Evaluating the performance of artificial intelligence software for lung nodule detection on chest radiographs in a retrospective real-world UK population.

Objectives: Early identification of lung cancer on chest radiographs improves patient outcomes. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools may increase diagnostic accuracy and streamline this pathway. This study evaluated the performance of commercially available AI-based software trained to identify cancerous lung nodules on chest radiographs.

Surgical and radiological predictive factors for ureteric stricture formation in patients treated with ureteroscopy for ureteric stones.

Background: Ureteric stricture is a potential complication of impacted ureteric stones. This study investigates surgical and radiological factors that could predict ureteric stricture formation after ureteroscopic treatment of impacted ureteric stones.

Materials And Method: Intraoperative and radiological data for patients who underwent ureteroscopic treatment of ureteric stones impaction over a 5-year period were reviewed retrospectively.

The origins and manufacture of the Society of Manchester Dental Alumni (SOMANDA) presidential medal.

The construction of the presidential medal of the Manchester Dental Alumni Society is described.

Pre-conception counselling, birth weight, and congenital abnormalities in established and gestational diabetic pregnancy.

Retrospective analysis of the case notes of 91 patients attending our combined diabetic/antenatal clinic during 1983-1985 confirmed the reported advantages of pre-conception counselling in established diabetics. 70 of the subjects, however, had glucose intolerance diagnosed during pregnancy and their babies had higher corrected birth weight than established diabetics (3,474 +/- 539 v 3,199 +/- 658 g, p less than 0.025).

The effect of lumbar epidural analgesia on the rate of cervical dilatation and the outcome of labour of spontaneous onset.

A study of 1055 spontaneous labours is presented relating progress and outcome to the presence of a lumbar epidural block in 282 of these patients and to the need for oxytocin augmentation in 427. Graphs for cervical dilatation starting at admission to hospital were constructed for normal and dysfunctional labours of spontaneous onset. Patients requiring augmentation of labour had a lesser cervical dilatation on admission to hospital, a longer first stage, more instrumental deliveries, more Caesarean sections and a greater number of babies with a low Apgar score.