... separate study comparing the BCLC, AJCC TNM-7, and Chinese staging systems, the Chinese and BCLC staging systems were found to be superior to the TNM-7 stagingsystem in stratification and prognosis ... Cancer (AJCC) TNM stagingsystem Figure Cumulative survival rates according to TNM-7 stagingsystem of stages I, II and III a Cumulative disease-free survival rates according to TNM-7 stagingsystem ... The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) /International Union Against Cancer (UICC) TNM system is one of the most commonly used staging systems TNM staging for HCC is focused on the impact...
... nervous system to cause emesis.6 The action of ondansetron is thus partly central and partly peripheral Ondansetron may be given by i.v Cubeddu L X et al 1990 New England Journal of Medicine 322 :810 ... chemotherapy-induced emesis New England Journal of Medicine 329 :1790 Mittal R K, Balaban D H 1997 The esophagogastric junction New England Journal of Medicine 336: 924- 932 637 ... secretions to produce insoluble salts, especially phosphate The chloride is released and reabsorbed so systemic acid-base balance is not altered It tends to constipate Sufficient aluminium may be absorbed...
... Committee for Cancer Staging and End Results Reporting (today known as the American Joint Committee on Cancer, AJCC) was organized in 1959 with the aim of developing a system of clinicalstaging of cancer ... possible clinical manifestations for each type of cancer In order to retain its validity, the stagingsystem must be flexible and adaptable to significant scientific changes A reliable stagingsystem ... inevitably benefit from staging, which helps produce new data on similar groups of patients as well as to facilitate clinical research [7] Over the years, all staging systems for gynecological...
... white arrowheads) Nineteen out of twenty -four patients gave consent to clinical followup conducted years after implantation of the graft Postoperatively, no clinical signs of persistent knee joint ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/11/2/R33 Figure Figure Clinical outcome after four years as evaluated by the Lysholm score score Statistical analysis of the clinical outcome as assessed by the Lysholm score ... (MRI) four years after implantation of BioSeed®-C (a) Out of 17 patients, 11 patients, including this one, showed comfour years after implantation of BioSeed®-C plete filling of the defect four...
... implementation in the context of the larger healthcare system It is important to design the system of care so that implementation of informatics promotes good clinical practice The following statements express ... quotations ’Informatics’ top-level code 432* Electronic communication and connectivity/ telemedicine 181 Utilization or lack of utilization of informatics system by providers and patients 161 Decision ... data 126 Positives 98 Negatives 68 Barriers to informatics system implementation or use 61 Suggestions/improvements 58 ‘Well, you know, clinical reminders are fine, but less and less they bring...
... Files used when booting the system Directory of device nodes Configuration files used at system startup System executables needed at system startup time The X11 windowing system Standard executable ... traditional root file system and /usr No others are affected by an upgrade Table 32- 1, an abridged version of Table 10-2 on page 188, gives an overview of where the system files come from Table 32- 1: FreeBSD ... Miscellaneous files used by system utilities Additional programs that are not part of the operating system Temporary object files created when building the system The Ports Collection System administration...
... distorted waveforms using Fourier methods is that the waveform is in steady state In practice, waveform distortion varies widely and is dependent on both load levels and system conditions It is ... varies widely Both IEEE and IEC publish ‘‘systemlevel’’ harmonic limits that are intended to be applied from the utility point-of-view in order to limit power system harmonics to acceptable levels ... that harmonics in the power system be limited by two different methods One set of harmonic limits is for the harmonic current that a user can inject into the utility system at the point where other...
... of the Clinical Trial The STOP clinical trial took 20 months to run (of which the first months overlapped software development), and cost about UK£75,000 (US$110,000) We believe the STOP clinical ... smokers from their patient record systems This was the source of the 7427 initial smokers mentioned above Results of the Clinical Trial Detailed results of the STOP clinical trial, including statistical ... as part of the clinical trial Overall, we believe that these small-scale experiments were worth doing, but as a supplement to, not a replacement for, the clinical trial When is a Clinical Trial...
... THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM – PHYSIOLOGY, DIAGNOSTICS AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS Edited by David C Gaze The Cardiovascular System – Physiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Implications Edited ... blood circulation system In addition, new methods of quantitative determination of a number of hemodynamic parameters and The Cardiovascular System – Physiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Implications ... for phase compensation mechanism of the cardio-vascular system determination 10 The Cardiovascular System – Physiology, Diagnostics and Clinical Implications а) b) c) Fig Displayed measured phase-related...
... highest recall which shows that these systems are complemen- 28 tary The modular design of our system makes it easy to incorporate complementary annotation systems like Metamap into the annotation ... particularly important for using this system in recruiting patients for epidemiological research for disease incidence or disease prevalence studies and clinical trials where recall is valued ... text processor for clinical radiology Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, 1994 1(2): p 161-174 Friedman, C Towards a Comprehensive Medical Language Processing System: Methods and...
... naked DNA vaccine[10] However, despite an abundance of preclinical data, relatively little is known regarding the efficacy of ASI in CRC Early clinical trials of ASI against CRC have provided mixed ... without evidence of remaining macroscopic disease) Clinical outcomes to evaluate ASI in suspected minimal residual CRC were OS and DFS, and clinical outcomes of ASI in advanced CRC were complete ... to meet the WHO criteria To avoid ignoring small benefits that could add up to a clinically relevant result, the clinical benefit rate (CBR) has been introduced in this report The CBR represents...
... a virtual rehabilitation system for balance recovery that provides motivational task oriented exercises specifically designed for ABI people by clinical therapists The system can fit the patients’ ... the eBaViR system does not use any commercial software The exercises have been programmed using an authoring system for interactive 2D and 3D applications and designed with the help of clinical ... rehabilitation The system has been developed with three main goals in mind: obtaining a valid and adaptive system for the balance rehabilitation of the patients, achieving a system that reinforces...
... that our system can focus on the evaluation of the allocentric system to a greater degree than the egocentric system A future study should be able to produce the condition of an egocentric system ... rehabilitation approaches Our system may have clinical implication for new assessment because HMD can change versatile visual input to fit each patient's degree of USN Because, a clinical assessment for ... two-dimensional plane, the HMD system can easily produce a standard clinical examination related more closely to ADL in other planes, frontal or sagittal plane On the other hand, the HMD system has to develop...
... animation There are two most frequently used systems for Eulerian Angle definition, the "3-axes" system and the "2-axes" system The use of the latter system is usually for the purpose of avoiding ... femur coordinate system to the acetabular coordinate system based on the averaged joint rotation data for normal subjects walking on a treadmill The pelvic and femoral coordinate systems used experimentally ... Musculoskeletal System (VIMS) and Figure database for biomechanical analyses The functional flowchart and software structural platform design of the Virtual Interactive Musculoskeletal System (VIMS)...
... < α < j1 < j2 < β < j2 δ < j2 j3 , β < 0 ,system 1.1 has at least four nontrivial 2π-periodic solutions Chang proved in that, under conditions H1 – H4 , system 1.1 has at least two nontrivial 2π-periodic ... number δ > such that for any α and β with j1 − < α < j1 < j2 < β < j2 δ < j2 j3 , α > 0, system 1.1 has at least four nontrivial 2π-periodic solutions Theorem 1.2 Assume that H satisfies conditions ... For the proofs of Theorems 1.1 and 1.2, we first separate the whole space E into the four mutually disjoint four subspaces X0 , X1 , X2 , X3 which are introduced in Section and then we investigate...
... < α < j1 < j2 < β < j2 δ < j2 j3 , β < 0 ,system 1.1 has at least four nontrivial 2π-periodic solutions Chang proved in that, under conditions H1 – H4 , system 1.1 has at least two nontrivial 2π-periodic ... number δ > such that for any α and β with j1 − < α < j1 < j2 < β < j2 δ < j2 j3 , α > 0, system 1.1 has at least four nontrivial 2π-periodic solutions Theorem 1.2 Assume that H satisfies conditions ... For the proofs of Theorems 1.1 and 1.2, we first separate the whole space E into the four mutually disjoint four subspaces X0 , X1 , X2 , X3 which are introduced in Section and then we investigate...