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Approach to Special Populations with Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) have contributed to significant advances in the treatment of metas...
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the prototypical autoimmune disease, associated with autoantibody production and evidence for immune complex deposition among the...
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Pancreatic Resection for Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms
Pancreatic solid pseudopapillary neoplasms (SPNs) are rare and relatively benign tumors, with a malignancy ratio of 10–15%. The utility of multiple imaging modalities, combining with age and gender profile, is...
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Surgical Treatment of Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
Myasthenia gravis is a disorder of neuromuscular transmission which is related to acetylcholine (Ach) deficiency. The initial symptoms are common in the eyes with acute onset, including ptosis, diplopia, and e...
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Pregnancy-Related Retinopathy
Gestation period is a time span from fertilization to giving birth to a baby for women of childbearing age, a process both for a fetus absorbing its maternal nutrition and for the maternal body having adaptive...
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Headache
Headache, referred to the pain above the juga connection from frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital skull, is a common symptom. The long-lasting headache, or headache of episodic and recurring condition, i...
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Syncope
Syncope is defined as a transient loss of consciousness associated with cerebral hypoperfusion that can be improved by recumbent posture without any residual deficits. Presyncope, which is a prodrome of syncope, ...
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Disturbance of Consciousness
Consciousness is a state of awareness of self and the surroundings. Alternation in this awareness is defined as disturbance of consciousness which is classified into different types based on the involvement in th...
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The Relationship Between Sellar Tumors and Glaucoma
Since sellar tumors are usually anatomically adjacent to optic nerves, optic chiasm, and optic tracts, tumor-induced compressive injury is common, which may cause eye diseases, such as papilledema and optic at...
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Physical Examination of Chest
The chest is the upper part of the trunk between the neck and abdomen. The bony framework of chest is composed of the sternum, ribs and vertebral column. The skin, muscles, pleurae and the bony framework constitu...
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Physical Examination of the Neurological Examination
The neurological examination includes the following items: high brain function, cranial nerves, sensory function, motor function, reflexes, coordination, gait and autonomic function. As neurological examinatio...
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Diabetic Retinopathy in the Eyes of Endocrine Doctors
Diabetic retinopathy is the most common eye complication of diabetes and one of the major causes of human blindness. The main causes of visual impairment are diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic r...
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Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy
Thyroid-related immune orbitopathy (TRIO) has a variety of names previously, such as Graves’ ophthalmopathy, ophthalmic Graves’ disease, and thyroid-associated ocular disease. Although their names are differen...
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Surgical Treatment of the Orbicularis Oculi Muscle Spasm and Supraorbital Neuropathy
The orbit and ocular muscles are innervated by the ophthalmic branches of the trigeminal nerve and are closely related to the facial nerve and the trigeminal nerve. Functional neurological diseases, such as sp...
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Vertigo
Vertigo is a sensation of environment spinning, often caused by lesion in the vestibular pathway (also termed as true vertigo). Dizziness is usually a sensation of lightheadedness, presyncope or imbalance. It is ...
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Tics and Convulsion
Tics and convulsion differ in etiology, but can be confused sometimes. Tics are one of extrapyramidal symptoms, characterized by sudden, intermittent, repetitive, involuntary or semivoluntary movements. Convulsio...
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Central Hypersomnias
Hypersomnia refers to a large group of disorders. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is the main characteristic of hypersomnia. In the International Classification of Sleep Disorder (American Academy of Sleep Med...
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Cells in the Skin
The epidermal permeability barrier is no longer viewed solely as a physical barrier against molecules and microorganisms passing through skin. In addition to regulating epidermal proliferation and lipid produc...
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Diseases with Underlining Internal Conditions
The specific dermatoses of pregnancy are defined as a group of pruritic inflammatory dermatoses associated exclusively with pregnancy and/or the immediate postpartum period [1]. Classification of this disease ...
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Proteomic Response Fingerprinting (ProReF) for Rapid Identification of Protein Targets for Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine (CM) has been used as the clinical therapies for thousands of years in China. The chemical complexity of Chinese medicines makes it difficult to dissect the molecular mechanisms by single-targ...
