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study, AI patients were diagnosed by an ACTH stimulation test and subsequent evaluation of peak plasma cortisol levels. We defined reference values for salivary cortisol and cortisone during these ACTH stimulation tests and determined cut-off values that
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a maximum of 64 months ( 6 ). Primary endpoint of this study was to determine the predictive power for recurrence-free survival (RFS) of the different cut-off values of s-Tg (≤24 months after completion of primary therapy) and u-hsTg (6 ± 3 months
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the current cut-off value for urine osmolality (>800 mOsmol/kg). Final clinical diagnosis DI No DI Total First criterion reached Maximum urine osmolality >800 mOsmol/kg 0 26 26 Plasma osmolality >300 mOsmol/kg or weight loss >5% 13 1 14 Total 13 27
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kisspeptin and MKRN3 levels in order to differentiate CPP girls from the other two groups. The sensitivity and specificity were calculated based on cut-off values obtained by the ROC curves. Results Clinical and laboratory characteristics No
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recommendations of thyroidectomy due to suspicion for MTC revealed gender-specific cut-off values for basal calcitonin of >30 pg/mL for females and >60 pg/mL for males, which were not inferior to pentagastrin stimulated calcitonin levels ( 50 , 51 , 52 ). Almost
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FA in FFPE tissues. Indeed, when we adopted 3.1% as a cut-off value for the incidence of high DDR type, this test could differentiate FC from FA among 69 FFPE FT samples with a sensitivity of 90.5% and a specificity of 77.8% ( 12 ). Tumor tissue
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assessment with respect to the neuron-specific enolase (NSE) in the diagnosis of NF-pNETs with the best cut-off value. Here, we present the clinical characteristics of NF-pNETs and the clinical value of serum CgA measurement in the evaluation of the
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, our ROC indicated that the cut-off values of Ki-67 index and mitotic count were 45 and 35, and the areas under the curve were 0.87 and 0.71, respectively ( Fig. 1B ). Considering clinical features, PD-pNECs were more common in patients with elevated Ki