The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 28, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is widely performed for cervical spine disorders, with opioids commonly prescribed postoperatively for pain management. However, prolonged opioid use carries significant risks such as...
BACKGROUND: Acute pulmonary embolism (APE) is a common and life-threatening emergency in intensive care units (ICUs). Effective risk assessment tools are essential to improve patient outcomes. This study aims to evaluate the association between Simpl...
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The classification of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) histological subtypes plays a crucial role in clinical diagnosis. However, traditional image normalization methods often struggle with discrepancies arising from differences i...
BACKGROUND: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is a global health concern that necessitates early screening and timely intervention to improve prognosis. The current diagnostic protocols for MASLD involve complex procedu...
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to develop a machine learning (ML) model for classifying osteoporosis in Korean women based on a large-scale population cohort study. This study also aimed to assess ML model performance compared with traditional...
The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Mar 26, 2025
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: When treating spinal metastases in a palliative setting, maintaining or enhancing quality of life (QoL) is the primary therapeutic objective. Clinicians tailor their treatment strategy by weighing the QoL benefits against expected...
BACKGROUND: Undifferentiated arthritis (UA) often develops into rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but predicting disease progression from seronegative UA remains challenging because seronegative RA often does not meet the classification criteria. This study...
: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common type of cancer in women, accounting for more than 30% of new female cancers each year. Although various treatments are available for BC, most cancer-related deaths are due to incurable metastases. Therefore, th...
BACKGROUND: This study develops a deep learning-based automated lesion segmentation model for whole-body 3DF-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-Position emission tomography (PET) with computed tomography (CT) images agnostic to disease location and site.
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