Abstract To develop and validate a prognostic model, including the minor lymphatic pathway (internal iliac and presacral nodes).Study design: Retrospective cohort.Participants: Locally advanced cervical cancer underwent concurrent chemoradiotherapy.Sample size: 397 and 384 patients in the development and validation data set.Predictors: Our Outdoor
Patients with liver cirrhosis can develop hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy (HE), accompanied by pronounced daytime sleepiness.Previous studies with healthy volunteers show that experimental increase in blood ammonium levels increases sleepiness and slows the waking electroencephalogram.As ammonium increases adenosine levels in vitro, and a
Measurements of quantum states form a key component in quantum-information processing.It is therefore an important task to compare measurements and furthermore decide if a measurement strategy is optimal.Entropic quantities, such as the quantum Fisher information, capture asymptotic optimality but not optimality with finite resources.We introduce a
JungHyun Park, Jueun Kwak, Sukyung Chung, Hyo Ju Hong, Jin Young Chon, Ho Sik Moon Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of KoreaCorrespondence: Ho Sik MoonDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Eunpyeong St.Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Cath
Abstract Background Endophthalmitis is a rare but potentially devastating complication of intravitreal injection.The causative organism plays an important role in prognosis following endophthalmitis.Here we present the first reported case of Turicella otitidis endophthalmitis, which is notable for a delayed presentation.Case presentation A 71 year