BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Laparoscopic colorectal surgery (LCRS) is a frequently used modality. A new development in minimally invasive surgery is robot-assisted colorectal surgery (RACRS).
Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie
Jan 4, 2019
PURPOSE: With the aging population and the global diabetes epidemic, the prevalence of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME) diseases which are the leading causes of blindness is further increasing. Intravitreal inje...
INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND: Many patients with early stage non-small-cell lung cancer (ES-NSCLC) undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) develop metastases, which is associated with poor outcomes. We sought to identify factors predictive o...
International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society
Dec 28, 2018
OBJECTIVE: The necessity of lymphadenectomy and the prediction of lymph node involvement (LNI) in endometrial cancer (EC) have been hotly-debated questions in recent years. Machine learning is a broad field that can produce results and estimations. I...
BACKGROUND: Growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) is a stress-inducible cytokine and member of the transforming growth factor-β cytokine superfamily that refines prognostic assessment in subgroups of patients with heart failure (HF). We evaluated...
BACKGROUND: Depression causes significant physical and psychosocial morbidity. Predicting persistence of depressive symptoms could permit targeted prevention, and lessen the burden of depression. Machine learning is a rapidly expanding field, and suc...
BACKGROUND: The study was conducted to evaluate the performance of a state-of-the-art commercial deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (DL-CAD) system for detecting and characterizing pulmonary nodules.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990)
Dec 7, 2018
BACKGROUND: Mutation of the isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) gene and co-deletion on chromosome 1p/19q is becoming increasingly relevant for the evaluation of clinical outcome in glioma. Among the imaging parameters, contrast enhancement (CE) in WHO II...
Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
Nov 19, 2018
OBJECTIVES: Open cardiac surgery may cause severe postoperative pain. The authors hypothesized that patients receiving a bundle of care using continuous erector spinae plane blocks (ESPB) would have decreased perioperative opioid consumption and impr...