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Showing 1 to 20 of 808 for “"Neck"”.
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PET in the evaluation of head and neck cancer treatment - management of the neck
The treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is surgery or (chemo)radiotherapy +/- surgery. Side effects related to therapy are long lasting and adversely affects quality of life. The incidence of oropharyngeal cancer is increasing and patients commonly present an advanced tumour …
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Alterations in neck muscle performance and proprioception with fatique, altered posture and recurrent neck pain
… both a risk and perpetuating factor for chronic neck pain is a relative new area of study. The cervical flexion relaxation response (FRR) is a reproducible and reliable marker of differences in neuromuscular function between neck pain patients and controls. Change in joint position sense (JPS) of …
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The role of computerised tomographic angiograms (CTA) and lateral neck radiographs in penetrating neck oesophageal injuries
… related to violence which includes penetrating neck injuries (PNI’s). Of the 163 patients that are annually referred for contrast swallow studies to exclude associated pharyngo-oesophageal injuries (PPOI’s), only 0-14% contrast studies confirm injury. The contrast swallow is still viewed as the …
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Multisensory integration in subclinical neck pain
Subclinical neck pain (SCNP) is recurrent neck pain marked by painful “flare-ups” and minimal to no pain between flare-ups. It is associated with altered proprioception, slower mental rotation response times, and altered sensorimotor integration, leading to the possibility that multisensory …
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Sentinel node biopsy for the clinically N₊ & N₀ neck in squamous carcinoma of the head and neck
… of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLNB) in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC); to determine its role in the approach to the clinically N+ neck in a Developing World setting; and its accuracy as an indicator of regional lymph node status in the clinically N neck.
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Motorcyclist neck protection system: Design and investigation of the effectiveness and feasibility of airbag integrated neck protection
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Vegetable intake and head and neck cancer
Introduction: Head and neck cancer (HNC), especially cancers of the oral cavity, oropharynx, hypopharynx, and larynx is the sixth most common cancer, affecting more than half a million patients worldwide and approximately 4% of patients in the United States, with a five-year survival rate of 60% …
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Neural algorithmic reasoning in a bottle(neck)
… issue. It escapes the so-called scalar bottleneck problem by using specialised neural network architectures to execute the algorithm in higher-dimensional space. Mapping reality into this vectorial space is then left to the gradient-based optimisation techniques rather than the human operator. …
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Superficial cervical muscle activation in chronic neck pain
Chronic neck pain can occur in a proportion of individuals who have suffered a whiplash injury and also in individuals that have not experienced a trauma to the neck. The mechanisms that cause chronic pain are unclear, and whether they differ in traumatic or non-traumatic onset is …
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Back and neck pain: Patterns in healthcare consultations
… People diagnosed with whiplash associated neck injury had higher healthcare consultation rates already three years before the neck injury and the postinjury consultation level was associated with the preinjury consultation levels. Low socioeconomic status was associated with being diagnosed …
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Prognostic biomarkers for head and neck squamous carcinoma
Head and neck cancer is the 6th most common cancer and is generally treated with surgery and post surgical radiotherapy (RT) alone or in combination with chemotherapy (CT). Over 50% of the patients fail to respond to such treatment while suffering the undesirable side effects of radio-chemotherapy. …
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Genetic Alterations in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer
… In squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN) loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at 10q has been described to be associated with poor prognosis. Moreover, genetic instability of microsatellite repeat sequences (MI) seems to concur with PTEN mutation in endometrial and colorectal cancer. …
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HPV and p16 in head and neck cancer
… virus (HPV) may play a causal role in head and neck carcinoma (HNSCC). The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of HPV DNA in HNSCC and to determine whether any correlation exists with p16 or survival. An initial pilot study of sixty formalin-fixed HNSCC was carried out in order …
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Age-associated alterations in head and neck cancer
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are the seventh most common cancers globally and have poor survival rates. Current first-line treatments for HNSCC, which include surgical resection and radiotherapy, result in high post-treatment morbidity while alternative treatment modalities, such …
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Measuring the neck transfer function of laryngectomy patients
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 1999.
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Gene expression analysis of head and neck cancer development
Microarray analysis was performed on 32 head and neck keratinocytes cultures using Affymetrix U133A/B genechips. The panel of cultures included normal cells, mortal and immortal cultures of dysplastic keratinocytes and mortal and immortal cultures from carcinomas, all grown to a standard protocol. …
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Multi-atlas segmentation in head and neck CT scans
… the task of segmenting structures in head and neck CT scans, to minimize time spent on manual contouring of structures of interest. We focus on the brainstem and left and right parotids. To generate contours for an unlabeled image, we employ an atlas of labeled training images. We register each …
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Impact Biomechanics of the Head and Neck in Football
… thesis explores the biomechanics of the head and neck during impacts in football. The research related to the head is geared towards advancing the current understanding of the mechanisms of mild traumatic brain injury, specifically by investigating head accelerations experienced by football …
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Analysis of Force-Limiting Capabilities of Football Neck Collars
The purpose of this study was to examine football neck collars and determine their effectiveness at preventing transient brachial plexopathy and other neck injuries due to football impacts. Transient brachial plexopathy, commonly called a stinger or burner, is an injury to the brachial plexus. As …
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Mobility and hydrodynamic implications of the long neck in plesiosaurs
… plan with two pairs of flippers and an elongated neck. What this long neck was used for is unclear. Various hypotheses have been proposed regarding its use, however biomechanical implications of these scenarios remain untested. Even the effects on locomotion are poorly understood. This thesis sets …
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