Over the past few decades, the screening for and early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has attracted attention worldwide, and especially in Asian countries such as Japan and China. Such approaches can help detecting HCC at an earlier stage when curable interventions can be offered to achieve long-term disease-free survival for patients. Biomarkers have been used to screen for and di...

background: considering that elisa method presently is the test of choice for diagnosis of fasciolo­sis, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the maximum validity of coated plates at dif­ferent temperatures and different times during one year of evaluation. methods: serum samples of patients infected with fasciolosis (n=10), hydatidosis (n=5), toxocaria­sis (n=5), and negative control s...

conclusions the findings showed a relative concordance between psychiatric interviews and psychological assessments in the clinical diagnosis of mental illness. background one of the most important issues to diagnose mental disorders is the use of independent tools with similar results. documented history is an important tool to diagnose diseases at each stage. the first and fundamental step in...

Current studies do not accurately evaluate the influence of tumor location on survival of colorectal cancer patients. This study aimed to explore whether tumor location could be identified as another high-risk factor in stage II colorectal cancer by using data identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database. All colorectal cancer patients between 2004 and 2008 were grou...

Skin lesions detection and classification is a prominent issue difficult even for extremely skilled dermatologists pathologists. disease the most common disorder triggered by fungus, viruses, bacteria, allergies, etc. diseases are dangerous may be cause of serious damage. Therefore, it requires to diagnose at an earlier stage, but diagnosis therapy itself complex needs advanced laser photonic t...

Diagnosis of gastrointestinal GVHD (GI-GVHD) is based on clinical symptoms and histologic findings. No biomarkers predicting responses to treatment are routinely available even though 30% to 50% of patients will not respond to corticosteroids. In this study, we aimed to evaluate fecal calprotectin, α-1-antitrypsin (α(1)-AT), and elastase at the time of first symptoms as diagnostic and prognosti...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether patients with no insurance or Medicaid are more likely to present with advanced-stage laryngeal cancer. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study from the National Cancer Database, 1996-2003. SETTING Hospital-based practice. PARTICIPANTS Patients with known insurance status diagnosed as having invasive laryngeal cancer at Commission on Cancer facilities (N = 61 131) w...