Multimodal medical data fusion has emerged as a transformative approach in smart
healthcare, enabling a comprehensive understanding of patient health and personalized …

Gliomas are the most common primary intracranial tumor, representing 81% of malignant
brain tumors. Although relatively rare, they cause significant mortality and morbidity …

Purpose: This Guideline is intended to provide a clinical framework for the surgical
management of patients with kidney and/or ureteral stones. The summary presented herein …

Background CBTRUS is currently the only population-based site-specific registry in the US
that works in partnership with a public cancer surveillance organization, the CDC's NPCR …

Background The main challenge in CT screening for lung cancer is the high prevalence of
pulmonary nodules and the relatively low incidence of lung cancer. Management protocols …

Background In this review, we examine the continually expanding and increasingly
compelling data linking radiation and various chemicals in our environment to the current …

Brain and central nervous system (CNS) tumors represent approximately 1% of all newly
diagnosed cancers in the United States, and about 2% of cancer deaths. 1, 2 These are a …

Background Previous reports have shown that overall incidence of malignant brain and
other central nervous system (CNS) tumors varied significantly by country. The aim of this …

Background The detrimental health effects associated with the receipt of moderate (0.1–1
Gy) and high (> 1 Gy) acute doses of sparsely ionising radiation are well established from …

With easy-to-read, in-depth descriptions of disease, disease etiology, and disease
processes, Pathophysiology: The Biologic Basis for Disease in Adults and Children, 7th …