Cranioplasty is not only performed for cosmetic reasons but also for physiological requirements to balance the cerebral hemodynamics and to protect the brain from external traumas. Methyl methacrylate is one of the most ...

Neurovascular compression syndromes of the rostral ventrolateral (RVL) medulla occur rarely. These syndromes reveal different clinical symptoms such as trigeminal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, and glossopharyngeal neuralgia. ...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the pulmonary reserve of the patients via preoperativequantitative computerized tomography (CT) and to determine if these preoperative quantitativemeasurements could predict ...

OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to identify possible compression points along the transit route of the subclavian artery and to provide a detailed anatomical analysis of areas that are involved in the surgical ...

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Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the D-dimer levels in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation with and without pulmonary embolism (PE) and to attempt to define a new cut-off ...

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High resolution digital medical images are stored in DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) format that requires high storage space in database. Therefore reducing the image size while maintaining diagnostic ...

The twinkling artifact (TA) or color comet-tail artifact is characterized by a rapidly changing mixture of red and blue color Doppler signals. Even though many diseases and clinical conditions have been shown to ...

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