diagnosis of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome

... condition because of extra pressure on the nerves and blood vessels Thoracic outlet anatomy Thoracic outlet syndrome is a rare condition that occurs when there is compression of vessels and nerves ... and inner forearm Thoracic outlet syndrome is usually treated with physical therapy which helps strengthen and straighten out the shoulders Symptoms Symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome may include: ... may make the pain worse) - Signs of poor circulation in the hand or forearm (a bluish color, cold hands, or a swollen arm) - Weakness of the muscles in the hand Diagnosis & Tests When you lift...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2014, 21:21

... hyperinflation ultimately result in the compression of healthy lung areas resulting in atelectasis [6] For this reason, the diagnosis of Page of this syndrome is better established with HRCT on inspiration ... Swyer-James-MacLeod syndrome; TTE: transthoracic echocardiogram; Author details Department of Internal Medicine, S Marcos Hospital, Braga, Portugal School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, ... in a proven case of Swyer-James syndrome Clin Nucl Med 1997, 22(2):115-118 doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-2 Cite this article as: Capela et al.: Adult diagnosis of Swyer-JamesMacLeod syndrome: a case...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:22

... infection and had a cluster of differentiation (CD4) cell count of 274/μl and viral load of 129,000 copies/ml Laparotomy was performed days later only to confirm the diagnosis of small-bowel invagination ... hemiabdomen and a soft tissue mass revealed dilated loops of the small intestine and a transition point to decompressed loops at the level of the midileum, as well as a typical 'target sign' of intussusception ... scan of the abdomen Figure bowel in1the right hemiabdomen and a soft loops mass Plain abdominal radiograph showing dilated tissue of small Plain abdominal radiograph showing dilated loops of small...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... 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 diagnosis of 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 diagnosis of neuropathic pain vs non-neuropathic pain for a cut-off value ≥ points in the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... 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 diagnosis of 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 diagnosis of neuropathic pain vs non-neuropathic pain for a cut-off value ≥ points in the Spanish version of the DN4 questionnaire,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... The objective of this study was to measure the presence of anti-α-fodrin antibodies in the sera of a cohort of patients with well-defined SjS at the Department of Rheumatology of the University ... exceeded the mean +2 SD of that of a pool of sera from NHS All ELISAs were performed in duplicate To check for possible false-positive results because of the presence of the GST moiety in the ... FH: The synergistic value of focus score and IgA% score of sublabial salivary gland biopsy for the accuracy of the diagnosis of Sjogren’s syndrome: a 10year comparison Rheumatology 2002, 41:819-823...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... transfusions because of hematological diseases often develop cytopenia and high fever resembling these signs in HPS Lack of specific disease markers often delays diagnosis of HPS and ASD, with ... 1/50 amounts of of cDNA derived from µg of total RNA, 200 nmol/l of probe, and 800 nmol/l of primers were incubated in 25 µl at 50°C for 2min and 95°C for 10min, followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for ... Center of Excellence Program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (to Y Ishigatsubo), Research on Specific Disease of the Health Science Research Grants of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... ladder of 100 bp; = exon with a size of 528 bp; = exon with a size of 172 bp; = exon with a size of 378 bp; = exon with a size of 516 bp; = exon with a size of 289 bp Melo et al Journal of Medical ... to properly reach the conclusion of a diagnosis of AIS Sex determination and differentiation depend on a cascade of events that begins with the establishment of chromosomal sex at fertilization ... after puberty because of primary amenorrhea Patients with the complete form of AIS Page of have female external genitalia, an absence or thinning of pubic hair and the absence of a uterus [4] The...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... Page of is of particular interest to the oral and maxillofacial health experts Proper evaluation and characterization of the clinical features are of the utmost importance for the correct diagnosis ... Department of Oral Pathology, Bauru School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Bauru, Brazil 2Department of Dentistry, University Center of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil 3Department of Dentistry, ... calcification of the falx cerebri, ocular hypertelorism and vertebral anomaly characterized by kyphoscoliosis, which confirmed the diagnosis of NBCCS or Gorlin-Goltz syndrome One of the features...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... the diagnosis of human brucellosis? Enferm Infec Microbiol Clin 2001;19:202-5 Araj GF Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, not Agglutination, is the test of choice for the diagnosis of serodiagnosis ... an important role in the diagnosis of brucellosis Main antigenic structure which is imported in the diagnosis of brucellosis is the smooth lipopolysaccharide structure of the antigen cell surface ... J Evaluation of Brucellacapt for the diagnosis of human brucellosis Journal of Infection 2004; 49: 102–108 Clavijo E, Diaz R, Anguita A, Garcia A, Pinedo A, Smith HL Comparison of a Dipstick...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... since none of them alone is useful for the majority of the BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast tissues No biomarker has been suggested to date for the early diagnosis of BC (24) ... were transferred to a data processor and software capable of analyzing univariate statistical analysis (ProteinChip Data Manager Software) Mass calibrations of all spectra were performed internally ... 23–71; mean age 39.1) Complex protein profiles of sera of 27 women with BC, 24 women with benign breast disease and 37 healthy women were obtained by SELDI-TOF MS analyses using IMAC30-NI beams...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... [7, 8] Early diagnosis of CRC is therefore of great importance Currently the sensitivity of the single biomarker based CRC diagnosis is low and complicated with a high probability of ‘false-positives’ ... based on a first pass of signal-noise ratio of and a minimum peak threshold of 20% of all spectra This process was completed with a second pass of peak selection at 0.2% of the mass window, and ... calculated as the ratio of the 42 number of correctly classified diseased samples to the total number of diseased samples Specificity was calculated as the ratio of the number of negative samples...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... of Hepatology, the official journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and of Current Hepatitis Reports, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ... University of Paris and Pasteur Institute, France Jean-Michel Pawlotsky, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris XII and the Director of the Department of Virology, of INSERM ... Professor at the University of Paris XII and a member of the Department of Virology and of INSERM Unit U635 at the Henri Mondor University Hospital in Créteil, France He focuses on teaching, diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56

