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Modelling the impact of treatment uncertainties in radiotherapy [PDF]

, 2002
Uncertainties are inevitably part of the radiotherapy process. Uncertainty in the dose deposited in the tumour exists due to organ motion, patient positioning errors, fluctuations in machine output, delineation of regions of interest, the modality of ...
Booth, Jeremy T.
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A prospective evaluation on external jugular vein cut-down approach for TIVAD implantation [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Totally implantable venous access devices can be implanted both by percutaneous approaches and by surgical approaches with cephalic vein or external jugular vein cut-down techniques that are related to low intraoperative complication rates ...
AVALLONE, MARCELLO, CAVALLARO, Giuseppe, DE ANGELIS, FRANCESCO, IORIO, OLGA, IOSSA, ANGELO, Matteo, Massaro, MATTIA, Consalvo, SILECCHIA, Gianfranco   +7 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncertainty Analysis of Feature Extraction from Expired Gas Traces [PDF]

, 2000
Noninvasive medical analyses are a convenient method to study several pathologies even though their indirect nature often requires a complex processing to determine the relevant health "indicators".
Gulotta, C., Parvis, Marco, Torchio, R.
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This Is Not a Myeloproliferative Neoplasm…

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Stephanie Juané Kennedy
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eye‐Tracking Analysis in Surface‐Guided Radiation Therapy Positioning: A Comparative Study of Experienced and Novice Radiation Therapists

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences
The patient setup using the surface‐guided radiation therapy (SGRT) system differs from conventional surface marker procedures. Owing to the abundance of three‐dimensional information, there may be operator variability in where to focus during the ...
Hidetoshi Shimizu, Tomoki Kitagawa, Koji Sasaki, Takahiro Aoyama, Naoki Hayashi, Keisuke Yasui, Takeshi Kodaira   +6 more
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Does intraprocedure patient positioning affect outcome of chemical pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusion?

Ibom Medical Journal
Background: Chemical pleurodesis using tetracycline is an acceptable and commonly employed palliation for malignant pleural effusion. Rotation of patient during pleurodesis using the powder from tetracycline capsule is still practised in some centres ...
Akpan AF, Etiuma AU, Ekpe EE
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Effect of various patient positions on endotracheal tube cuff pressure after adult cardiac surgery

Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2017
Background: To avoid microaspiration or tracheal injury, the target endotracheal tube cuff pressure must be maintained 20–30 cmH2O. Changing in patients' positions may effect on endotracheal tube cuff pressure.
Mohsen Ziyaeifard, Rasoul Ferasatkish, Azin Alizadehasl, Zahra Faritous, Seyed Mostafa Alavi, Hamidreza Pouraliakbar, Maryam Zare, Ehsan Dehdashtian   +7 more
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Validation of ankle strength measurements by means of a hand-held dynamometer in adult healthy subjects [PDF]

, 2017
Uniaxial Hand-Held Dynamometer (HHD) is a low-cost device widely adopted in clinical practice to measure muscle force. HHD measurements depend on operator’s ability and joint movements.
Ancillao, Andrea, Palermo, Eduardo, Rossi, Stefano   +2 more
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