July 25, 1853 San Francisco, California May 14 , 1931New York City, New York David Belasco, (born July 25 , 1853 San Francisco, Calif., U.S. died May 14 , 1931 New York, N.Y ., American theatrical producer and playwright whose important innovations in the techniques and standards of staging and design were in contrast to the quality of the plays he produced.
Last, clinical applicability of RVI was examined in the context of standard-of-care staging paradigms.
Although liver biopsy is currently recommended as the gold standard method of staging fibrosis in patients with chronic HBV, it has several disadvantages such as poor patient compliance, sampling error, limited usefulness for dynamic surveillance and follow-up.
It was also advertised as breaking away from the conventional standards of stage theatre, such as music, which were omnipresent in the contemporary film industry.
Using all the methods performed as the standard of reference, staging by F-FDG-PET was concordant with conventional staging procedures in 70 out of 88 patients (80%).
Mediastinoscopy was long considered the gold standard of N staging of lung cancer before surgery; however, this was also a traumatic procedure, which was restricted by accessibility to the region and depended on the presence of N2/N3 disease.
Because percutaneous renal biopsies are regularly performed, new molecular imaging probes can be compared to the biopsies in order to test the correlation of the molecular imaging method with the "gold standard" of disease staging.
The standard for staging of the disease is contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT).
For the past 50 years liver biopsy has been considered to be the gold standard for staging of liver fibrosis.
