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    thought of the lesions on Shay’s brain, the tiny cancers or wounds or whatever they were, that she didn’t even know she had. They were in there somewhere, changing her friend’s thoughts, warping her feelings, gnawing at the roots of who she was” (379 Scott Westerfeld). Tally is thinking to herself about what the government did to her best friend and why Shay would now be okay with the operation when she was so against it in the beginning. This proves that the government is putting lesions in all of the

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    Running head: Muliple sclerosis​1 Multiple Sclerosis Heather Root DCCC Nursing 211 Multiple Sclerosis ​The purpose of this referenced library paper on multiple sclerosis (MS) is to access and make use of current scientific information to develop and support a plan of nursing care. With this material, multiple sclerosis will be discussed using its pathophysiology and etiology, risk factors, and signs and symptoms. The signs and symptoms that result from the pathophysiology will also be discussed

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    Most thyroid tumors can be readily diagnosed using histopathologic criteria, which allow the pathologist to differentiate benign from malignant lesions and guarantee an accurate classification for the majority of the variants of carcinomas derived from follicular epithelial cells. However, in most cases, the pathologist is confronted with thyroid lesions in which the distinction between benign and malignant can be quite subtle. The decision favoring one or another has clinical consequences and implies

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    the latter, prosopagnosia, patients cannot recognise faces of familiar individuals, and have to rely on other characteristics such as their voice or clothing to recognize them. Patients suffering from prosopagnosia can either acquire it through a lesion in relevant brain areas (acquired prosopagnosia) or for less understood reasons have it from birth, in which case it is termed developmental prosopagnosia. The study of patients with agnosia is integral to the field of visual recognition, as the specifics

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    stress. Interestingly, the excitotoxic or electrical lesion of amygdala prevents the stress-induced analgesia (Helmstetter, 1992), gastric ulceration (see in kim and diamond paper), anxiogenesis (Adamec et al., 1999) and spatial learning deficits (kim and diamond 2001). Additionally excitotoxic lesion of BLA prevented the stress-induced declined LTP in Schaffer collateral–commissural CA1 region of hippocampus (Kim and diamond 2001).The BLA lesion also blocked the deleterious effects of adrenalectomy

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    The report notes that a separate procedure was done to take cytologic brush washings which is coded as a separate procedure with 31622 and adding a -59 modifier. The diagnosis is hemoptysis due to lesion on the lung. This is coded as 239.1 • Question 3 Needs Grading This service was provided during the postoperative period for a previous related procedure conducted by the same surgeon. LOCATION:Inpatient, Hospital PATIENT:Duane Monsonbratten

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    Etiology Psoriasis is a common (2% to 3% of the population), benign and life-long chronic inflammatory skin condition involving the skin, scalp, nails and sometimes joints (Mahajan & Handa, 2013). It is genetically transmitted with a 30% increased risk of first-degree relatives developing psoriasis and a 72% concordance between monozygotic twins (Habif, 2010; Mahajan & Handa, 2013). A genetic and hereditary (autosomal dominant with 60% penetration) basis for psoriasis is supported by the presence

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    Chlamydophila pneumoniae was first proposed to be associated with atherosclerosis in 1988 by Saikku et al [1]. Similar cardiovascular disease studies have also proposed Saikku’s theory after detecting the presence of C. pneumoniae in atherosclerotic lesions of coronary and carotid arteries, which were not identifiable in healthy arteries [1]. Chlamydophila pneumoniae, previously recognized as Chlamydia pneumoniae, is a rod-shaped, gram negative bacteria that is known to cause infections associated with

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    mouth disease include: • fever, • loss of appetite, • sore throat, • small flat or raised red spots in the mouth, throat and skin. • generally feeling unwell. After 12-36 hours, any red spots will develop into yellowy-red ulcers (lesions) in your mouth, around the roof of your mouth, tongue and inside of your cheeks. These ulcers may be sore and uncomfortable, making it difficult to eat, drink and swallow. After one to two days, sores may develop on the palms of your hands, the soles

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    helps to accurately detecting different types of liver cancer. However, the system performance is still not significantly improved. In this paper, firstly, we categorize the CAD system according to the four primary stages including data preprocessing, lesion segmentation, feature extraction, selection, and Classifier. In each stage, we review specific methods that are commonly used in most of the algorithms proposed for computerized tissue characterization and discuss their advantages and drawbacks. Then

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