We have applied the fibular head sign in 50 consecutive documented cases of ACL tear before surgery, and we obtained a true positive rate of only 24%%.
Of the total of 49 consecutive patients documented for the period of the study, 33 (m = 30; f = 3) could be included in the investigation following the inclusion and exclusion criteria.
In September 1989, the authors reported their first experience using a fibrin sealant in 40 consecutive facelifts, documenting a reduction in the rate of hematoma to 1%, compared with a rate of 25% for facelifts performed without fibrin sealants in earlier years.
The Quicksnap (available now in golf pro shops for $19.99 and expected to be sold at major sporting goods stores by summer) has a sequential shutter that allows it to capture eight consecutive exposures -- documenting backswing to contact to follow-through -- on each print.
Study design: Hypoallergenicity was determined by performing blinded oral food challenges in 31 consecutive children with documented CMA.
Two hundred consecutive adults with documented HIV infection and 20 HIV-seronegative volunteers, included to permit blinded test reading, were prospectively recruited in our outpatient clinic in Saint Louis Hospital, Paris, France, from December 2008 to February 2009, with their written informed consent.
So far, normal dopamine transporter density has been reported only sporadically in CBS [19], [45], while none of the few systematic imaging studies in consecutive cohorts ever documented any normal scan [40]–.
Then the evaluation was repeated in an independent set of consecutive switch consultations documented in the three months following the first evaluation period.
Fifty consecutive and phenotypically documented EMB-resistant and 25 pansusceptible M. tuberculosis strains isolated from 75 different TB patients over a four-year period in Kuwait were analyzed.
The Edinburgh Breast Conservation Series represents a fully documented, consecutive cohort of 1,812 patients treated by breast-conservation surgery, axillary node sampling or clearance, and whole-breast radiotherapy at the Edinburgh Cancer Centre between 1981 and 1998.
