Franklin Aldridge

Population studies on the prevalence of thyroid dysfunctions are costly. The pharmacy dispensing (PDR) and diagnosis (DR) registers allow us to study the epidemiology of these pathologies in a simpler way. Our aims 1/Estimate the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in Catalonia based on data from the PDR and the DR, 2/to evaluate the concordance of…[Read more]

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide.

(MA) fruits have been found to possess proanthocyanidins (PACs), having antioxidant activity.

Intraperitoneal (IP) diethyl nitrosamine (DENA; 200 mg/kg, once) and carbon tetra chloride (CCl

, 3 ml/kg/week, subcutaneously, for 6 weeks) induced HCC in rats.…[Read more]

PURPOSE To analyze the implications of different reference points on the read-out of epithelial thickness mapping. METHODS A simulation for changing the reference point from normal-to-the-surface tangent to parallel vertical sections quantifying its effect on the read-out of epithelial thickness mapping has been developed. The simulation includes…[Read more]