Browsing by Subject "Diagnosis"

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      [Abdominal pain in children] 

      Zachariou, Zacharias (2011)
      A differentiation between chronic relapsing abdominal pain and acute pain is necessary in children. Whilst only 5 - 10 % of the cases of chronic abdominal pain have an organic correlate, such is almost always present in ...
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      Assessment of the risk factors of coronary heart events based on data mining with decision trees 

      Karaolis, Minas A.; Moutiris, Joseph Antoniou; Hadjipanayi, Demetra; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2010)
      Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the major causes of disability in adults as well as one of the main causes of death in the developed countries. Although significant progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment ...
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      Association rule analysis for the assessment of the risk of coronary heart events 

      Karaolis, Minas A.; Moutiris, Joseph Antoniou; Papaconstantinou, L.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2009)
      Although significant progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD), further investigation is still needed. The objective of this study was to develop a data mining system using ...
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      Bounds on max-product algorithms for multiple fault diagnosis in graphs with loops 

      Le, T.; Hadjicostis, Christoforos N. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2007)
      In this paper, we analyze the performance of algorithms that use belief propagation max-product iterations to solve the generalized multiple fault diagnosis (GMFD) problem. The GMFD problem is described by a bipartite ...
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      Brain metastasis of unknown primary: A diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma 

      Polyzoidis, K. S.; Miliaras, G.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2005)
      The diagnosis of a brain metastasis is usually made during the routine follow up examinations of patients with known cancer, who are under the care of oncology departments. The involvement of the neurosurgeon depends on ...
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      Brain white matter lesion classification in multiple sclerosis subjects for the prognosis of future disability 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Petroudi, Styliani; Karaolis, Minas A.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2013)
      This study investigates the application of classification methods for the prognosis of future disability on MRI-detectable brain white matter lesions in subjects diagnosed with clinical isolated syndrome (CIS) of multiple ...
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      Brain white matter lesions classification in multiple sclerosis subjects for the prognosis of future disability 

      Loizou, Christos P.; Kyriacou, Efthyvoulos C.; Seimenis, Ioannis; Pantzaris, Marios C.; Christodoulou, Chris C.; Pattichis, Constantinos S. (2011)
      This study investigates the application of classification methods for the prognosis of future disability on MRI-detectable brain white matter lesions in subjects diagnosed with clinical isolated syndrome (CIS) of multiple ...
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      Breath and sweat analysis as a tool for medical diagnostics 

      Anton, A.; Agapiou, Agapios (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)
      A wide spectrum of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is continuously produced in the human body and released through breath and sweat, thereby revealing important medical information. The variety of the analytical ...
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      Cancer and pregnancy: A comprehensive review 

      Voulgaris, E.; Pentheroudakis, George; Pavlidis, Nicholas (2011)
      Background: Pregnancy complicated by cancer is relatively rare but, as women in western societies tend to delay childbearing to the third and fourth decade of life, this phenomenon is going to be encountered more often in ...
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      Cancer of unknown primary origin 

      Briassoulis, E. Ch; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1997)
      About 3 % of all cancer patients suffer from cancer of unknown primary origin. These patients present with metastatic disease for which a primary site cannot be detected at the time of diagnosis. Sophisticated diagnostic ...
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      Carbamazepine hypersensitivity and rickettsiosis mimicking Kawasaki disease 

      Parha, S.; Garoufi, A.; Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Theodoridis, Ch; Karpathios, Themistocles (1993)
      We report on two patients whose clinical presentation resembled that of Kawasaki disease. The first patient was a boy with epilepsy, whose symptoms first appeared following treatment with carbamazepine. The second boy had ...
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      Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fizazi, K. (2009)
      Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is one of the 10 most frequent cancers worldwide. It constitutes 3-5% of all human malignancies. Patients with CUP present with metastases without an established primary site. CUP manifests ...
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      Clear‐cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses: A clinicopathologic study. Presentation of six additional cases with review of the literature 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Fisher, Cyril; Wiltshaw, E. (1984)
      Clear‐cell sarcoma of tendons and aponeuroses is a rare and slowly growing soft tissue sarcoma, affecting mainly young adults. During the last 15 years, approximately 60 cases have been reported in the literature. In this ...
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      Clinical expression of autoimmune hepatitis in a Nine-Year-Old Girl with visceral leishmaniasis 

      Sotirakou, S.; Wozniak, Greta (2011)
      Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is a chronic disease of unknown aetiology, which usually progresses to cirrhosis if not diagnosed and treated promptly. In childhood, autoimmune hepatitis prevalently presents with non-specific ...
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      Clinical features of primary ciliary dyskinesia in Cyprus with emphasis on lobectomized patients 

      Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Kouis, Panayiotis; Middleton, Nicos; Nearchou, M.; Adamidi, Tonia; Georgiou, Adamantini; Eleftheriou, Adonis; Ioannou, Phivos; Hadjisavvas, Andreas; Kyriacou, Kyriacos (2015)
      Background: Despite the manifestations of primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) in early life, the diagnosis is often much delayed. Since 1998 in Cyprus, we have established the only national diagnostic and clinical referral ...
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      The clinical picture of primary Sjogren's syndrome: A retrospective study 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas; Karsh, J.; Moutsopoulos, H. M. (1982)
      The clinical and laboratory features of 47 patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome, confirmed by lip biopsy, were analyzed in this study. The majority of our patients had the classical signs and symptoms of Sjogren's ...
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      Clinicopathological study of metallothionein immunohistochemical expression, in benign, borderline and malignant ovarian epithelial tumors 

      Zagorianakou, N.; Stefanou, D. G.; Makrydimas, G.; Zagorianakou, P.; Briassoulis, E. Ch; Karavasilis, V.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Agnantis, Niki J. (2006)
      Metallothioneins (MTs) are a family of cystein-rich metal-binding proteins, which are expressed in normal cells during fetal and postnatal life but also in a variety of human neoplasms. MT expression in human tumors has ...
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      Coexistence of pregnancy and malignancy 

      Pavlidis, Nicholas (2002)
      Cancer complicating pregnancy is a rare coexistence. The incidence is approximately 1 in 1,000 pregnancies. The most common cancers are those more frequently seen during the reproductive age of a woman. Breast cancer, ...
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      Computational intelligent diagnostics systems in medicine 

      Schizas, Christos N. (IEEE, 1997)
      A literature search over the last few years has shown that there is a steady increase in publications on computer-based medical diagnostic applications, ranging from diagnostic aids for the physician or hospital staff, to ...
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      Convergence of belief propagation algorithms on binary pairwise Gibbs random fields 

      Le, T.; Hadjicostis, Christoforos N. (2011)
      In this paper, we study the convergence of belief propagation algorithms (BPAs) on binary pairwise Gibbs random fields (BP-GRFs). Exploiting the equivalence of BPA on the graph associated with BP-GRF and the corresponding ...