A retrospective study demonstrating the growth patterns and the pseudoprogression temporal classification after stereotactic radiosurgery for sporadic vestibular schwannomas by Amr M N El-Shehaby, Wael A Reda, Khaled M Abdel Karim, Ahmed M Nabeel, Reem M Emad Eldin, Ahmed H Alazzazi, Sameh R Tawadros

“…A more conservative approach may be adopted in most vestibular schwannomas that exhibit tumor enlargement after SRS, as in most cases, they will eventually be controlled.…”
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Treatment of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome with ST Segment Elevation in Clinical Practice of the Republic of Karelia: the Results of 10-year Register by I. S. Skopets, N. N. Vezikova, A. V. Malafeev, A. N. Malygin, V. A. Litvinova

“…Life threatening complications developed in 38.1% of patients and the most frequent ones were arrhythmias (31.5%). The outcomes at the discharge from the hospital were as follows: 1432 patients (63.5%) had Q MI, 390 (17.3%) – non Q MI, 76 (3.4%) – unstable angina, 21 (0.9%) – MI of unspecified localization and 317 patients (14.1%) – repeated myocardial infarction.Conclusion. …”
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Hematospermia: norm or pathology? Modern approaches to etiopathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment by O. A. Nikiforov, N. V. Avramenko, E. A. Lomeyko, V. V. Mykhailov

“…In most cases, the cause of blood appearance in the semen remains unknown. …”
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THE USE OF INTERACTIVE STUDYING METHODS IN TEACHING OPERATIVE SURGERY AND TOPOGRAPHIC ANATOMY by V.M. Fedorak

“…In teaching operative surgery the most important thing is the formation of students' practical skills. …”
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Short-term outcome and predictors of post-operative complications following transurethral resection of the prostate among patients with benign prostate hyperplasia in Northern Tanz... by Esther E. Lekei, Jasper S. Mbwambo, Frank Bright, Magreth Elias, Zerra I. Cheyo, Alfred Kien Mteta, Orgeness Mbwambo, Bartholomeo Nicholaus Ngowi

“…Conclusions TURP significantly improves IPSS and QoL scores in most patients. Clot retention was the most frequent complication. …”
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Pearl‐unjammed: the Seattle stone maneuver for ureteropelvic junction urolithiasis by M. Kennedy Hall, Patrick C. Samson, Ross Kessler, Kris Lehnhardt, Benjamin Easter, Jeff Thiel, Hunter Wessells, Michael R. Bailey, Jonathan D. Harper

“…Abstract Renal colic encounters are common; in the United States alone, they represent greater than one million annual emergency department (ED) visits. Most of these stones are managed conservatively with a trial of passage. …”
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Sequence and Timing of Intracranial Changes in Cytomegalovirus in Pregnancy: A Case Report and Literature Review by Cynthia O’Sullivan, Shankari Arulkumaran, Lorin Lakasing, Eric Jauniaux, Karl Murphy

“…Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of intrauterine infection, occurring in up to 2% of all live births. …”
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Clinical Features and Drug Characteristics of Patients with Generalized Fixed Drug Eruption in the West of Iran (2005–2014) by Hossein Kavoussi, Mansour Rezaei, Katayoun Derakhshandeh, Alireza Moradi, Ali Ebrahimi, Harif Rashidian, Reza Kavoussi

“…Out of 30 patients (17 females and 13 males) with the mean age of 26.67±10.21 years, 28 (93.3%) and 2 (6.7%) cases had plaque and bullous clinical presentation, respectively. Upper limbs were the most common (90%) site of involvement. The antibiotic group, especially cotrimoxazole (26.1%), was reported to be the most common offending drug, but the causative drug was not determined in 7 (23.3%) patients. …”
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Phenotype and Genotype of Two Taiwanese Cystic Fibrosis Siblings and a Survey of Delta F508 in East Asians by Chao-Jen Lin, Shun-Ping Chang, Yu-Yuan Ke, Han-Yao Chiu, Lon-Yen Tsao, Ming Chen

