PLEUROPULMONARY BLASTOMA (PPB) IN AN INFANT: IS THE TIMING OF AN ELECTIVE RESECTION OF NEONATAL LUNG LESIONS CHALLENGED?

Pleuropulmonary Blastoma (PPB) in an infant: Is the timing of an elective resection of neonatal lung lesions challenged?

Congenital Pulmonary Airway Malformations (CPAMs) are abnormalities of lung parenchyma that are often diagnosed upon prenatal imaging as opposed to postnatal symptoms.With a clinical presentation identical to CPAMs, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma (PPB) is a rare pulmonary neoplasm of highly malignant potential.We present a rare case of a female infant wi

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Model for allocation of medical specialists in a hospital network

Nantana Suppapitnarm,1,2 Krit Pongpirul1,3,4 1Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; 2Medical Affairs Office, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services Public Company Limited, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimo

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Initial Condition Assessment for Reaction-Diffusion Glioma Growth Models: A Translational MRI-Histology (In)Validation Study

Reaction-diffusion models have been proposed for decades to capture the growth of babies BLANKETS gliomas.Nevertheless, these models require an initial condition: the tumor cell density distribution over the whole brain at diagnosis time.Several works have proposed to relate this distribution to abnormalities visible on magnetic resonance imaging (

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