Comparative Study on the Nutritional Quality of Peanut in Saline and Non-Saline Land.

Saline soils, as a special class of soil types, have unique physicochemical properties that have far-reaching effects on crop growth and quality characteristics. In order to better develop saline soils as a reserve resource, it is particularly important to exploit the potential of saline crops. Peanut, as one of the important crops in saline soils, can have different quality characteristics depending on the differences in soil salinity and alkalinity, as well as growing conditions.

Legal Standards for Selenium Enriched Foods and Agricultural Products: Domestic and International Perspectives.

Selenium is indispensable for human health, yet vast regions worldwide grapple with selenium-deficient soils, rendering dietary intake a critical avenue for supplementation. This narrative review aims to systematically examine and compare domestic and international regulations and standards related to selenium enrichment, providing insights to enhance regulatory frameworks and standardization within the selenium-enrichment industry. From June to September 2024, we conducted a comprehensive search of official websites belonging to international organizations (e.

Differentiation between high- and low-grade urothelial carcinomas using contrast enhanced ultrasound.

Purpose: To evaluate the value of contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) in the differentiation of high and low grade urothelial carcinoma.

Materials And Methods: 192 with 192 bladder lesions, including 110 high grade urothelial carcinoma and 82 low grade urothelial carcinoma were examined by CEUS. Among 192 tumors, enhancement patterns of 96 tumors between August 2010 and December 2012 were analyzed retrospectively.

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound may distinguish gallbladder adenoma from cholesterol polyps: a prospective case-control study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to find the independent risk factors related with gallbladder (GB) adenoma compared to cholesterol polyp by contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS).

Materials And Methods: Between January 2010 and September 2014, a total of 122 consecutive patients undergoing cholecystectomy for GB polypoid lesions were enrolled. Before cholecystectomy, each patient underwent conventional US and CEUS examination and all image features were documented.

Tissue elasticity displayed by elastography and its correlation with the characteristics of collagen type I and type III in prostatic stroma.

We investigated the prostate elasticity displayed by elastography and its correlation with the content and distribution of collagen type I (Col1) and type III (Col3). A total of 62 patients underwent transrectal real-time tissue elastography (TRTE) examinations. Targeted biopsies were performed after 12-core systematic biopsy.

Evaluation of sonographic features for patients with urinary bladder paraganglioma: a comparison with patients with urothelial carcinoma.

The goals of the work described here were to analyze the ultrasonographic characteristics of urinary bladder paraganglioma and to evaluate the use of ultrasonography (US) in diagnosis. Ten patients with bladder paraganglioma (3 males, 7 females) and 51 patients with urothelial carcinoma (37 males, 14 females) were enrolled. Ultrasonographic characteristics as well as clinical features were analyzed.

Role of preoperative sonography in the diagnosis and pathologic staging of pseudomyxoma peritonei.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to analyze the sonographic features of pseudomyxoma peritonei and the ability of preoperative sonography to assess the pathologic grades of this disease.

Methods: Nineteen patients with pseudomyxoma peritonei who underwent preoperative sonographic examinations were included (9 male and 10 female; age range, 31-70 years). Four patients presented with disseminated peritoneal adenomucinosis, 7 with peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis with intermediate or discordant features (intermediate-grade disease), and 8 with peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis.

Diagnostic performance of contrast enhanced ultrasound in patients with prostate cancer: a meta-analysis.

Rationale And Objectives: We aimed to do a meta-analysis of the existing literature to assess the accuracy of prostate cancer (PCa) studies that use contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) as a diagnostic tool.

Materials And Methods: The MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were searched for relevant original articles published up to August 2012. Characteristics of Included studies were recorded.

Role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the differentiation of high- and low-grade urothelial carcinoma.

Objective: To investigate the role of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the differential diagnosis of high- and low-grade urothelial carcinoma.

Methods: The radiological data of 96 patients with urothelial carcinomas who had undergone gray-scale contrast-enhanced ultrasound from August 2010 to April 2011 were analyzed retrospectively. Pathological examination demonstrated that the tumors were high-grade in 55 cases (high-grade group) and low-grade in 41 cases (low-grade group).

Pseudomyxoma peritonei of 92 Chinese patients: clinical characteristics, pathological classification and prognostic factors.

Aim: To assess the clinicopathologic features and its relationship with prognosis of pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) in Chinese patients.

Methods: The clinicopathologic features and follow-up data of 92 patients with PMP were reviewed and retrospectively analyzed. The cases were categorized into three groups: disseminated peritoneal adenomucinosis (DPAM), peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis (PMCA), and peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis with intermediate or discordant features (PMCA-I/D).

[Establishment of a nomogram for predicting positive repeat prostate biopsy in Chinese men].

Objective: To develop a nomogram for predicting the probability of prostate cancer at transrectal ultrasound-guided repeat prostate biopsy in Chinese men.

Methods: We performed repeat biopsy for 170 patients with benign prostate diseases diagnosed on the first biopsy, and analyzed the correlation of positive repeat biopsy with age, prostate volume, PSA, free-to-total PSA (f-PSA/t-PSA), PSA velocity, PSA density, results of digital rectal examination (DRE) and previous histology. We entered the variables stepwise into logistic regression models, and established a nomogram for the risk score on the probability of positive repeat biopsy, whose predictive value was assessed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.

[Development of a nomogram for predicting positive initial prostate biopsy among Chinese patients].

Objective: To develop a predictive nomogram for predicting the prostate carcinoma among Chinese population.