“…The carrier status of their parents and elder brother were also confirmed: heterozygous delta F508 mutation from the father; 13 TG repeats in the IVS8-5T from the mother. An update of delta F508 mutation reported in East Asian patients from various ethnicities is included; most of them were of mixed parentage. …”
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Assaying Il Saggiatore, with a delicate and precise bibliographical balance by Nick Wilding, Jason W. Dean

“…The first edition has been repeatedly misdescribed in the book trade, with a fictitious “first issue” claiming chronological and monetary priority. …”
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The Imperial Hermitage in the formation of cultural memory (second half of the 19th — early 20th centuries) by Dmitrii Rakovskii

“…We selected and characterised the images of historical fi gures of various eras that are most often found in the expositions of the Imperial Hermitage, i.e. …”
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The first report of Brucella melitensis biovar 2 strain isolated from cattle in Turkey by Kadir Akar, Gulseren Yıldız Oz

“…The disease is caused primarily by Brucella abortus (B. abortus), while B. melitensis is less common, and B. suis infection is rare. B. melitensis is the most common causative agent of brucellosis in small ruminants and humans. …”
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Neuromuscular diseases in elderly by Perić Stojan, Basta Ivana

“…Inflammatory myopathies such as polymyositis and dermatomyositis are of particular importance because they most often occur in patients over 65 years of age. …”
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Video Analysis of 26 Cases of Second ACL Injury Events in Collegiate and Professional Athletes by Manuela Vargas, Grace K Chaney, María C. Mejía Jaramillo, Paige Cummings, April McPherson, Nathaniel A. Bates

“… # Conclusion Secondary ACL injury was most likely to occur during landing or a sidestep cut with player attention external to their own body. …”
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Adeno-Associated virus 8 delivers an immunomodulatory peptide to mouse liver more efficiently than to rat liver. by Yuqing Wang, Ayrea Hurley, Marco De Giorgi, Mark R Tanner, Rong-Chi Hu, Michael W Pennington, William R Lagor, Christine Beeton

“…However, like most biologics, ShK and its analogs require injections for their delivery, and repeated injections reduce patient compliance during the treatment of chronic diseases. …”
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The role of brachytherapy in liver metastases from colorectal cancer by Paweł Cisek, Izabela Kordzińska-Cisek, Ludmiła Grzybowska-Szatkowska

“…Patients were divided into 3 groups according to indications for treatment: patients with repeat oligoprogression, induced oligoprogression and induced oligopersistence. …”
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Origin and loss of nested LRRTM/α-catenin genes during vertebrate evolution. by Pavel Uvarov, Tommi Kajander, Matti S Airaksinen

“…Our analysis shows that in most jawed vertebrates, lrrtm1, lrrtm2, and lrrtm3 genes are nested on opposite strands of large conserved intron of α-catenin genes ctnna2, ctnna1, and ctnna3, respectively. …”
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Digital imaging and vision analysis in science project improves the self-efficacy and skill of undergraduate students in computational work. by Tessa Durham Brooks, Raychelle Burks, Erin Doyle, Mark Meysenburg, Tim Frey

“…The outcomes of the DIVAS project support the efficacy of building computational skill through repeated exposure of scholars to relevant applications over an extended period within a community of practice.…”
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Understanding Geotechnical Embankment Washout Due to Overtopping: Insights From Physical Tests by Urbaniak Mikołaj, Zamiar Krzysztof, Kostecki Stanisław

“…At the same time, the amount of water accumulated in the reservoir is the largest possible for this scenario, suggesting that such a catastrophe may have the most severe consequences. Based on the results obtained from three experiments, four repeatable phases of erosion evolution were identified and described: (I) the initiation phase, (II) the vertical erosion phase, (III) the lateral erosion phase, divided into two cycles, and (IV) the reservoir emptying phase without further propagation of the breach. …”
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Alternating movement strategies of a tropical raptor by Eben H. Paxton, Kristina L. Paxton

“…We found that all ‘Io occupied a relatively small geographic area, their place of residency, where they spent all or most of their time. However, 10 individuals also exhibited an alternative movement pattern, where individuals repeatedly commuted back and forth between their place of residency to another, geographically disjunct location. …”
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