• Avascular necrosis (AVN)– Death to the bone because of an absent blood supply. There is only one major blood vessel into the hip joint. If that vessel is damaged in any way, your hip will lose its source of nourishment to the bone, and it will die. The head of the femur coll...
Although the application of ablative therapy is promising in thyroid nod- ules, the current studies are mostly retrospective and short- term follow-up time and more prospective and long-term follow-up time studies are needed. Prostate Prostate cancer is the second most diagnosed cancer in males ...
Although there is no clear and universally accepted definition of delayed diagnosis for SCFE, three studies shown that approximately 63% of patients are diagnosed after 4 weeks from the onset of symptoms [14,23,29]. One of the main causes of late diagnosis is the underestimation of the clinica...
1.3. Conventional Treatments for Veterans with PTSD Medication and psychotherapy, such as behavioural and cognitive therapy, are conventional and common treatments for veterans diagnosed with PTSD. For example, Puetz et al. [29] found that SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and tricyclic ...
While the patterns of these diseases varies from culture to culture, in the case of cancer where the picture is very clear, the frequency of cancers suggests about one in 4 people will be diagnosed with a cancer before death. This suggests (apart from the relatively rare cases of hereditary...