Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) is a medical condition characterized by abnormal
proliferation of skin and periosteal tissues involving the extremities and characterized by three …

Adhesive capsulitis, commonly referred to as “frozen shoulder,” is a debilitating condition
characterized by progressive pain and limited range of motion about the glenohumeral joint. It …

Fork/join (F/J) requests arise in contexts such as parallel computing, query processing in
parallel databases, and parallel disk access in RAID. F/J requests spawn K tasks that are sent …

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare disease of women of child-bearing age in which
there is hyperplasia of atypical smooth muscle along lymphatics in the lung, thorax, and …

Purpose The two approved treatments for patients with metastatic melanoma, interleukin (IL)-2
and dacarbazine, mediate objective response rates of 12% to 15%. We previously …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Percutaneous cryoablation has emerged as a minimally
invasive technique for the management of osseous metastases. The purpose of this study was …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to determine the image quality and diagnostic
accuracy of three-dimensional (3D) unenhanced steady state free precession (SSFP) magnetic …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Combination radiofrequency ablation and vertebral
augmentation is an emerging minimally invasive therapy for patients with metastatic spine disease …

The incidence of hematologic malignancies and their extranodal manifestations is continuously
increasing. Previously unsuspected hepatic involvement in hematologic malignancies …

1. Introduction and Summary. For any two finite sets U, V, a Markov matrix s with row set U
and column set V will be called a U, V channel. Thus a U, V channel is any nonnegative …