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It has gained recognition for being able to reduce or prevent recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis. It was considered a reasonable method, but it has been superseded by NIM, which is a novel technology.Iatrogenic injury to an internal organ such as the stomach, colon, small bowel, or liver after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube…[Read more]

A phase II intensive neoadjuvant chemo-radiotherapy (nCRT) protocol for esophageal cancer (EC) was previously tested at our Center with promising results. We here present an observational study to evaluate the efficacy of the protocol also in “real life” patients.

We retrospectively reviewed 122 ECs (45.1% squamous cell (SCC) and 54.9%…[Read more]

Rights Come to Mind Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness (2015) by Joseph J. Fins offers rich narratives of families and patients who experience disorders of consciousness in flawed health-care systems that are not clinically, structurally, financially, or ethically prepared to respond to the inherent complexities of these…[Read more]

Findings, however, varied and there is therefore a need for further studies to clarify the occurrence of these symptoms. This would help to provide early diagnosis and reduce contagion by the virus.

The present study concludes that the onset of symptoms of loss of smell and taste, associated with COVID-19, occurs 4 to 5 days after other…[Read more]

The intent of PRISMA-S is to complement the PRISMA Statement and its extensions by providing a checklist that could be used by interdisciplinary authors, editors, and peer reviewers to verify that each component of a search is completely reported and therefore reproducible.

Ficolin-3 is one of the innate immunity molecules that was thought to…[Read more]

Implications of the barriers and suggestions are discussed.

Plant senescence is a complicated process involving multiple regulations, such as temperature, light, reactive oxygen species (ROS), endogenous hormone levels, and diseases. Although many such genes have been characterized to understand the process of leaf senescence, there still…[Read more]