Dhulikhel Hospital

Primary healthcare system readiness for the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases in Nepal

In 2016, Nepal adopted the World Health Organization’s Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease Interventions (PEN) to address the rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This study evaluated the primary healthcare system’s readiness to prevent and manage major NC...

SAGE: An Expert-Annotated South Asian GI Endoscopy Dataset for Multimodal Learning and Hallucination Analysis

Gastrointestinal cancers represent a growing health burden in the South Asian region, driven largely by rapid changes in socio-economic conditions and lifestyle habits. However, early diagnosis remains limited by inadequate equipment, financial resources, and scarce GI expertise....

Clinical, Dermoscopic, and Histopathological Correlation of Pigmented Skin Lesions at a Tertiary Care Dermatology Center

Background and objectivePigmented skin lesions encompass a wide spectrum of benign and malignant conditions that may present with overlapping clinical features.Dermoscopy enhances visualization of subsurface structures and can improve early detection of cutaneous malignancies whe...