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Prevalence of low anterior resection syndrome and impact on quality of life after rectal cancer surgery: population‐based study

BJS Open, 2020
Background The prevalence of major low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) after rectal cancer surgery varies from 17·8 to 56·0 per cent, but data from high‐quality studies are sparse.
E. H. A. Pieniowski, C. Nordenvall, G. Palmer, A. Johar, S. Tumlin Ekelund, P. Lagergren, M. Abraham‐Nordling   +6 more
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Factors determining low anterior resection syndrome after rectal cancer resection: A study in Thai patients

Asian Journal of Surgery, 2016
Background/Objective: Defective defecation function, also known as low anterior resection syndrome (LARS), is a common problem after surgical treatment of rectal cancer that has a detrimental effect on quality of life.
Patomphon Ekkarat, Teeranut Boonpipattanapong, Kasaya Tantiphlachiva, Surasak Sangkhathat   +3 more
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The efficacy and medium-term outcomes of ligament advanced reinforcement system compared with auto-grafts in anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: At least 2 years follow-up

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022
Background: Graft choice is an important step in the pre-operative plan of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). The four-strand hamstring tendon (4SHT) is the most widely used auto-graft, while the Ligament Advanced Reinforcement System ...
Bingxian Ma, Yongxiang Wang, Yongsheng Xu   +2 more
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Learning with worked-out problems in Manufacturing Technology: The effects of instructional explanations and self-explanation prompts on acquired knowledge acquisition, near and far transfer performance [PDF]

, 2011
In the present research, two different explanatory approaches – namely, instructional explanation and self-explanation prompts – were applied in worked-out-problem-based learning (learning with worked-out problems) in a computer-assisted instructional ...
Lai, Chee Sern, Spöttl, Georg, Straka, Gerald A.   +2 more
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Sparse Transfer Learning for Interactive Video Search Reranking [PDF]

, 2011
Visual reranking is effective to improve the performance of the text-based video search. However, existing reranking algorithms can only achieve limited improvement because of the well-known semantic gap between low level visual features and high level ...
Barais, Olivier, Bourcier, Johann, Fouquet, Francois, Gonzalez-Herrera, Inti, Rudametkin, Walter   +4 more
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Childhood overweight-obesity and periodontal diseases: is there a real correlation? [PDF]

, 2016
Objective. The association between obesity and periodontitis has been extensively investigated in adults but not in young people. The aim of this study was to examine the association between overweight-obesity and periodontal disease in pediatric ...
IERARDO, GAETANO, Marini, Roberta, PACIFICI, ANDREA, PACIFICI, Luciano, POLIMENI, Antonella, SFASCIOTTI, Gian Luca   +5 more
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Can the POLARS tool accurately predict low anterior resection syndrome in rectal cancer patients undergoing laparoscopic resection?

Archives of Medical Science, 2019
Introduction Radical rectal cancer resection can lead to a long-term bowel function impairment known as low anterior resection syndrome (LARS). It remains unclear how to determine which patients are at a higher risk of developing LARS post-surgery.
Paweł Bogacki, Jan Krzak, Tomasz Gach, Wojciech Szwed, Mirosław Szura   +4 more
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Motor skills in children with primary headache: A pilot case-control study [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Headache is the most common painful manifestation in the developmental age, often accompanied by severe disability such as scholastic absenteeism, low quality of academic performance and compromised emotional functioning. The aim of the study
Cerroni F., Chisari M. G., D'Oro L., Di Folco A., Gallai B., Geraci D., Lavano F., Lavano S. M., Magliulo R. M., Marotta R., Marsala G., Murabito P., Parisi L., Picciocchi E., Polito A. N., Romano P., Russo D., Salerno M., Salerno M., Sorrentino M., Testa D., Tripi G.   +21 more
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AVRA: Automatic Visual Ratings of Atrophy from MRI images using Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks

, 2018
Quantifying the degree of atrophy is done clinically by neuroradiologists following established visual rating scales. For these assessments to be reliable the rater requires substantial training and experience, and even then the rating agreement between ...
Cavallin, Lena, Ferreira, Daniel, Muehlboeck, J-Sebastian, Mårtensson, Gustav, Wahlund, Lars-Olof, Wang, Chunliang, Westman, Eric   +6 more
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How Transparent Are Central Banks? [PDF]

, 2004
Central bank transparency has become the topic of a lively public and academic debate on monetary policy. Unfortunately, it has been complicated by the fact that transparency is a qualitative concept that is hard to measure.
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W., Geraats, Petra M.   +1 more
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