Acupuncture for Low Back Pain: Reevaluation of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.

Purpose Of Review: This overview aims to reevaluate the methodological quality, report quality, and evidence quality of systematic reviews (SRs)/meta-analyses (MAs) of acupuncture for low back pain to determine whether acupuncture effectively treats low back pain (LBP).

Recent Findings: Twenty-three SRs/MAs were deemed eligible for the present overview. The AMSTAR 2 score showed that the methodological quality of one SR/MA was of medium quality, one was of low quality, and 21 were of critically low quality.

Corrective effects of maternal extreme flexure and hip abduction combined with contralateral side-lying on persistent foetal occipito-posterior position.

Aims: To observe the corrective effects of maternal extreme flexure and hip abduction combined with contralateral side-lying on persistent foetal occipito-posterior position.

Background: Digital rotation and other methods are used for correction of a persistent foetal occipito-posterior position. However, digital rotation readily causes damage to mother and foetus, and the correction rates of other methods are low.

Factors influencing the incidence of sinusitis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients after intensity-modulated radiation therapy.

The aim of the study was to investigate the incidence of sinusitis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients before and after intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and to analyze factors associated with the incidence of sinusitis following IMRT. We retrospectively analyzed 283 NPC patients who received IMRT in our hospital from March 2009 to May 2011. The diagnostic criteria for sinusitis are based on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings.

Prognostic value of expression of EGFR and nm23 for locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of expression of EGFR and nm23 in patients with advanced-stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The study population comprised 127 patients with stage III-IVa NPC with sufficient pretreatment tumor biopsy specimens from 2003 to 2004 and clinical follow-up data. The expression of EGFR and nm23 was detected by immunohistochemistry.

[Significance of dual-time-point 18F-FDG PET imaging in evaluation of hilar and mediastinal lymph node metastasis in non-small-cell lung cancer].

Objective: To explore the diagnostic value of dual-time-point 18F-FDG PET-CT imaging in detecting hilar and mediastinal lymph node metastasis in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: Forty-six patients with NSCLC underwent standard whole body single-time 18F-FDG PET-CT scans and a delayed imaging for the thorax alone before surgery, meanwhile, the standard uptake value (SUV) and retention index (RI) were calculated.

Results: A total number of 584 lymph nodes were excised in the 46 patients.

[Preliminary study of 18F-FDG PET-CT in defining lymph node radiation target volume for non-small-cell lung cancer patients].

Objective: To investigate the value of 18F-FDG PET-CT in detecting metastatic lymph node and radiation planning for patient with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Methods: The data of 58 NSCLC patients were retrospectively analyzed. Preoperatively, Both 18F-FDG PET-CT and CT scan were performed for all patients.