Publications by authors named "Lin L Hou"

Background: Pulmonary hamartomas are the most common benign tumors of the lungs and can occur anywhere in the lungs, normal hyperplasia, congenital malformation, inflammatory changes, and tumorigenesis are hypothesized to underlie the pathogeny, but the definite etiology remains to be elucidated. Primary pulmonary lymphoma (PPL) refers to clonal lymphoid hyperplasia of one or both lungs in patients who have no detectable extrapulmonary lymphoma or bone marrow involvement at the time of diagnosis and during the subsequent 3 months. It is rare for both diseases to occur in the lungs of the same patient.

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Background: Chest CT is widely used in clinical diagnosis and efficacy evaluation of CAP. While repeated chest CT examinations to evaluate dynamic changes in chest CT images in a short period of time is a common phenomenon, it causes a lot of waste of medical resources, and due to the large dose of CT radiation, it can cause some harm to the human body. The purpose of this study is to establish a new model to predict the dynamic chest CT image changes of CAP patients by analyzing the age, smoking history, and serum inflammatory markers.

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Background: Tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration is a potentially risky medical event, while the condition often requires early detection and rapid intervention to improve respiratory symptoms and prevent major morbidity. Notably, foreign bodies may not be identified and they are likely to be mistaken for neoplastic lesions. However, CEA, as one of tumor markers, presents to be available for assisting in lung cancer diagnosis, especially for non-small-cell lung cancer, while the specificity of CEA is not high.

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Background: CAP is the most common cause of death in infectious diseases in developing countries, while also an important cause of death and morbidity in developed countries. In recent years, CURB-65 (or CRB-65) and pneumonia severity index (PSI) scoring systems have been widely used in the prognosis scoring system of CAP. However, each of them has some shortcomings in predicting ICU admission in CAP patients.

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Background: Pulmonary sequestration is an uncommon pulmonary disorder. We presented an adult case with recurrent pulmonary infection firstly misdiagnosed as pneumonia, which proved as pulmonary sequestration by enhanced CT scan and CT angiography.

Methods: Appropriate laboratory tests, chest CT scan, bronchoscopy, and CT angiography were performed for diagnosis.

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Huayu 22, one of the peanut (Arachis hypogaea) cultivars, was used as material in this study. Peanuts, which grew under normal conditions and 100 mmol·L NaCl stress, were treated with 0, 6, 12 mmol·L Ca(NO) respectively to elucidate the effects of exogenous calcium on peanut salt tolerance. The effects of different Ca concentrations on the physiological indices and yield of peanut during the whole growth period under salt stress were investigated in potted plants, with the aim to provide theoretical basis for the growth and production of peanut in saline soil.

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