Subtotal petrosectomy and cerebrospinal fluid leakage in unilateral anacusis [PDF]
, 2014 Objective This study presents a group of patients experiencing recurrent cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage associated with ipsilateral anacusis who underwent subtotal petrosectomies with the goal of stopping the CSF leak and preventing meningitis ...
Iannella, Giannicola, Magliulo, Giuseppe
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Incidence of viral respiratory infections in a prospective cohort of outpatient and hospitalized children aged ≤5 years and its associated cost in Buenos Aires, Argentina [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Although information about the incidence of viral respiratory illnesses and their associated cost can help health officials explore the value of interventions, data are limited from middle-income countries.
Azziz Baumgartner, Eduardo +6 more
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Elimination of pain improves specificity of clinical diagnostic criteria for adult chronic rhinosinusitis [PDF]
, 2017 Objective Determine whether the elimination of pain improves accuracy of clinical diagnostic criteria for adult chronic rhinosinusitis. Study Design Retrospective cohort study.
DiNardo, Laurence J. +4 more
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Cluster headache in Greece: an observational clinical and demographic study of 302 patients. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundCluster headache (CH) is considered the most excruciating primary headache syndrome; although much less prevalent than migraine, it is not rare as it affects more than 1/1000 people.
Rapoport, Alan M, Vikelis, Michail
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Management and treatment of sinonasal inverted papilloma [PDF]
, 2015 Aims: The aim of this paper is to describe the surgical experience of 35 patients with Inverted Papilloma (IP) of paranasal sinuses and its recurrence rate after a year of follow-up.
Agrillo, Alessandro +6 more
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Optimum imaging and diagnosis of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea [PDF]
, 2000 Imaging is an important component in the investigation of unilateral watery rhinorrhoea suspicious of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Whilst the demonstration of the presence of beta 2 transferrin confirms that CSF is present it may prove difficult to ...
Howard, D, Lloyd, G, Lund, VJ, Savy, L
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Sinonasal angioleiomyoma with adipocyte differentiation: clinicopathologic study of 2 cases and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2019 Angioleiomyoma (ALM) is a benign tumor of the skin and soft tissues composed of well differentiated smooth muscle cells arranged around and among many vascular channels.
Corsi, A. +7 more
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A case report of cornelia de lange syndrome in Northern Iran; a clinical and diagnostic study [PDF]
, 2016 As a rare multisystem congenital anomaly disorder, Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) is featured by delayed growth and development, distinct facial dimorphism, limb malformations and multiple organ defects.
Alaee, E. +2 more
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Exploiting Sentence Embedding for Medical Question Answering
, 2018 Despite the great success of word embedding, sentence embedding remains a not-well-solved problem. In this paper, we present a supervised learning framework to exploit sentence embedding for the medical question answering task.
Hao, Yu, Liu, Xien, Lv, Ping, Wu, Ji
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Recognizing true H5N1 infections in humans during confirmed outbreaks. [PDF]
, 2014 INTRODUCTION: The goal of this study was to evaluate whether any characteristics that are evident at presentation for urgent medical attention could be used to differentiate cases of H5N1 in the absence of viral testing.
Adisasmito, Wiku +15 more
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