Background: Adenosine deaminase (ADA) is a commonly used marker in the diagnosis of
tuberculous effusion and there is evidence that its production is linked to T cells and …

Objective: In the staging of lung cancer, pleural effusion that is malignant on cytologic
examination is regarded as T4 disease, and curative resection cannot be performed. We …

Portable chest radiographs are performed on the most critically-ill patients, who need highly
skilled patient care and the best diagnostic tools. However, such radiographs are usually of …

Portable chest radiography is a valuable tool for screening patients hospitalized in intensive
care, providing visual cues for diagnosis and physiological measurements. However, its …

We examined p53, p21WAF-1, and Bcl-2 protein expression in malignant and nonmalignant
bronchial specimens obtained during bronchoscopy from 60 lung cancer patients. Twenty …

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the progression-free survival (PFS) and
toxicity associated with adjuvant administration of carboplatin and pemetrexed for …

We present a novel framework for automatic extraction of the progress of an infection from
time-series medical images, with application to pneumonia monitoring. In each image of a …

Sections derived from fibrocystic disease in human breast tissue were examined for the
presence of the c-myc oncoprotein by using the c-myc specific monoclonal antibody 9E10 …

Loss of function of the p53 tumor supressor gene is involved in nearly all human cancer.
Recently a cellular oncogene product, mdm2, has been shown to bind to p53 and eliminate …

Cutaneous metastasis from intraabdominal carcinoma is relatively rare. When it is present it
is usually located in the skin overlying the neoplasm [1]. Carcinoma of the uterus metastatic …