Clinical features and prognostic factors associated with adrenocortical...

The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......and survival of patients with adrenocortical carcinoma and to identify...prognosis of patients with adrenocortical carcinoma is poor but appears...records of all patients with adrenocortical carcinoma who were referred...

Imaging of Adrenal Incidentalomas with PET Using ^sup 11^C-Metomidate and...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of these 21 patients, static ^sup...adenoma (n = 5), adrenocortical carcinoma (n = 1), pheochromocytoma...was found in adrenocortical carcinoma (SUV = 28.0...SUV = 5.7). Patients with adenomas...pheochromocytomas and adrenocortical carcinoma showed slightly...reserved ...

PET imaging of adrenal cortical tumors with the 11(beta)-hydroxylase...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  February 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......confirmed by CT. All patients subsequently...nonfunctioning), adrenocortical carcinoma (n = 2), and...urine or serum. Patients with biochemical...presence of adrenocortical carcinoma, an exceedingly...because the adrenocortical carcinoma must have started...regardless ...

Liver Ca more aggressive in hepatitis B...

Internal Medicine News;  May 15, 2006 ;     693 words ...SAN FRANCISCO -- Patients with underlying viral hepatitis B are...and in better overall health than are patients with hepatitis C, but their tumors...the characteristics of liver cancer patients emerged when Dr. Spiros P. Hiotis of...

Patients given hospitals choice

Yorkshire Post;  March 29, 2008 ;     533 words ...PATIENTS will be able to select appointments at any hospital in...under a flagship Government initiative. From April 1, patients referred to hospital by their GP will be able to choose...Ministers have pressed for the move as part of efforts to give patients more power. They also hope it will put pressure ...

Results of conventionally fractionated radiotherapy in supratentorial...

Turkish Journal of Cancer;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Sixty patients with the diagnosis of supratentorial...1997, were retrospectively analyzed. The patients had a median age of 47 years and a median...and glioblastoma multiforme in 39 (65%) patients. Median survival was 13 months for all...

Patients dissatisfied at two-tier GP funding

The Independent - London;  June 1, 1995 ;     499 words ...Patients of fundholding GPs are still getting to hospital faster...treatment, a new survey says. But the report says fundholders' patients are less satisfied than non- fundholders' with some of...There are 2,600 fundholding GPs covering 40 per cent of patients in England and Wales. They have budgets and buy ...

Many bipolar patients are also ailing and obese.(Mental Health)

Family Practice News;  October 1, 2005 ;     545 words ...PITTSBURGH -- Patients with bipolar disorder have an unexpectedly high prevalence of medical comorbidities, based on findings from a study of 175 patients. These 175 patients, with an average age of 35, had a high prevalence of gastrointestinal...

Abdominal surgery in chronic hemodialysis patients

The American Surgeon;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...The number of patients with end-stage renal disease who benefit from...abdominal surgery in chronic hemodialysis (CHD) patients. A 7-year retrospective study was conducted including all the patients on CHD who underwent abdominal surgery in...

A case of myxoid adrenocortical carcinoma with extensive lipomatous...

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  February 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......extensive lipomatous metaplasia of an adrenocortical carcinoma. The patient was a 38-year-old...cytoplasm. The tumor was diagnosed as adrenocortical carcinoma. The stroma accumulated copious...change is a very rare phenomenon in adrenocortical carcinoma, and only 10 similar cases ...

Endurance training in patients with multiple sclerosis: five case studies.

Physical Therapy;  November 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibit various symptoms...between the ages of 20 and 30 years.[3] Even though these patients are often young and initially exhibit barely perceptible...General fatigue is a dominating problem for the majority of patients with MS.[5,6] This fatigue is believed to have a ...

Isolated small gallbladder polyps: An indication for cholecystectomy in...

The American Surgeon;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...To evaluate patients with gallbladder polyps and to compare them with patients with chronic acalculous cholecystitis, 301 patients with chronic acalculous disease of the gallbladder, of which 45 had polyp disease of the gallbladder, were reviewed...

IV versus PO Vitamin D: the road already traveled.(Controversies in...

Nephrology Nursing Journal;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) Stages 3-5 experience...paricalcitol (Zemplar[TM]) does not carry an indication for patients with CKD Stage 5. Although the price for injectable vitamin...higher than that of oral products, clinicians prefer it for patients on hemodialysis for several reasons. 1. ...

Multifocal IOLs provide good results for some patients

Ophthalmology Times;  May 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Appropriate patients are those with good visual potential...they are implanted into the appropriate patients, according to Randall J. Olson, MD...how this type of lens works with his patients. "The original premise of multifocality...

Malformations of cortical development: clinical spectrum in a series of...

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Patients with malformations of cortical development (MCD) present...neurodevelopmental problems. Thorough clinical delineation of patients with MCD may provide clues for future phenotype-genotype correlation studies. We studied clinical features of patients with MCD, including developmental risk factors and ...