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HER2-low breast cancer (BC) is proposed to be a special population of patients with an immunohistochemistry (IHC) score of 1 + or 2 + and non-amplified in situ hybridization (ISH) results. The role and prognos...
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Studies had shown many diseases affect the stability of human microbiota, but how this relates to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) has not been well understood. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the reg...
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The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the cause of a rapidly spreading illness, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), affecting more than seventeen million people around the ...
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Open AccessPerceived infection transmission routes, infection control practices, psychosocial changes, and management of COVID-19 infected healthcare workers in a tertiary acute care hospital in Wuhan: a cross-sectional survey
Many healthcare workers were infected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) early in the epidemic posing a big challenge for epidemic control. Hence, this study aims to explore perceived infection routes, inf...
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Open AccessA rapid advice guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infected pneumonia (standard version)
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Improved inverse design method for thin-wall hollow profiled polymer extrusion die based on FEM-CFD simulations
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Open AccessManagement of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: quality of clinical practice guidelines and variations in recommendations
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For optimization design of polymer extrusion dies, dimensional accuracy is critical to product quality of the extrudate. The extrusion dies used to be a regular geometrical profile, which is mostly composed by...