Application of International System for Reporting Serous Fluid Cytology and Risk of Malignancy Assessment in Serous Effusion: A Cross Sectional Study by Manal Ashraf Ali, Swalaha Sadaf Siddique, Naish Akhtar, Naila Durrani, Neetu Kumar

“…The ROM in different categories for pleural, peritoneal, and pericardial fluid, respectively, was as follows: Category I {Non Diagnostic (ND)} constituted 1/15 (6.6%) and 1/19 (5.2%); Category II {Negative for Malignancy (NFM)}showed 3/186 (1.6%), 4/220 (1.8%), and 0/3 (0%); Category III {Atypia of Undetermined Significance (AUS)} comprised 1/4 (25%) and 0/3 (0%); Category IV {Suspicious for Malignancy (SFM)} showed 81.8% (9/11) and 75% (6/8); and in Category V {Malignant Lesions (MAL)}, the ROM was 100% (20/20, 22/22, 2/2) for all. …”
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Celecoxib as Heterotopic Ossification Prophylaxis in Total Ankle Arthroplasty: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Caroline Cristofaro BSc(Hons), MBChB, Mohammad Athar MD, MSc, FRCSC, Ellie B. Pinsker PhD, Brad Meulenkamp MD, MSc, FRCSC, Timothy R. Daniels MD, FRCSC, Mansur M. Halai BSc(Hons), MBCBhB, MRCA, MRCS, FRCS(Tr&Orth)

“…Level of Evidence: Level III, (retrospective cohort study).…”
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The Relationship Between Phenological Characteristics and Life Forms Within Temperate Semi-Natural Grassland Ecosystems in the Central Himalaya Region of India by Archana Fartyal, Ravi Kant Chaturvedi, Surendra Singh Bargali, Kiran Bargali

“…This study was carried out in three sites in different forest zones, viz. oak, cypress and pine. …”
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Clinical overlap between malaria and pneumonia: can malaria rapid diagnostic test play a role? by Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olufemi B Aina, Ademola A Talabi

“…Methodology: Consecutive consultations of 1,216 children (two months to five years old) were documented over a three-month period in a comprehensive health centre. …”
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Polymorphisms in the mitochondrial DNA control region and frailty in older adults. by Ann Z Moore, Mary L Biggs, Amy Matteini, Ashley O'Connor, Sarah McGuire, Brock A Beamer, M Danielle Fallin, Linda P Fried, Jeremy Walston, Aravinda Chakravarti, Dan E Arking

“…In the study population, the mt204 C allele was associated with greater likelihood of frailty (adjusted odds ratio = 2.04, 95% CI = 1.07-3.60, p = 0.020) and lower grip strength (adjusted coefficient = -2.04, 95% CI = -3.33- -0.74, p = 0.002).…”
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Relative Frequency of Primary Salivary Gland Tumors: Multicenter Study of 796 Cases from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Nasser AlMaden, Rawan AlYami, Ahmed Almotairi, Rasha Alrasheed, Bader Aldawasri, Mohammed Alwhabi, Assem Alrumeh, Nasser AlBishi, Abdullah Alqarni, Doaa Alghamdi, Asma Almazyad

“…Mucoepidermoid carcinoma was the most prevalent malignant tumor, identified in 98 patients (12.3%). Additionally, 36 (4.5%) mesenchymal and 30 (3.8%) hematolymphoid non-epithelial SGTs were reported. …”
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Comparative analysis of clinical, morphological and prognostic parameters of non-metastatic skin melanoma by K. A. Silakov, O. E. Abramova, E. V. Shako, M. A. Bobrov, P. A. Molotkov, E. R. Chichitko, M. A. Mitrofanov, K. A. Silanteva, P. V. Shegai, G. A. Demyashkin

“…Melanoma was most frequently diagnosed at advanced stages: stages IIIA–IIID were detected in 53 patients (37.3 %), stages IIA–IIC – in 40 (28.2 %), and stages 0 and IA–IB – in 16 (11.3 %) and 33 (23.2 %) patients, respectively. …”
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Phenotype characteristic of colonic intraepithelial lymphocytes in patients with Crohn's disease by D. B. Nizheharodava, A. Ch. Shuleika, A. M. Starastsin, M. I. Vanslau, G. I. Ivanchyk, A. V. Vialichka, M. M. Zafranskaya

“…However, changes in T cell subsets composition have been shown: the ratio of СD3+СD4+IEL and СD3+СD8+IEL was 1:1 in colon of CD patients and correlated with T cells in peripheral blood (R = 0.7; p < 0.05) while donor tissues were characterized by expected СD3+СD8+T killers prevalence and the ratio reached 1:2 (p < 0.05). …”
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Exploiting Microperimetry as a Functional End Point in Healthy Aging and Different Stages of Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Johannes Schrittwieser, MD, Klaudia Birner, MD, Leonard M. Coulibaly, MD, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, MD, Gregor S. Reiter, MD, PhD

“…The range between the highest and lowest PWS was the most effective parameter for discrimination, with a classification accuracy of 52.5% and 50.6% in the MP-3 and MAIA, respectively. …”
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Time-Series Forecasting of PM_2.5 and PM₁₀ Concentrations Based on the Integration of Surveillance Images by Yong Wu, Xiaochu Wang, Meizhen Wang, Xuejun Liu, Sifeng Zhu

