Survival prognostic nomogram for young metastatic non-small cell lung cancer: a study of the US SEER database and a Chinese cohort by Yu Li, Lei Cao, Yawen Ding, Lei Liu, Yonggang Zhu, Feng Cao

“…The patients were allocated into a training cohort (n = 673) and an internal validation cohort (n = 288). …”
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Clinical benefits of modifying the evening light environment in an acute psychiatric unit: A single-centre, two-arm, parallel-group, pragmatic effectiveness randomised controlled t... by Håvard Kallestad, Knut Langsrud, Melanie Rae Simpson, Cecilie Lund Vestergaard, Daniel Vethe, Kaia Kjørstad, Patrick Faaland, Stian Lydersen, Gunnar Morken, Ingvild Ulsaker-Janke, Simen Berg Saksvik, Jan Scott

“…We report a large-scale pragmatic effectiveness RCT exploring whether individuals with acute psychiatric illnesses experience additional benefits from admission to an inpatient ward where changes in the evening light exposure are integrated into the therapeutic environment.<h4>Methods and findings</h4>From 10/25/2018 to 03/29/2019, and 10/01/2019 to 11/15/2019, all adults (≥18 years of age) admitted for acute inpatient psychiatric care in Trondheim, Norway, were randomly allocated to a ward with a blue-depleted evening light environment or a ward with a standard light environment. …”
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Diagnostic test accuracy of cellular analysis of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in distinguishing pulmonary infectious and non-infectious diseases in patients with pulmonary shadow by Jiyang Li, Ting Wang, Faming Liu, Juan Wang, Xiaojian Qiu, Jie Zhang

“…Additionally, it will develop and validate a novel scoring system based on a nomogram for the purpose of differential diagnosis.MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted involving data from 222 patients with pulmonary shadows, whose etiological factors were determined at our institution. …”
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Identifying small thymomas from other asymptomatic anterior mediastinal nodules based on CT images using logistic regression by Wenfeng Feng, Runlong Lin, Wenzhe Zhao, Haifeng Cai, Jingwu Li, Yongliang Liu, Lixiu Cao, Lixiu Cao

“…PurposeTo develop and validate a logistic regression (LR) model to improve the diagnostic performance of chest CT in distinguishing small (≤3 cm in long diameter on CT) thymomas from other asymptomatic small anterior mediastinal nodules (SAMNs).Materials and methodsA total of 231 patients (94 thymomas and 137 other SAMNs) with surgically resected asymptomatic SAMNs underwenting plain CT and biphasic enhanced CT from January 2013 to December 2023 were included and randomly allocated into training and internal testing sets at a 7:3 ratio. …”
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IMMUNOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF CLINICAL HETEROGENEITY OF PATIENTS WITH GRAVES' DISEASE (BASED ON RESEARCH OF THE THYROID GLAND OPERATIONAL MATERIAL) by T. V. Saprina, T. S. Prokhorenko, N. V. Ryazantseva, I. N. Vorozhtsova, S. Yu. Martynova, A. N. Dzyuman, A. P. Zima, O. S. Popov, I. A. Khlusov, K. T. Kasoyan, I. P. Shabalova

“…On the basis of the received results it is possible to allocate 2 clinical-immunologic and morphologic cluster of autoimmune hyperthyroidism syndrome in patients with clinical diagnosis of GD. …”
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