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Brain Circulation, 2021 A Caucasian man in his 60s with a history of Cognard Type IIB dural arteriovenous fistula presented to the emergency room with right eye proptosis, chemosis, hyperemia, epiphora, diplopia, and blurred vision.
Ammad A Baig +6 more
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U-Net-and-a-half: Convolutional network for biomedical image segmentation using multiple expert-driven annotations [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Development of deep learning systems for biomedical segmentation often requires access to expert-driven, manually annotated datasets. If more than a single expert is involved in the annotation of the same images, then the inter-expert agreement is not necessarily perfect, and no single expert annotation can precisely capture the so-called ground truth ...
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Autologous haemodialysis access in Malta [PDF]
, 2015 Chronic kidney disease is a worldwide problem which is rapidly increasing. In the United States the incidence and prevalence of end stage renal disease has doubled in the last ten years and is expected to continue rising in the future.In Malta the high ...
Caruana, Luana +3 more
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Willingness to participate in a randomized trial comparing catheters to fistulas for vascular access in incident hemodialysis patients: an international survey of nephrologists [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND: Current guidelines favor fistulas over catheters as vascular access. Yet, the observational literature comparing fistulas to catheters has important limitations and biases that may be difficult to overcome in the absence of randomization ...
Dulai, Mandeep +10 more
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Modern management of anal fistula.
World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2015 Ideal surgical treatment for anal fistula should aim to eradicate sepsis and promote healing of the tract, whilst preserving the sphincters and the mechanism of continence.
E. Limura, P. Giordano
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 27-41, January 2023., 2023 Accumulating evidence demonstrates that the integration of preoperative geriatric assessment and prehabilitation for frail patients into clinical practice may improve perioperative and long‐term outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal cancer. We proposed an example for the integration of older patients‐specific care into treatment strategies for ...
Kosuke Mima +4 more
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Crohn's Disease with Fistula: 10 Year Trends and Mortality in the United States
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022 Background/Aims: Crohn’s disease (CD) results in significant morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burden. This study evaluated the temporal trends of CD hospitalizations with a fistula over the last decade to understand the outcomes of severe CD ...
Hassam Ali +5 more
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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose This study compares the dosimetric accuracy of deep‐learning‐based MR synthetic CT (sCT) in brain radiotherapy between the Analytical Anisotropic Algorithm (AAA) and AcurosXB (AXB). Additionally, it proposes a novel metric to predict the dosimetric accuracy of sCT for individual post‐surgical brain cases.
Jeffrey C. F. Lui +3 more
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, Volume 7, Issue 1, Page 53-62, January 2023., 2023 To compare the survival outcomes of laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) with those of open total gastrectomy (OTG), 580 patients were enrolled and 1:1 propensity score matching was implemented to reduce selection bias. Five‐year overall survival was better in the LTG group, and there was no significant difference in overall survival according to ...
Takahiro Kinoshita +3 more
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Congenital anterior urethrocutaneous fistula revisited
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2004 Congenital anterior urethrocutaneous fistulas are rare. A case of this unusual anomaly is presented with review of literature, discussion of the possible etiology and management strategy.
Pawan Agarwal
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