Disturbances of gastric and intestinal motor functions such as gastroparesis, functional dyspepsia, enteric dysmotility, IBS and constipation affect a large proportion of the population worldwide, ...

aDepartment of Thoracic Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands bDepartment of Radiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands cDepartment of Pathology, ...

Abstract: Lung diseases, such as pleural effusion, may seriously affect the life quality of the patients. Clinically, the lung auscultation method and some lung imaging approaches, such as chest X-ray ...

Amy Gray (Junior Doctor): An 88-year-old man with a background of transitional cell bladder cancer diagnosed in 2012 was referred to the ambulatory care clinic with a 1-month history of increasing ...

Manometry measures pressure within the oesophageal lumen and sphincters, and provides an assessment of the neuromuscular activity that dictates function in health and disease. It is performed to ...

Background: The optimal treatment for malignant pleural effusion (MPE) remains controversial. We previously explored the use of minimally invasive medical thoracoscopic thermal ablation [argon plasma ...

This study developed a predictive model to identify pleural tuberculosis. A consecutive cases study of patients investigating the cause of pleural effusion, in an area of high prevalence of ...