objective the mortality of patients with locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) is high, and pathological complete response (pcr) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nac) is associated with improved prognosis. this retrospective study was designed and powered to investigate the ability of 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (fdg-pet/ct) to predict pat...

skin grafting always has been considered a challenging task for the researchers and tissue engineers from its first introduction in 1871 by reverdin. skin substitutes, composed of degradable synthetic or biological components, are being considered as emergency replacements/grafts to the damaged skin. a number of technical developments in this filed have led to development of several skin substi...

we studied the clinical, radioisotopic, and pathologic characteristics and the incidence of cancer in clinically solitary cold nodules of the thyroid in an iodinedeficient area. the study included retrospective analysis of 765 patients who underwent thyroidectomy for a clinically single cold nodule in a ten-year period. we compared the pathological findings with clinical data. in pathological e...