Publications by authors named "S Grujicic"
Introduction: Women who receive a result of an abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smear can fail to participate in follow up procedures, and this is often due to anxiety. This study aimed to apply artificial neural networks (ANN) in prediction of anxiety in women with an abnormal Pap smear test, prior to and following diagnostic procedures.
Methods: One hundred-seventy two women who received an abnormal Pap screening result took part in this study, completing a questionnaire about socio-demographic characteristics and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), right before and two to four weeks after diagnostics (i.
Background: Postoperative complications (PCs) following total laryngectomy remain a significant challenge, with recent investigations directed toward the impact of nutrition status and vitamin D deficiency.
Objectives: To elucidate the association between preoperative vitamin D level status, malnutrition risk score, and surgical and survival outcomes in patients with advanced laryngeal cancer following total laryngectomy.
Study Design: Prospective cohort study.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates the prognostic significance of the De Ritis ratio in predicting cancer outcomes for patients with urothelial bladder cancer undergoing radical cystectomy.
- A cohort of 367 patients was examined, revealing that a higher De Ritis ratio is linked to factors like age, gender, and cancer-related mortality, with significant impacts on overall and cancer-specific survival rates.
- The findings suggest that the De Ritis ratio can serve as a valuable predictive biomarker for oncological outcomes in these patients, although it was not associated with recurrence-free survival.
The study aimed to characterize fungal contamination of medical students' mobile phones, investigate mobile phones' usage and cleaning habits, identify independent risk factors for fungal contamination, and awareness of mobile phones as a potential route of infection. In a cross-sectional study, medical students' mobile phones were sampled for possible fungal contamination. The questionnaire was used to record mobile phone usage, cleaning habits, and awareness of mobile phones as a source of infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Post-thyroidectomy bleeding is rare, but potentially life-threatening complication. Early recognition with immediate intervention is crucial for the management of this complication. Therefore, it is very important to identify possible risk factors of postoperative hemorrhage as well as timing of postoperative hematoma occurrence.
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