Annals of Saudi medicine
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Nov 2022
Clinical profile, course and outcomes of adults with inflammatory bowel disease over a decade: a single center experience.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is an important cause of morbidity in Saudi Arabia. ⋯ None.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Nov 2022
Transformation of dental services from a governmental model to a revenue-generation model of operation in a tertiary care hospital: a health economics assessment.
Healthcare in Saudi Arabia is under transformation from a national free health service to a system paid either by insurance or governmental funds. This change will impact the model of operation including dental services. ⋯ None.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Nov 2022
High COX-2 immunostaining in papillary thyroid carcinoma is associated with adverse survival outcomes.
Thyroid carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies worldwide. More than 70%-80% are papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Many factors influence the PTC pathway of development such as genetic mutations, growth factors, and radiation. More biological understanding of the genetic and molecular pathways is needed in PTC to determine tumor behavior, and initial clinical assessment. ⋯ None.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Sep 2022
Multicenter StudyImpact of diabetes mellitus on periprocedural and 18-month clinical outcomes in Korean patients requiring rotational atherectomy: results from the ROCK Registry.
Diabetes mellitus (diabetes) increases the risk of severe coronary artery calcification, which increases the complexity of percutaneous coronary intervention requiring rotational atherectomy (RA) by interfering with lesion preparation, and limiting final stent expansion. ⋯ None.
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Annals of Saudi medicine · Sep 2022
Diagnostic value of strain elastography and shear wave elastography in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions.
Conventional B-mode breast ultrasonography, though the primary modality to determine benign or malignant nature of a solid breast lesion, sometimes encounters overlapping sonographic morphological features in a single lesion. Elastography leads to improvement by evaluating the structural aspects and characterization of the lesion as benign or malignant on the basis of multi-parametric assessment. ⋯ None.