Occupational and environmental medicine
Apr 21, 2016
BACKGROUND: Mapping job titles to standardised occupation classification (SOC) codes is an important step in identifying occupational risk factors in epidemiological studies. Because manual coding is time-consuming and has moderate reliability, we de...
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology
Apr 24, 2015
AIM: To assess the role of simple enucleation (SE) for the treatment of highly complex renal tumors.
INTRODUCTION: Adherent perirenal fat (APF) can be defined as inflammatory fat sticking to renal parenchyma, whose dissection is difficult and makes it troublesome to expose the tumour. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of APF on the technical ...
The Urologic clinics of North America
Nov 20, 2014
The indication for use of laparoscopy, in the pediatric population, was initially for diagnostic purposes. As confidence with the technology and utility grew, it began to be applied for therapeutic indications. With equivalent surgical outcomes and d...
BACKGROUND: Simple enucleation (SE) has proven to be oncologically safe. We describe the surgical steps and report the results of the Endoscopic Robotic-Assisted Simple Enucleation (ERASE) technique.
INTRODUCTION: Intrarenal tumors pose a unique challenge to surgeons due to the lack of visual cues on the kidney surface. Intraoperative ultrasonography has facilitated the management of these tumors during minimally invasive partial nephrectomy. We ...
Single-cell sequencing has advanced our understanding of cellular heterogeneity and disease pathology, offering insights into cellular behavior and immune mechanisms. However, extracting meaningful phenotype-related features is challenging due to noi...
BACKGROUND: Glucose metabolism plays a critical role in the development and progression of kidney renal clear cell carcinoma (KIRC). This study aimed to identify glucose metabolism-related biomarkers (GRBs) and therapeutic targets for KIRC diagnosis ...