The existence of pulmonary nodules exhibits the presence of lung cancer. The Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD) and classification of such nodules in CT images lead to improve the lung cancer screening.

Radiographic attributes of lung nodules remedy the shortcomings of lung cancer computer-assisted diagnosis systems, which provides interpretable diagnostic reference for doctors. However, current ...

Thyroid nodules are growths in the thyroid gland, a small organ in your neck located in front of your windpipe (trachea). The thyroid gland produces thyroid hormone, which regulates many of your ...

However, there is no consensus if calcitonin testing should be routinely used in all people who have a thyroid nodule. We evaluated the available literature to address the accuracy of calcitonin ...

Objectives Scrub typhus is an emerging neglected tropical disease, reported from many parts of Asia including Nepal. This study aims to determine the seroepidemiology of scrub typhus among febrile ...

Key messages Tetracycline, doxycycline, azithromycin, and rifampicin are effective antibiotics for scrub typhus treatment that have led to few treatment failures. For specific outcomes, some ...

Health officials say some people may have died from the infection, but doctors often fail to identify scrub typhus deaths as the cause since patients suffer other complications, including multi-organ ...

ABSTRACT Objectives: Thyroid nodules located in isthmus were found less prevalent, although papillary thyroid cancer in this location was reported to be more aggressive behaviour in some studies. Our ...

Scrub typhus was the most common microbiological diagnosis, and most patients had a doxycycline-treatable cause, underscoring the need to prioritise doxycycline in empirical treatment protocols in ...

Navigational bronchoscopy showed similar accuracy to needle biopsy for diagnosing lung nodules, with a markedly lower risk of pneumothorax and related complications.