This paper presents a retrospective study on the detection of the treatment of leprosy reactions in a field situation, and the effect of prednisone on the various affected nerves. Two patient cohorts were analysed. The leprosy control programme in the testing area is not backed up by a specialized referral leprosy hospital, but patients are treated on an ambulatory basis at peripheral health ce...

BACKGROUND Although plastic surgeons daily encounter various facial tumors in the field, reports limited on face are scarce. In our study, we want to provide basic epidemiologic data to help clinicians to decide the proper management for their patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients including age and gender, location and size of the tumor, histopathologic...

PURPOSE In elderly patients, deep and subcortical white matter hyperintense lesions are frequently observed on MRI; however, the growth process of these lesions is unclear. The aims of this retrospective cohort study were to elucidate the growth characteristics of deep and subcortical white matter hyperintense lesions, and to insight their etiology. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled 103 patie...

Hilar dissection is an important and delicate stage in partial nephrectomy during which surgeons remove connective tissue surrounding renal vasculature. Potentially serious complications arise when vessels occluded by fat are missed in the endoscopic view and are not appropriately clamped. To aid in vessel discovery, we propose an automatic method to localize and label occluded vasculature. Our...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether triple arterial phase acquisition via a combination of Contrast Enhanced Time Robust Angiography, keyhole, temporal viewsharing and parallel imaging can improve arterial phase acquisition with higher spatial resolution than single arterial phase gadoxetic-acid enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Informed consent was waived for this r...

abstract bachground and aim: mutation analysis of mitochondrial genome and brca genes are helpful in the early diagnosis of familial breast cancers. in this study, we investigated mitochondrial common deletion and brca mutations through multiplex pcr and clinical parameters for the detection of familial breast cancers in archival breast cancer samples. methods: the multiplex pcr was conducted o...