Profile of Kawasaki Disease in Adolescents: Is It Different? by Najib Advani, Lucyana Alim Santoso, Sudigdo Sastroasmoro

“…Majority of adolescent patients have incomplete presentation. Some clinical features such as conjunctivitis, mucosal changes, rash, and hand/foot changes are more often seen in children ≤ 10 years compared to in adolescents, while cervical lymphadenopathy and coronary dilatation are more frequently seen in adolescents. …”
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Gender differences in axial spondyloarthritis regarding clinical, radiological characteristics and response to treatment in an Egyptian Cohort Study by Dalia Mohamed Gamal, Rehab Ali Ibrahim, Amr Amal Amin, Salma Ashraf Khalil, Sarah Farid Samaan

“…Results Female patients had a higher rate of delayed diagnosis (p < 0.001) and were more likely to have peripheral arthritis and enthesitis among their first presentation. …”
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Sex differences in management and outcomes in pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas by Måns A. J. Dahl, Jan Calissendorff, Jan Calissendorff, Henrik Falhammar, Henrik Falhammar

“…Despite similar age at diagnosis and similar follow-up time, no sex differences were identified in metastasis risk, blood pressure outcomes after surgery, or survival.ConclusionFemales presented more often with paragangliomas which may explain why they were less likely to have laparoscopic surgery. …”
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NK cell-based immunotherapy strategies for myeloid leukemia by Lin Zhang, Yibo Zhao, Yan Dong, Xiuxing Jiang

“…Therefore, developing more strategies based on NK cell is of great clinical significance for the treatment of ML. …”
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Translating Medicine Across Cultures: The Divergent Strategies of An Shigao and Dharmarakṣa in Introducing Indian Medical Concepts to China by Lu Lu

“…By contrast, Dharmarakṣa’s <i>Xiuxing daodi jing</i> sought greater fidelity to the Indian source material, offering a more detailed and systematic presentation of Āyurvedic knowledge. …”
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Diagnosis and Management of AIDS-related Diarrhea by John F Johanson

“…An alternative approach is a more limited evaluation consisting of stool and blood cultures followed by symptomatic treatment with antidiarrheal agents if no specific organisms are identified. …”
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Epigenetics in Critical Illness: A New Frontier by Brian T. Graves, Cindy L. Munro

“…Within this emerging body of research it is quite clear that the novel therapies of the future will require clinicians to understand and navigate an even more complex and multivariate relationship between genetic, epigenetic, and biochemical mechanisms in conjunction with clinical presentation and course in order to significantly improve outcomes within the acute and critically ill population.…”
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Cancer Awareness and Knowledge among Black South Africans by S.M. Mogotlane

“…Conclusion: Based on the results of the study it was concluded that more campaigns need to be staged to promote the knowledge about cancer building on the existing awareness.…”
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A short report on chronic myeloid leukemia from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh by Pankaj Malhotra, Neelam Varma, Subhash Varma

“…The adult clinical hematology department sees more than 2000 new patients per year. A preliminary analysis of 299 chronic myeloid leukemia patients registered from January 2001 until December 2007 was done. …”
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A silent case of aortic dissection: a case report by Marco Passaretti, Carlo Maino

“…This peculiarity makes diagnosis even more difficult. We describe the case of a 52-year-old patient who presented to our emergency department with significant chest pain and crisis; his medical history was silent and there were no known cardiovascular risk factors. …”
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Marlowe's Reading of Machiavelli and Anne Dowriche's The French Historie< by Joseph Khoury

“…Marlowe saw that a radical event requires a radical presentation—his play should be understood as a simulacrum of the French massacre. …”
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Géographie électorale et disparités socio-territoriales : les enseignements des élections pour l’assemblée constituante en Tunisie by Alia Gana, Gilles Van Hamme, Maher Ben Rebah

“…These analyzes highlight the strong territorial dimension of the Tunisian vote, however irreducible to the socioeconomic characteristics of the territories. They call for a more detailed exploration of the social processes that influence voting behavior, particularly at local level.…”
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Towards a smart factory in the pharmaceutical industry by Majstorović Vidosav D.

“…The Industry 4.0 model is on the way to full maturity in production organisations, after more than a decade of application within them. It can be said that it was a key element for the digitisation of the economy and public services around the world, so today we can discuss the application of this concept in various areas, including the pharmaceutical industry. …”
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ANA-Negative Hydralazine-Induced Pericardial Effusion by Vicken Zeitjian, Azar Mehdizadeh

“…It is typically common to screen for DILE with the serum ANA test prior to proceeding to more costly and specific tests (i.e., anti-histone antibody). …”
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Locally Advanced, Unresectable Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Gallbladder by Timothy J. Weatherall, Moon Fenton, Gitonga Munene, Paxton V. Dickson, Jeremiah L. Deneve

“…SCC tends to be more locally aggressive, however, and possesses a worse prognosis than adenocarcinoma. …”
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Defining the Concept of Supply Chain Management and its Relevance to Romanian Academics and Practitioners by Irina Albăstroiu, Mihai Felea

“…The purpose of this paper is to describe an extended approach to supply chain management by exploring some of the more prevalent Supply Chain Management definitions, frameworks and terminology. …”
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Radiotherapy and Rosai-Dorfman disease by Antonio Cássio Assis Pellizzon

“…It usually affects young adults and children, with no predilection by sex. More than 80% of patients present with painless cervical lymphadenopathy, with or without fever. …”
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Mapping Out Information Literacy: A Textbook Review by Alyssa Russo

“…The findings suggest a need for textbooks to provide a more comprehensive approach, integrating deeper conceptual understanding and critical awareness of how information systems operate within technological, societal, and political frameworks. …”
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Rare Strain of Vibrio cholerae Septicemia in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma by Deepu Daniel, Sunil Kumar

“…Physicians need to be more diligent when treating these patients.…”
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Chondro-Osseous Respiratory Epithelial Adenomatoid Hamartoma (COREAH): Case Report and Literature Review by Andrew Daniel, Eugene Wong, Joyce Ho, Narinder Singh

“…We describe our experience in managing a patient with COREAH and review the world literature, to better define aspects of the history, presentation, and investigations that may allow differentiation from more sinister disease.…”
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