Feasibility Study and Experimental Evaluation of the Design of Nodule Prototype Developed for Palpation Display Apparatus: A Novel Device for Contactless Primary Tactile Diagnosis [PDF]
Background: Lack of feasible palpation display for primary diagnosis of a tumor without any need of physician to patient physical contact has been reported as one of the major concerns.
Sakura Sikander +2 more
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Preoperative Endoscopic Ultrasound Strain Elastography Has Limited Value for Predicting Intraoperative Pancreatic Texture: A Single‐Operator Pilot Study [PDF]
Background/Aims Soft pancreatic texture is a key risk factor for postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF). However, preoperative quantification remains difficult. Intraoperative palpation is the current standard for assessing pancreatic hardness; however,
Kengo Matsumoto +7 more
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Background: Palpation, a traditional haptic ability, is used daily by practitioners of all medical and surgical specialties to assess patients. In the current study, one of the authors, in a routine clinical setting, was able to deduce the dynamic ...
Juan J. Canoso +9 more
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Background: Ultrasound-guided (USG) radial artery cannulation against the standard palpation technique increases the first attempt rate in both pediatric and adult patients.
Sarinya Chanthawong +5 more
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Determining the diagnostic value of tracheal intubation by palpation and auscultation methods compared to the chest X-ray method in children [PDF]
Background It is important to determine the proper location of tracheal tube for proper ventilation. In this study, we compared the diagnostic value of tracheal intubation with two methods of palpation and auscultation with chest X-ray (CXR) method in ...
Gholamreza Masoumi +2 more
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Vocal pain expression augmentation for a robopatient
Abdominal palpation is one of the basic but important physical examination methods used by physicians. Visual, auditory, and haptic feedback from the patients are known to be the main sources of feedback they use in the diagnosis.
Namnueng Protpagorn +4 more
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Inter-examinerreliability study of physical examination procedures to assess the cervical spine
Objective The objective of this study was to establish the level of inter-examiner reliability for six common cervical manual and physical examination procedures used to assess the cervical spine.
Karthik V. Hariharan +4 more
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Tactile sensors are important bionic microelectromechanical systems that are used to implement an artificial sense of touch for medical electronics.
Chang Ge, Edmond Cretu
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Usefulness of intraoperative determination of central lymph node metastasis by palpation in papillary thyroid cancer [PDF]
Background This study evaluated the usefulness of judgment of central lymph node (LN) metastasis by surgeon’s palpation in papillary thyroid cancer.
Wan Wook Kim +7 more
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Thinking Imaginatively via Generative Vitality in Tourism Studies (After Deleuze)
This manuscript covers the commonplace restrictions of institutional thought within ‘tourism’ and ‘the field of Tourism Studies’. It critiques Deleuzian ideas concerning the contretemps between emergent and open forms of nomadic conceptuality and ...
Keith Hollinshead
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