Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "Adult"

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    • Differences in sex distribution, anatomic location and MR imaging appearance of pediatric compared to adult chordomas 

      Sebro, Ronnie; DeLaney, Thomas; Hornicek, Francis; Schwab, Joseph; Choy, Edwin; Nielsen, G. Petur; Rosenthal, Daniel I. (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Chordomas are rare malignancies that primarily affect adults, but also rarely affect pediatric patients. We compared the imaging appearance, demographic and anatomic distributions of adult and pediatric chordomas ...

    • Malaria is an uncommon cause of adult sepsis in south-western Uganda 

      Auma, Mary A; Siedner, Mark Jacob; Nyehangane, Dan; Nalusaji, Aisha; Nakaye, Martha; Mwanga-Amumpaire, Juliet; Muhindo, Rose; Wilson, L Anthony; Boum, Yap; Moore, Christopher C (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Malaria is often considered a cause of adult sepsis in malaria endemic areas. However, diagnostic limitations can make distinction between malaria and other infections challenging. Therefore, the objective of ...

    • TERT promoter mutations are highly recurrent in SHH subgroup medulloblastoma 

      Remke, Marc; Ramaswamy, Vijay; Peacock, John; Shih, David J. H.; Koelsche, Christian; Northcott, Paul A.; Hill, Nadia; Cavalli, Florence M. G.; Kool, Marcel; Wang, Xin; Mack, Stephen C.; Barszczyk, Mark; Morrissy, A. Sorana; Wu, Xiaochong; Agnihotri, Sameer; Luu, Betty; Jones, David T. W.; Garzia, Livia; Dubuc, Adrian M.; Zhukova, Nataliya; Vanner, Robert; Kros, Johan M.; French, Pim J.; Van Meir, Erwin G.; Vibhakar, Rajeev; Zitterbart, Karel; Chan, Jennifer A.; Bognár, László; Klekner, Almos; Lach, Boleslaw; Jung, Shin; Saad, Ali G.; Liau, Linda M.; Albrecht, Steffen; Zollo, Massimo; Cooper, Michael K.; Thompson, Reid C.; Delattre, Oliver O.; Bourdeaut, Franck; Doz, François F.; Garami, Miklós; Hauser, Peter; Carlotti, Carlos G.; Van Meter, Timothy E.; Massimi, Luca; Fults, Daniel; Pomeroy, Scott L.; Kumabe, Toshiro; Ra, Young Shin; Leonard, Jeffrey R.; Elbabaa, Samer K.; Mora, Jaume; Rubin, Joshua B.; Cho, Yoon-Jae; McLendon, Roger E.; Bigner, Darell D.; Eberhart, Charles G.; Fouladi, Maryam; Wechsler-Reya, Robert J.; Faria, Claudia C.; Croul, Sidney E.; Huang, Annie; Bouffet, Eric; Hawkins, Cynthia E.; Dirks, Peter B.; Weiss, William A.; Schüller, Ulrich; Pollack, Ian F.; Rutkowski, Stefan; Meyronet, David; Jouvet, Anne; Fèvre-Montange, Michelle; Jabado, Nada; Perek-Polnik, Marta; Grajkowska, Wieslawa A.; Kim, Seung-Ki; Rutka, James T.; Malkin, David; Tabori, Uri; Pfister, Stefan M.; Korshunov, Andrey; von Deimling, Andreas; Taylor, Michael D. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013)
      Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter mutations were recently shown to drive telomerase activity in various cancer types, including medulloblastoma. However, the clinical and biological implications of TERT ...

    • Using an FSDS-R Item to Screen for Sexually Related Distress: A MsFLASH Analysis 

      Carpenter, Janet S; Reed, Susan D; Guthrie, Katherine A; Larson, Joseph C; Newton, Katherine M; Lau, R Jane; Learman, Lee A; Shifren, Jan L (BlackWell Publishing Ltd, 2014)
      Introduction: The Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised (FSDS-R) was created and validated to assess distress associated with impaired sexual function, but it is lengthy for use in clinical practice and research when assessing ...

    • Within-person reproducibility of urinary bisphenol A and phthalate metabolites over a 1 to 3 year period among women in the Nurses’ Health Studies: a prospective cohort study 

      Townsend, Mary K; Franke, Adrian A; Li, Xingnan; Hu, Frank B; Eliassen, A Heather (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Background: Associations of bisphenol A and phthalates with chronic disease health outcomes are increasingly being investigated in epidemiologic studies. The majority of previous studies of within-person variability in ...