Purpose: To determine breast carcinoma detection rate of a new mammographic computer-aided system (CAD) in order to assess its clinical usefulness. Methods: 467 cases of breast carcinoma proved by surgery and pathology were retrospectively analyzed. All the mammograms of the cases were reviewed by two radiologists working as a team and then analyzed by the CAD-system. The sensitivity for breast carcinoma detection (masses or calcification) was calculated respectively, and the results compared. Results: The sensitivity for breast carcinoma detection by the same radiologists without and with the CAD-system were 80. 94% , 88. 01% , respectively (P

Objective To evaluate the MRI application in the common non-traumatic brachial plexopathies.Methods Twenty-seven patients with non-traumatic brachial plexopathies were retrospectively analyzed,which consisted of 10 males and 17 females with age range from 22 to 70 years old.Among the patients,2 were neurofibromatosis,8 were schwannoma,3 were metastases,2 were radiation plexopathy,1 was multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN),and 11 were typical thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS).Before treatment,all patients underwent MRI of brachial plexus,in which 8 patients underwent Gd-DTPA enhanced MRI.Results In 2 cases of neurofibromatosis,the tumors appeared as fusiform,bead-like masses,growing along the course of brachial plexus with involvement of rootlets in vertebral canal,and iso-to little hypointensity on T1WI,inhomogeneous hyperintensity on T2WI and inhomogeneously enhanced.Schwannoma of 8 cases displayed as fusiform mass,eccentric to the original nerve with sharply defined edge,and hypointensity or inhomogeneous hyperintensity on T1WI,inhomogeneous hyperintensity on T2WI with cystic necrosis in 3 cases which was inhomogeneously enhanced.Two of the 3 cases of metastases manifested as multiple masses besides brachial plexus,the other one appeared as widespread lesion infiltrating brachial plexus and surrounding structures.Two cases of radiation plexopathy displayed as diffused thickened nerves,with increased signal intensity on short time inversion recovery (STIR),clear structure and no mass surrounding the plexus.One case of MMN showed thickened nerves with increased signal intensity on STIR.Eleven cases of typical TOS manifested as arched elevation of C8,T1 and inferior trunk,with thickened nerves and increased signal intensity on STIR.Elevated subclavian artery could be seen in 8 cases.And in one case of TOS,a mass in the end of cervical rib compressed the local brachial plexus.Conclusions MRI can clearly show the location,involved scope and the relationship with adjacent structures.So MRI can provide reliable information for clinical diagnosis and treatment.

ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of gefitinib versus docetaxel in previously treated non-small cell lung cancer.Methods Literatures were searched on database like PubMed,EMBASE,Cochrane Library,Chinese Biomedical Literature Database,China Journal Full Text Database,and Chinese Scientific Journals Full Text Database and Wanfang Database.All the relevant randomized controlled trials that gefitinib versus docetaxel in non-small cell lung cancer patients who have previously received chemotherapy were collected,and the quality of the included trials was assessed by Cochrane Systematic Review Handbook 5.0.2. Meta-analyses were conducted by RevMan 5.0 software. Results Four studies were involved and 2 257 patients were included.Meta-analysis showed that gefitinib can improve objective response rate and quality of life in local advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients who have previously received chemotherapy compared with docetaxel ( P ＜ 0.05) ； and it's low in the 3-4 level adverse reaction rate (P ＜ 0.05 ).But there was no significant difference in overall survival rate,symptoms improving rate and progression-free survival rate (P ＞ 0.05).ConclusionsGefitinib is superior to docetaxel in the objective response rate with local advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer patients who have previously received chemotherapy.The quality of life of the patients is improved significantly.Because of it has high drug tolerance and high safety,gefitinib can be actively promoted application as a kind of current effective second-line drugs at present,but the survival aspect needs to be studied further.

Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for nasopharyngeal neoplasm.Methods PubMed,EMBASE,Cochrane Library,CBM,CNKI,VIP and WanFang Data were fully searched up from creating database to June 15,2012.Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of IMRT versus conventional radiotherapy (CRT) for nasopharyngeal neoplasm were included.The quality of included studies was evaluated by two individual researchers and data were analyzed by using RevMan 5.1 software.Results Fifteen RCTs were included.Meta-analyses suggested that patients treated by IMRT had a higher fractional stimulated parotid salivary flow rate and a higher stimulated whole salivary flow rate than CRT.IMRT can significantly reduce the acute xerostomia (RR =0.46,P ＜ 0.000 1),reaction of mucosa(RR =0.g6,P =0.04),reaction of skin (RR =0.33,P ＜ O.000 1),long-dated xerostomia (RR ＝0.28,P =0.01) and limitation of mouth opening (RR =0.42,P =0.008).And IMRT trended to improve short-term efficacy (RR =1.22,P =0.02) and long-term survival (RR =1.25,P =0.04).Moreover,IMRT trended to shorten the treatment time while increasing the costs.Conclusion Compared with CRT,IMRT trends to be superior for nasopharyngeal neoplasm.However,because of small sample size,the results need to be proved by more clinical trials.

