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View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is an entity consisting of shock, petechial rash and haemorrhages in both adrenal glands leading to adrenal failure. This syndrome is usually secondary to meningococcal septicaemia, but there are many documented cases caused by other bacteria. Purpura is an essential part of the syndrome, but it is not always there.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArtificial Intelligence (AI) has taken radiology by storm, in particular, mammogram interpretation, and we have seen a recent surge in the number of publications on potential uses of AI in breast radiology. Breast cancer exerts a lot of burden on the National Health Service (NHS) and is the second most common cancer in the UK as of 2018. New cases of breast cancer have been on the rise in the past decade, while the survival rate has been improving.
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