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Subchondral cysts are frequently encountered in patients with temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJ OA), particularly in advanced stage. Subchondral cysts within osteoarthritis are typically lying adjacent to the joint surface where...
In chronic temporomandibular disorders (TMDs), constituent tissues such as muscles are sensitive to pain and psychological stress, which negatively affect the quality of life. In addition, since chronic TMDs is...
A 57-year-old woman presented with recurrent severe hypoglycemia and a large mass in the thorax. During prolonged supervised fasting, the blood glucose level was markedly decreased at 2 hours. After...
Purpose: To evaluate compliance by analyzing and comparing treatment duration, degree of improvement after treatment and treatment response of oral lichen planus (OLP) patients according to characteristics of them and...
To evaluate the influence of low hemoglobin level on diffusing capacity of the lungs for CO (DLCO ), we measured diffusing capacity with single breath method and hemoglobin level before...
Dermatophytosis is a fungal infection of the keratinized tissues of the skin, hair, and nails caused by dermatophytes or other fungi. Epidermophyton, Microsporum, and Trichophyton are the three genera of...
Determination of transcutaneous PO2 potentially offers a non-invasive method of determining arterial PO2 in the presence of adequate skin perfusion.
To investigate the extent and duration of hypoxemia in patients undergoing...
Pulmonary mucormycosis (Phycomycetes) is an uncommon fungal infection complicating diabetes mellitus, leukemia, lymphoma, and other debilitating diseases Although the infection usually progresses rapidly, chronic pulmonary lesions have been reported, and...
Pulmonary sequestration is a disease characterized by nonfunctioning lung tissue having anomalous blood supply stemming from the systemic artery. Two forms of pulmonary sequestration occur: intralobar sequestration which shares a...
Bronchiallipoma is a slowly growing benign neoplasm of the large bronchi which is characterized by proliferation of mature adipose tissue admixed with bronchial mucus glands and fibrous tissue.
It is very...
Conventional spirometry and measurement of closing volume were used to detect small airway disease in 66 persons with respiratory symptoms, consisting of 45 males and 21 females.
The following incidence of...
Transthoracic Needle Aspiration Biopsy (TNAB) is a useful diagnostic technique for evaluation of the localized intrathoracic lesions Previous reports have shown that this technique had a high positive but a...
ln order to determine the relationship between the major sites of airflow limitation and bronchodi1ator action. we studied helium response before and after the administration of bronchodi1ator in 23 asthmatics.
Our...
T o evaluate the status of serum vitamin D metabolites in patients with untreated tuberculosis, the serum levels of 25-OHD3 and 1.25-(OH)2D3 in 20 patients with untreated pulmonary tuberculosis and...
To determine the change in serum zinc level and possible mechanism of its change in patients with lung cancer, we measured serum zinc level and 24 hour urinary zinc excretion...
Ventilatory dynamics was studied in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis by means of analyses of simultaneously recorded forced expiratory volume (FEV) and maximal expiratory flow volume (MEFV) curves, and determinations of...
Purpose: The study aimed to understand the semantic structure and nature of the disease experience of kidney transplant recipients with kidney graft failure by applying phenomenological research methods.
Methods: Data...
Computed tomography (CT)-guided fine needle aspiration biopsies were done in 62 patients with abnormal mass-like densities on routine chest films. When CT-guided needle aspiration revealed no diagnostic findings in these...
Circulating blood volume was determined utilizing radioactive iodinated human serum albumin in 63 cases with various respiratory conditions, and the results were compared to those of the normal controls.
In addition,...