Methods: Totally 556 Chinese male patients who had undergone an initial prostate biopsy in our hospital from July 2004 to February 2009 were enrolled in this study. Variables including age, volume, prostate specific antigen (PSA) level, and free PSA (f-PSA)/total PSA (t-PSA) were collected.

Clinical utility of three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the differentiation between noninvasive and invasive neoplasms of urinary bladder.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound in differentiating invasive and noninvasive neoplasms of urinary bladder.

Methods: A total of 60 lesions in 60 consecutive patients with bladder tumors received three dimensional ultrasonography, low acoustic power contrast enhanced ultrasonography and low acoustic power three-dimensional contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination. The IU22 ultrasound scanner and a volume transducer were used and the ultrasound contrast agent was SonoVue.

[Transrectal ultrasound-guided systematic 12-core biopsy of the prostate improves prostate cancer detection].

Objective: To evaluate transrectal ultrasound-guided systematic 12-core biopsy of the prostate for the detection and characterization of prostate cancer in different age and prostate specific antigen (PSA) groups.

Methods: Totally 210 patients were divided into four age groups (< or = 59 yr, 60-69 yr, 70-79 yr, and > or = 80 yr) and five PSA groups (0-4 microg/L, 4.1-10 microg/L, 10.

The contribution of strain patterns in characterization of prostate peripheral zone lesions at transrectal ultrasonography.

Background: Elasticity is an important characteristic of tissue. During an elastography examination, various strain images of lesions are observed, and a suitable classification of strain patterns (SP) may provide vital diagnostic information about lesions. Numerous studies have shown that ultrasound elastography can improve the detection of prostate cancer, but the diagnostic value of SP classification has not yet been fully evaluated.

Role of transrectal real-time tissue elastography in the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Objective: To investigate the role of transrectal real-time tissue elastography (TRTE) in the diagnosis of prostate cancer (PCa).

Methods: Eighty-four patients with suspected PCa and scheduled for prostate biopsies underwent TRTE, digital rectal examination (DRE), transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The findings of TRTE were compared with those of other examinations and pathological findings.

Differentiation of prostate cancer from benign lesions using strain index of transrectal real-time tissue elastography.

Objective: This study was to assess the diagnostic value of strain index (SI) for transrectal real-time tissue elastography (TRTE) on differentiating malignant from benign lesions in the prostate peripheral zone.

Methods: 83 patients suspected of having prostate cancer (PCa) underwent transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) and TRTE examinations. The lesions in the prostate peripheral zone detected by TRTE were set as the regions of interest (ROI) for strain ratio (SR) measurement (SRA).

[Transrectal real-time tissue elastography combined with grey-scale ultrasound: valuable for the diagnosis of prostate peripheral zone lesions].

Objective: To investigate the value of strain patterns by transrectal real-time tissue elastography (TRTE) combined with transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) in the differential diagnosis of the peripheral zone lesions of the prostate.

Methods: A total of 145 patients suspected of prostate cancer (PCa) underwent TRUS and TRTE examinations. Based on the features of the strain patterns, the lesions were classified into 5 grades, and the strain patterns were compared with the results of pathological diagnosis.

[Diagnostic value of strain index in prostate peripheral zone lesions by real time tissue elastography].

Objective: To investigate the value of strain index (SI) by transrectal real-time tissue elastography (TRTE) for differentiation of the prostate peripheral zone lesions.

Methods: Totally 83 patients with suspected prostate cancer underwent the quantitative analysis by TRTE examination. The SI of total lesions (ASI) and peak elasticity in lesion (PSI) were calculated, and the pathologic findings were compared.

Contrast-enhanced gray-scale transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy in men with elevated serum prostate-specific antigen levels.

Rationale And Objectives: Our goal was to evaluate the role of contrast-enhanced gray-scale transrectal ultrasound (CETRUS)-guided prostate biopsy in patients with elevated serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.

Materials And Methods: A total of 115 men (mean age, 70 years; range, 47-85) with serum PSA levels of greater than 4.0 ng/ml were assessed using gray-scale transrectal ultrasound (TRUS), power Doppler ultrasound (PDU), and CETRUS.

Contrast-enhanced transrectal ultrasound for assessing vascularization of hypoechoic BPH nodules in the transition and peripheral zones: comparison with pathological examination.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the vascularization of zonal location of hypoechoic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) nodules and to evaluate the clinical value of contrast-enhanced transrectal ultrasound (CETRUS) for assessing vascularity of hypoechoic BPH nodules. Sixty-two patients with hypoechoic biopsy-proven BPH nodules in transition zone (TZ) (32 patients) or peripheral zone (PZ) (30 patients) of the prostate gland underwent CETRUS examination between January 2006 and September 2006. The enhancement characteristics of hypoechoic BPH nodules were observed and time to enhancement (AT), time to peak intensity (TTP) and peak intensity (PI) were measured with ACQ time-intensity curve analysis software.

Peripheral zone hypoechoic lesions of the prostate: evaluation with contrast-enhanced gray scale transrectal ultrasonography.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of contrast-enhanced gray scale transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) for detection of prostate cancer in peripheral zone hypoechoic lesions of the prostate.

Methods: The study involved 66 patients with peripheral zone hypoechoic lesions detected by TRUS. The lesions were evaluated with contrast-enhanced TRUS to differentiate prostate cancer from benign lesions, and the results were compared with color Doppler ultrasonographic findings.