Introduction.The objective of the study was to determine the incidence of neuroendocrine tumours in patients undergoing appendectomy because of acute appendicitis and to investigate the treatment and follow-up of these tumours.Materials and methods.The data of 6592 patients who were operated for acute appendicitis in two different health centers, b
Mild treadmill exercise inhibits cartilage degeneration via macrophages in an osteoarthritis mouse model
Objective: We previously reported how treadmill exercise can suppress cartilage degeneration.Here, we examined the changes in macrophage dynamics in knee osteoarthritis gymnastics wall decals (OA) during treadmill exercise and the effect of macrophage depletion.Design: OA mouse model, generated via anterior cruciate ligament transection (ACLT), was
Development and Validation of the “Keratoconus End-Points Assessment Questionnaire” (KEPAQ), a Disease-Specific Instrument for Evaluating Subjective Emotional Distress and Visual Function Through Rasch Analysis
Kepa Balparda,1,2 Tatiana Herrera-Chalarca,3 Laura Andrea Silva-Quintero,4 Sneider Alexander Torres-Soto,4 Claudia Marcela Vanegas-Ramírez5 1Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Black Mammoth Surgical, Medellín, Colombia; 2Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain; 3Department of Clinical Research, Black Mammoth Surgical, M
Energy Prediction of Wheat Production Using Data Mining Technique in Iran
Wheat is considered as one of the most important products in Iran.Concerning high cultivation area of wheat in Khuzestan, an instrument is required to process stored read more data in order to give information resulted from such processing to managers of agricultural sectors.Data mining technique is able to give essential information and models to