Role of ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy in the management of radiologic-pathologic discordance: a retrospective single-centre study.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of US-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy (US-VAB) in radiologic-pathologic (rad-path) discordance in women with suspicious breast lesions.

Methods: Two thousand three hundred and sixty patients with 2385 BI-RADS category 4 and 5 lesions underwent percutaneous US-guided CNB. Thirty-six lesions were classified as discordant benign and underwent second-line US-VAB.

Toward the Integration of Cyber and Physical Security Monitoring Systems for Critical Infrastructures.

Critical Infrastructures (CIs) are sensible targets. They could be physically damaged by natural or human actions, causing service disruptions, economic losses, and, in some extreme cases, harm to people. They, therefore, need a high level of protection against possible unintentional and intentional events.

A Possible Smart Metering System Evolution for Rural and Remote Areas Employing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Internet of Things in Smart Grids.

The way of generating and distributing energy throughout the electrical grid to all users is evolving. The concept of Smart Grid (SG) took place to enhance the management of the electrical grid infrastructure and its functionalities from the traditional system to an improved one. To measure the energy consumption of the users is one of these functionalities that, in some countries, has already evolved from a periodical manual consumption reading to a more frequent and automatic one, leading to the concept of Smart Metering (SM).

IoT and UAV Integration in 5G Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Networks.

The Fifth Generation of Mobile Communications (5G) will lead to the growth of use cases demanding higher capacity and a enhanced data rate, a lower latency, and a more flexible and scalable network able to offer better user Quality of Experience (QoE). The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of these use cases. It has been spreading in the recent past few years, and it covers a wider range of possible application scenarios, such as smart city, smart factory, and smart agriculture, among many others.

Chylothorax as Rare Manifestation of Pleural Involvement in Waldenström Macroglobulinemia: Mechanisms and Management.

Here we report the clinical, pathological, and immunological features of a rare case of Waldenström macroglobulinemia (WM) with pleural infiltrations. An atypical chylothorax, successfully treated by videothoracoscopy, represented the main clinical feature of this case of low-grade lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma. Pleuropulmonary manifestations are rare (from 0 to 5% of cases) in WM, with chylothorax observed in just seven patients worldwide.