... is the appearance of serum markers of HBV infection that establishes the diagnosis of the disease Of these, HBsAg is considered to be the sentinel marker for the confirmation of acute infection ... patient serological profiles fall outside of classical patterns Some key advantages and disadvantages of HBV DNA testing are presented in Table Current HBV DNA assays make use of differing technologies ... necessary should the rate of emergence of resistance and the impact of such mutations turn out to be clinically relevant for therapy management Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Resistance HBV is...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... provide indirect evidence of ocular infection [4] Moreover, it’s important to highlight that FRET PCR is able to detect the presence of T gondii DNA on a small amount of 136 sample as it was in ... experience (

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:01

... 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, ... 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 diagnosis of gynecological ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... the diagnosis of smear-negative tuberculosis is reached in some of the sampled countries Clinical peer review, or discussion of the case by a clinical team, was used to establish the diagnosis of ... range of variation in the recommended number of courses and duration of the antibiotic treatment in the sampled countries Duration of the antibiotic treatment ranged from days to 28 days The use of ... programme recommendations of selected countries for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis Sputum and blood cultures Sputum culture is the gold standard for the diagnosis of tuberculosis and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20

... available for comparison of the performance of the individual tests, an analysis of results was done using a variety of standards Efficiency of microscopy, culture and PCR in terms of sensitivity, specificity, ... with past history of tuberculosis ! with symptom complex Table 2: Summary : Final diagnosis of tuberculosis patients Tuberculosis patients Diagnostic review Final diagnosis of TB patients Description ... al Utility of nucleic acid amplification techniques for the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in sub-saharan Africa Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2001; 5: 364-369 Rattan A PCR for diagnosis of tuberculosis:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... For a number of reasons, one of which is the influence of the training programme of NTI, the findings of this study should be considered illustrative of methodology of assessment of integrated ... differences of NTI technician Thus, neither under -diagnosis nor overdiagnosis was a ‘serious problem’ in out of the centres Of the remaining centres, underdiagnosis was substantial in two and overdiagnosis ... methods of assessment also: (i) Assessment based upon the results of examination of duplicate and that of the reexamination of the centre smears (Method 2) (ii) Assessment based upon the result of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20