... [50] Due to the emergence of MRSA, it is important to understand the mechanisms oftissue destruction in softtissueinfections which could lead on the identification of novel therapeutic targets ... osteoarticular infections in children Curr Opin Pediatr 2006, 18:254-259 Roberts S, Chambers S: Diagnosis and management of Staphylococcus aureus infectionsof the skin and softtissue Intern ... at least in part, in tissue destruction Excessive expression of these metalloproteinases induced by S aureus could lead to the destruction of the softtissue connective tissue architecture Conclusion...
... presence of factors that affect local vascularity to the soft tissues [8,13] Skin vascularity over the knee affects the rate of healing postoperatively and the risk of necrosis Since the beginning of ... was the top of the “iceberg” with a larger amount of necrosed tissue underneath the skin and subsequent larger amount oftissue to be removed with debridement Preoperative drawing of unilateral ... along the axially oriented pattern of vascularisation to ensure the integrity of the circulation when the fasciocutaneous flap is raised Repairing of a softtissue defect after TKA is usually...
... presence of factors that affect local vascularity to the soft tissues [8,13] Skin vascularity over the knee affects the rate of healing postoperatively and the risk of necrosis Since the beginning of ... was the top of the “iceberg” with a larger amount of necrosed tissue underneath the skin and subsequent larger amount oftissue to be removed with debridement Preoperative drawing of unilateral ... along the axially oriented pattern of vascularisation to ensure the integrity of the circulation when the fasciocutaneous flap is raised Repairing of a softtissue defect after TKA is usually...
... the use of computers and software solutions to aid doctors in the analysis, diagnosis and treatment of various ailments and conditions Often, this aid comes in the form of digital imagery of various ... 65 Plot of the degree of match of a registered contour of the liver with the ground truth The average error is 2.211 65 5.10 Plot of the degree of match of a registered ... 1.1 Background Uses of digital imagery come in many forms First of all, they are used for diagnosisof ailments by letting doctors see the actual problem on top of just basing diagnosis on symptoms...
... of myocardial viability Eur Heart J 2003, 24(abstr suppl):242 Papers of particular interest, published within the annual period of review, have been highlighted as: • Of special interest •• Of ... diagnostic models using off-line tissue Doppler in the MYDISE study Eur Heart J 2003, 24:1584–1594 37 Cain P, Baglin T, Case C, et al.: Application oftissue Doppler to interpretation of dobutamine echocardiography: ... isolated finding of postsystolic shortening is nonspecific with regard to tissue viability The mechanism of postsystolic shortening in passive myocardium is analogous to the behavior of a stretched...
... The characteristics of the alveolar soft portions of sarcomas are that they comprise only 0.5-1.0% ofsofttissue sarcomas, grow slowly, have metastasized in 20-25% of cases at diagnosis, respond ... following unplanned excision ofsofttissue sarcoma of an extremity J Bone Joint Surg 1996, 78A:650-5 Simon MA, Enneking WF: The management of soft- tissue sarcomas of the extremities J Bone Joint ... sarcoma were diagnosed Four of the seven cases of synovial sarcoma, two of the three cases of alveolar soft part sarcoma, two cases of myxofibrosarcoma, and one case each of high-grade leiomyosarcoma...
... The immunohistochemical studies are often necessary for the diagnosisof soft- tissue perineurioma [3,4] To the best of our knowledge, MRI and CT images of soft- tissue perineurioma in the retroperitoneum ... soft- tissue perineurioma in our report was hypocellular with abundant myxoid stroma Radiologic differential diagnosisof retroperitoneal soft- tissue perineurioma includes neurilemmomas, neurofibromas ... enhancing nature of a myxoid tumor Soft- tissue perineuriomas with marked myxoid stroma may be mistaken for cysts on plain CT Conclusion Although the definitive diagnosisof soft- tissue perineurioma...
... The immunohistochemical studies are often necessary for the diagnosisof soft- tissue perineurioma [3,4] To the best of our knowledge, MRI and CT images of soft- tissue perineurioma in the retroperitoneum ... soft- tissue perineurioma in our report was hypocellular with abundant myxoid stroma Radiologic differential diagnosisof retroperitoneal soft- tissue perineurioma includes neurilemmomas, neurofibromas ... enhancing nature of a myxoid tumor Soft- tissue perineuriomas with marked myxoid stroma may be mistaken for cysts on plain CT Conclusion Although the definitive diagnosisof soft- tissue perineurioma...
... imaging technique (SENSE factor of 2) Imaging time of DWI was 90 s for 20 slices Detection of uterine malignancy The ADC values of uterine cancers are lower than of normal tissue On the other hand, ... They showed that the ADC value of the 752 Table DWI studies with ADC values in ovarian diseases Authors of Study Year of Publication Journal Tumour & Tissue (no of subjects) b-values Moteki et ... usefulness of DWI for the detection of metastatic bone tumor Current status and future directions of DWI for gynecological diseases Figure 12 shows a decision-making diagram in the MRI diagnosisof gynecological...
... allodynia) A score of is given to each positive item and a score of to each negative item The total score is calculated as the sum of all 10 items, and the cut-off value for the diagnosisof neuropathic ... related to reliability of the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire Our data support the reliability of the instrument both in terms of internal consistency (Cronbach's α of Page of 10 (page number ... 4: Comparison of the psychometric properties of validity for differential diagnosisof neuropathic pain vs non-neuropathic pain for a cut-off value ≥ points in the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire,...
