UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical presentation of bone metastases in patients with carcinoid tumors and to determine the diagnostic value of imaging techniques and markers of bone metabolism. METHODS This retrospective study was performed on the entire group of patients with carcinoid tumors treated in our hospital from January 1992 to May 1999. Only patients w...

UNLABELLED (99m)Tc-labeled red blood cell scintigraphy is a powerful detection and localization tool that may be confounded by false-positive and false-negative findings. Subtraction scintigraphy has been used in the evaluation of acute lower gastrointestinal tract hemorrhage (LGIH) to reduce the impact of interpretive confounders. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the cost-effectiv...

The patient with a history of bone pain and muscle weakness, was thought to have oncogenic osteomalacia as a result of biochemical investigations and directed to Nuclear Medicine Department for a whole-body bone scintigraphy and 111In-octreotide scintigraphy. There was no focal pathologic tracer uptake, but generalized marked increase in skeletal uptake on bone scintigraphy. Octreotide scintigr...

What are the consequences of a nationwide reform transfer system based on means-testing toward one unconditional transfers? I answer this question with quantitative model to assess general equilibrium, inequality, and welfare effects substituting current US income security universal basic (UBI) policy. To do so, develop an overlapping generations idiosyncratic risk that incorporates intensive e...

Research Centre for Sport Sciences, Health and Human Development (CIDESD), Vila Real, Portugal 2 Department of Sport Sciences, University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal 3Department of Sports Training, Academy of Physical Education, Katowice, Poland Authors submitted their contribution of the article to the editorial board. Accepted for printing in Journal of Human Kinetics Special ...

<p><em>Nutrient Agar medium is the growth mediums for Staphylococcus aureus that has been tested to grow colonies well. NA an expensive price, so alternative media from nature-based are needed such as white-fleshed and yellow-fleshed sweet potato which a source of carbohydrates. </em><em>This research post-test only control group design using spread plate method aims fin...

a CICS-UBI, Health Sciences Research Centre, University of Beira Interior, Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal b UDI-IPG, Research Unit for Inland Development, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, 6300-749 Guarda, Portugal c CNC – Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, 3004-517 Coimbra, Portugal d Laboratory of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Univer...