INTRODUCTION. The incidence of thyroid carcinoma is increasing by 4% per year. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) accounts for approximately 80% of all thyroid cancers and 1% of all human malignancies ...

Anatomy of the pancreas. The pancreas is an elongated, tapered organ located across the back of the belly, behind the stomach. The right side of the organ—called the head—is the widest part of the ...

Results: Eleven trials were included. No studies had untreated control groups. In a pooled analysis of three trials, 4 year survival was superior in patients undergoing resection with stage I–IIIA ...

Lung cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide with an estimated 2 million new cases and 1·76 million deaths per year. Substantial ...

Summary. Objective: To investigate the diagnostic criteria of mediastinal lymph node metastasis (MLNM) in esophageal carcinoma (EC) by comparing the lymph node sizes measured by computed tomography ...

A new double-sampling method for mediastinal lymph nodes detection by deep conventional neural network Abstract: In the field of automatic clinical image detection, there are still many problems to be ...