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Assessment of rapid radioimmunoassay for urinary β-human chorionic gonadotropin (βhcg-ria) in early pregnancy
This paper is a preliminary report of the results of a specific, quantitative method of rapid (4.5 h) βhCG-RIA of urine voided at any time for diagnosing early pregnancy. This method was performed in 50 cases....
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Epidural morphine for post-hemorrhoidectomy analgesia
Sixty-six patients were operated upon for third- or fourth-degree hemorrhoids during the period of January 1982 through November 1983. A single injection of epidural morphine was given for relief of postoperat...
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Two new species of tabanus from Hubei, China (Diptera: Tabanidae)
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Evaluation of the effects of tetrandrine on experimental myocardial ischemic and infarct size by cardiothermography
This experimental observation from 46 anesthetized open chest dogs suggested that cardiothermography is a reliable method for determining moment to moment charges in the extent of myocardial ischemia. Taking t...
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HLA and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
This article reports the relationship between immunological genetic factor and the familial occurrence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by using HLA as marker of inheritance. 42 subjects (26 males, 16 females) o...
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Clinical evaluation of the 99mTc-labeled myocardial imaging agent, hexakis (t-butylisonitrile)-technetium
99mTc-TBI myocardial perfusion imaging has been studied in 7 normal subjects and 24 patients with coronary artery disease. Scintigraphic data revealed that 99mTc-TBI myocardial perfusion imaging is more sensitiv...
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A comparative study of roentgenologic signs and pathological changes in experimental subacute fluorosis in rabbits
A comparative study of the roentgenologic signs and pathological changes in experimental subacute fluorosis was carried out. The plain X-ray films, taken at the end of the first and the second months, revealed...
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Preliminary investigation on the etiological relationship between penile carcinoma and cervical carcinoma
Since geographic areas of high mortality of cervical carcinoma are consistent with those for penile carcinoma in China, the etiological relationship between these two cancers was studied. The results showed th...
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Conversion of surgically verified unresectable to resectable hepatocellular carcinoma
During the period 1978–1987, 255 patients with pathologically proven hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were determined by laparotomy to be unresectable, 155 (60.8%) out of them had their tumor mainly confined in ...
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The role of lasers in hemorrhoidectomy
Eighty-eight patients who received treatment for hemorrhoids were randomized into two groups. Group A received the Nd-YAG laser phototherapy for internal hemorrhoid combined with the CO2 laser for external hemorr...
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Bone mineral content and density in Chinese
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A new photosensitizer sulfonated aluminum phthalocyanine:In vitro study on its photodynamic action
The photosensitizing effects of sulfonated aluminum phthalocyanine on human liver cancer cells were studied by determining the kinetics of its cellular uptake, its state of aggregation therein and its photocyt...
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Hepatitis C virus infection in patients with chronic liver diseases in an endemic area for hepatitis B virus infection
Taiwan is an endemic area for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, which is responsible for up to 80% of chronic liver diseases there. In contrast to an HBV carrier rate of 15–20% in the general population, only...
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Reconstruction of the thumb and digit by toe to hand transplantation
Since the rapid development of microsurgery it is feasible to replant most severed thumbs and digits. In certain patients, however, the trauma is so severe that replantation cannot be performed, such as crush .....
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A comparison of pneumoconiosis interpretation between Chinese and American readers and classifications
As a preliminary step in joint Sino-American pneumoconiosis research efforts, a formal chest X-ray pneumoconiosis reading trial was conducted among Chinese and American radiologists. Tweleve Chinese readers fr...
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A framework for automatic analysis of the dynamic behaviour of coronary angiograms
A framework for coronary vessels analysis in digital subtracted angiograms is described. This method combines the motion estimation with the frame-to-frame structure detection in a natural way such that they a...
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A comparison of radiographic interpretation of silica exposed workers using the 1963 and the 1986 Chinese roentgenodiagnostic criteria of pneumoconioses
As part of a larger study relating to silica exposure, silicosis, and lung cancer mortality in Chinese mine and factory workers, 1936 old posterior-anterior chest X-rays were re-interpreted according to the 19...
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Calcium channel blocker treatment of tumor cells induces alterations in the cytoskeleton, mobility of the integrin αIIbβ3 and tumor-cell-induced platelet aggregation
Calcium channel blockers of the phenylalkylamine (i.e. verapamil), benzothiazepine (i.e. diltiazem) and dihydropyridine (i.e. nifedipine) classes were evaluated for effects on the tumor cell/platelet interacti...
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Pelvic peritoneal reconstruction to prevent radiation enteritis in rectal carcinoma
Some patients with rectal cancer who undergo exenterative surgery may require radiation therapy as an adjuvant treatment for recurrent or residual disease. A common devastating side effec...
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Changes in IGF-I and -II, IGF Binding Protein, and IGF Receptor Transcript Abundance after Uterine Artery Ligation
ABSTRACT: Altered IGF activity may be one mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). We assessed the expression of IGF, IGF binding protein (IGFBP), and IGF receptor tran...
