OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic yield, accuracy, and safety of frame-based stereotactic brain biopsy procedures. METHODS A retrospective study of all pathologically diagnosed intracranial lesions, using frame-based stereotactic guided brain biopsy procedures performed at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSH&RC), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between 1993 and 2005 w...

It is important to detect the problem of ischaemic heart disease at a manageable stage at which treatments could have beneficial effects. A positive exercise test in patients with known ischaemic heart disease is a risk factor for cardiac mortality and there is a need to devise treatment strategies that take into account different approaches to higher- and lower-risk patients with ischaemic hea...

Fred H. Irons, Donald M. Hummels, and Cindy ????? Zoldi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maine, Orono, Maine USA [email protected] ABSTRACT Procedures have been developed to apply ADC modeling techniques to the diagnosis of high-speed Folding Amplier Interpolating Resistive (FAIR) networks. This paper presents results and describes procedures used to obtain mea...

Various diagnostic aids may be used to supplement clinical investigation when either the patient is still only suspected of raised or lowered thyroid function, or when the pathology of his thyroid lump still remains in doubt. We shall consider in this paper, the various tests available for assessing the level of thyroid secretory activity; of these there are three main tests and at least three ...

a 5-year-old male cross-bred guard dog with signs of anorexia, vomiting and jaundice was referred to small animal hospital, faculty of veterinary medicine, university of tehran. initial diagnostic laboratory tests revealed leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, haemoconcentration, azotaemia, high liver enzyme activities, proteinuria and bilirubinuria. aggressive therapeutic procedures failed to improv...