OBJECTIVE: The presence of pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM) in pediatric patients with congenital choledochal malformation significantly impacts clinical management and surgical decision-making. Current preoperative evaluation of PBM coexistence ...
The gold standard for the diagnosis of sleep apnoea (SA) is polysomnography, consisting of overnight in-lab tests, which are expensive for both patients and healthcare systems. Airflow and pulse/oximetry signals contain most of the necessary informat...
BACKGROUND: Mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in young people (aged 12-30 years), and their incidence constitutes a major health crisis. Primary youth mental health services are struggling to keep up due to overwhelming demand, the...
BACKGROUND: Hookworm infection, a neglected tropical disease (NTD) causing iron-deficiency anaemia and malnutrition in low-income populations with poor sanitation, poses a considerable public health challenge in China and worldwide.
Physical literacy in children has become a significant research topic in both education and psychology. Recently, machine learning, as a cutting-edge AI technology, has started to play a crucial role in these fields. This study aimed to apply machine...
BACKGROUND: Pediatric cholestatic liver diseases can be characterized by rapidly progressive fibrosis. A multicenter cross-sectional analysis of vibration-controlled elastography in biliary atresia (BA), alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT), and Ala...
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Sep 29, 2025
BACKGROUND: Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is a common treatment for pediatric obstructive hydrocephalus, but predicting its success remains challenging. Traditional predictive tools, such as the Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Success Score...
DNA methylation-based classification using the Heidelberg Classifier is a state-of-the-art data-driven method for molecular diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) tumors. However, many pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG) samples fail to yield a conf...
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Sep 27, 2025
PURPOSE: Tumors are heterogeneous and consist of subregions, also known as tumor habitats, each of which corresponds to a group of tissues with similar structural, metabolic or functional characteristics. This study aims to visualize and quantify int...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a notable resurgence of pneumonia (MPP) in children, with a concerning rise in the severity of cases. Although changes in post-pandemic respiratory infection patterns have been documented, the reasons behi...
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