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Tubo-ovarian abscess treatment often preserves fertility

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Treatment of tubo-ovarian abscess with ultrasound-guided drainage and antibiotics lets about half of women who wish to become pregnant conceive naturally, Norwegian res...

FDA Approves ABRAXANE for the First-Line Treatment of Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Approval Based on Significantly Improved Overall Response Rates in all Patients Regardless of Histology Adds a New Therapeutic Option for Patients with Lung Cancer, the Leading Cause of Cancer Deaths...

SCC grants GLP certification to Wax-it Histology Services

Standards Council of Canada (SCC), a Canadian GLP monitoring authority, has granted good laboratory practice (GLP) certification to Wax-it Histology Services.

Sectioning of bone as a specialist histology specimen

The significance of histological examination in the classification and diagnosis of clinical conditions is reliant on the expertise of the histology laboratory in managing the wide spectrum of specime...

Update on NGR-hTNF Presented at ESMO Congress 2012

- Long-term efficacy analysis confirms the potential clinical benefit in lung cancer patients with squamous cell histology - Pooled efficacy analyses reveal that early drug effects strongly correlate...

Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of anaerobes from patients with periodontal abscess in China

Alimta Lung Cancer Label Expanded To Include Longer Use

FDA has set a high bar for maintenance indications, which allow longer term use. With overall survival data, Eli Lilly’s Alimta (pemetrexed) has met that hurdle and is now approved for longer use in...

Carboplatin-Paclitaxel vs Other Platinum-Doublets in Advanced NSCLC

In elderly patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer and squamous cell histology, carboplatin plus paclitaxel yields slightly better survival than carboplatin with either gemcitabine or doceta...

T2*-weighted MR angiography substantially increases the detection of hemorrhage in the wall of brain abscess: implications in clinical interpretation.

INTRODUCTION: The purpose of the present study was to identify the true prevalence of hemorrhage in the abscess using T2*-weighted angiography (SWAN) imaging and to study its influence on diffusion te...

Acute empyema with intractable pneumothorax associated with ruptured lung abscess caused by Mycobacterium avium.

Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease rarely features pleural involvement. Therapeutic strategies for this situation have not been well established. We present a case of acute empyema with intract...

Label-free photoacoustic microscopy of cytochromes.

ABSTRACT. Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has achieved submicron lateral resolution in showing subcellular structures; however, relatively few endogenous subcellular contrasts have so far been imaged....

Perihepatic abscess caused by dropped appendicoliths following laparoscopic appendectomy: Sonographic findings.

We report the case of a 6-year-old girl presenting with acute appendicitis complicated by perforated appendix, followed by perihepatic abscess associated with ectopic appendicoliths. CT findings were...

Mastoid subperiosteal abscess in children: drainage or mastoidectomy?

Objective: To evaluate the management of mastoid subperiosteal abscess using two different surgical approaches: simple mastoidectomy and abscess drainage. Method: The medical records of 34 children su...