Objectives: Increasing visceral fat deposition with raised prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome is associated with many adverse conditions, especially cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. Although there are many studies that investigate hepatic steatosis in hypothyroidism and subclinical hypothyroidism, to the best of our knowledge, there is no study investigating its relationship with pancreatic steatosis. In the present study, the purpose was to investigate this relationship.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aimed to evaluate the potential of machine learning-based models for predicting carcinogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) oncogene types using radiomics features from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Methods: Pre-treatment MRI images of patients with cervical cancer were collected retrospectively. An HPV DNA oncogene analysis was performed based on cervical biopsy specimens.
Aim: To assess the functions of the lower urinary tract (LUT) in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG).
Materials And Methods: A total of 36 patients (18 males and 18 females) with MG and 29 healthy controls were enrolled. Participants completed a 3-day voiding diary and responded to questionnaires "Overactive Bladder Symptom Score" (OABSS) and "International Consultation on Incontinence-Short Form" (ICIQ-SF).
Objective: In our study, we aimed to evaluate the parameters that are effective in predicting the possibility of stone migration during ureteroscopic lithotripsy.
Patients And Method: We divided our patients two group whom we applied ureteroscopic lithotripsy. Patients who migrated stones during ureteroscopic manipulation to the 1st group, and the patients who did not migrate stones to the second group were included.
Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the diagnostic performance of real-time tissue elastography in detecting lymph node involvement in skin cancers. Methodology We retrospectively analyzed B-mode sonography and real-time elastography (RTE) images of 70 lymph nodes from 34 patients diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) or malignant melanoma (MM). In the B-mode examination, the appearance or loss of the hilar architecture in the lymph node, contour lobulation, and the presence of focal cortical thickening were evaluated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate head and neck masses with real-time elastography to differentiate malignant masses.
Materials And Methods: Between January 2011 and December 2012, a total of 51 patients with a palpable mass in the neck region were included in this study. Excisional histopathologic data were compared with elastographic results and Doppler ultrasonography.
Objective: To investigate the compression of the vestibulocochlear nerve in the etiology of the tinnitus in the normal hearing ears with temporal bone computed tomography scans.
Methods: A prospective nonrandomized study of 30 bilateral tinnitus and 30 normal hearing patients enrolled in this study.
Results: A total of 60 patients (ages ranged from 16 to 87) were included.
Objectives: Evaluation of a new material, high-density porous polyethylene (HDPP), which is covered with fascia lata, for experimental nasal septal perforation closure.
Methods: Twenty New Zealand albino rabbits were included and divided into study and control groups. A lateral incision was made from the lateral aspect of the left nares to the incisura nasomaxillaris.