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State-Specific Trends in Preterm Delivery: Are Rates Really Declining Among Non-Hispanic African Americans Across the United States?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-01)
Objectives : This study sought to examine state-specific trends in preterm delivery rates among non-Hispanic African Americans and to assess whether these rates are influenced by misclassification of gestational age. Methods ...
Thin primary cutaneous melanomas
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2002-10-01)
BACKGROUND Public awareness and education may lead to the detection of thinner melanomas, which may result in a decrease in morbidity and mortality rates. Which detection patterns, lesion, and patient characteristics are ...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy for patients with problematic spitzoid melanocytic lesions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-01-15)
BACKGROUND Spindle and/or epithelioid melanocytic proliferations that display overlapping histopathologic features of Spitz nevus and Spitz-like melanoma are diagnostically difficult and controversial melanocytic tumors. ...
A Bayesian hierarchical approach to multirater correlated ROC analysis
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005)
In a common ROC study design, several readers are asked to rate diagnostics of the same cases processed under different modalities. We describe a Bayesian hierarchical model that facilitates the analysis of this study ...
Specific inhibition of mouse oocyte nuclear protein phosphatase-1 stimulates germinal vesicle breakdown
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-05)
Okadaic acid (OA)-induced germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) and localization of protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) in oocyte nuclei are suggestive of PP1's role in regulating oocyte GVBD. To explore this possibility, we microinjected ...
Current management of patients with melanoma who are pregnant, want to get pregnant, or do not want to get pregnant See referenced original article on pages 2248–53, this issue.
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2003-05-01)
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