
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Role of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase in Diabetic Nephropathy: Lessons from Diabetic eNOS Knockout Mice by Takamune Takahashi, Raymond C. Harris

“…The animal models that recapitulate human DN undoubtedly facilitate our understanding of this disease and promote the development of new diagnostic markers and therapeutic interventions. Based on the clinical evidence showing the association of eNOS dysfunction with advanced DN, we and others have created diabetic mice that lack eNOS expression and shown that eNOS-deficient diabetic mice exhibit advanced nephropathic changes with distinct features of progressive DN, including pronounced albuminuria, nodular glomerulosclerosis, mesangiolysis, and arteriolar hyalinosis. …”
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Optimizing Bone Health in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Jason L. Buckner, Sasigarn A. Bowden, John D. Mahan

“…The current clinical issues relating to bone health and bone health screening methods in DMD are presented in this review. Diagnostic studies, including biochemical markers of bone turnover and bone mineral density by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), as well as spinal imaging using densitometric lateral spinal imaging, and treatment to optimize bone health in patients with DMD are discussed. …”
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An Unusual Case of Fulminant Type 1 Diabetes during the Second Trimester of Pregnancy by Tomohiro Okuda, Sadao Yamashita, Yoshio Ogino, Hisashi Kataoka, Jo Kitawaki

“…The condition met all the diagnostic criteria for fulminant type 1 diabetes, and was diagnosed as such. …”
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COMMON CAUSES OF LIMITED MOUTH OPENING ANDITS MANAGEMENT APPROACH AMONG DENTISTS IN KARACHI by Humayun Kaleem Siddiqui et al

“…The questions have been asked to evaluate the level of awareness, diagnostic approach, and quality of management and care offered to the patients having trismus. …”
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Arrhythmia Classification Techniques Using Deep Neural Network by Ali Haider Khan, Muzammil Hussain, Muhammad Kamran Malik

“…Electrocardiogram (ECG) is the most common and low-cost diagnostic tool used in healthcare institutes for screening heart electrical signals. …”
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Persistent postural-perceptual dizziness: a review of current knowledge on vestibular rehabilitation by Samer Sami Azeez, Ebtessam H. Nada

“…This intricate interplay between physical and psychological factors presents a significant diagnostic and treatment challenge for clinicians. This review explores the recent literature focusing on complexities of PPPD management, highlighting the limitations of current approaches and advocating for a multidisciplinary perspective. …”
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Medical Images Segmentation Based on Unsupervised Algorithms: A Review by Revella E. A. Armya, Adnan Mohsin Abdulazeez

“… Medical image segmentation plays an essential role in computer-aided diagnostic systems in various applications. Therefore, researchers are attracted to apply new algorithms for medical image processing because it is a massive investment in developing medical imaging methods such as dermatoscopy, X-rays, microscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Rescue Surgery 19 Years after Composite Root and Hemiarch Replacement by Konstantin von Aspern, Joerg Seeburger, Christian D. Etz, Matthias Sauer, Lukas Lehmkuhl, Martin Misfeld, Friedrich W. Mohr

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A Case of Chemotherapy-Refractory “THRLBCL like Transformation of NLPHL” Successfully Treated with Lenalidomide by Mamatha Siricilla, Lydia Irwin, Andres Ferber

“…NLPHL can look morphologically and immunologically similar to THRLBCL and often poses a diagnostic challenge. Neoplastic cells in both NLPHL and THRLBCL express B cell markers and are typically scattered in a background of reactive cells. …”
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Antenatal Bartter Syndrome: A Review by Y. Ramesh Bhat, G. Vinayaka, K. Sreelakshmi

“…Biochemical analysis of amniotic fluid is suggested as elevated chloride level is usually diagnostic. Awareness, early recognition, maternal treatment with indomethacin, and amniocentesis allow the pregnancy to continue. …”
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