Quality of life among prostate cancer survivors:a longitudinal population based study. Purpose To investigate the course of quality of life (QoL) among prostate cancer patients treated with external beam radiotherapy and to compare the results with QoL of a normal age-matched reference population. Patients …

This review describes the exact standard reference values for measurements of the supraspinatus tendon and muscle obtained by muskuloskeletal ultrasound, magentic resonance imaging and cadaveric studies.

Aanleiding Er is een divers aanbod van testen voor het aantonen van rotator cuff laesies. De vraag is of er met deze testen daadwerkelijk laesies kunnen worden aangetoond dan wel uitgesloten Onderzoeksvraag/ Probleemstelling Wat is de diagnostische waarde van klinische schoudertesten in vergelijking …

Background: Endothelial dysfunction is a marker of early stages of atherosclerosis and in general of cardiovascular disease. Assessing the endothelium can be achieved non-invasively, using the flow-mediated dilatation technique. Method: For the experiment 21 patients with an inactive cardiovascular …

A comparison of validity on the Hawkins-Kennedy test, Neer sign, Jobe test and drop-arm test against diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound on diagnosing rotator cuff pathologies (tendinopathy, partial-thickness tears and full-thickness tears).

The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of quantitative muscle ultrasound (QMUS) to visualize oral muscles and to establish normative data for muscle thickness and echo intensity of submental and tongue muscles in healthy children and young adults. The data were compared with those of …

Dysphagia is reported in advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). The population of DMD is changing due to an increasing survival. We aimed to describe the dysphagia in consecutive stages and to assess the underlying mechanisms of dysphagia in DMD, in order to develop mechanism based recommendations …

Full text via link. This study compares the reliability and reproducibility of flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) and peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT) to assess endothelial function. Eighteen volunteers with coronary heart disease underwent simultaneous testing of FMD by means of brachial artery ultrasound …

Validation of a new method for ultrasonic structural health monitoring using advanced signal analysis. This paper presents the results of research on a new method for the monitoring of structural health using ultrasound. Conventional ultrasonic methods use the damping of the first arrival of the echo …

OBJECTIVE: Osteopenia is a common complication of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). In adults, low bone density and increased fracture risk are associated with low vitamin K status of bone. The vitamin K-dependent protein osteocalcin plays an important role in bone metabolism. Its activity depends …