Ossifying Renal Tumor of Infancy: Laparoscopic Treatment and Literature Review by Ali Hajiran, Morris Jessop, Zachary Werner, Chad Crigger, John Barnard, Jeffrey Vos, Michael Ost

“…A 6-month-old male initially presented with gross hematuria and without any palpable abdominal mass. Renal ultrasound and MRI showed a right lower pole, calcified, endophytic renal mass. …”
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Incomplete Currarino syndrome. Case presentation by Masleidy Valladares Valle, Odalis Yanes Isray, Liam Lain Pérez Valladares, Claudia Vasallo López

“…Radiological studies such as ultrasound, abdominal tomography and lumbosacral magnetic resonance were performed, which led to the diagnosis of a renal tumor, incomplete Currarino syndrome (given by two elements of the triad: sacrococcygeal malformation and presacral mass) associated with another spinal cord malformation disease, tethered cord. …”
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Complete Ectopia Cordis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Simon Pius, Halima Abubakar Ibrahim, Mustapha Bello, Mohammed Bashir Tahir

“…Diagnosis of ectopia cordis is done prenatally in well-equipped health facility by antenatal ultrasound scan so that early diagnosis and management plan can be initiated. …”
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Spontaneous Twin Pregnancy in Uterus Bicornis Unicollis by Arzu Doruk, Ilay Gozukara, Güneş Burkaş, Esin Bilik, Talat Umut Kutlu Dilek

“…A 37-year-old multiparous woman conceived a twin dichorionic diamniotic pregnancy spontaneously. Three-dimensional ultrasound revealed bicornuate uterus with one embryo in each cavity. …”
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Splenorenal Manifestations of Bartonella henselae Infection in a Pediatric Patient by Taylor Rising, Nicholas Fulton, Pauravi Vasavada

“…The patient was hospitalized with worsening fevers and night sweat. Subsequent ultrasound imaging demonstrated multiple hypoechoic foci within the spleen. …”
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A Fibromatosis Case Mimicking Abdominal Aorta Aneurysm by Arzu Tasdemir, Cemal Kahraman, Kutay Tasdemir, Ertugrul Mavili

“…Tumors and cysts should be considered in differential diagnosis. Abdominal ultrasound and contrast-enhanced computerized tomography revealed an infrarenal abdominal aorta aneurysm in a 41-year-old woman, but, on surgery, retroperitoneal fibrosis surrounding the aorta was detected. …”
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A Rare Case of Calcified Simple Mesenteric Cyst in a 70-Year-Old Woman by Alazar Berhe Aregawi, Alemwosen Teklehaimanot Alem

“…She had an abdominal ultrasound, which suggested a calcified mesenteric cyst with internal hemorrhage. …”
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First Report of Gallbladder Volvulus Managed with a Robotic Approach by Roberto Bustos, Hassan Mashbari, Antonio Gangemi

“…The patient was admitted to receive treatment for acute cholecystitis after the findings of ultrasound imaging. Robotic-assisted cholecystectomy was the approach chosen. …”
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Features of pathogenesis, diagnostics and treatment of gallstone disease at pregnancy by Yu. B. Uspenskaya, A. A. Sheptulin

“…Clinical presentation of GSD at pregnant patients is similar to that at nonpregnant women. Transabdominal ultrasound investigation play the major role in diagnosis of cholelithiasis at pregnancy. …”
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Clinicopathological Features of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor in the Breast by Shifei Liu, Rui Yuan, Yulan Jin, Chunyan He, Xingzheng Zheng, Yang Zhan

“…We now report a case of a 37-year-old woman presenting with a mass in her left breast. Ultrasound showed a well-circumscribed lesion in the lower outer quadrant. …”
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A Novel Speckle Noise Removal Algorithm Based on ADMM and Energy Minimization Method by Bo Chen, Yan Lv, Jinbin Zou, Wensheng Chen, Binbin Pan

“…Speckle noise removal in medical ultrasound images is a challenging task. In this paper, a new model is proposed to removal speckle noise, alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm is employed to solve the new energy minimization model. …”
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Pancreatic Myeloid Sarcoma Causing Obstructive Jaundice: A Case Report and Literature Review by Laura E. Lavette, Angela G. Niehaus, Clancy J. Clark, Jason D. Conway, Girish Mishra, Darius A. Jahann

