Multimodal ultrasonographic and clinicopathological model for predicting high-volume lymph node metastasis in cN0 papillary thyroid carcinoma by Jiwen Qian, Zheng Zhang, Yanwei Chen, Shuangshuang Zhao, Wenjun Li, Jiayan Bao, Huajiao Zhao, Yun Cai, Baoding Chen

“…BackgroundGiven the challenge in preoperative diagnosis of high-volume lymph node metastasis (HVLNM) in clinical practice, we constructed and externally validated a comprehensive predictive model that integrated conventional ultrasound characteristics, contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) parameters, BRAFV600Emutation, and clinicopathological data for HVLNM in clinically lymph node-negative (cN0) papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).MethodsTotally, 126 clinically lymph node-negative (cN0) PTC patients who underwent subtotal or total thyroidectomy and accompanied with prophylactic cervical lymph node dissection between December 2022 and December 2024 were enrolled in this retrospective study, and an additional 47 cN0 PTC patients included for the external validation cohort. …”
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Efficacy of arthroscopic deep rotator cuff suture with spinal needle for rotator cuff repair in treating rotator cuff tears by Minghua Zhang, Dongfeng Chen, Daohua Chen, Jiajing Lai, Chunfang Jian

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the short-term efficacy of arthroscopic spinal needle sutures for the repair of rotator cuff tears. Methods This retrospective study included a cohort of 81 patients with rotator cuff tears who underwent arthroscopic suture repair using a spinal needle between January 2021 and March 2021, with a minimum follow-up duration of 27 months. …”
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A Novel Phantom for Standardized Microcalcification Detection Developed Using a Crystalline Growth System by Dee H. Wu, Caroline Preskitt, Natalie Stratemeier, Hunter Lau, Sreeja Ponnam, Supriya Koya

“…The goal of these models was to achieve consistent evaluations, thereby reducing the variability between different scanners. Methods: We created a novel phantom model that simulates different types of breast tissue densities with calcifications. …”
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Needle arthroscopy in anatomical reconstruction of the lateral ankle: a report of three cases with a parallel comparison to the standard arthroscopy procedure by R. Lopes, T. Noailles, G. Padiolleau, N. Bouguennec, T. D. Vieira

“…We hypothesized that the needle arthroscopy would allow anatomical reconstruction to be performed under arthroscopy. Methods Three patients underwent treatment of chronic ankle instability. …”
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Knowledge Structure and Emerging Trends of Mild Cognitive Impairment with Dyssomnias in Recent 20 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis via CiteSpace and VOSviewer by Haoyu Huang, Zesen Zhuang, Yiwen Wan, Jiao Shi, Xu Yuan, Dan Wang, Shangjie Chen

“…This bibliometric analysis investigates the global research on MCI with dyssomnias over the past two decades, aiming to discern key findings, research domains, and emerging trends in this field. Methods. In this study, a bibliometric analysis was conducted using the search terms “MCI” and “sleep”. …”
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The usefulness and utilisation of Lu’s retractor for unilateral biportal endoscopic discectomy: a retrospective cohort study by Qing-zhou Zhang, Da-wei Zhang, Hui-lan Wen, Tao Chen, Jun-quan Chen, Hai Lu

“…Engineered to optimize the surgical field by mitigating soft tissue interference, this device aims to enhance operative precision and efficiency. Methods This single-center retrospective cohort study analyzed 90 consecutive patients who underwent single-level lumbar discectomy via the UBE technique between June 2023 and June 2024. …”
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A novel Foley catheter made of high-intensity near-infrared fluorescent silicone rubber for image-guided surgery of lower rectal cancer by Takayuki Sato, Ichiro Kitani

“…Here, we evaluated its NIR fluorescence properties and visibility performance using porcine anorectal isolation specimens. Methods: The HICARL catheter was made of a mixture of solid silicone rubber and a NIR fluorescent compound that emits fluorescence with a wavelength of 820–880 nm, while a conventional transparent Foley catheter was made of solid silicone rubber only. …”
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Reconstructing the dynamics of HIV evolution within hosts from serial deep sequence data. by Art F Y Poon, Luke C Swenson, Evelien M Bunnik, Diana Edo-Matas, Hanneke Schuitemaker, Angélique B van 't Wout, P Richard Harrigan

“…The presence of a 'fitness valley' separating CCR5- and CXCR4-using genotypes is postulated to be a biological determinant of whether the HIV coreceptor switch occurs. Using phylogenetic methods to reconstruct the evolutionary dynamics of HIV within hosts enables us to discriminate between competing models of this process. …”
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Using emoji to ascertain student emotional responses to technology-based human anatomy instruction by Shawn M. Magrum, Shawn M. Magrum, Jaynie Bird, Ethan L. Snow, Ethan L. Snow

“…Both pleasant (high valence/sentiment) and unpleasant (low valence/sentiment) emotions influence the cognitive processes involved in learning, and emotional sentiment can be exemplified by particular emoji.MethodsA survey with 10 facial emoji stratified into three categories (positive, neutral, and negative sentiment) was administered to students completing a human anatomy course with 3D visualization technology (3DVT) and augmented reality (AR) integration. …”
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Advancing Surgical Management of Penile Cancer: Single Port Bilateral Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection by Sisto Perdonà, Alessandro Izzo, Antonio Tufano, Francesco Passaro, Giuseppe Quarto, Achille Aveta, Roberto Contieri, Savio Domenico Pandolfo, Riccardo Autorino, Gianluca Spena

