IN VIVO EFFICACY OF TOBRAMYCIN-LOADED SYNTHETIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE BEADS IN A RABBIT MODEL OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL OSTEOMYELITIS

In vivo efficacy of tobramycin-loaded synthetic calcium phosphate beads in a rabbit model of staphylococcal osteomyelitis

Abstract Background Osteomyelitis is an acute or chronic inflammatory process of the bone following infection with pyogenic organisms like Staphylococcus aureus.Tobramycin (TOB) is a promising aminoglycoside antibiotic used to treat various bacterial infections, including S.aureus.The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of tobramycin-

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Texture analysis of iodine maps and conventional images for k-nearest neighbor classification of benign and metastatic lung nodules

Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to analyze if the use of texture analysis on spectral detector CT (SDCT)-derived iodine maps (IM) in addition to conventional images (CI) improves lung nodule differentiation, when being applied to a k-nearest neighbor (KNN) classifier.Methods 183 cancer patients who underwent contrast-enhanced, ven

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Nutrition of patients during radio and chemotherapy

The most common method of cancer treatment still Nail includes surgical treatment, which is also the oldest way to fight cancer.Radiotherapy is currently one of the basic method of treating malignant tumors [1].This method uses the action of ionizing radiation.However, the radiation does not work selectively and also damages healthy tissues.Chemoth

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