To compare fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) with imprinted gene detection in the differential diagnosis of benign and malignant thyroid nodules. A total of 34 patients (35 cases of thyroid nodules) were examined using fine-needle puncture biopsy under ultrasound guidance, and the biopsy tissues were examined by cytologic examination and imprinted gene detection. Combined with postoperative pathology and follow-up results, the diagnostic value and consistency of the two methods were analyzed and compared.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study is to evaluate the efficacy and adverse reaction of a combination therapy of chemotherapy and laser thermal ablation (LTA) on liver metastases from colorectal cancer.
Methods: Eighty-five cases colorectal cancer liver metastases were assigned to the treatment group (43 cases) and to the control group (42 cases). The treatment group patients received LTA combined with FOLFIRI regimen chemotherapy, and the control group patients only received FOLFIRI regimen chemotherapy.
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a type of autoimmune thyroid disease with an increasing prevalence in past decades. Its diagnosisis mostly based on ultrasonography. Ultrasonography is a useful and essential tool to make this diagnosis based on the characteristics of the disease.
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January 2012
Objective: To investigate the feasibility of determination of right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) high septal pacing site visualized by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE).
Methods: The forty subjects with RVOT pacing were analysed. RT3DE determination of RVOT high septal pacing sites was compared with chest X-ray (CXR).