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Eight months of misdiagnosis: Intra-articular osteoid osteoma in a 48-year-old woman

Intra-articular osteoid osteoma of the femoral neck is a diagnostically challenging entity, particularly when it occurs beyond the fourth decade of life, a demographic in which this tumor is rarely considered. We report the case of a 48-year-old woman presenting with an 8-month h...

Effective Protection Against Alcohol-Related Cardiac Damage: Dapagliflozin

Chronic alcohol consumption causes serious damage to the liver and cardiovascular system and leads to neoplastic lesions in various organs such as the esophagus, liver, and breast. In our study, we evaluated the protective effects of standard and high doses of dapagliflozin again...

Perceived Social Support as a Statistical Indirect Pathway Linking Adverse Childhood Experiences to Risky Behaviors Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background/Objectives: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a major public health concern associated with long-term health consequences and a range of risky behaviors. This study examined whether perceived social support statistically accounted for part of the association bet...

Methodological Reporting Quality of Artificial Intelligence-Based Orthopedic Studies: A Literature Analysis

Objective: We set out to examine how completely artificial intelligence (AI)-based orthopedic studies report their methods. Methods: A PubMed search covering 2023-2025 was run with a predefined strategy. Screening of titles, abstracts and full texts left 280 eligible papers, and...

Outcomes of Percutaneous Interventions for Aortic Coarctation: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center

BACKGROUND: Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) is a congenital obstructive anomaly that may remain undiagnosed until adulthood, often presenting with systemic hypertension. While percutaneous interventions, including balloon angioplasty and stent implantation, are increasingly utiliz...

The Effect of Preoperative Preservative Burden on the Success of Ab-Interno Trabeculotomy

Purpose To evaluate the effect of preoperative cumulative preservative burden on 1 year surgical outcomes of Kahook Dual Blade (KDB) and Gonioscopy-Assisted Transluminal Trabeculotomy (GATT).Methods This retrospective study included 46 eyes (23 KDB, 23 GATT). A Preservative Burde...

Is Schneiderian phenomenology an interface between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia? Neurocognitive and neuroimaging evidence from a cross-sectional comparative study

Bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) show clinical and neurobiological overlap, but the position of psychotic BD within this spectrum remains uncertain. We tested whether BD with Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (P-BD) more closely resembled SZ than BD without lifetime ps...

Ultrasound- versus CT-guided Biopsy of Pleural-contact Pulmonary Lesions: A Comparative Analysis of Diagnostic Performance and Procedural Complications

OBJECTIVE: To compare the diagnostic performance and complication profiles of ultrasound (US)-guided and computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy in pleural-contact pulmonary lesions and to evaluate technical factors associated with pneumothorax development after CT-guided biopsy....

Serum Asprosin Levels in Patients with Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Case–Control Study

Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease involving complex interactions between inflammatory and metabolic pathways. Asprosin is a glucogenic adipokine involved in glucose homeostasis, which has been investigated in relation to obesity, ins...

The effects of educatıon on chıldhood vaccınes gıven to pregnant women on vaccıne hesıtancy and vaccıne lıteracy: a randomızed controlled experımental study

The study aims to evaluate the effects of face-to-face education initiative supported by the “Educational Guide on Childhood Vaccination Hesitancy” given to pregnant women by the researcher on vaccine hesitancy and vaccine literacy. The present study was conducted as a pre-test/p...

Reinforcement Learning in Eating Disorders: Clinical, Cognitive, and Metabolic Correlates

OBJECTIVE: Reinforcement learning has been implicated in eating disorders, but findings remain inconsistent. This study compared reinforcement learning performance in anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and healthy controls (HC) using the Probabilistic Reward Task (PRT),...

Efficacy of Beta-Aminopropionitrile, Contractubex®, Nigella sativa Oil, Aloe Vera Oil, and Soybean Oil in Preventing Postoperative Adhesions in an Experimental Thyroidectomy Model

<title>Abstract</title> Background/Aim: Adhesions in reoperative thyroid surgery lead to prolonged operation times and an increase in postoperative complications. The use of anti-adhesive agents during the initial surgery may reduce the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve inju...

Diagnosis, management, and prevention of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever: a Delphi-based consensus study in Türkiye

Background Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a widely distributed viral haemorrhagic fever with expanding geographic range. As new regions encounter the disease, clinicians must make high-stakes decisions despite limited standardised management frameworks. Methods In thi...

THE OBESITY PARADOX IN DIABETIC CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE: IS BODY MASS INDEX ALONE SUFFICIENT?

Dear Editor,I have read with great interest the recently published article entitled "The Obesity Paradox in the Coexistence of Diabetes and Coronary Artery Disease" by Aydoğan et al. (1). The authors demonstrated that obese individuals with diabetes mellitus had significantly low...

Data-Driven Methodologies For Pressure Probe Calibration: Integrating Symbolic Regression With Gaussian Process Regression

Abstract This study presents a unified data-driven calibration framework for five-hole pressure probes that combines symbolic regression with Gaussian process regression to improve accuracy, generalization, and interpretability across low-subsonic operating conditions (0.05 ≥ Ma...

Hedonic Hunger and Problematic Internet Use Show Distinct Associations with General and Central Adiposity in Medical Students

Background: Hedonic hunger and problematic internet use (PIU) have been linked to excess adiposity, but their differential associations with adiposity measures in medical students remain unclear. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 256 medical students (63.3% female; mea...

Interpositional Arthroplasty with Iliotibial Band Autograft Fixation to the Proximal Phalanx: Clinical Outcomes in Advanced Hallux Rigidus

Background and Objectives: Hallux rigidus is a degenerative condition of the first metatarsophalangeal joint that causes pain and limitation of motion. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of a modified interpositional arthroplasty technique using an ilioti...

Breast Cancer in Women Aged ≤35 Years: A Single-Center Retrospective Comparative Analysis by Age Subgroup

Background/Objectives: The prognostic significance of young age in breast cancer (BC) remains controversial, with varying findings across studies. This study aimed to evaluate the imaging characteristics, pathological features, and survival outcomes of BC in young patients aged ≤...

Prognostic Utility of the Mini Nutritional Assessment for Three-Month mortality in adult palliative care patients: A prospective cohort study

Malnutrition is highly prevalent among individuals receiving palliative care and represents a major, yet often under-recognized, determinant of adverse clinical outcomes, including mortality. In adult patients receiving palliative care, the interplay between malnutrition, frailty...

Primary Acantholytic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Breast With Basal-Like Immunophenotype and Low Proliferation: A Case Report and Literature Review

Background Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast is an extremely rare subtype of metaplastic breast carcinoma, often showing aggressive clinical behavior and posing diagnostic challenges, particularly when acantholysis is present and mimics vascular neoplasms. Patient pre...