The influence of sintering of osteoporotic vertebral fractures on the sagittal lumbar profile and degenerative changes by Christoph Beyersdorf, Max Prost, Melanie Elisabeth Röckner, Uwe Martin Maus, Cornelius Jacobs, Max Joseph Scheyerer

“…Patient selection involved stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria, focusing on radiologically documented osteoporotic sintering fractures in the thoracolumbar junction (TH11-L2). …”
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Assessment of the Utility of Selected Inflammatory Markers in Correlation with Magnetic Resonance Enterography (MRE) Findings in the Diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease by Justyna Lorenc-Góra, Dariusz Waniczek, Zenon P. Czuba, Mariusz Kryj, Zbigniew Lorenc, Małgorzata Muc-Wierzgoń

“…We performed the analysis of cytokine concentrations in blood serum using the Bio-Plex Multiplex system (Bio-Rad), and their correlations with radiological parameters were assessed by magnetic resonance enterography (MRE), and fecal calprotectin levels were measured quantitatively by ELISA and clinical evaluation according to the Crohn’s Disease Activity Index (CDAI). …”
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Impact of pubertal timing on growth progression and final height in subjects affected by RASopathies by Federica Tamburrino, Laura Mazzanti, Dino Gibertoni, Concetta Schiavariello, Annamaria Perri, Eleonora Orlandini, Cesare Rossi, Marco Tartaglia, Marcello Lanari, Emanuela Scarano

“…Anthropometric, hormonal (FSH, LH, estradiol/testosterone), and radiological data were collected.ResultsAmong the 40 patients who had completed puberty, 75% had a diagnosis of Noonan syndrome. …”
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Carotid-cavernous fistula as an ophthalmic disease requiring interdisciplinary treatment by Wojciech Luboń, Małgorzata Luboń, Ewa Mrukwa-Kominek

“…Due to a strong suspicion of CCF, the patient was referred to the Department of Radiology for digital subtraction angiography (DSA). …”
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Surgical management of single-level thoracolumbar vertebral body segmentation and formation failure causing progressive thoracolumbar myelopathy in three adult large-breed dogs by Francisca Couto, Joana Tabanez, Jeremy Rose, Colin Driver

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the medium-term outcome following spinal cord decompression and instrumented fixation of single-level congenital thoracolumbar vertebral malformations, characterized by combined failures of segmentation and formation, causing thoracolumbar myelopathy in three large-breed dogs.Study designThis was a retrospective clinical study.AnimalsThe animals involved in the study were three large-breed dogs.MethodsElectronic patient records were retrospectively reviewed for adult large-breed dogs (>1 year) (>25 kg) with thoracolumbar myelopathy and a radiologic diagnosis of spinal cord compression associated with thoracolumbar vertebral malformation. …”
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Procedural Sedation with Dexmedetomidine for Anterior Mediastinotomy in a High-Risk Patient by Miguel Pratas, Jorge Aires, Nuno Pereira da Silva, Tiago Oliveira, Cristovão Pinto, Jiele Li, Ana Filipa Ribeiro

“…High-risk patients may present with severe postural symptoms, stridor, cyanosis, and radiological evidence of more than 50% airway obstruction, tracheal compression with bronchial compression, pericardial effusion, or superior vena cava syndrome. …”
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Changing trends from inguinal radical orchiectomy to testis-sparing surgery in pediatric testicular tumors by Özlem Balcı, Aslı Nur Abay, Şule Yeşil, İbrahim Karaman, İsmet Faruk Özgüner, Burçak Kurucu, Derya Erdoğan, Gürses Şahin, Ayşe Karaman

“…The patients' demographic data, laboratory, radiologic, histopathological, and surgical findings, and postoperative follow-up were evaluated. …”
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How to Translate Basic Knowledge into Clinical Application of Biologic Therapy in Spondyloarthritis by Chung-Tei Chou

“…Spondyloarthritis (SpA) is a family of many diseases, and these diseases share some clinical, genetic, and radiologic features. The disease process in the spine at the beginning is spinal inflammation, in which TNFα is the principal cytokine involved. …”
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Reasons for Undesirable Pregnancy Outcomes among Women with Appendicitis: The Experience of a Tertiary Center by Baris Mantoglu, Fatih Altintoprak, Necattin Firat, Emre Gonullu, Enis Dikicier, Yesim Akdeniz, Mehmet Aziret, Unal Erkorkmaz

“…In addition to the demographic structure of the patients, surgical technique, the number of pregnancies, multiple pregnancy status, surgical pathologies, laboratory values, radiological imaging methods, and length of hospital stay were evaluated. …”
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Multiple rare abdominal aortic branch variations in the case of a centenarian woman. Case report and review of the literature by Michela Vincis, Claire Lewis, Denis Barry, Marcello Trucas