Objective To investigate the life quality changes and influencing factors of acute coronary syn -drome after stent implantation .Methods 100 cases with acute coronary syndrome received stent implantation were selected .SF-36 life quality questionnaire was used to survey the patients′life quality before operation and 6 months af-ter operation,and the life quality changes and influence factors were analyzed .Results 6 months after operation,the physical activity ,mental health ,social activities ,physical pain ,physical function ,physical role ,energy and health score of the patients were higher than before operation (P<0.05).According to Logistic regression analysis ,female,type 2 diabetes,underwent percutaneous coronary intervention ,ST-T segment elevation myocardial infarction were the im-portant factors affecting patients′recovery(P<0.05).Conclusion 6 months after stent implantation,the life quality of the patients with acute coronary syndrome were improved obviously;the female and underwent percutaneous coro-nary intervention have positive influence on patients′recovery,while type 2 diabetes,ST-T segment elevation myocar-dial infarction affect patients′recovery in negative way .

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Objective To explore the feasibility of 256-slice whole-brain CT perfusion (CTP) in evaluate graft reperfusion after surgical revascularization and hemodynamic alterations before and after surgery in Moyamoya disease. Methods Twenty-five cases with Moyamoya disease were scanned on a 256-slice CT.CTP was performed pre- and post- surgical revascularization. The wolumetric CT angiographic ( CTA ) images were generated from volumetric data acquired at the arterial phase of CTP. CBF, CBV, TTP and MTT were measured in functional maps at the operated side within middle cerebral artery perfusion areas and contralateral mirroring areas. Relative CBF( rCBF), relative CBV (rCBV), relative TTP (rTTP), relative MTT (rMTT) were also obtained. Differences in perfusion CT values pre- and post operation were assessed with the paired t test or matched-pairs signed-ranks test. Data with normal distribution was present as : (x-)± s,while those with the non-normal distribution were present as M ( P25-P75 ). Results All the direct graft patencies were displayed on volumetric CTA. No significant differences were found between volumetric CTA and conventional CTA. Postoperative CBF, rCBF and rCBV values of the operated side [ 72. 86 (55.54-112. 19) ml · 100 g-1 · min-1 , 1. 31 ( 1.05-1.73), 1.45 ±0. 62] were significantly higher than those before operation [46.72(28.57-57.67) ml · 100 g-1 · min-1, 0.53(0.33-0.82), 1.01 ±0.36](Z=- 2.72, - 2. 98, t = - 2. 85, P ＜ 0. 05 ). Postoperative MTT, TTP and rTTP values of the operated side [ (3.98 ± 2. 36 ) s, ( 17.56 ± 4. 38 ) s, 1.01 ± 0. 09 ] were significantly lower than those before operation [(5.43±2.07) s,(19.40±3.87) s,1.14±0.28] (t=2.41,2.17,2.17, respectively, P＜0.05).However, no significant differences were detected for changes of CBV and rMTT after revascularization ( P ＞0. 05). Conclusion 256-slice CT has the potential value for the non-invasive assessment of both the graft patency and cerebral hemodynamics changes in moyamoya disease after surgery with administration of one contrast medium bolus in a single examination.

Objective To study the cerebral infarction patients with psychological problems,so that patients maintain the best psychological state,actively cooperate with the treatment of disease and recover early. Methods 90 eases of cerebral infarction patients by age group is divided into youth and old age group. From the perspective of their care from clinical data,looking for different age groups of patients with psychological problems,for different psychological problems,with psychological support,psychological counseling and active listening to the method of kneading and the patients with psychological support. Results The psychological state of patients with cerebral infarction and age are closely related. Conclusion According to different ages for different psychological care to patients with cerebral infarction implementation of the measures can effectively reduce the complications and sequel someway, improving the quality of life earlier.

A new proposed data mining technique, support vector machine (SVM), is used to predict the degree of malignancy in brain glioma. Based on statistical learning theory, SVM realizes the principle of data dependent structure risk minimization, so it can depress the overfitting with better generalization performance, since the prediction in medical diagnosis often deals with a small sample. SVM based rule induction algorithm is implemented in comparison with other data mining techniques such as artificial neural networks, rule induction algorithm and fuzzy rule extraction algorithm based on fuzzy max-min neural networks (FRE-FMMNN) proposed recently. Computation results by 10 fold cross validation method show that SVM can get higher prediction accuracy than artificial neural networks and FRE-FMMNN, which implies SVM can get higher accuracy and more reliability. On the whole data sets, SVM gets one rule with the classification accuracy of 89.29%, while FRE-FMMNN gets two rules of 84. 64%, in which the rule got by SVM is of quantity relation and contains more information than the two rules by FRE-FMMNN. All the above show SVM is a potential algorithm for the medical diagnosis such as the prediction of the degree of malignancy in brain glioma.
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