Determination of Activity Concentration of Natural Radionuclides and Radiation Hazards’ Assessment of Building Materials in High Background Radiation Areas of Homa and Ruri, Kenya... by Willis Otieno Gor Odongo, Margaret Chege, Nadir Hashim, Shinji Tokonami, Kranrod Chutima, Charles Rotich

“…The measured values of radioactivity concentrations are used to estimate the associated radiological risk. The earthen building material samples from Ruri registered relatively high 232Th concentration values averaging 1094 ± 55 Bq/kg, nearly three times those of the samples from Homa. 226Ra level was not significantly different in both regions with Homa reporting 129 ± 10 Bq/kg and Ruri 111 ± 6 Bq/kg. 40K was however higher in the samples from Homa by an approximate factor of 2 relative to those from Ruri where the activity concentration was 489 ± 24 Bq/kg. …”
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Surgical treatment of meningiomas invading the superior sagittal sinus by Michail S. Kvasha, Anatolii V. Spiridonov

“…Surgical planning for meningiomas invading the superior sagittal sinus should consider the radiological classification of invasion degrees, which aids in determining the treatment strategy. …”
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Role of Joshi's External Stabilization System Fixator in Proximal Humerus Fractures by Baskar Chockalingam

“…All patients were followed up regularly and assessment was done based on both functional and radiological improvement. Results: The total number of cases was 42. …”
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Serum Vitamin D Level and Risk of Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Case-Control Study by Guwani Liyanage, Anusha Kaneshapillai, Suthesan Kanthasamy

“…Hospitalized children between 2 and 60 months with physician-diagnosed, radiologically confirmed severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were enrolled as cases. …”
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Incidence, Outcomes, and Factors Associated with Intra-Abdominal Hypertension and Primary Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Abdominopelvic Injury Patients by Amonpon Kanlerd, Krissada Nakornchai, Karikarn Auksornchart, Warapan Watkwaw

“…Data of age, gender, weight, height, body mass index, injury mechanisms, initial vital signs, imaging, laboratory data, blood component requirements, abdominal organs involved, treatments including surgery and intervention radiology, abbreviated injury scale (AIS) and injury severity score (ISS), length of ICU stays, and results of treatment were all analyzed. …”
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Massive Spontaneous Hemothorax as a Complication of Apixaban Treatment by M. Abu Hishmeh, P. Srivastava, Q. Lougheide, M. Srinivasan, S. Murthy

“…Spontaneous hemothorax is a rare complication of anticoagulant therapy and might not exhibit the usual radiological signs of traumatic hemothorax. Health care providers should have high index of suspicion for spontaneous hemothorax when evaluating new pleural effusion in patients receiving DOACs therapy. …”
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Contributing factors to postoperative surgical site infections in pituitary neuroendocrine tumors undergoing endonasal transsphenoidal resection by Lei Wang, Shanxian Liu, Jie Zheng, Rui Li, Zhenyi Xing

“…Diagnostic criteria for intracranial infections were based on clinical, hematological, cerebrospinal fluid, radiological, and microbiological findings. Statistical analyses were performed using IBM SPSS, focusing on univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. …”
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Role of CBNAAT in the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a prospective cross-sectional study by Rahul Gupta, Ashok Kumar Janmeja, Arjun Kumar, Balbir Singh, Pramod Kumar Shridhar

“…All other recommended investigations used for diagnosis of TBLN and TPE were also performed including ZN stain, FNAC, biochemical analysis of pleural fluid, Mantoux test, radiological imaging, and other routine investigations. …”
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Contribution of paranasal sinus, chest, and abdomen/pelvis computed tomography in patients with febrile neutropenia. by Charles Tran, Éric de Kerviler, Anne Bergeron, Emmanuel Raffoux, Aliénor Xhaard, Cédric de Bazelaire, Constance de Margerie-Mellon

“…<h4>Results</h4>Overall, 188 patients (61.4%) had at least one positive CT finding on paranasal sinus, chest and/or abdomen/pelvis regions, and 153 patients (50.0%) received a final clinical diagnosis of infection, based on microbiological and/or radiological findings. There were more chest and abdomen/pelvis CT positive findings in patients with specific clinical signs than in patients without (65.7% vs. 25.8%, and 59.0% vs. 22.7% respectively, p <0.001), with a higher frequency of therapeutic modifications in positive CTs. …”
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Serum metalloproteinase-7 as a biomarker of progressive pulmonary fibrosis by Márcia Araújo, Marília Beltrão, Oksana Sokhatska, Natália Melo, Patrícia Caetano Mota, Helder Novais Bastos, André Terras, David Coelho, Luís Delgado, António Morais

