Artificial intelligence-based detection of paediatric appendicular skeletal fractures: performance and limitations for common fracture types and locations.

Background: Research into artificial intelligence (AI)-based fracture detection in children is scarce and has disregarded the detection of indirect fracture signs and dislocations.

Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of an existing AI-tool for the detection of fractures, indirect fracture signs, and dislocations.

Materials And Methods: An AI software, BoneView (Gleamer, Paris, France), was assessed for diagnostic accuracy of fracture detection using paediatric radiology consensus diagnoses as reference.

Dog Owners' Perceptions of Canine Body Composition and Effect of Standardized Education for Dog Owners on Body Condition Assessment of Their Own Dogs.

Overweight in dogs is an increasing problem, with a prevalence of about 30% in Sweden. To prevent the negative health effects of overweight, it is important to identify and treat canine overweight. Dog owners are essential for such interventions.

Technical feasibility and clinical success of direct "free hand" EUS-guided gastroenterostomy in patients with gastric outlet obstruction.

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) with lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) appears to be a promising intervention in management of gastroduodenal out obstruction (GOO), particularly for patients for whom surgery is high risk or in a palliative setting. This study aimed to evaluate the technical feasibility, procedure-associated adverse events (AEs), and clinical outcome of direct "free hand" EUS-GE. This retrospective two-center study included patients who underwent direct "free hand" EUS-GE (April 2017 to March 2021) investigating technical success (correctly placed LAMS), clinical outcome (successful oral nutrition), and management of procedure-associated AEs.

Integration of PET-imaging into radiotherapy treatment planning for low-grade meningiomas improves outcome.

Purpose: Meningiomas have an excellent survival prognosis, and radiotherapy (RT) is a central component of interdisciplinary treatment. During treatment planning, the definition of the target volume remains challenging using MR and CT imaging alone. This is the first study to analyze the impact of additional PET-imaging on local control (LC) and overall survival (OS) after high-precision RT.

Mobile App Delivery of the EORTC QLQ-C30 Questionnaire to Assess Health-Related Quality of Life in Oncological Patients: Usability Study.

Background: Mobile apps are evolving in the medical field. However, ongoing discussions have questioned whether such apps are really valuable and whether patients will accept their use in day-to-day clinical life. Therefore, we initiated a usability study in our department.

High-precision radiotherapy for meningiomas : Long-term results and patient-reported outcome (PRO).

Objective: To evaluate long-term outcome after high-precision radiotherapy (RT) of meningioma patients in terms of survival and side effects.

Methods: We analyzed 275 meningioma cases: 147 low-grade and 43 high-grade meningiomas (WHO II: n = 40, III: n = 3). In all, 85 patients had no pathologically confirmed histology but were determined as low-grade based on multimodal imaging.

Fractionated vs. single-fraction stereotactic radiotherapy in patients with vestibular schwannoma : Hearing preservation and patients' self-reported outcome based on an established questionnaire.

Background: Stereotactic radiotherapy (RT) has been established as a valid treatment alternative in patients with vestibular schwannoma (VS). There is ongoing controversy regarding the optimal fractionation. Hearing preservation may be the primary goal for patients with VS, followed by maintenance of quality of life (QoL).

[Coronary artery anomaly common cause of sudden cardiac death in young people. Unusual diagnosis that requires a targeted investigation in order not to be missed].

17-year old male was admitted after syncope during exercise, exhibiting transient ST-elevation, raised troponin T levels and regionally hypokinetic myocardium. Further investigation revealed a left main coronary artery arising from the right sinus valsalva, a narrow vessel with an intramural course resulting in compression during systole. The patient had presented previously with chest pain and syncope during physical exercise.

Does egg deposition by herbivorous pine sawflies affect transcription of sesquiterpene synthases in pine?

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris; Pinaceae, Pinales) is known to defend against egg deposition by herbivorous sawflies by changing its terpenoid volatile blend. The oviposition-induced pine odor attracts egg parasitoids that kill the sawfly eggs. Here, we investigated whether sawfly egg deposition activates genes encoding pine terpene synthases by extracting mRNA from oviposition-induced P.

Evolutionary origins of a novel host plant detoxification gene in butterflies.

Chemical interactions between plants and their insect herbivores provide an excellent opportunity to study the evolution of species interactions on a molecular level. Here, we investigate the molecular evolutionary events that gave rise to a novel detoxifying enzyme (nitrile-specifier protein [NSP]) in the butterfly family Pieridae, previously identified as a coevolutionary key innovation. By generating and sequencing expressed sequence tags, genomic libraries, and screening databases we found NSP to be a member of an insect-specific gene family, which we characterized and named the NSP-like gene family.