CASE REPORT: RETROPERITONEAL ASPERGILLOMA IN A PATIENT WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PRESENTING AS MALIGNANT TUMOR

Case report: retroperitoneal aspergilloma in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis presenting as malignant tumor

Abstract Background Aspergillosis in patients with impaired immunity usually presents with invasive pulmonary infection and dissemination to a variety of organs via hematogenous spread.Aspergilloma in the retroperitoneal cavity is a rare disease with only a few cases reported in the literature.To the best of our knowledge, the present case of a ret

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Combining distributed regression and propensity scores: a doubly privacy-protecting analytic method for multicenter research

Sengwee Toh,1 Robert Wellman,2 R Yates Coley,2 Casie Horgan,1 Jessica Sturtevant,1 Erick Moyneur,3 Cheri Janning,4 Roy Pardee,2 Karen J Coleman,5 David Arterburn,2 Kathleen McTigue,6 Jane Anau,2 Andrea J Cook2 On behalf of the PCORnet Bariatric Study Collaborative 1Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health

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Phase field modeling of dendritic coarsening during isothermal

Dendritic coarsening in Al-2mol%Si alloy during isothermal solidification at 880K was investigated by phase field modeling.Three coarsening mechanisms operate in the alloy: Bags (a) melting of small dendrite arms; (b) coalescence of dendrites near the tips leading to the entrapment of liquid droplets; (c) smoothing of dendrites.Dendrite melting is

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