Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an extremely complex disease and current systems classifying TBI as mild, moderate, and severe often fail to capture this complexity. Neuroimaging cannot resolve the cellular and molecular changes due to lack of resolution,
Ping K. Yip +3 more
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Tuberculous Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Host: A Diagnostic Challenge
Tuberculosis is a major global public health problem, which poses significant diagnostic and treatment challenges. Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which approximately affects 1% of all patients with active ...
Hussein Algahtani +4 more
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Application of a Neuronavigation System Utilizing 3.0T Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Frameless Stereotactic Brain Biopsies [PDF]
Background With the advancement of modern neuroimaging and neuronavigation techniques, frameless intracranial biopsy techniques have been increasingly used.
Xiaoyuan HUANG, Maoliti WULABIEKE·, Jilili ABUDUKEYOUMU·, Jichao WANG, Xiaopeng YANG
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On the Design of a Web-Based decision Support System for Brain Tumour Diagnosis using Distributed Agents [PDF]
This paper introduces HealthAgents, an EC-funded research project to improve the classification of brain tumours through multi-agent decision support over a distributed network of local databases or data marts.
Gonzalez-Velez, H +10 more
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Report of results of pleural biopsy (Needle biopsy and open biopsy) in 108 cases and 245 biopsies [PDF]
1. The results of 245 pleural biopsies perfomed in 108 patients including 219 pleural needle biopsies and 26 pleural open biopsies were reported. The method of pleural biopsy seems to be superior to any other currently available diagnostic procedures for
Sohn, Isaack, Mc, Lt. Col.
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Background Seizures in the early postoperative period after intracranial surgery may affect outcome in dogs. Objectives To determine the incidence of early postoperative seizures (EPS) in dogs with brain tumors, identify specific risk factors for EPS ...
Rell L. Parker +8 more
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Immunopathology of Tumefactive Demyelinating Lesions-From Idiopathic to Drug-Related Cases
Tumefactive demyelinating lesions (TDL) represent a diagnostic dilemma for clinicians, and in rare atypical cases a collaboration of a neuroradiologist, a neurologist, and a neuropathologist is warranted for accurate diagnosis.
Aigli G. Vakrakou +5 more
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HealthAgents: distributed multi-agent brain tumor diagnosis and prognosis [PDF]
We present an agent-based distributed decision support system for the diagnosis and prognosis of brain tumors developed by the HEALTHAGENTS project. HEALTHAGENTS is a European Union funded research project, which aims to enhance the classification of ...
Dupplaw, D +47 more
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Amyloid tracers detect multple binding sites in Alzheimer´s disease brain tissue. [PDF]
Imaging fibrillar amyloid-β deposition in the human brain in vivo by positron emission tomography has improved our understanding of the time course of amyloid-β pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. The most widely used amyloid-β imaging tracer so far is 11C-
Nordberg, A, +9 more
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Isolated primary CNS lymphoma: a case report and a contemporary review [PDF]
Primary central nervous system lymphoma is a rare form of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma that is confined to the brain, spinal cord, leptomeninges, or eyes, representing less than one percent of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas and approximately four percent ...
Ali Msheik +7 more
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