In the present study, we aimed to validate the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) for routine nutritional screening in the radiation oncology setting, thus enabling timely and adequate referrals of patients at risk for individualised or advanced intervention. Towards this objective, we conducted a prospective cross-sectional study in 450 non-selected cancer patients (18-95 years) refe...

AIMS To compare the predictive values of axillary ultrasound (US) combined with fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology with tumour size (T stage) and grade in the preoperative staging of breast cancer. More precise definition of axillary FNA reporting nomenclature is also presented. PATIENTS AND METHODS 314 patients: 119 patients had suspicious US investigated by FNA, 195 patients had normal U...

Background: Neck roots lesion is one of the reasons for cervical and arm pain. A detailed patient evaluation could improve diagnose, reduce imaging requests, and speedy treatment of cervical pain. We tried to estimate the utility of pronator teres reflex in C6 and C7 roots irritation. Methods: Present study is composed of 118 participants including 56 with C6 and C7 lesion and 62 normal contro...

background: ascitic fluid infection is presumptively diagnosed when the fluid polymorph nuclear (pmn) concentration equals or exceeds 250 cells /mic,l. the leukocyte esterase (le) test has been shown to be a good predictor of the presence of pmns in urine and other body fluids. this study examines of value of multistix 8sg dipstick test for rapid diagnosis of infected ascitic fluid. materials a...

background in 1996, donovan and colleagues represented a scoring system for better prediction of hirschsprung disease (hd). objectives our objective was to devise another scoring system that uses a checklist of radiologic and clinical signs to determine the probability of hd in suspicious patients. patients and methods in a diagnostic accuracy study, 55 children with clinical manifestations of ...

UNLABELLED The Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Research (AETIM) proposed, in 2001, criteria for performing a bone densitometry (BD) for use in the consultations of the public health system. OBJECTIVE To determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of the criteria to indicate BD. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five groups of volunt...

PURPOSE To assess the usefulness of MR findings in establishing a specific diagnosis of parotid pleomorphic adenoma. METHODS T1-weighted and T2-weighted MR images with and without contrast enhancement were obtained in 82 patients with parotid tumors. Imaging findings in the 38 patients in whom surgery subsequently revealed pleomorphic adenomas were compared with findings in the 44 patients wh...

this study was aimed to evaluate the efficacy of dipstick tests (leukocyte esterase and nitrite) in diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (sbp) in cirrhotic patients. forty six children with ascites hospitalized between 2009 and 2010 in children medical center were enrolled in this study. reagent strip assays for leukocyte esterase and nitrite were performed on ascetic fluid and the re...