We evaluated the association between the mean platelet volume (MPV) and monocyte/lymphocyte ratio (MLR) with brucella-caused epididymo-orchitis to determine if they could be used to differentiate between brucella and non-brucella epididymo-orchitis. The charts of 88 patients with non-brucella and 14 patients with brucella epididymo-orchitis were retrospectively reviewed. Brucellosis was diagnos...

INTRODUCTION Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) for its simplicity is potentially useful for screening depressive and anxiety disorders in post-stroke patients. To our best knowledge HADS hasn't been assessed in the Polish population of post-stroke survivors. AIM Assessment of clinical value of HADS in screening depressive and anxiety disorders in post-stroke patients. METHOD Pati...

prostate specific antigen is a glycoprotein that liquefy the semen normally. It suppose to be in very low level abnormally and increase cases of infection prostrate, hyperplasia tumor. Due decrease many other not only tumor due high percent existence normal fluids tumor, it somewhat reduce its specifity sensitivity so supported by test. Aim: predict whether marker sufficient diagnosis Nowadays ...

fine- needle (fna) cytology of ovary is a simple method for evaluation of ovarian masses. but there is controversy about its reliability in differentiating between benign and malignant neoplasms. to evaluate the efficiacy of fna cytology in the distinction between benign and malignant masses of ovary, we examined 55 fine needle aspirations from 55 women 14-74 years of age. the aspirations were ...

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Objective: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the spiral-CT in patients with clinically suspected acute appendicitis. Material and Methods: A total of 124 patients referred for CT scan with suspected appendicitis between January 2005 and October 2006 were assessed for the appendiceal size and the presence of signs of appendicitis. The findings were correlated with surgical histopathology. R...