Removal of other primary or metastatic malignant neoplasms, when removal of the neoplasm may be curative, and the member is unable to tolerate surgical resection; Soft tissue sarcoma of the trunk or extremities, treatment of symptomatic persons with disseminated metastases; Tumor debulking, as an alt...
Our discussion includes tumors of the brain, cranial nerves, and membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord, which account for 95% of all central nervous system tumors. View chapterPurchase book Tumors of the Autonomic Nervous System, Including Paraganglia * Christopher D.M. Fletcher MD, ...
(e.g., the main blood vessels, spinal cord, or cauda equina nerve, or viscera); and (2) it had extensive distant metastases) or surgically-challenging GCTB (defined as a tumor can be completely removed by surgery, but the planned surgery may cause serious dysfunction or complications ...
Nasir Ud Din1 1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan; 2Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children (FMIC), Kabul, Afghanistan Correspondence: Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar, Department of Pathology and...
2 Patients frequently experienced osteoclast-mediated bone destruction that resulted in clinically important complications, such as fracture, need for bone radiation or surgery, spinal cord compression, hypercalcemia, or bone pain.3 These complications, collectively known as skeletal-related events (SREs),...
To evaluate the incidence of chest wall toxicity after lung stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) and identify risk factors for the development of rib fracture. Thirty-nine patients with 49 lesions underwent SABR for primary or metastatic lung tumors
The present invention provides methods for revealing, detecting, and analyzing circulating tumor cells in the blood of a subject. Revealing detectable circulating tumor cells allows