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The study involved 340 patients and found greater success rates in biopsies performed in patients with suspicion of primary lung malignancy&#44; with lesions located in the superior lobes&#44; and with diameters equal to or larger than 40 mm&#46;</p><p id="para40" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Rocha et al&#46;</span> compared visual inspection by nuclear physicians with the automated statistical parametric mapping program using SPECT datasets from 14 patients with neurological disorders vs&#46; 32 normal control images and found that statistical parametric mapping replicated the findings described by more experienced nuclear physicians&#44; which suggests that automated methods for individually analyzing SPECT images may be a valuable resource to complement visual inspection in clinical practice&#46;</p><p id="para50" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Pereira AC et al&#46;</span> analyzed impact of intravenous immunoglobulin on the physical properties the sputum and inflammatory alterations of the airways in seven patients with common variable immunodeficiency and bronchiectasis and found that it results in significant improvement in indexes of inflammation of the airways with improvement in the transportability of the respiratory mucus by cough&#46;</p><p id="para60" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Silva et al&#46;</span> analyzed the use of mechanical ventilation through a cohort study of 241 consecutive patients admitted to a Brazilian high-complexity pediatric intensive care unit placed on mechanical ventilation for 24 hours or more&#46; 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The osteosarcoma histological type is a significant independent predictor for local recurrence-free survival&#44; metastasis-free survival and overall survival&#44; but did not influence metastasis-free survival&#46; The osteosarcoma histological type is a significant independent predictor for local recurrence-free survival&#44; metastasis-free survival and overall survival&#46;</p><p id="para90" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Santos MF et al&#46;</span> investigated the effectiveness of Samarium153-particulate hydroxyapatite radiation synovectomy in 58 rheumatoid arthritis patients with chronic knee synovitis and found that it is not superior to triamcinolone hexacetonide alone for the treatment of knee synovitis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis at 1 y of follow-up&#46;</p><p id="para100" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Satomi et al&#46;</span> evaluated the profile of osteoporosis treatment among 123 patients aged 60 years and over hospitalized due to hip fractures at a tertiary-level university hospital in order to compare the impact of hospitalization on approaches toward treating bone mass losses&#46; They found that investigations and treatments of osteoporosis and strategies for preventing new fractures were not implemented during the hospitalization of these elderly patients with hip fractures&#44; even though this is the most feared complication of osteoporosis&#46; They sugges that these data must be disseminated so that professionals dealing with these patients are attentive to the need for primary and secondary prevention of osteoporosis&#46;</p><p id="para110" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Ykeda et al&#46;</span> investigated hypoxia and sleep disordered breathing in 14 infants with congenital heart disease and found that sleep-disordered breathing associated with oxygen desaturations is frequently present even though arousal is normally absent indicating that sleep may represent a significant burden to infants with congenital heart disease&#46;</p><p id="para120" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleBold">Kumar et al</span>&#46; 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