bbd for benign tracheobronchial stenosis

... to be helpful in detection of organ of origin for pelvic masses MRI has a sensitivity of 96% while it was only 77% for Ultrasound and 87% for CT for detection of pelvic masses MRI has been shown ... a limited value in differentiating benign from malignant pelvic masses The patient characteristics and radiological information provides crucial additional information on which to base a diagnosis ... age of 65 yrs[3] For early detection of ovarian cancer various tumour markers have been studied and CA 125 has been proposed by Bast et al[4] as a relatively specific marker for ovarian cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... progression-free survival rate for patients with benign meningioma treated after 1980 with three-dimensional (3-D) conformal RT was 98%, as compared with 77% for patients treated before 1980, with two-dimensional ... advanced form of 3-D conformal which has been recently employed for the treatment of different brain tumors, especially large tumors with irregular shapes close to critical structures [45] IMRT for ... Ashley S, Brada M: High precision focused irradiation in the form of fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy (SCRT) for benign meningiomas predominantly in the skull base location Clin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... plane for complete interrogation of all velocities, as opposed to the ‘ice-pick’ view employed by echocardiography 2D transthoracic and/or transesophageal echocardiography was also performed for ... was performed (5 ± days) prior to AVR, month and year and up to years post-AVR An independent comparison of AS degree assessed by each modality (CMR and echocardiography) was performed for future ... mapping to formally quantitate the mean and peak transvalvular gradients, they were 53 and 78 mmHg, respectively; severe AS Page of variance (ANOVA) and repeated-measures ANOVA was performed for comparisons...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... bronchoscopy was performed for each patient to identify the type, location and severity of the stenosis The degree of stenosis was estimated visually Flexible bronchoscopy was performed under conscious ... Institutional review board approval was obtained, but specific informed consent was not required for this retrospective study Informed consent for each bronchoscopy was obtained prior to the procedure ... Post-intubation benign tracheal stenosis in a 78-year old patient who was mechanically ventilated for 10 days due to chronic-obstructive lung disease Concentric web-like tracheal obstruction before (a)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... approach for whom? • Aortic Stenosis remains lethal & undertreated • TAVR is life-saving in inoperable patients • Equivalency exists in high-risk patients • Surgical AVR remains treatment of choice for ... remains treatment of choice for Low and Intermediate Risk patients • For now… suggestion of potential for superiority of TAVR • BAV for Palliation & Bridging • Utility in decision making? ©2011 MFMER ... “Untreated”! Severe Symptomatic Aortic Stenosis AVR Percent of Cardiology Patients Treated No AVR 100% 90% 80% 41 32 30 60 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 31 59 20% 10% 48 Reasons for non-treatment: elderly 70 69...

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2015, 12:50

... values (PPV, NPV) for the assessment of coronary stenosis were calculated with adjustment to prevalence of stenosis [23] Moreover, to assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent ... improvement in detection accuracy for hemodynamically relevant coronary stenosis in ≥ 65 year old females, a group that has heretofore been difficult to evaluate for obstructive coronary disease ... of resting or stress-ECGs for risk assessment and highlighted the need for new tests to assess this patient population Coronary angiography remains the gold standard for the morphologic diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:58

... laminoforaminoplasty for the treatment of foraminal spinal stenosis Methods This was a prospective study of 64 patients who underwent endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty for refractory foraminal stenosis ... facetectomy for lumbar foraminal stenosis Technical note J Neurosurg 2002, 96:118-121 13 Saringer W, Nöbauer I, Reddy M, Tschabitscher M, Horaczek A: Microsurgical anterior cervical foraminotomy (uncoforaminotomy) ... 1971, 53:891-903 Jenis LG, An HS: Spine update Lumbar foraminal stenosis Spine 2000, 25:389-394 Jackson RP, Glah JJ: Foraminal and extraforaminal lumbar disc herniation: diagnosis and treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:17

