Nodular Sarcoidosis Masquerading as Cancer. [PDF]
, 2017 Nodular lung disease is a rare pulmonary manifestation of sarcoidosis and resembles metastatic neoplasm disease. Nodular sarcoidosis is rare, varying from 1.6% to 4% of patients with sarcoidosis.
Singh, Navneet K +3 more
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Optimizing the endoscopic diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy: a glimpse on cryobiopsy
BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2022 Etiological diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy represents a daily challenge. Endosonography (transesophageal and transbronchial ultrasound-guided needle aspiration) is the recommended technique in the first diagnostic work-up and in the mediastinal
Michele Mondoni, Giovanni Sotgiu
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Can malignant and inflammatory pleural effusions in dogs be distinguished using computed tomography [PDF]
, 2017 Computed tomography (CT) is the primary imaging modality used to investigate human patients with suspected malignant or inflammatory pleural effusion, but there is a lack of information about the clinical use of this test in dogs.
Aquino +35 more
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PadChest: A large chest x-ray image dataset with multi-label annotated reports [PDF]
, 2019 We present a labeled large-scale, high resolution chest x-ray dataset for the automated exploration of medical images along with their associated reports.
Bustos, Aurelia +3 more
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Mediastinal Schistosomiasis in a Patient with HIV and Leprosy: A Case Report [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchSchistosomiasis is a parasitic disease commonly affecting the urinary and gastrointestinal systems, caused by trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma.
Diksha Sabharwal +3 more
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Vena cava anomalies in thoracic surgery [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Vena cava anomalies are a rare group of anatomical variations due to an incorrect development of the superior or inferior vena cava during fetal life.
Anile, Marco +7 more
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Surgical treatment of retrosternal extraosseous Ewing Sarcoma in a 6-years old female: a clamshell approach with hemysternectomy and application of a non-crosslinked extracellular matrix [PDF]
, 2017 Background Ewing Sarcoma (ES) and Neuroblastoma (NB) belong to a family of tumours of primitive neuroectodermal origin (PNET) that occurs in both bone and soft tissue. Notwithstanding ES and NB are two distinct malignant tumours, sometimes there could be
Angotti, Rossella +9 more
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Primary mediastinal lymphoma: diagnosis and treatment options. [PDF]
, 2014 Primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma (PMBCL) is a unique B-cell lymphoma variant that arises from a putative thymic medulla B cell. It constitutes 2-4% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas and occurs most frequently in young females. PMBCL is characterized by a
DI ROCCO, Alice +4 more
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A formal theory for spatial representation and reasoning in biomedical ontologies [PDF]
, 2006 Objective: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how a formal spatial theory can be used as an important tool for disambiguating the spatial information embodied in biomedical ontologies and for enhancing their automatic reasoning capabilities ...
Bittner, Thomas +2 more
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Oral plaque from Type 2 diabetic patients reduces the clonogenic capacity of dental pulp-derived mesenchymal stem cells [PDF]
, 2019 Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a major metabolic disease and a key epigenetic risk factor for the development of additional clinical complications. Among them, periodontitis (PD), a severe inflammatory disease ascribable to a dysregulated physiology and ...
Bordin, Antonella +9 more
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