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Dosimetric uncertainties related to the elasticity of bladder and rectal walls: Adenocarcinoma of the prostate [PDF]
cancer radioth\'erapie 15, 3 (2011) 168-240, 2011 Purpose. - Radiotherapy is an important treatment for prostate cancer.During treatment sessions, bladder and rectal repletion is difficult to quantify and cannot be measured with a single and initial CT scan acquisition. Some methods, such as image-guided radiation therapy and dose-guided radiation therapy, aimto compensate thismissing information ...
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Deep denoising autoencoder-based non-invasive blood flow detection for arteriovenous fistula [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Clinical guidelines underscore the importance of regularly monitoring and surveilling arteriovenous fistula (AVF) access in hemodialysis patients to promptly detect any dysfunction. Although phono-angiography/sound analysis overcomes the limitations of standardized AVF stenosis diagnosis tool, prior studies have depended on conventional feature ...
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ABCD: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva, 2016 Background: The anorectal anomalies consist in a complex group of birth defects. Laparoscopic-assisted anorectoplasty improved visualization of the rectal fistula and the ability to place the pull-through segment within the elevator muscle complex with ...
Robson Azevedo DUTRA +1 more
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2017 Rectovaginal fistula (RVF) and vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) are infrequent but distressing complications after pelvic surgery. However, their adequate treatment is not well described.
Chisato Takagi +7 more
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Pieces-of-parts for supervoxel segmentation with global context: Application to DCE-MRI tumour delineation [PDF]
, 2016 Rectal tumour segmentation in dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) is a challenging task, and an automated and consistent method would be highly desirable to improve the modelling and prediction of patient outcomes from tissue contrast enhancement characteristics - particularly in routine clinical practice.
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Тазовая хирургия и онкология, 2020 Background. Video-assisted anal fistula treatment (VAAFT) is a new minimally invasive sphincter-sparing technology.Objective: to describe technical characteristics of VAAFT and evaluate short-term outcomes.Materials and methods.
A. O. Atroschenko +2 more
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Radiation-induced recto-urinary fistula: A dreaded complication with devastating consequences
Surgery in Practice and Science, 2023 Purpose: This study was undertaken to evaluate our 16-year experience with fistulas between the rectum and urethra or urinary bladder, collectively called recto-urinary fistulas (RUFs), and their devastating consequences in patients treated with ...
Kyeong Ri Yu +6 more
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Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal, 2018 Rectal fistula is a rare complication that may occur during and after radical prostatectomy, regardless of the applied surgical technique. It accounts for about ≤ 1% of surgical complications.
Stefano Manno
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A rectal foreign body: An unexpected cause of a rectovesical fistula with hematuria
Urology Case Reports, 2021 Cases of rectal foreign bodies (RFB) insertion are frequently encountred in the last years, leading to many complications, while many patients tends to obscure the context.
Abdelmoughit Hosni +5 more
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2012 Colonic adenocarcinoma revealed by metastatic anorectal fistula is rare, with few cases in the literature. Such lesions can be taken for the more common manifestation of a benign perianal abscess or fistula.
Benjelloun El +5 more
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