Whereas, in a miasmal view of the world, the distribution of disease followed the contours of morality — your nose just knew it — infection by an external agent smacked of moral randomness.
All patients with HCC had at least one of the following CT findings that showed evidence of chronic parenchymal liver disease: irregular liver contours, hepatic volume loss and volume redistribution, coarse nodular liver parenchyma.
For breast cancer, our best fitting model for rapid treatment contained the usual sign of breast cancer (a lump), one of locally advanced disease (change in skin contour) and another of regional spread (axillary or supraclavicular lymphadenopathy).
Morphologic criteria are helpful when present; a large fatty hilum or dense calcification is suggestive of benign disease, whereas central necrosis and irregular contour are more indicative of malignant involvement.
Pseudocirrhosis refers to a cirrhosis-like appearance seen in patients with metastatic disease characterized by irregular and lobulated liver contour with areas of hepatic capsular retraction.
Unilateral focal disease has been treated using DCE imaging to contour the DIL with the intent of focal dose escalation.
Growing concerns regarding infectious disease transmission, problems in matching the size and contour of the defect, and insufficient donor tissue availability all limit the efficacy of fresh allografts [ 1, 3, 4].
Liver metastases with the most irregular shape and contour were predictive of reduced 5-year disease-free survival.
CI, confidence interval; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CVP, central venous pressure; Dx, diagnostic group; PiCCO, pulse contour cardiac output; R, reason for catheter insertion; SAPS II, simplified acute physiology score.
The contours overlaid on these panels indicate curves of equal disease prevalence K. Interestingly, except in the case where the environmental states of parents and offspring have no correlation (e = 0.5), each contour of equal prevalence achieves a minimum heritability value when μ x,0→1 = μ y,0→1 and a maximum when μ x,0→1 and μ y,0→1 are as different as possible.
