Can Elastography Stretch Our Understanding of Thyroid Histomorphology?

Can microbiota research change our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases?

Can Imaging Improve Our Understanding of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology?

Recent advances in noninvasive imaging technology now allow us to simultaneously investigate cardiovascular anatomy, soft tissue characteristics, and disease activity as pathological processes occur in the body. Moreover, this can be performed at different anatomic locations so that the interplay between different organ systems can be interrogated. This offers us a powerful tool with which to i...

How community ecology can improve our understanding of cholera dynamics

Understanding the seasonal emergence and reemergence of cholera is challenging due to the complex dynamics of different protagonists. The abundance of Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera and a natural inhabitant of aquatic environments, fluctuates according to abiotic, and biotic factors. Among the biotic factors, the zooplankton community dynamics has been suggested to play a pivot...

Ultrasound elastography in thyroid disease.

Thyroid elastography has become, lately, one of the main focuses in thyroid imaging. With more than one hundred papers published on this subject, the core of accumulated knowledge justifies the need for a comprehensive review on the topic. The paper presents the various elastographic techniques used for thyroid assessment. Both strain and shear wave elastography, with all their variants, are di...

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...