“…This is a case of a 70-year-old male with symptomatic obstructive jaundice secondary to pancreatic MS, ultimately requiring endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for diagnosis and management. …”
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Solitary Necrotic Nodule of the Liver: A Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literature by Hong-Qun Wang, Zheng-Sheng Wu, Dao-Wang Li

“…The patients had no specific symptoms, with negative results for the serum tumor markers. CT and ultrasound all showed low-density lesion. Morphologically, there was isolate, single necrosis tubercle of the liver. …”
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Reproductive Late Effects in Female Survivors of Childhood Cancer by Shivany Gnaneswaran, Rebecca Deans, Richard J. Cohn

“…Ovarian reserve may be assessed using antimullerian hormone assay and ultrasound measurements of ovarian volume and antral follicle count; however, their efficacy is poorly established in this cohort. …”
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Green Extraction Methods for Recovery of Antioxidant Compounds from Epicarp, Seed, and Seed Tegument of Avocado var. Hass (Persea americana Mill.) by Juan F. Grisales-Mejía, Harlen Torres-Castañeda, Margarita M. Andrade-Mahecha, Hugo A. Martínez-Correa

“…Hass with pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) and ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE). The extracts were quantified in terms of total phenolic content (TPC) and antioxidant capacity (AC). …”
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Primary Ovarian Choriocarcinoma: Rare Entity by Mequanent Tariku Adow, Shimelis Fantu Gebresilasie, Natnael Alemayehu Abebe

“…In patients with adnexal mass presenting with nonspecific symptoms especially with high Doppler blood flow of the mass on ultrasound evaluation, serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin determination is recommended before laparotomy. …”
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Deep Vein Thrombosis Provoked by Inferior Vena Cava Agenesis by Raad A. Haddad, Mazin Saadaldin, Binay Kumar, Ghassan Bachuwa

“…On examination, swelling and redness were noted extending from the left foot to the upper thigh; it was also warm compared to his right lower limb. Venous Doppler ultrasound was done which showed DVT extending up to the common femoral vein. …”
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Functional activity of blood eosinophils in patients with <i>Opisthorchis felineus</i> invasion by V. V. Tsukanov, N. E. Veselova, A. A. Savchenko, O. A. Kolenchukova, I. I. Gvozdev, A. V. Vasyutin, J. L. Tonkikh, E. V. Kasparov, A. G. Borisov, E. G. Gorchilova, M. Yu. Olkhovskaia, N. O. Prokopieva

“…All patients underwent a complete blood count and biochemical blood test, esophagogastroduodenoscopy and ultrasound examination of the abdominal organs. The study of the functional activity of blood eosinophils was carried out in 42 patients with opisthorchiasis and 34 healthy individuals from the control group by chemiluminescent analysis with the measurement of the intensity of production of reactive oxygen species in spontaneous and zymosan-induced reactions in lucigenin- and luminol-dependent processes.Results. …”
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Modelling the health, financial protection and equity impacts of upscaling the ACT NOW early intervention breast cancer pilot program in the Philippines: an extended cost-effective... by Blake Angell, Stephen Jan, Mark Woodward, Sanne Peters, Merel Kimman, Alexander Chye, Nirmala Bhoo Pathy, Herdee Gloriane C Luna, Soledad B Lim, Helen Monaghan, Corazon A Ngelangel

“…This study aims to model the health and economic impacts of ACT NOW (a pilot breast cancer programme that navigates women through free early detection to treatment) through an extended cost-effectiveness analysis.Methods A microsimulation decision tree model was used to model the ACT NOW intervention (including annual clinical breast examination (CBE) and biannual breast ultrasound for women at high risk of breast cancer) over 5 years for healthy women 40–69 years old. …”
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Pancreatoduodenectomy without Vascular Resection in Patients with Primary Resectable Adenocarcinoma and Unilateral Venous Contact: A Matched Case Study by Luca Morelli, Raffaella Berchiolli, Simone Guadagni, Matteo Palmeri, Niccolò Furbetta, Desirée Gianardi, Matteo Bianchini, Niccola Funel, Giovanni Caprili, Luca Emanuele Pollina, Giulio Di Candio, Franco Mosca, Gregorio Di Franco, Alfred Cuschieri

“…To investigate the oncological outcome and survival of patients following a conservative approach on the portal-mesenteric axis, in an intraoperative ultrasound-selected group of pancreatoduodenectomy (PD), performed on patients with primary resectable with vascular contact (prVC) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). …”
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