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From: Clinical impact of postoperative loss in psoas major muscle and nutrition index after radical cystectomy for patients with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder

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Representative images for the body composition indexVolume Analyzer SYNAPSE VINCENT image analysis system was used to reconstruct three-dimensional (3-D) images as follow: a, red area indicates abdominal adipose tissue (visceral fat and subcutaneous fat), with the green area indicating the total volume of the psoas major muscle; b, quantification of the partial volume of the psoas major muscle at the level of L3-L4; c, cross-sectional area of the psoas major muscle at the level of L3 (green ovals indicated by yellow arrows); and d, cross-sectional 2-D images at the level of L3 were used to quantify the skeletal muscle index (SMI). The green shadows indicate the abdominal skeletal muscle areas

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