“…Introduction Progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) corresponds to any fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD) other than idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) that presents clinical, physiological and/or radiological evidence of disease progression similar to IPF. …”
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Stent-graft implantation for late postpancreatectomy hemorrhage after pancreatoduodenectomy by Xiaoye Li, Shibo Xia, Liangxi Yuan, Lei Zhang, Chao Song, Xiaolong Wei, Qingsheng Lu

“…Patients' medical and radiologic images were retrospectively reviewed. Technical and clinical success, complications, and stent-graft patency were evaluated. …”
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Preclinical evaluation and preliminary clinical study of 68Ga-NODAGA-NM-01 for PET imaging of PD-L1 expression by Lingzhou Zhao, Jiali Gong, Sisi Liao, Wenhua Huang, Jinhua Zhao, Yan Xing

“…Additionally, a preliminary clinical study was performed on two patients with NSCLC. NM-01 was radiolabeled with 68Ga without further purification under mild conditions. …”
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Visual-textual integration in LLMs for medical diagnosis: A preliminary quantitative analysis by Reem Agbareia, Mahmud Omar, Shelly Soffer, Benjamin S. Glicksberg, Girish N. Nadkarni, Eyal Klang

“…Vignettes were paired with either clinical or radiological images from two sources: 100 images from the OPENi database and 20 images from recent NEJM challenges, ensuring they were not in the LLMs' training sets. …”
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A Comparative Study on Fixation of Unstable Lateral End Clavicle Fractures with Tightrope and Endobutton by Transcoracoid and Subcoracoid Cerclage Techniques by M. Kishor Kumar, Akshay Mylarappa

“…Conclusion: The functional and radiological outcomes of both surgical techniques did not show any significant difference, but marginally, better outcome was seen in the subclavicular technique. …”
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Jaundice on Presentation Is Associated with Higher In-Patient Mortality and Complications in Patients Admitted for Acute Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study Based on National Inpat... by Nishit Patel, Krishna Bodrya, Kirten Patel, Nishi Patel, Dhruvanshu Patel, Ronak Modi, Ayaz Matin

“…Pancreatitis usually presents with characteristic abdominal pain, radiological findings, and elevated lipase. The presence of jaundice may hint at a biliary etiology; however, it is not always present. …”
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Clinical Outcome of High Tibial Osteotomy by Hemicallotasis Using a Dynamic Axial Fixator on 52 Knees by Anand Kumar Gupta, Debojyoti Mukherjee, Sanjay Kumar

“…Anatomical correction was determined on the basis of a radiological criterion (Hip-Knee-Ankle [HKA] angle) on the scanogram. …”
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Development and Videographic Evaluation of a Vascular Access Simulation-Based Curriculum for Surgical and Medical Trainees by Alaska Pendleton, MD, MPH, Tiffany R. Bellomo, MD, Srihari K. Lella, MD, Kristen Jogerst, MD, Ada Stefanescu, MD, MSc, Douglas Drachman, MD, Nikolaos Zacharias, MD, Anahita Dua, MD, MBA, MSc

“…Fifteen participants (58%) belonged to general surgery residency, 9 (35%) to emergency medicine, 1 to vascular surgery, and 1 to interventional radiology residency programs. The global rating for the overall ability to obtain femoral arterial access under ultrasound guidance (0 = fail, 4 = excellent) improved following the curriculum (0.87 ± 0.15, 2.79 ± 1.26, P < 0.0001). …”
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Malignant Paraganglioma With Calvarial Metastases Presenting With Recurrent Catecholamine-Induced Cardiomyopathy by Beatrice A. Brumley, MD, Run Yu, MD, PhD, Shadfar Bahri, MD, Jane Rhyu, MD

“…Because of potential neurotoxicity, radiology advised against radiotherapy. Oncology advised monitoring. …”
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The Rare Large Common Peroneal Nerve’s Schwannoma—A Case Report and Literature Review by Rudiansyah Harahap, Nurmaliannysa Dwinandia Harahap

“…The right instep has hypoesthesia and a slight drop in the foot. On radiological examination of the right knee, a circumferential mass appeared, measuring 5 cm×4 cm. …”
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Real world study on combining local interventions with systemic therapy in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma by Zhaosong Xue, Ming Yao, Kang Chen, Taiyun Huang, Jianjun Li, Jian Chen, Fei Huang, Yubin Huang, Xiaoyong Cai, Yihe Yan

“…Other independent risk factors related to overall survival contained extrahepatic metastasis (HR, 2.152; 95% CI, 1.076–4.302; P = 0.030), tumor number ≥ 4 (HR, 2.058; 95% CI, 1.001–4.234; P = 0.049) and radiological remission (HR, 0.233; 95% CI, 0.071–0.768; P = 0.017). …”
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