[PDF] Top 20 Original Article An analysis on the clinical characteristics of and prognostic factors for patients with glioma

... of glioma was increasing constantly [1, ...cells, glioma could be classified into four groups- astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, mixed glioma and ependymoma, among which astrocytoma was found most ... See full document

... and prognostic factors of patients with cervical carci- noma in order to provide a basis for improving the therapeutic level of cervical ...The clinical characteristics and follow-up ... See full document

... investigate clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of patients with lymph nodes me- tastasis (LNM) of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) so as to provide ... See full document

... survival-related factors, cognitive function, and quality of life of el- derly patients after operation for ...Methods: Clinical and follow-up data of 156 elderly patients with glioma ... See full document

... Urea is the end-product of protein metabolism, mainly drained with urine after glomerular fil- tration. Atiq. M [30] reported that deficiency of any of the 5 enzymes in the urea cycle results in the accumulation of ... See full document

... of patients, which may provide some information in this ...the patients included in this study all underwent mastectomy at breast cancer diag- nosis and the ISCLMs are metachronous or ...in clinical ... See full document

... 580 patients with ruptured intra- cranial aneurysms that had been hospitalized in neurosurgery of Weifang People’s Hospital and had received operative treatment from January 2007 to July 2013 were taken as study ... See full document

... general characteristics between the AMI group and the control ...risk factors and gene-environment interac- tion in AMI were estimated using unconditional binary logistic ...general characteristics ... See full document

... Our study had several limitations. First, the number of study participants was relatively small, and recruitment occurred at a single medical center. Besides, this was a retrospective study, without a standardized ... See full document

... in glioma has not been well ...survival analysis (P < 0.001). Importantly, multivariate analysis suggested RN43 as an independent predictor of overall survival ([hazard ratio (HR) ...potential ... See full document

... With regard to the application of SBRT, domes- tic and foreign studies have reported good effects of X-ray SBRT in the treatment of liver cancer; local control and survival rates are higher than those obtained by ... See full document

... 7], patients are still referred to neu- rosurgeons for various reasons, such as a strong personal preference for surgery instead of chronic medical treatment, or drug intoler- ance or ...on clinical ... See full document

... PGIL patients without complications that needed the surgery to deal ...of patients are still needed to confirm. Multivariate analysis further revealed that good performance status, normal LDH, ... See full document

... between prognostic variables and recurrence and death were illustrated by Kaplan-Meier plots for sur- vival ...test. Patients with WHO grade I tumors were not included in the statistical ...analysis. ... See full document

... In conclusion, our findings demonstrate that older age (≥ 45 years old), larger tumor size (> 4 cm) and positive lymph node metastasis are poor prognostic factors of SCCC. Due to the uniqueness and ... See full document

... Background: Prognostic predictions in alveolar echinococcosis (AE) are usually based on relapse and ...of factors associated with metastasis and clinical outcomes in patients with alveolar ... See full document

... for the glioma tumor in which it was found and was later mapped to a specific region of chro- mosome 12 at 12q13.3-14.1 [7]. This newly discovered GLI1 gene contained 3,318 base pairs giving rise to a ... See full document

... of patients and, therefore, whether the clinical findings can be extrapolated to PFI cases in other regions is ...sequence analysis and, thus, the possibility of misidentification cannot be ... See full document

... Sumer SO, Sun Y, Tasman N, Taylor BS, Voet D, Weinhold N, Weinstein JN, Yang D, Yoshihara K, Zheng S, Zhang W, Zou L, Abel T, Sadeghi S, Cohen ML, Eschbacher J, Hattab EM, Raghu- nathan A, Schniederjan MJ, Aziz D, ... See full document

... univariate analysis showed that age, his- tological grade, lymph node metastasis and TNM stage were correlated with OS and ...regression analysis revealed that lymph node metastasis was the only independent ... See full document