... as 'missing' and were therefore not included as responses in the analyses Psychometric assessments were made using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) for Windows version 15.0 Item ... significantly different for patients who were classed as mild, moderate or severe on the IPSS The scores were also significantly different for each point of the IPSS QoL score and for the low medium ... The total score for this 8-item measure is obtained by adding all the raw scores for items 1–7, which gives a score range of to 49 Responses to item 8, "Would you ask your doctor for the medication...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... disease and physical; 0.515 for physical and social; 0.777 for social and psychological; and 0.612 for psychological and satisfaction Criterion validity of the short-form of BPH-QLS is summarized ... The validity of the short form of BPH-QLS was tested in three Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:24 aspects For structure validity, we ... Correlation coefficients (CCs) were calculated for the original and 1-week repeat scale and each domain for test-retest reliability Internal consistencies for the instrument and its domains were assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and at the pedicle level uninvolved by stenosis The 'stenosis ratio', as described by Lurencin and Lipson(14), was then used to determine the severity of stenosis This ratio is the cross-sectional ... before the symptoms resolve ? a >10 b.between and 10 How frequently you take pain medicine for these symptoms ? a Frequently b.Daily c.Occaisionally d.Never How frequently you see a doctor for ... Patients Treated Surgically for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Spine 1997, 22(19):2278-2282 Johnson K-E, Willner S, Petterson H: Analysis of operated cases with lumbar spinal stenosis Acta Orthop Scand...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... (PPV, NPV) for the assessment of coronary stenosis were calculated with adjustment to prevalence of stenosis [19] Moreover, in order to assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent ... in this cohort For patients with hemodynamically relevant coronary stenosis as diagnosed at angiography, the severity score was significantly higher than that for patients without stenosis (5.3 ... was lowest for males over 65 years of age (Table 3) Analysis of ROC also showed that the best cut-off for each subgroup remained at 4.0 (Figure 2) Figure ROC curves for severity score for the detection...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 16:23

... (PPV, NPV) for the assessment of coronary stenosis were calculated with adjustment to prevalence of stenosis [23] Moreover, in order to assess the performance of the prediction of stenosis independent ... significantly higher for patients with relevant coronary stenosis as diagnosed at angiography than for patients without stenosis (5.6 +/- 2.1 vs 1.7 +/-2.2; p < 0.01; Figure 1) For the association ... restenosis, graft stenosis, or de novo stenosis after coronary revascularization Methods and Materials The study was approved by the local institutional committee on human research Written informed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... Radiosurgery for Benign Meningiomas Neurosurgery 2010, 67:322-9 doi:10.1186/1748-717X-6-36 Cite this article as: Minniti et al.: Fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy for large benign skull ... stereotactic radiosurgery for benign intracranial meningiomas Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2004, 60:1515-19 50 Pollock BE, Stafford SL: Results of stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with imaging ... C, Baumert B, et al: High precision focused irradiation in the form of fractionated stereotactic conformal radiotherapy (SCRT) for benign meningiomas predominantly in the skull base location Clin...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... R2 for malignant nodules and for benign nodules, as well as the trendlines for malignant and benign nodules demonstrated that the slope of the regression line was greater for malignant than for ... and (R2) for benign nodules were (y = 0.4555x + 3.5469) and (R2 = 0.0766) The equations and trendlines demonstrate that the slope of the regression line is greater for malignant than for benign ... and benign nodules for Group (t (26) = 0.3, ns) and for Group (t (56) = -0.2, ns) The differences in SUVmax values between malignant and benign nodules did reach statistical significance for...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... in a storiform pattern (hematoxylin-eosin-staining, magnification 25×) extracted and neurolysis of the inferior alveolar nerve was performed (Figure 9) The neurological analysis was performed bilaterally ... upper and lower lip were checked using a cotton test for touch sensation, a pinprick test using a needle for sharp pain and a blunt instrument for testing pressure Additionally, a two point discrimination ... Furthermore ultrasound has lately been used for osteotomies as well as for dental implant bone preparation and thus presents an additional option for cutting bone beside the classic osteotomy...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:21

... support highspeed data for multimedia services has been the driving forces for developments in third generation, or 3G, infrastructures Perhaps a more subtle reason for the need for 3G is the growing ... may be different for different users within the cell and between cells It is used for transmitting the forward access channel (FACH) for access grant and the paging channel (PCH) for paging, both ... diversity, the BER performance improved as the chip rate increased For a chip rate of 0.96 Mcps, the BER performance was close to the computer simulated BER performance with L=1 The performance with...

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