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Purpose: T1-weighted signal intensity ratios (SIR) comparing pancreas to spleen (SIRps) or muscle (SIRpm) can semiquantitatively assess T1 signal change associated with pancreatitis. However, there is no standardized methodology for generating these ratios. We set out to determine the impact of MRI sequence as well as region of interest (ROI) location, shape, and size on T1 SIR.
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January 2025
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Interventional Radiology, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Tte. Gral. Juan Domingo Perón 4190, CABA, CP C1199ABB, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cureus
December 2024
Anaesthesiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur, Raipur, IND.
Introduction: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females. Surgery is the gold standard therapy, with modified radical mastectomy (MRM) being the most commonly performed procedure for breast cancer. Management of postoperative pain after MRM poses a clinical challenge and hence receives utmost priority.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Coll Physicians Surg Pak
January 2025
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkiye.
Objective: To compare the postoperative analgesic effectiveness of ultrasound-guided lumbar erector spinae plane (LESP) block with lumbar plexus block (LPB) in patients operated for proximal femur fractures.
Study Design: A randomised controlled trial. Place and Duration of the Study: Sakarya Training and Research Hospital Operation Theatre, Sakarya, Turkiye, between January and June 2023.
J Emerg Med
January 2025
Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Durham Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, 508 Fulton St, Durham, North Carolina. Electronic address:
Background: Rib fractures are frequently diagnosed and treated in the emergency department (ED). Thoracic trauma has serious morbidity and mortality, particularly in older adults, with complications including pulmonary contusions, hemorrhage, pneumonia, or death. Bedside ED-performed ultrasound-guided anesthesia is gaining in popularity, and early and adequate pain control has shown improved patient outcomes with rare complications.
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