“…However, some limitations remain in existing literature, such as their focus on coarse-grained classification, single-moment estimation, or reliance on indirect and unintuitive information from visual images. …”
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Sonographic Correlations With Histological Grade and Biomarker Profiles in Breast Invasive Ductal Carcinoma by Golnaz Moradi, Nasrin Ahmadinejad, Diana Zarei, Nahid Sadighi

“…ER and PR positivity were defined as > 10% nuclear staining, HER2 graded on a 0–3+ scale, and Ki‐67 positivity as ≥ 10% staining. …”
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Feasibility and Mechanical Strength Evaluation of New Customized Implants for Tibial Plateau Fractures Fixation by Meng Li, Mengmeng Hu, Xiaomeng Ren, Yi Gao, Longbo Du, Yu Jiang, Wei Zhang

“…The indicators of patients characteristics, operation, and follow‐up were collected, such as the cause of trauma, fresh or old, fracture classification, blood loss, Lysholm score, EQ‐5D‐3L score, and so on. …”
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Knee morphology and patella malalignment in neglected developmental dysplasia of the hip: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Daofeng Wang, Jianzhong Sun, Yang Liu, Zhengjie Tang, Hui Zhang

“…Patients were predominantly female (88.3%). The Crowe classification is most commonly used to assess the severity of DDH. …”
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Application of dual branch and bidirectional feedback feature extraction networks for real time accurate positioning of stents by Shixiao Wu, Rui Hu, Chengcheng Guo, Xingyuan Lu, Peng Leng, Zhiwei Wang

“…For mAP@0.5, when employing 5-fold cross-validation, DBMedDet demonstrates superior performance compared to several YOLO models, achieving improvements of 4.88% over YOLOv8l, 4.61% over YOLOv8m, 3.20% over YOLOv8s, 6.23% over YOLOv8n, 6.09% over YOLOv10s, 3.92% over YOLOv9s, 3.20% over YOLOv8s, 3.00% over YOLOv7tiny, and 5.01% over YOLOv5s. …”
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Relationship Between Domestic Animals, Environmental and Behavioral Factors, and Under-Five Diarrhea in Sidama Region, Ethiopia: A Matched Case-Control Study by Gorfu Geremew, Argaw Ambelu, Dessalegn Dadi, Alemayehu Haddis

“…The statistical analyses were conducted using R v.4.3.2 software. Results The study indicated that having a caretaker who is a housewife [matched adjusted odds ratio (mAOR) = 3.09, 5% CI (1.09, 8.70)], a mean number of chickens ≥ 5 [mAOR = 5.18, 95% CI (2.70, 9.95)], the absence of soap at handwashing facilities [mAOR = 2.61, 95% CI (1.34, 5.10)], those who travel more than 30 min to fetch water [mAOR = 3.14, 95% CI (1.13, 8.78)], children who are in contact with animal feces [mAOR = 2.44, 95% CI (1.24, 4.82)], and households living with animals [mAOR = 3.28, 95% CI (1.71, 6.30)] showed significant associations with under-five diarrhea. …”
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Efficacy of combined colorectal cancer treatment in senile patients by P. V. Tsarkov, D. R. Markaryan, V. M. Nekoval

“…Achieved 30-day postoperative mortality was 4.9%, overall 5-year survival rate - 67.3±5.6%, cancer-specific survival - 70.1±4.4%. In group of patients with III and IV stages of CRC who received postoperative adjuvant therapy, the tendency to higher total survival was noted, however only cancer-specific survival scores had statistically significant differences in this subgroup. …”
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Hiatal hernia types and their radiological diagnostics in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease by A. O. Nykonenko, Ye. I. Haidarzhi, T. V. Letkeman

“…Type I hernias – in 94 (78.3 %) patients, type II hernias – in 3 (2.5 %), type III hernias – in 15 (12.5 %), type IV was detected in 8 (6.7 %) patients. …”
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Accurate Mapping of Downed Deadwood in a Dense Deciduous Forest Using UAV-SfM Data and Deep Learning by Steffen Dietenberger, Marlin M. Mueller, Boris Stöcker, Clémence Dubois, Hanna Arlaud, Markus Adam, Sören Hese, Hanna Meyer, Christian Thiel

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Extragenital endometriosis associated with uterine scar defects by Tilman Born, Katrin Krejci, Maximilian Rauh, Georgia Cole, Maurice Kappelmeyer, Mehmet Vural, Angela Köninger

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Long-Term Outcomes After High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy and Hypofractionated External Beam Radiotherapy in Very High-Risk Prostate Cancer: A 24-Year Follow-Up by Pedro J. Prada Gómez, Ana L. Rivero Pérez, Joaquín Carballido Rodríguez, Javier Anchuelo Latorre, Rosa Fabregat Borrás, Marina Gutiérrez Ruiz, Cristina Rodríguez-Acosta Caballero, Carlos F. Carrascal Gordillo, Maria P. Galdós Barroso, Paola A. Navarrete Solano

“…Multivariate Cox regression analysis identified the T category in the TNM classification as the only factor significantly associated with biochemical control, with 24-year rates of 69%, 71%, and 50% for patients with T-classifications of ≤T2c, T3a, and T3b-T4, respectively (<i>p</i> = 0.024). …”
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