background: application of dose-area product (dap) quantity has been increased in the clinical practice. dap is relatively easy to measure. dap has been shown to correlate well with the total energy imparted to the patient, which is related to the effective dose. material and methods: in this study, measurements of dap were carried out in a sample of 421 adult patients who underwent conventiona...

background and objectives non-traumatic acute abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints in patients referred to emergency department. to make diagnosis decision several diagnostic tests such as wbc count, urine analysis, and abdominal sonography are usually ordered which disturb emergency department, staff and force significant cost to patient and are time consuming. this study was do...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis of mandibular involvement caused by head and neck cancers is critical for treatment. We performed a meta-analysis to determine the diagnostic efficacy of MR for distinguishing mandibular involvement caused by head and neck cancers. METHODS Thirteen databases were searched electronically and hand-searching was also done. Two reviewers conducted study inclusion, data extrac...

BACKGROUND This multicentre international randomized trial compared the impact of gadoxetic acid-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MRI with extracellular contrast medium (ECCM-MRI) and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) as a first-line imaging method in patients with suspected colorectal cancer liver metastases (CRCLM). METHODS Between October 2008 and September 2010, pati...

BACKGROUND Recent data suggest that noninvasive liver fibrosis indexes could be useful for predicting esophageal varices (EV) in cirrhotic patients. However, thus far, the diagnostic efficacy of these indexes in predicting portal hypertension (PH) in cirrhotic patients has been poorly evaluated. AIMS To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of noninvasive liver fibrosis indexes in the diagnosis of...

BACKGROUND Ca(2+) activity close to the physiological concentration of 1.3 mmol/L is essential in blood coagulation. Is this also true for the performance of global diagnostic coagulation assays? We searched for compounds that would buffer Ca(2+) activity at approximately 1.3 mmol/L without disturbing coagulation reactions and investigated whether such Ca(2+) buffering improves diagnostic effic...

This study compared the diagnostic accuracy of Quantitative Buffy Coat (QBC) a fluorescent microscopy test and OptiMAL, an immunochromatographic dip stick test against conventional microscopy for the detection of malaria at a tertiary teaching hospital situated in Eastern Nepal. 100 clinically suspected malaria patients with positive and negative parasitemia were assessed under conventional mic...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of the Treponema pallidum (Tp) antigen Tp0693 for syphilis. ELISA was used to examine the serum levels of Tp0693. The sample-to-cutoff ratio (S/CO) value was used to generate a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. A correlation analysis was performed to compare the detection efficacy of Tp0693-specific ELISA, Treponema ...

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common tumor in elderly men. However, the specificity and sensitivity of serum prostate-specific antigen levels in PCa diagnosis are controversial. This study aims to reveal a novel diagnosis biomarker in PCa. MATERIALS AND METHODS The differential methylated CpG sites between 423 primary PCa and 39 adjacent samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TC...