Lymphedema following treatment for breast cancer can be an irreversible condition with a profound negative impact on quality of life. The lack of consensus regarding standard definitions of clinically significant lymphedema and optimal methods of measurement and quantification are unresolved problems. Inconsistencies persist regarding the appropriate timing of intervention and what forms of tre...

Urinary conditions with a distinctive clinical picture are not uncommon in newborn infants. The majority of infants show excellent response to treatment and early diagnosis is of great importance. In any circumstances it is difficult to obtain specimens of urine from these small subjects and the difficulties are frequently increased as a result of the anuria which is a common accompaniment of u...

Necrotizing soft tissue infection of the chest wall is a relatively rare but highly lethal surgical condition that has received little attention in the literature. The case of a 21-year-old female patient affected by this rare infection is reported. Our recent experience and literature data suggest that chest wall necrotizing soft tissue infection spreads rapidly and is highly lethal. High inde...

This research aims to provide intelligent tool to predict incubator Length of Stay (LOS) of infants in Egypt and USA, in addition to define factors affecting Length of Stay (LOS) of preterm infants and their severity of impact. This study has relied on data collected from both Egypt and US, to compare LOS's driving factors and the accuracy of LOS prediction in both countries. The obtained ...

Standard univariate analyses of brain imaging data have revealed a host of structural and functional brain alterations in schizophrenia. However, these analyses typically involve examining each voxel separately and making inferences at group-level, thus limiting clinical translation of their findings. Taking into account the fact that brain alterations in schizophrenia expand over a widely dist...

Tuberculosis of the extra-oral region is uncommon and is rarely primary. Extra-oral involvement of the cheek in the absence of tuberculosis elsewhere in the body is rare. To the best of our knowledge, we report here the first case of primary tuberculosis of the cheek in a 31-year-old male presenting as a nodular swelling of the cheek. Previous reported cases of extra-oral involvement of the che...

OBJECTIVE To determine the comparative pattern of distribution of four stages of breast cancer in 2 different hospitals in Lahore. METHODS For all the variables under study test-statistic t has been used for stagewise comparisons between the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (INMOL) and Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMCH) whereas the four stages of the disease were compar...

PEDIATRIC PRACTICE: A. THE PEDIATRICIAN AS A SPECIALIST T lIE BOLE of time pediatrician in the totality of medical practice in timis country undergoes close scrutiny; panels and papers imave dealt witim it. Pediatric educators are vitally concerned timat timeir teaclming programs be tailored to future needs; official interest of the American Academy of Pediatrics lmas been expressed througim it...

BACKGROUND Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia and is prevalent worldwide. It is expected that AD, for which aging is a risk factor, will increase in the future. Because early detection of AD has become increasingly important, promoting demand for screening tests with adequate sensitivity. In this study, we examined the usefulness of the Takeda Three Colors Combination ...