Recent advances in medical X-ray imaging have enabled the development of new
techniques capable of assessing not only bone quantity but also structure. This article …

Intervertebral instability of the lumbar spine is thought to be a possible pathomechanical
mechanism underlying low back pain and sciatica and is often an important factor in …

Body composition (BC) assessment is indispensable to evaluate nutritional status and thus
health, both at the population and individual level, and to assess the efficacy of primary and …

✓ Eleven experimental saccular aneurysms were created on the common carotid artery of
swine. Between 3 and 15 days after creation of these aneurysms, they were thrombosed via …

✓ In a multicenter study, 120 patients with intracranial aneurysms presenting a high surgical
risk were treated using electrolytically detachable coils and electrothrombosis via an …

PURPOSE To devise a method to measure aneurysm neck size on angiographic films, and
to correlate the sizes obtained with the extent of endovascular aneurysm occlusion …

Object. The long-term durability of Guglielmi detachable coil (GDC) embolization of cerebral
aneurysms is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anatomical …

Phycobilisomes, supramolecular complexes of water-soluble accessory pigments, serve as
the major light-harvesting antennae in cyanobacteria and red algae. Regular arrays of these …

Glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteoporosis mostly affects trabecular bone of vertebrae. Only
30% of vertebral fractures are symptomatic, yet both clinical and radiological vertebral …

✓ A prospective study was designed to evaluate clinical outcome in a series of 100
consecutively treated patients who underwent endovascular embolization of 104 intracranial …