... apparently it is the softtissue volume that is changed in response to venous occlusion, it is the venous vasculature congestion within the softtissue rather than softtissue congestion per-se ... scan using an in-house software that performs segmentation of the bone and softtissue for each CT slice, subsequently creating corresponding regions of interest The regions of interest are copied ... and "hard" tissue (bone and bone marrow) The softtissue volume (VS) and blood pool (RS) are calculated as follows: VS = VL-VB and the corresponding reading RS = RL-RB Bone and softtissue blood...
... allodynia) A score of is given to each positive item and a score of to each negative item The total score is calculated as the sum of all 10 items, and the cut-off value for the diagnosisof neuropathic ... related to reliability of the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire Our data support the reliability of the instrument both in terms of internal consistency (Cronbach's α of Page of 10 (page number ... 4: Comparison of the psychometric properties of validity for differential diagnosisof neuropathic pain vs non-neuropathic pain for a cut-off value ≥ points in the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire,...
... fibroma, of cartilage origin; osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma, of bone origin; fibroma and desmoplastic fibroma, of fibrous tissue origin; hemangioma, of vascular origin; and giant cell tumor, of ... (i.e., confined to the same softtissue compartment as the initial tumor), and tumors designated B are extracompartmental (i.e., extending into the adjacent softtissue compartment or into bone) ... (of notochordal origin), malignant giant cell tumor and adamantinoma (of unknown origin), and hemangioendothelioma (of vascular origin) Musculoskeletal Tumor Society Staging System Sarcomas of...
... implications of informing patients of their new diagnosis Page of 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.0 20 40 60 80 100 120 fup Figure Life Table showing survival by separate malignancy Sorelli et al World Journal of Surgical ... tumours of the gastrointestinal tract: a paradise for acronyms (GUMP, GIST, GANT, and now GIPACT) Implications of c-kit in genesis, and yet another of many emerging roles of the interstitial cell of ... survival was 42% with a median survival of 46 months The year survival of patients with GIST alone irrespective of complete resection was 80% The presence of separate malignancy significantly decreased...
... guidelines, multidisciplinary management and outcome of treatment for softtissue sarcomas Ann Oncol 2004, 15(2):307-315 Rydholm A: Centralization ofsofttissue sarcoma The southern Sweden experience ... Judson I, Thomas JM: Soft- tissue sarcomas in adults N Engl J Med 2005, 353(7):701-711 Lewis JJ, Leung D, Woodruff JM, Brennan MF: Retroperitoneal soft- tissue sarcoma: analysis of 500 patients treated ... parts of the study except from the collection of data MS, PW, and PR contributed substantially in the planning of the study and the collection of data as well as in the interpretation of the...
... expression values: all values of RA tissues were lower than the minimum level found in ND tissues In OA, expression values ofof 12 synovial tissues were within the range of ND expression values For ... reduced expression of BMP-4 and BMP-5 in OA tissue in comparison with normal tissue This variance of BMP expression levels in OA tissue in comparison with normal or RA synovial tissue may be explained ... Immunohistochemistry (IMH) and in situ hybridization (ISH) of synovial tissues for BMP-5 tissues for BMP-5 Histomorphological distribution of BMP-5 is comparable to that of BMP-4 (Figure 4) Original magnifications:...
... A case of SchwanSchwannoma of median nerve at palm:cross sectional area of Schwannoma of median nerve at palm: A case of Schwannoma: the picture shows an increased cross sectional area of median ... people Chalidis BE, Dimitriou CG: Carpal tunnel syndrome due to an atypical deep softtissue leiomyoma: The risk of misdiagnosis and mismanagement World J Surg Oncol 2007, 5:92 Martinoli C, Bianchi ... (CM); 2) US is less expansive; in our hospital, the price of a musculoskeletal US is 63 euros (about 92 U.S dollars), while the price of a MRI of the same district is 344 euros (about 504 U.S dollars)...
... Ibrahiem K, al-Tweigeri T: Softtissue malignant lymphoma at sites of previous surgery J Clin Pathol 1998, 51:629-632 Delpla PA, Rouge D, Durroux R, Rouquette I, Arbus L: Softtissue tumors following ... tumor at the site of a previous rib fracture Traumatic injury has been implicated as a causative factor in the genesis of other soft tissues as well Radhi et al., [6] reported cases of diffuse centroblastic ... intranuclear accumulation of [beta]-catenin [20] The expression of nuclear [beta]-catenin may play a role in the differential diagnosisof desmoid tumors from a host of fibroblastic and myofibroblastic lesions...
... after four years with good range of motion Conclusion This study reports a very rare localization of a case of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the softtissueof the shoulder in a HIV infected ... described a case of muscle lymphoma of biceps femoris (17 × 14 × cm) in which treatment was wide surgery followed by chemotherapy [24] No other cases ofsofttissue lymphomas of the shoulder in ... among these, the involvement of other tissues such as the musculoskeletal system Usually musculoskeletal lesions involve lower limb Authors report a rare case ofsofttissue lymphoma localized at...
... oncology softtissue sarcoma [http://www.nccn.org/ professionals/physician_gls/PDF/sarcoma.pdf] Eilber FR, Morton DL, Eckardt J, Grant T, Weisenber T: Limb salvage for skeletal and softtissue ... Merino MJ, Rosenberg SA: Randomized prospective study of the benefit of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment ofsofttissue sarcomas of the extremity J Clin Oncol 1998, 16:197-203 O’Sullivan ... postoperative radiotherapy in soft- tissue sarcoma of the limbs: a randomized trial Lancet 2002, 359:2235-2241 Zagars GK, Ballo MT: Sequencing radiotherapy for softtissue sarcoma when re-resection...