Radical prostatectomy is the effective treatment for clinical T2 prostatic cancer. However, clinical T2 stage is often understaged preoperatively. The objective of neoadjuvant therapy is to increase the curability of surgery to understaged patients. The present study was based on patients who had had neoadjuvant endocrine therapy (LH-RH agonist) prior to radical nerve-sparing prostatectomy for ...

For patients suspected of having cerebral metastases, double-dose delayed CT (DDD-CT) has proved significantly more sensitive than CT scans obtained immediately after administration of a lesser dose of iodinated contrast material. Previous reports confirm the advantages of postcontrast MR imaging over contrast-enhanced CT, but data comparing DDD-CT and contrast-enhanced MR have not been reporte...

BACKGROUND After treatment with local excision for TNM stage I low rectal cancer, the risk of local recurrence is not only high for T2 lesions but also for T1 lesions with features of massive invasion to the submucosal layer and/or lymphovascular invasion. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of chemoradiotherapy combined with local excision in the treatment of T1...

(a) Find P{X10 = 10}. (b) Approximate P{−10 ≤ X100 ≤ 10} using the central limit theorem. (c) Find P{Xn = k}. 2. Absolute-value random walk. Consider the symmetric random walk Xn in the previous problem. Define the absolute value random process Yn = |Xn|. (a) Find P{Yn = k}. (b) Find P{max1≤i<20 Yi = 10 |Y20 = 0}. 3. A random process. Let Xn = Zn−1 + Zn for n ≥ 1, where Z0, Z1, Z2, . . . are i....

Rice is the major staple food in Jharkhand India and threatened by various biotic abiotic stresses. Among insect pests that imperil rice cultivation Jharkhand, yellow stem borer (Scirpophaga incertulas Wlk.) one of most notorious ones. The present investigation was conducted Kharif 2018 to study bioefficacy certain chemical insecticidal treatments against borers measured terms mean values dead ...

En este estudio se investigó el efecto de dos caldos microbiales, caldo cabeza pescado (CCP1) y fortificado aminoácidos (CFA2), en rendimiento del cultivo maní, variedad INIAP 380. Se usó un diseño experimental bloques completos al azar con tres dosis cada caldo. El tratamiento T3 (375 ml CFA2) incrementó la altura planta, T4 (125 aumentó número flores, T2 (250 CCP1) elevó germinación mejoró pe...

This paper proposes a method for local deformation analysis of the heart's left ventricle (LV) which is of an utmost interest in characterizing the myocardium disease extent and severity. Our method is based on regional curvature variation calculation using the Hotelling T2 two samples difference metric. Our approach is validated on real data obtained from myocardial scintigraphy imaging techni...

The digestive system of young birds is very poor and inefficient in digestion absorption fat due to less lipase production low rate bile formation, which can be overcome by the use exogenous emulsifier. This study aimed evaluate comparative efficacy herbal synthetic emulsifiers on growth performance, nutrients utilization, haemato-biochemical profile, carcass quality broiler chickens fed energy...