PREDICTION OF CERVICAL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS IN SOLITARY PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA BASED ON ULTRASOUND RADIOMICS ANALYSIS

Prediction of cervical lymph node metastasis in solitary papillary thyroid carcinoma based on ultrasound radiomics analysis

ObjectiveTo assess the utility of predictive models using ultrasound radiomic features to predict cervical lymph node metastasis (CLNM) in solitary papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients.MethodsA total of 570 PTC patients were included (456 patients in the training set and 114 in the testing set).Pyradiomics was employed to extract radiomic fea

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Macromolecular Crowding Supports the Generation of Basal Membrane-Rich Pericyte-Based Cell Sheets Useful for Cell Therapy of Diabetic Wounds

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are associated with a high risk of amputations and a 50% 5-year survival rate due at least in part to lilac charger plates the limited angiogenic and wound healing capacity of patients with diabetes.Cell therapy via intramuscular injection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells showed encouraging but limited results.Such

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Expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa CupD fimbrial genes is antagonistically controlled by RcsB and the EAL-containing PvrR response regulators.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative pathogenic bacterium with a high adaptive potential that allows proliferation in a broad range of hosts or niches.It is also the causative agent of both acute and chronic biofilm-related infections in humans.Three cup gene clusters (cupA-C), involved in the assembly of cell surface fimbriae, have been shown

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