PURPOSE We attempted to evaluate the perioperative complications of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) for benign prostatic hyperplasia by using the modified Clavien classification system (MCCS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Targeting 402 patients who underwent HoLEP for benign prostatic hyperplasia performed by a single surgeon between July 2008 and January 2011, we investigated comp...

Although age is thought to correlate with the prognosis of glioma patients, the most appropriate age-group classification standard to evaluate prognosis had not been fully studied. This study aimed to investigate the influence of age-group classification standards on the prognosis of patients with high-grade hemispheric glioma (HGG). This retrospective study of 125 HGG patients used three diffe...

This work proposes new features to improve the pathological voice quality classification performance. They are the means, the variances, and the perturbations of the higher-order statistics (HOS) such as the skewness and the kurtosis. The HOS-based features show meaningful differences among normal, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 voices classified in the GRBAS scale. The jitter, the shimmer, the ...

background this study aimed to explore demographic characteristics and clinical presentations of celiac disease (cd) in northeastern iran. methods this was a cross-sectional retrospective study of 193 adults with cd who presented to mashhad university gastroenterology clinic between 2008 and 2013. patient data that included mode of presentation and the presence of any concomitant illnesses were...

OBJECTIVES Ureteral stenosis is a common complication after a kidney transplant. Treatment for ureteral stenosis ranges from interventional procedures to open surgery. The aim of this study is to present classification for ureteral stenosis and recommend the targeted strategy for effective treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve cases of ureteral stenosis were diagnosed among 193 kidney trans...

The 2016 WHO classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System brought major conceptual and practical changes in the classification of diffuse gliomas, by combining molecular features and histology into 'integrated' diagnoses. In diffuse gliomas, molecular profiling has thus become essential for nosological purposes, as well as to plan adequate treatment strategies and identify patients su...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE TIMI angiographic classification measures coronary residual flow and recanalization. We developed a Thrombolysis in Brain Ischemia (TIBI) classification by using transcranial Doppler (TCD) to noninvasively monitor intracranial vessel residual flow signals. We examined whether the emergent TCD TIBI classification correlated with stroke severity and outcome in patients trea...