Endosonographic features that are thought to characterize lymph node metastasis were
evaluated in 100 patients with esophageal carcinoma. Subjects underwent preoperative …

• Multiple sclerosis (MS) and other chronic illnesses can drastically decrease quality of life (QOL),
but there has been little systematic study of QOL in patients with chronic medical …

Primary angiitis of the central nervous system has until recently been considered rare, usually
progressive, and untreatable. In 1987, preliminary diagnostic criteria for the disorder were …

Objective: To assess the reliability and validity of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Short
Form Health Survey as an indicator for quality of life in patients with chronic headaches. …

Study objective To demonstrate the utility of a new blood-conserving arterial line system in
reducing blood loss associated with blood drawing in the critical care setting. Design …

Background: To analyze the differences in quality of life associated with headache diagnoses
using the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form Health Survey (SF‐20). Methods: A patient …

RESULTS Two-way analysis of variance, summarized in table 1, showed that both coronal
and sagittal diameter z-scores are not significantly different between male and female …

Doppler blood flow studies in 63 pairs of concordant and 17 pairs of discordant twins were
compared with those of 277 appropriate for gestational age singleton fetuses. Discordancy …

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictability of intrapair percentage differences
of ultrasonic fetal biometric parameters in detecting twin discordancy. Fetal biometric …

Method Six databases (Directory of Open Access Journals [DOAJ], Medical Literature
Analysis and Retrieval System Online [Medline], OVID, PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Springer) …