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Pediatric Sex Cord-Stromal Tumor with Composite Morphology: A Case Report
(Springer-Verlag; Society for Pediatric Pathology, 2005-12)
A 12-year-old female with developmental delay/mental retardation and a family history of gynecologic cancers presented with nonspecific abdominal complaints and was found to have a 4.5-kg, 25-− × 23-− × 15-cm pelvic mass ...
Changes in Health Status Experienced by Women with Gestational Diabetes and Pregnancy-Induced Hypertensive Disorders
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2005-10-01)
Objective: To examine changes in health status among women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH). Methods: We examined perceived health status changes from the prepregnancy, as ...
Wide excision without radiation for desmoplastic melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-10-01)
BACKGROUND Adjuvant radiation has been proposed for the treatment of patients with desmoplastic melanoma, who reportedly have local recurrence rates as high as 40–60%. The authors investigated local recurrence rates at a ...
Use of a gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog for protection against premature ovarian failure during cyclophosphamide therapy in women with severe lupus
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005-09)
Objective Cyclophosphamide (CYC) therapy for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a disease predominantly affecting women of childbearing age, causes an unacceptably high incidence of irreversible premature ovarian failure ...
Sexually transmitted diseases and other urogenital conditions as risk factors for prostate cancer: a case–control study in Wayne County, Michigan
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2005-04)
Objective To investigate associations between prostate cancer and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), and vasectomy in a population-based case–control study in Wayne County, ...
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 ...