Published in Head & neck
To evaluate the prognostic value of post-ablation whole-body scintigraphy (PAS) in children with thyroid cancer following 131 I therapy. A retrospective analysis of children with thyroid cancer who underwent remnant ablation was performed. PAS results were correlated with clinical and histopathologic characteristics of the primary tumor and compare...
Published in Head & neck
There have been few recent advances in the identification of occult lymph node metastases (OLNM) in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). This study aimed to develop, compare, and validate several machine learning models to predict OLNM in clinically N0 (cN0) OSCC. The biomarkers CD31 and PROX1 were combined with relevant histological parameters and...
Published in International journal of cancer
Little is known about the influence of prediagnosis and postdiagnosis smoking and smoking cessation on ovarian cancer survival. We investigated this relationship in two prospective cohort studies, the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and NHSII. Analyses included 1,279 women with confirmed invasive, Stage I-III epithelial ovarian cancer. We used Cox propo...
Published in Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
To investigate potential subgroups of primary care-diagnosed patients with PMR based on self-reported pain and stiffness severity over time. A total of 652 people with an incident PMR diagnosis were recruited from English general practices and completed a baseline postal questionnaire. They were followed up with a further six questionnaires over a ...
Published in Head & neck
This study compared our proposed N classification including the addition of the number of positive lymph node (LN+) and extranodal extension (ENE) with the current and previous American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) N classifications in salivary gland cancer (SGC). This study involved 172 SGC patients who underwent surgery. Cox proportional haza...
Published in Pteridines
Objective To evaluate the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthases (iNOS/NOS2) in human glioma and its correlation with patients’ prognoses. Methods IiNOS/NOS2 expression in tumor and corresponding normal tissues of glioma patients was analyzed using the TCGA database and the online analysis tool GEPIA. The mutation statuses of iNOS/NOS2 gene...
Published in Open Medicine
The chaperonin-containing T-complex protein 1 (CCT) subunits participate in diverse diseases. However, little is known about their expression and prognostic values in human head and neck squamous cancer (HNSC). This article aims to evaluate the effects of CCT subunits regarding their prognostic values for HNSC. We mined the transcriptional and surv...
Published in European heart journal cardiovascular Imaging
In patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and preserved left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF), the frequency of impaired LV global longitudinal strain (GLS) and its prognostic implications are unknown. The present study evaluated the proportion and prognostic value of impaired LV GLS in patients with BAV and preserved LVEF. Five hundred a...
Published in Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)
We aim to (1) determine the frequency and distinctive features of short myelitis (SM) and longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) in a cohort of adults with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG)-antibody (Ab)-associated myelitis and (2) determine baseline prognostic factors among MOG-Ab-positive patients whose disease started with m...
Published in Histopathology
Solitary fibrous tumours (SFTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms with recurrence rates of 10-30%. Current risk stratification systems for extrameningeal SFTs are based on cohorts with limited follow-up and are not suitable for prediction of late recurrences. In this study we aimed to develop a prognostic model accounting for both early and late recur...
