Publications by authors named "Min Seok Chae"
This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of a new clinical approach based on decision tree (DT) analysis in adult patients with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings of acute appendicitis (AA) compared with previous scoring systems.This retrospective study of 244 adult patients with equivocal CT findings included appendicitis (AG, n = 80) and non-appendicitis (NAG, n = 164) groups. The chi-squared automatic interaction detection algorithm was for AA prediction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Adult appendicitis (AA) with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings remains a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Herein we evaluated the diagnostic performance of several clinical scoring systems in adult patients with suspected appendicitis and equivocal CT findings.
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 189 adult patients with equivocal CT findings.
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- The study examined seven epidemic and 14 sporadic strains of Listeria monocytogenes to compare their attachment and biofilm growth on glass at 37 degrees C.
- Epidemic strains showed significantly higher initial attachment after 3 hours compared to sporadic strains, but biofilm growth after 24 hours did not depend on initial attachment levels.
- The research found that while surface hydrophobicity and charge correlated with each other, they did not correlate with attachment to glass; however, higher levels of extracellular carbohydrates produced by attached cells may enhance biofilm formation.