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Acute Brain Imaging in Children: Can MRI Replace CT as a Screening Tool?
J Neuroimaging
January 2017
Section of Pediatric Neuroradiology, Division of Pediatric Radiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
Background And Purpose: To determine if axial T2-weighted imaging can serve as screening tool for pediatric brain imaging.
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated consecutive brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of 161 children (74 girls) with a mean age of 7.44 ± 5.
HIV disclosure as practice and public policy.
Crit Public Health
August 2015
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto , Canada ; Ontario HIV Treatment Network , Toronto , Canada.
Responses to the largest surveys of HIV-positive people in Ontario show that most either disclose to or do not have partners who are HIV-negative or of unknown status. Non-disclosure strategies and assumptions are reported by relatively small sets of people with some variation according to employment status, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, and having had a casual partner. Interviews with 122 people living with HIV show that disclosure is an undertaking fraught with emotional pitfalls complicated by personal histories of having misread cues or having felt deceived leading up to their own sero-conversion, then having to negotiate a stigmatized status with new people.
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Leg Med (Tokyo)
September 2015
Department of Legal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, S1 W17 Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan.
Postmortem CT (PMCT) is increasingly used in forensic practice, and knowledge and classification of typical hemopericardium on PMCT would help to assure correct radiological interpretation. The goal of this study was to evaluate the pericardial and pleural space fluid volumetry, and to evaluate the signs on PMCT pointing to cardiac tamponade as the cause of death, and their pitfalls. Fourteen cadavers (eleven male, three female, 49-87 [mean, 70.
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Am J Bioeth
January 2010
Department of Medical Humanities, Medical Ethics Program, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield IL 62794-9603, USA.
Pitfalls in the diagnosis of gallbladder disease in clinically severe obesity.
Obes Surg
August 1998
Department of Surgery, Spring Branch Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Background: Cholelithiasis affects 10-20% of the USA population, with higher incidence in certain ethnic groups. Obesity is associated with an increase in gallstone formation, reported in up to 45% of morbidly obese patients. Ultrasound is the best diagnostic tool, although its accuracy is less in this particular population.
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