“…Background: Anatomical variations of the abdominal aorta are crucial when considering the success of clinical procedures including diagnostic imaging, oncologic resections, organ transplantations, laparoscopic surgeries, management of penetrating abdominal injuries, and interventional radiological procedures. Accurate knowledge of these vessels is essential for these procedures to be effective. …”
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The Feasibility of Using the Direct Anterior Approach for Total Hip Arthroplasty or Bipolar Hemiarthroplasty to Treat Femoral Neck Fractures among the Elderly by Shigeo Ishiguro, Kunihiro Asanuma, Tomohito Hagi, Hidehiko Ohsumi, Hiroki Wakabayashi, Akihiro Sudo

“…The perioperative complications, clinical and radiologic outcomes, and mortality were compared between groups retrospectively at six months. …”
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Mutant Fam20c knock-in mice recapitulate both lethal and non-lethal human Raine Syndrome by Mengnan Chen, Dongmei Sun, Siu-Pok Yee, Zhaoyang Yuan, Li Lin, Bing Cui, Yi Wang, Chao Liu, Peihong Liu

“…The Fam20c D446N allele replaced the WT Fam20c by 3.6Kb Col1a1-Cre to get the conditional knock-in mice, and by Hprt-cre to get conventional knock-in mice, respectively. Results The radiology, serum biochemistry and immunohistochemistry indicated that all conditional and most conventional Fam20c D446N knock-in mice displayed hypophosphatemic rickets with the increased Fgf23 and deceased Dmp1 expression, which survived to adulthood. …”
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A Change in the Classical Order of Setting of Porous Metal Augments with Locked Cups in Hip Revision Surgery: Technical Note and Case Report by Antonio Murcia-Asensio, Francisco Ferrero-Manzanal, Pablo Sanz-Ruiz, Hermenegildo Cañada-Oya, Raquel Lax-Pérez, Christian Goetze

“…The postoperative X-ray showed good position of implants with restoration of the center of rotation, and the patients had good recovery. Radiological evaluation in the midterm follow-up did not show mobilization of implants. …”
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Genetic Analysis of Undiagnosed Juvenile GM1-Gangliosidosis by Microarray and Exome Sequencing by Ahmed Bouhouche, Houyam Tibar, Yamna Kriouale, Mohammed Jiddane, Imane Smaili, Naima Bouslam, Ali Benomar, Mohamed Yahyaoui, Elmostafa El Fahime

“…Here, we present three patients belonging to a consanguineous Moroccan family with a GM1-gangliosidosis with unusual clinical onset and atypical radiological presentation that had eluded diagnosis for over a decade. …”
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Association between resolution of MRI-detected inflammation and improved clinical outcomes in axial spondyloarthritis under long-term anti-TNF therapy by Joachim Sieper, Denis Poddubnyy, Fabian Proft, Mikhail Protopopov, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Murat Torgutalp, Judith Rademacher, H Haibel, Kay-Geert Hermann, Christian Althoff

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CHARACTERISTICS OF CYTOPROTECTIVE EFFECT ON THE GASTRIC MUCOSA OF CRYOPRESERVED PLACENTA EXTRACT UNDER WATER-IMMOBILIZATION STRESS by Illia Koshurba, Fedir Hladkykh, Mykola Chyzh

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Molecular hydrogen reduces dermatitis-induced itch, diabetic itch and cholestatic itch by inhibiting spinal oxidative stress and synaptic plasticity via SIRT1-β-catenin pathway in... by Linlin Zhang, Fangshi Zhao, Yize Li, Zhenhua Song, Lingyue Hu, Yuanjie Li, Rui Zhang, Yonghao Yu, Guolin Wang, Chunyan Wang

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Rationale and design of APOLLO: a personalized rehAbilitation PrOgram in aLLOgeneic bone marrow transplantation by Edith Pituskin, Stephen Foulkes, Rachel J. Skow, Thomas McMurtry, Calvin Kruger, Janet E. Bates, Daena Lamoureux, Joseph Brandwein, Elena Lieuw, Cynthia Wu, Nancy Zhu, Peng Wang, Daniel Sawler, Minakshi Taparia, Marlene Hamilton, Tiffany Comfort-Riddle, Tara Meyer, Gabor T. Gyenes, Ian Paterson, Carla M. Prado, Mark J. Haykowsky, Justin G. Greiner, Margaret L. McNeely, Puneeta Tandon, Richard B. Thompson

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Multiparameter body composition analysis on chest CT predicts clinical outcomes in resectable non-small cell lung cancer by Yilong Huang, Hanxue Cun, Zhanglin Mou, Zhonghang Yu, Chunmei Du, Lan Luo, Yuanming Jiang, Yancui Zhu, Zhenguang Zhang, Xin Chen, Bo He, Zaiyi Liu

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ImmunoglobuliN in the Treatment of Encephalitis (IgNiTE): protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial by R Kneen, M Lim, A Vincent, A J Pollard, W K Chong, L-M Yu, M A Iro, M Sadarangani, M Absoud, C A Clark, A Easton, V Gray, M Pike, T Solomon, L Willis

“…Additional secondary neurological measures will be collected at 4–6 weeks after discharge from acute care and at 6 and 12 months after randomisation. Safety, radiological, other autoimmune and tertiary outcomes will also be assessed.Ethics and dissemination This trial has been approved by the UK National Research Ethics committee (South Central—Oxford A; REC 14/SC/1416). …”
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