Background Accurate evaluation of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression levels in cancer patients may be useful in the identification of potential candidates for anti-programmed death-1/PD-L1 (anti-PD-1/PD-L1) immune checkpoint therapy to improve the response rate of immune checkpoint blockade therapy. This study evaluated the feasibility of...
Background Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) patients suffer from restrictive impairment of pulmonary function (PF) as a consequence of spinal and ribcage deformity. Statistic modelling of scoliotic geometry has been well-established based on low-dose biplanar X-ray device (EOS) imaging. However, the postoperative lung morphology change derived...
Background The differential diagnosis of acute and chronic colitis remains a common clinical problem. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technique that can be used to measure morphological changes in the intestinal wall and estimate intestinal inflammation. We aimed to conduct an ex vivo experiment on a mo...
Background The treatment strategy for patients with multiple infrapopliteal artery occlusions remains controversial. In this study, we investigated how anatomic factors affect the treatment effect of infrapopliteal artery intervention and identified suitable intervention strategies for patients with multiple infrapopliteal artery occlusions. Method...
