“splits” of the cartilage parallel to the joint surface; “fissures,” which are cartilage cracks perpendicular to the joint surface; and “flaking” of the cartilage adjacent to the joint space. The cartilage changes can begin at a rather young age and males show more cartilage changes ...
Intraforaminal osteophytes limit movement and eventually stabilize the joint containing the fragmented disc. In the unstable stage, patients complain primarily of neck dysfunction (see Table 3-7). They also commonly complain of a “catch” or sudden pain in the neck in part of the ROM during ...
Screening strategies We considered the benefits, harms and cost-effectiveness of seven priority screening algorithms as identified by the Guidelines Development Group compared to no-screening: primary VIA, primary cytology with HPV DNA triage (ASC-US referral), primary HPV DNA without triage (assessment...
Kulasingam SL, Hughes JP, Kiviat NB, Mao C, Weiss NS, Kuypers JM, Koutsky LA: Evaluation of human papillomavirus testing in primary screening for cervical abnormalities: comparison of sensitivity, specificity, and frequency of referral. JAMA. 2002, 288 (14): 1749-1757. 10.1001/jama.288.14....
Firstly, on the basis of the fingertip pressure sensor of the End-Effector Finger Rehabilitation Robot, a mathematical model of hand muscle strength estimation ended up being established, additionally the determined muscle strength had been scored with the entropy weight method. Next, using an sEMG ...
The evaluation and testing conducted with the Herlev database and pap-smear slides from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital prove the validity of the tool and achieving its aim of identifying the cancerous slides/cells that may need more attention. In the future work, we plan to include a ...
and prepared pathological slides from Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, confirmed the rationale of the approach of selecting ‘good’ features, to embed sufficient discriminatory information that can increase the accuracy of cervical cancer classification. Conflicts of interest This paper has the assent ...
Variables evaluated for their association with outcome included age, sex, duration of pain, opioid use, pain referral pattern, paraspinal tenderness, pain exacerbated by extension/rotation, magnetic resonance image abnormalities, diabetes, smoking, scoliosis, obesity, prior surgery, and levels treated. ...
Melzack and Loeser15 proposed the existence of a central pattern-generating mechanism as the reason for phantom body pain in patients with paraplegia that persisted after removal of an entire section of the spinal cord (segmental cordectomy). The present study expands their concept and sheds new ...