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Comparison between a laparoscopic articulating needle driver with standard laparoscopic instrumentation for total laparoscopic gastropexy in dogs

Veterinary Surgery, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To compare the utility of a mechanical laparoscopic articulating needle driver (ALI) to standard laparoscopic instrumentation (SLI) during the creation of a total laparoscopic gastropexy (TLG) in dogs. Study design Prospective clinical trial. Animals A total of 17 client owned dogs.
Erin A. Gibson, William T. N. Culp, Ingrid M. Balsa, Michele Steffey, Philipp Mayhew   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of baseline screening results and management with subsequent adherence in the Korean national lung cancer screening program

Journal of Internal Medicine, Volume 300, Issue 1, Page 51-63, July 2026.
Abstract Background Adherence to subsequent lung cancer screening (LCS) is essential but not well characterized in biennial national programs. Objectives To assess whether baseline LCS results and their management are associated with subsequent screening adherence and clinical outcomes.
Hyungjin Kim, Eunseo Jo, Jinseob Kim, Soonho Yoon, Florian J. Fintelmann, Gerard A. Silvestri, Jin Mo Goo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Three-Year Experience of Medical Thoracoscopy at A Tertiary Care Center of Himalayan Region [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2016
Introduction: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases. Despite its proven role in diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, it is infrequently used, which could be because of cost of equipment and ...
Rakhee Sodhi, Girish Sindhwani, Shirazi Nadia, Sanjeev Kumar, Varuna Jethani, Sushant Khanduri   +5 more
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Role of Rigid Thoracoscopy in Undiagnosed Pleural Effusion: A Prospective Study

Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of Tamil Nadu, 2019
Background: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive, safe, and cost-effective procedure that allows complete visualization of pleural space, enabling diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as pleural biopsy and talc insufflations.
A Manimaran, K Anbananthan, A Nadhiya, R Ponnar   +3 more
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A Three‐Step Diagnostic Strategy for Malignant Pleural Effusions

Cancer Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT New diagnostic tools, such as high fluorescence cells (HFc) and tumor markers (TMs), have emerged in the quest to accurately diagnose malignant pleural effusion (MPE). This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of the HFc and TMs combination.
Elisa Nuez‐Zaragoza, Vicente Aguadero, Indira Bhambi‐Blanco, Mònica Vidal‐Pla, Isabel Aparicio‐Calvente, M. Rosa Escoda‐Giralt, Joana Gallardo‐Campos, Joan Carles Ferreres, Luis Frisancho, Laia Mas‐Maresma, Patricia Aguilera‐Fernández, Sonia Marco‐Continente, Marina Sierra‐Boada, Pablo Andreu‐Cobo, Miquel Gallego, Francesca Canalias, Javier Hernando‐Redondo, Jaume Trapé   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

LCDLNet: Attention Mechanism‐Based Deep Learning Framework for Lung Cancer Diagnosis from Computed Tomography (CT) Images

Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 6, June 2026.
LCDLNet, a deep learning architecture, achieved 99.81% accuracy and an AUC of 0.998 for lung cancer diagnosis. This model effectively integrates multiscale features from a Custom CNN, DenseNet121, and a Transformer, leveraging Squeeze‐and‐Excitation (SE) blocks and Spatial Attention to capture complex local and global context, ensuring robust ...
Farjana Akter Chumki, Tahasin Ahmed Fahim, Sabrina Alam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thoracoscopy-assisted treatment for mediastinal metastasis of thyroid cancer: a case report

Journal of International Medical Research, 2022
Advanced thyroid cancer with upper mediastinal lymph node metastasis is not rare in the clinical setting. For patients with severe metastasis, a thoracocervical incision is usually performed for dissection of lymph nodes. However, the difficult operation
Liu Jie, Wang Meng
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Thoracoscopy for spontaneous pneumothorax

, 2013
Spontaneous pneumothorax is a relatively common disease with an incidence for primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) of 18–28/100,000 per year in males and 1.8–6/100,000 per year in females (Henry et al.
Bentley, Andrew; id_orcid, Seamus Grundy, Andrew Bentley, Grundy, Seamus   +3 more
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Paragonimiasis Following Ingestion of Frozen Freshwater Crab: Two Case Reports

Respirology Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2026.
Paragonimiasis is a zoonotic trematode infection acquired through ingestion of freshwater crustaceans or raw game meat. Here, we report two patients (a couple) who developed paragonimiasis after consuming previously frozen freshwater crabs together at the same restaurant in Tokyo.
Asuka Yamamura, Muneyuki Sekiya, Yusuke Usui, Susumu Sakamoto, Keiya Watanabe, Kohshi Fukuda, Yasuko Kurose, Naobumi Tochigi, Mio Kokubo, Haruhiko Maruyama, Kazuma Kishi   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical thoracoscopy- an experience

, 2017
Background: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure for diagnosing and treating pleural diseases especially undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion. It is cost effective and safe.
Shah, Naveed Nazir, Farooq, Syed Suraya, . Shumayl, Dar, Khurshid A., Khurshid A. Dar, Syed Suraya Farooq, . Tariq, Mehfooz, Nazia, Nazia Mehfooz, Shumayl, ., Naveed Nazir Shah, Tariq, .   +11 more
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