Complete resection: Yes or no?

Genetically Modified Food: Yes or No?

radical iort, yes or no?

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Pheochromocytoma: yes or no?

A 76-year-old woman was admitted for cardiac decompensation, hypertension, and renal failure. To explore her chronic hypertension, urinary fractionated metanephrines were quantified. Fig. 1A shows the chromatogram of the patient’s urine, and Fig. 1B shows the chromatogram of a calibration standard. A very large methoxytyramine peak was observed (Fig. 1A, black arrow). The peak signal was satura...

The value of liver resection for focal nodular hyperplasia: resection yes or no?

BACKGROUND Focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) are benign lesions in the liver. Although liver resection is generally not indicated in these patients, rare indications for surgical approaches indeed exist. We here report on our single-center experience with patients undergoing liver resection for FNH, focussing on preoperative diagnostic algorithms and quality of life (QoL) after surgery. METHODS...

Cognitive impairment: yes or no?

value cannot rule out the possibility that some area in the brain may be hypoxic or ischemic. We agree that this is a major limitation of the method. However, the same triticism could be brought against the measurement of cerebral oxygenation by methods that monitor a very limited cerebrd area, such as near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) or direct cerebral oxygen measurement with intracerebra1 pr...