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Thermal ablation effective long term in patients with thyroid cancer

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The emerging procedure has a relatively short history, with long-term findings now supporting its use over more invasive surgery, noted lead author Lin Yan, MD, of the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing. The 10-year disease-free survival was 93.9%. The mean age of patients was 45.8 years old and 118 (65.9%) were women.

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Myosteatosis on preoperative chest CT suggests worse NSCLC survival

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And this result was independent of individuals' skeletal muscle index and subcutaneous adipose tissue, wrote a team led by Lea Mantz, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. They conducted a study that included 838 patients with stage 0 to IIB NSCLC who underwent lobectomy or bilobectomy at three hospitals between 2014 and 2017. (In

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Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender

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Willi Kalender, PhD, and close colleagues at RSNA 2014. Kalender's other main fields of research were radiation protection and the development of quantitative diagnostic procedures, for example, for the assessment of osteoporosis, lung, and cardiac diseases, noted the International Society for CT. Willi Kalender, PhD.

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Deep-learning algorithm improves liver fibrosis diagnosis

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Researchers led by Li-Da Chen, PhD, from the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China found that their combined sequential algorithm improved specificity by over 20% for predicting pathologically advanced liver fibrosis compared with the Fibrosis-4 Index (FIB-4) alone. “AI-based

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MRI reveals functional brain alterations associated with depression

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The team took this data from a UK Biobank cohort enrolled between January 2014 and December 2018; all study participants underwent brain MR imaging. Those who had been identified with Hospital ICD-10 diagnosis codes F32 and F33 and antidepressant use had the most alterations in these measures. "We

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

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His research interests include using structural and functional MRI -- particularly ultrahigh-field, 7-tesla MRI -- to map brain microstructure and develop neurosurgical treatment of brain tumors, epilepsy, and neurodegenerative and movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, and dystonia. Dmitry Beyder.

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Opportunity for osteoporosis check on lumbar spine plain radiographs

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In a retrospective study led by presenter Bin Zhang, MD, of The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in China, 1,538 pairs of lumbar spine radiographs and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) results from females aged ≥ 50 years were collected between January 1, 2014, and October 10, 2019.