Screening out patients who do not require immediate surgery is a growing trend in the field of thyroid research. In this study, we retrospectively compared the application of two surveillance selection criteria in 1001 patients who had undergone surgical treatment of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma (PTMC): low-risk PTMC characteristics defined by Kuma Hospital and CATO consensus on PTMC manage...

INTRODUCTION Nigeria has the thirteenth highest burden of human tuberculosis. The current increasing incidence of tuberculosis in humans, particularly in immune-compromised persons, has given interest in the zoonotic importance of Mycobacterium bovis in developing countries like Nigeria. This study determined the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis as a background information for effective contro...

typhoid fever is one of the most important infectious diseases transmitted by contaminated food and water. this study aimed at epidemiological features of disease during the last five decades, over the period from 1962-2011.a retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using typhoid fever national surveillance data.the highest incidence of typhoid fever was registered in 1965 with 133.4 /...

We propose a retrospective respiratory gating algorithm to generate dynamic CT studies. To this end, we compared three different methods of extracting the respiratory signal from the projections of small-animal cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scanners. Given a set of frames acquired from a certain axial angle, subtraction of their average image from each individual frame produces a set of ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Preoperative localization for parathyroid disease has improved in recent years with the advent of dual-phase (99m) Tc-sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging. However, dual-phase imaging is associated with increased cost, time, and radiation dose. The aim of this study was to investigate the need for late-phase imaging wh...

In this paper we focus on retrospective cost adaptive control (RCAC), which is applicable to stabilization, command following, disturbance rejection, and model reference control problems for SISO and MIMO plants. RCAC uses limited modeling information, specifically, Markov parameters of the transfer function from the control input to the performance variable. Typically, a small number of Markov...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and magnitude of neonatal hypophosphataemia (<4mg/dL) in a neonatal Intensive Care Unit and to describe risk groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective study of hospitalised newborns over a 44 month period (phase 1). Retrospective study of <1,500g/<32 weeks of gestation newborns over a 6 month period (phase 2). Prospective study of <1,500g or 1,550-2,000g,...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop and validate an algorithm to assist the attribution of neuropsychiatric (NP) events to underlying disease in SLE patients. METHODS Phase 1 identified and categorized candidate items to be included in the algorithm for the attribution of an NP event to SLE and their relative weights through a literature-informed consensus-driven process. Using a r...