Clinical significance of cerebral microbleeds in patients with germinoma who underwent long-term follow-up.

Purpose: This study identified the factors affecting cerebral microbleed (CMBs) development. Moreover, their effects on intelligence and memory and association with stroke in patients with germinoma who had long-term follow-up were evaluated.

Methods: This study included 64 patients with germinoma who were histologically and clinically diagnosed with and treated for germinoma.

Behavioral and neural correlates of pareidolic illusions in dementia with Lewy bodies.

Introduction: Pareidolia, a form of visual illusions phenomenologically similar to complex visual hallucinations, is a phenomenon that is associated with visual hallucinations in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This study aimed to identify commonalities and differences in behavioral and neural correlates between pareidolic illusions and visual hallucinations in DLB.

Methods: Forty-three patients with DLB underwent the scene pareidolia test, which evokes and measures pareidolic illusions, and standardized neuropsychological and behavioral assessments.

Salvage craniospinal irradiation for recurrent intracranial germinoma: a single institution analysis.

This study investigated the effectiveness and safety of low-dose salvage craniospinal irradiation (CSI) for recurrent germinoma. We retrospectively reviewed long-term tumor control and late adverse effects in 15 recurrent germinoma patients treated at our hospital between 1983 and 2019. Following the first recurrence of germinoma, seven were treated with 24-30 Gy of salvage CSI, three underwent non-CSI, and five were treated with only chemotherapy.

Impaired neuronal integrity in traumatic brain injury detected by I-iomazenil single photon emission computed tomography and MRI.

This study was aiming at investigating the extent of neuronal damage in cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) with diffuse axonal injury (DAI) using I-iomazenil(IMZ) SPECT and MRI. We compared the findings in 31 patients with TBI without any major focal brain lesions and 25 age-matched normal controls. Subjects underwent I-IMZ SPECT and MRI, and also assessment by cognitive function tests.

Deep Learning Models for Gastric Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma Classification in Whole Slide Images.

Signet ring cell carcinoma (SRCC) of the stomach is a rare type of cancer with a slowly rising incidence. It tends to be more difficult to detect by pathologists, mainly due to its cellular morphology and diffuse invasion manner, and it has poor prognosis when detected at an advanced stage. Computational pathology tools that can assist pathologists in detecting SRCC would be of a massive benefit.