Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Mar 2015
Review Case Reports[Aortic Valve Endocarditis: diagnosis and therapy].
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Mar 2015
[Predictive value of congress abstracts for later publication: Analysis of the the congresses 2006-2010 of the German Cardiac Society].
The present study investigates whether scientific abstracts, which were accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the German Cardiac Society (DGK) will be published more frequently and with higher ranking than rejected abstracts. Additionally, we analyzed whether the current peer review process of the congress abstracts is able to identify research of high quality. ⋯ The present study shows that abstracts, which were accepted for presentation achieved a publication more frequently and in higher-ranked journals than rejected abstracts.
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Mar 2015
[Lung cancer screening and management of small pulmonary nodules].
Worldwide lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer. Most lung cancers are diagnosed at an advanced stage, so survival after lung cancer is generally poor. Diagnosis of lung cancer at earlier stages may be associated with an increased survival rate. ⋯ By means of rapid advances in imaging technologies over the last decades it became possible to detect small lung nodules as small as a couple of millimeters. This recent developments require management algorithms to guide the clinical management of suspicious and indeterminate lung nodules found in computer tomography during lung cancer screening or by incidental finding. This review will focus on both, the recent advances in lung cancer screening and the guidelines for the management of small pulmonary nodules.