“…Widely used in kidney and prostate surgery (4, 5), this is, to our knowledge, its first application for ILND in Europe. Material and Methods: This video shows a novel robotic-assisted bilateral, superficial and deep ILND using the DaVinci SP™ system. …”
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HISTOLOGY AND HISTOPATHOLOGY OF BLOOD VESSELS: BACKSCATTERED SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY APPROACH by RINAT A. Mukhamadiyarov, ANTON G. Kutikhin

“…To study the technical possibility of em-ploying the original technique of long-term osmium tetroxide postfixation and uranyl acetate/lead citrate counterstaining with the following embedding into epoxy resin for the investigation of histological and histopathological features of the blood vessels. Materials and Methods. The study was carried out on rat abdominal aorta, carotid atherosclerot-ic plaque excised during endarterectomy, and stent excised during total surgical correction of Fallot’s tetralogy. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Web Application for Automated Skin Lesion Classification and Analysis by Serra Aksoy, Pinar Demircioglu, Ismail Bogrekci

“…The goal of this study was to test deep learning (DL) models to determine the best architecture to use in classifying lesions and create a web-based platform for improved diagnostic and educational availability. Methods: Various DL models, like Xception, DenseNet169, ResNet152V2, InceptionV3, MobileNetV2, EfficientNetV2 Small, and NASNetMobile, were compared for classification accuracy. …”
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Unveiling the immune microenvironment of complex tissues and tumors in transcriptomics through a deconvolution approach by Shu-Hwa Chen, Bo-Yi Yu, Wen-Yu Kuo, Ya-Bo Lin, Sheng-Yao Su, Wei-Hsuan Chuang, I.-Hsuan Lu, Chung-Yen Lin

“…Additionally, mySORT outperforms existing methods like CIBERSORT in accuracy and provides a wide range of data visualization features, such as hierarchical clustering and cell complexity plots. …”
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The rise of exosome-mediated mechanisms in MSC therapy by Weihua Liu, Sheng Chen, Yuan Wang, Wei Gong

“…Objective To perform a bibliometric analysis of global research on MSC-based therapies for GVHD using Citespace and VOSViewer, with the aim of mapping publication trends, collaboration networks, and emerging research hotspots. Methods Publications from 2010 to 2023 were retrieved from the Web of Science using targeted search strategies. …”
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СOMPARISON OF LOW- AND HIGH-CONCENTRATION (270 AND 320 MG I/ML) ISO-OSMOLAR IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIA IN CORONARY CT ANGIOGRAPHY: A RANDOMIZED PROSPECTIVE SINGLE-CENTER BLINDED STUD... by V. E. Sinitsyn, M. A. Komarova, E. A. Mershina

“…Objective: to compare the image quality at coronary multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) using low-dose and lowiodine protocol study in comparison with the standard protocol.Material and methods. In study included 60 patients undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography. …”
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Laparoscopy combined with hysteroscopy for cesarean scar pregnancy by L.B. Liu, H.T. Sun, S.F. Liu, R.X. Shi

“…Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the safety of combined laparoscopic surgery and hysteroscopic electrosurgery for partial repair of the cesarean scar and removal of the conceptus, respectively, in cesarean scar pregnancy (CSP). Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of data from 23 patients with CSP who underwent laparoscopic surgery together with hysteroscopic electrosurgery between January 2008 and January 2016 at our medical center. …”
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The JPEG Pleno Learning-Based Point Cloud Coding Standard: Serving Man and Machine by Andre F. R. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, Fernando Pereira

“…Deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool in this domain, offering advanced techniques for compressing point clouds more efficiently than conventional coding methods while also allowing effective computer vision tasks performed in the compressed domain thus, for the first time, making available a common compressed visual representation effective for both man and machine. …”
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An Efficient Parallelization of Microscopic Traffic Simulation by Benyamin Heidary, Joerg Schweizer, Ngoc An Nguyen, Federico Rupi, Cristian Poliziani

“…However, the simulation times of such scenarios is currently too long to be practical. (1) Background: With the availability of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), is it possible to exploit parallel computing to reduce the simulation times of large microscopic simulations, such that they can run on normal PCs at reasonable runtimes?; (2) Methods: ParSim, a microsimulator with a monolithic microsimulation kernel, has been developed for CUDA-compatible GPUs, with the aim to efficiently parallelize the simulation processes; particular care has been taken regarding the memory usage and thread synchronization, and visualization software has been optionally added; (3) Results: The parallelized simulations have been performed by a GPU with an average performance, a 24 h microsimulation scenario for Bologna with 1 million trips was completed in 40 s. …”
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Justification of the simulation model of a static arched vault in a moving mass of bulk material by B.A. Sheludchenko, O.V. Medvedsky, O.B. Pluzhnikov, V.R. Biletsky, V.M. Borovsky, V.A. Yanovsky

“…It has been established that the most appropriate rheological model for performing analytical studies of elastic-viscoplastic properties of loose media is the Bingham rheological body model and, given the stochastic nature of the processes of formation of static arched vaults in moving massifs of loose media, studies of the processes of formation of these vaults can be implemented exclusively with the help of phenomenological methods, which involve the creation of a certain physical model-simulator. …”
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Cultivation of Babesia divergens in vitro by V. A. Levytska, O. M. Kovalova

“…This study enhances cultivation methods and may support future research aimed at understanding the biology, pathogenesis, and potential therapeutic strategies for controlling babesiosis caused by B. divergens.…”
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