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Comparison of penile length at 6-24 months between children with unilateral cryptorchidism and a healthy normal cohort.

PURPOSE: Urologic diseases affected by testosterone can be associated with smaller penis size compar...

Focused Transhepatic Electroporation Mediated by Hypersaline Infusion through the Portal Vein in Rat Model. Preliminary Results on Differential Conductivity.

BACKGROUND: Spread hepatic tumours are not suitable for treatment either by surgery or conventional ...

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopic detection of trace level heavy metal in solutions on a laser-pretreated metallic target.

A fast and sensitive analysis for trace level heavy metals in aqueous solution was realized by using...

Automatic diagnosis of imbalanced ophthalmic images using a cost-sensitive deep convolutional neural network.

BACKGROUND: Ocular images play an essential role in ophthalmological diagnoses. Having an imbalanced...

Novel method for the formation of monodisperse superheated perfluorocarbon nanodroplets as activatable ultrasound contrast agents.

Microbubble (MB) contrast agents have positively impacted the clinical ultrasound (US) community wor...

Stock discrimination and connectivity assessment of yellowfin seabream () in northern South China Sea using otolith elemental fingerprints.

Connectivity between fish stocks is fundamental to the understanding of population dynamics and the ...

Ablation Index and Surround Flow Catheter Irrigation: Impedance-Based Appraisal in Clinical Ablation.

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to assess the impact of ablation power and catheter irrigation during ...

Improving Teamwork: Evaluating Workload of Surgical Team During Robot-assisted Surgery.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the cognitive and physical workload experienced by each operating room tea...

Radiofrequency Ablation Followed by Percutaneous Ethanol Ablation Leading to Long-Term Remission of Hyperparathyroidism.

A 30-year-old male with cerebral palsy and motor impairment presented with right femur fracture. He ...

Multimodal Imaging in Diabetic Macular Edema.

Throughout ophthalmic history it has been shown that progress has gone hand in hand with technologic...

Disease-free survival assessment by artificial neural networks for hepatocellular carcinoma patients after radiofrequency ablation.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) provides an effective treatment for patients who e...

Artificial intelligence in medicine.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a general term that implies the use of a computer to model intellige...

Risk factors associated with high thyroglobulin level following radioactive iodine ablation, measured 12 months after treatment for papillary thyroid carcinoma.

PURPOSE: The measurement of serum thyroglobulin (Tg) of papillary thyroid carcinoma patients, 12 mon...

Retinal Microvasculopathy Is Common in HIV/AIDS Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana.

. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ocular disorders in HIV positive patients attending ...

Exploiting the protein corona around gold nanorods for low-dose combined photothermal and photodynamic therapy.

A nanodevice comprising human serum (HS) protein corona coated gold nanorods (NRs) has been develope...

Re: Aquablation-Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Waterjet Ablation of the Prostate: Initial Clinical Experience.

Transient Anisocoria during Medial Blowout Fracture Surgery.

Transient anisocoria is rare during blowout fracture reconstruction. We report a case of transient a...

Automated analysis of retinal imaging using machine learning techniques for computer vision.

There are almost two million people in the United Kingdom living with sight loss, including around 3...

DermO; an ontology for the description of dermatologic disease.

BACKGROUND: There have been repeated initiatives to produce standard nosologies and terminologies fo...

Retinal vessel segmentation in colour fundus images using Extreme Learning Machine.

Attributes of the retinal vessel play important role in systemic conditions and ophthalmic diagnosis...

Semi-supervised clustering of fractionated electrograms for electroanatomical atrial mapping.

BACKGROUND: Electrogram-guided ablation procedures have been proposed as an alternative strategy con...