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Open or closed: Experience of head and neck radiotherapy masks – A mixed‐methods study

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 74-84, March 2025.
Patients with head and neck cancer received radiotherapy alternately with an open and a closed mask. The closed mask was perceived as more confining and restrictive, but it was also considered to make it easier to quickly achieve the correct position, while the open mask was perceived as less stable, although it reduced the feeling of claustrophobia ...
Erik Lundin, Sofia Axelsson, Emma Ohlsson‐Nevo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstrucción mayor de un nevo congénito gigante en la región facial: técnica quirúrgica

Anales Médicos
El nevo congénito gigante puede presentar como complicación mayor la aparición de un melanoma que resulte fatal para el pronóstico del paciente. Esta patología tiene un componente tanto estético como emocional, debido a las características físicas del ...
David R. De Rungs-Brown, Manuel González-Guevara, Ruben Kershenovich-Tavel, Armando Mansilla-Alba   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton, Michelle Benson, Chao Guo, Daniel G. Neely, Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Shujie Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Síndrome do nevo de Becker: relato de caso Becker's nevus syndrome: case report

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2010
O nevo de Becker se manifesta como uma mácula hipercrômica, localizada predominantemente no tronco anterior ou região escapular, e frequentemente associada à hipertricose. A coexistência do nevo de Becker e anormalidades cutâneas, músculo-esqueléticas ou
Isabela Guimarães Ribeiro Baeta, Carla Vilela Viotti, Ana Carolina Figueiredo Pereira, Sérgio Rodrigues da Costa Júnior, Flávia Vasques Bittencourt   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey of Best Monotone Degree Conditions for Graph Properties [PDF]

, 2014
We survey sufficient degree conditions, for a variety of graph properties, that are best possible in the same sense that Chvatal's well-known degree condition for hamiltonicity is best possible.Comment: 25 ...
Bauer, D., Broersma, H. J., Heuvel, J. van den, Kahl, N., Nevo, A., Schmeichel, E., Woodall, D. R., Yatauro, M.   +7 more
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Ecological significance of fruit displays in Myrtaceae: relationship between fruit colour, maturation stage, attractiveness and seed germination

Oikos, EarlyView.
Fruit colour has long fascinated scientists and is widely considered an evolutionary adaptation to attract both avian and mammalian frugivores. While fleshy fruits play a key role in plant–animal interactions by promoting seed dispersal, the functional significance of colour variation, particularly multicoloured displays during ripening, remains poorly
Hercília Freitas da Cunha, Eduardo Luiz Voigt, Eliana Cazetta, Vanessa Graziele Staggemeier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fibroadnexal hamartoma in the dog: retrospective epidemiological and histopathological study of 102 cases

Ciência Rural
: Fibroadnexal hamartoma (FH), also called focal adnexal dysplasia, is the most common hamartomatous lesion in dogs. There are few retrospective studies about FH in dogs, which did not describe histopathological findings in detail.
Fabrícia Hallack Loures, Lissandro Gonçalves Conceição, Lívia Maria Rosa Acha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association of giant congenital melanocytic nevus, halo nevus and vitiligo in a 75-year-old patient Associação de nevo melanocítico congênito gigante, nevo halo e vitiligo. Relato de caso em paciente de 75 anos

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2012
A giant congenital melanocytic nevus represents a rare condition. The halo phenomenon may be seen in congenital or acquired melanocytic nevi. In the literature, association of halo nevus and giant congenital melanocytic nevus is rare and the association ...
Marina Leite da Silveira, Flávia Regina Ferreira, Marcia Lanzoni Alvarenga, Samuel Henrique Mandelbaum   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cotton facilitates long‐distance seed dispersal by functioning as nest material for birds

Oikos, EarlyView.
Cotton (Cossypium) fibres, which grow naturally in bolls around the seeds of cotton plants, have been used for centuries to produce fabric. The presumed natural function of cotton is that these lightweight and fluffy fibres may support wind dispersal of the seeds inside.
Roos van der Meer, Lotte L. Koot, Elke Molenaar, Andries K. Janse van Vuuren, Ara Monadjem, Kat Bebbington, Sjouke A. Kingma   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

UTILIDADE DO HMB-45 E DO KI-67 EM MELANOMA MALIGNO ASSOCIADO A NEVO

Revista da Sociedade Portuguesa de Dermatologia e Venereologia, 2011
Introdução: O melanoma maligno surge de novo na maioria das vezes, no entanto em cerca de um terço dos casos ocorre associado a um nevo pré-existente. Nestas situações pode haver dificuldade no diagnóstico histopatológico, particularmente na separação ...
Joana Gomes, Joana Parente, Isabel Viana, Esmeralda Vale   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source