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Abdominal radiographs and ultrasound (US) are of limited value, with poor sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing mesenteric ischaemia, but may be performed in patients with nonspecific abdominal pain [2, 6].

They did agree to recognize each other -- but even this now appears to have been of limited value with Israelis upping the ante with the demand that they be recognized as a "Jewish State" and most members of the current government in Israel continuing to refuse to acknowledge the right of Palestinians to a state of their own.

However, the quality of definition of the capital growth plate was generally poor and most films were of limited value, with useful information being gathered largely by chance.

Despite the progress made with gemcitabine, systemic therapy is of limited value, with only a small percentage of patients experiencing a short-term benefit usually lasting 4 months or less and the 1-year survival in this group is around 18 20% (Burris et al. 1997).

Over the last decades, surgery has remained the only curative therapy, and the overall survival rate of unselected patients ten years after the primary surgery is about 70%, while treatments of recurrent or persistent disease with conventional radiotherapy or chemotherapy are generally of limited value and with no benefit in terms of survival [ 33- 38] 38].

We are aware that the scientific interest of a retrospective analysis is of limited value compared with a prospective study.

However, despite the promising data, we note that the primary endpoint of this study was a combined adverse outcome endpoint, which is of limited value compared with a mortality outcome alone.

This was recently reported in a paper indicating that contrast-enhanced CTA can exclude significant CAD in patients with a low-intermediate CACS but is of limited value in patients with a high CACS [ 96].

Our findings show that BRAF mutation, in contrast to that of RAS, is a rare event even in massive and/or serous EMD and that targeting BRAF V600E mutation with vemurafenib in MM could unfortunately be of limited value in patients with massive and/or serous EMD, such as pleural effusion or plasma cell leukaemia.

Additionally, cross-sectional studies have a limited value in comparison with longitudinal analyses of Treg.

Such assessments are of limited value, although patients with a very poor treatment response or progressive disease may be identified early.