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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Clinical problems"”.
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Clinical problems in thyroid surgery
Background: Thyroid surgery is the most common endocrine surgical operation and is considered by many to be at the zenith of endocrine surgery. A good hemostasis is mandatory during a thyroid operation and many new devices have been available during the last two decades. Total thyroidectomy, (TT) …
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Therapist Orientation and Circularity-Linearity of Causality, Responsibility, Intentionality, and Blame for Clinical Problems
… responsibility, intentionality and blame for clinical problems by therapists of psychodynamic, behavioral and systems orientations, a psychiatrist group, and an attorney control group were investigated using the Circularity-Linearity Attribution Scale (CLAS). Respondents' judgments about the …
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Surgical Breast Cancer Localization via Coherent Measurement of Endogenous Optical Properties
These findings have been applied to the clinical problems of metastatic cell identification and biopsy needle localization. The latter is important due to the high rate of nondiagnostic tissue removal using current guidance techniques. Up to 10% of the approximately one million breast needle …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΣΟΤΙΚΗΣ ΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΣΤΗ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΤΑΒΟΛΙΣΜΟΥ ΤΩΝ ΟΣΤΩΝ: ΤΕΧΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΚΛΙΝΙΚΑ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΕΣΜΑΤΑ
… FROM DIFFERENT SUB-GROUPS OF PATIENTS WHOSE CLINICAL PROBLEMS ARE RELATED WITH OSTEOPENIA. QCT HELPS TO THE EARLY DETECTION OF SPINAL OSTEOPOROSIS AND TO THE RESPONSE TO THERAPIES. IT IS AN ACCURATE AND PRECISE TECHNIQUEWITH A LOW RISK-FACTOR.
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Antimicrobial Resistance Mediated By Synthesis of Richmond and Sykes Type I Beta-Lactamase
… activity but also have posed several challenging clinical problems including therapeutic failures and relapses of infections. Strains most often involved are Enterobacter, Serratia, and Pseudomonas-genera that characteristically possess inducible chromosomal beta-lactamases (Richmond-Sykes type …
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A Hierarchical Typology of Children in Elementary School Using Teacher Ratings of Behavior
… within the MAD latent class were: (a) Academic Problems, (b) Physical Complaints, (c) Disruptive Behavior Problems, and (d) Internalizing Problems. Finally, the FIA latent class comprised the (a) Clinical Problems - External and (b) Clinical Problems - Internal clusters. This hierarchical …
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The detection and management of suspected cephalopelvis disproportion in the African primigravida by cervicographic analysis
… ' interests should be directed to the particular clinical pt"oblems of Central Africa, rather than to subjects that could be better tackled in the well-equipped laboratories of developed countries. It would be important not on~ to study the ma.jar relevant clinical problems, but also to pt"epare …
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A study of the knowledge and problem solving ability of the family planning nurse in Mdantsane
… set of guidelines for the management of specific clinical problems and making recommendations to service organisers. The study tape-recorded 18 actual nurse-patient interactions to get an idea of the clinical problems faced by the nurses. A consensus panel was used to derive a set of "ideal" …
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Contours of child-parent conflict among South Asian American and Chinese American young adults
… American worldview that for distressed adults, clinical problems often present as family conflict (Almeida, 2005; Tewari, 2000), and scholars recommend conceptualizing individual client problems using family therapy models (Inman & Tewari, 2003). This pattern may be explained by a highly …
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Effects of electrical stimulation and testosterone on regeneration-associated gene expression and functional recovery in a rat model of sciatic nerve crush injury
… but has yet to be successfully applied in the clinical situation. Emerging evidence from animal studies supports the use of electrical stimulation (ES) and testosterone as one type of combinatorial treatment after crush injury to the facial nerve (CN VII). With the facial nerve injury model, we …
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Mechanical Response Tissue Analysis: Inter- and Intra-trial Reliability in Assessing Bending Stiffness of the Human Tibia in College Aged Women
… in many human activities and exercise-related clinical problems, e.g. stress fracture of the lower leg. To evaluate the inter- and intra-reliability of tibial EI, 22 healthy women (X + SD: 20.8 + 1.8 yr) were assessed twice daily for three non-consecutive days. Each daily session consisted of …
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Vascular changes in Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia in the retina of human and animal
… brain pathology, this has the potential to solve clinical problems regarding the diagnosis and monitoring of AD. Recent research has shown that amyloid beta (Aβ); the protein responsible for cerebral amyloid plaques in AD may also accumulate within the retina in those affected by the condition. My …
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Bioengineering-enhanced neurosurgical solutions
… a thorough identification of some unresolved clinical problems and the limits of current management strategies in those areas, some technical solutions are proposed and defined from either experimental hypothesis or clinical research investigations. The neuro-oncology section presents the …
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Diagnostic and therapeutic devices and applications of endoscopic optical coherence tomography
… technologies to satisfy unmet needs in the clinical management of a number of gastrointestinal (GI) tract diseases. With the maturation of sweptsource lasers, OCT technology has undergone major advancements over the last few years. Swept-source laser sources based on Fourier domain mode …
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Endoscopic optical coherence tomography for clinical studies in the gastrointestinal tract
… was enabled, which makes OCT suitable for clinical research in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Endoscopic OCT imaging is challenging because fast and stable optical scanning must be implemented inside a small imaging probe to acquire useable volumetric information from internal human …
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Compressive Sensing in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging
… imaging modality, applicable to several clinical problems, but especially in detecting the metabolic activity (as in cancer). PET scanners use multiple rings of gamma ray detectors that surround the patient. These scanners are quite expensive (1-3 million dollars), therefore a technology …
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Antimicrobial PLA and Calcium Phosphate Coatings and Thin Film Composites for Implants Applications
… and osteomyelitis remain the most challenging clinical problems faced. This thesis aimed to develop a novel implant coating system based on a ‘Local and Controlled Antibiotic Delivery System with Biodegradable Polymeric Thin Film Composite Coating’ for metallic bone implants. The specific aim …
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A Descriptive Study of Saline Abortion Patients
… data were a problematic verbal tool and a short clinical rating scale. Using the problematic verbal tool, the nursing interactions that were recorded on the process recording were evaluated as to their therapeutic or nontherapeutic value. The information for the short clinical rating scale was …
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Modulating The Unfolded Protein Response as a Therapeutic Target in Alzheimer’s Disease
… billion in 2015. As such it is one of the major clinical problems of our time. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. Understanding the pathological underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) could help devise effective treatments for it. One of the mechanisms that are implicated …
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