For definitive treatment, complete surgical excision is required, but this is not always possible. Sometimes tumors are not accessible for surgical removal, and other times incomplete excision occurs due to the invasiveness of the tumor. In these cases, radiation therapy may be recommended. Additional...
The patient was neurologically normal with no medical treatment. Raised ICP causes severe clinical signs, can lead to brain ischaemia and herniation, and significantly increases anesthetic risk during RT. Placement of a VPS in cats with hypertensive obstructive hydrocephalus may allow improvement of ...
cats. Neutropenia was the acute dose-limiting toxicity. The median neutrophil count at the nadir was 1,000 cells/muL (mean. 2.433 cells/muL: range. 0-9.693 cells/muL). The time of neutrophil nadir was variable, occurring 7-28 days after treatment, and counts sometimes did nut return to ...
Splenectomy was reported for treatment of splenic lymphoma in a 5-year-old mule. A transthoracic approach utilizing a 16th rib resection was used after all other diagnostics failed to identify evidence of multicentric involvement. At the time of reporting, the mule had survived 7 months post-surge...
Various treatment approaches in thyroid tumor remain disputed and unclear, concerning four significant issues in thyroid cancer management: the choice of thyroid lobectomy as the first course of care, employment of pre-operative imaging of the neck, improvement of adequacy of the previous surgical ...
targeting amino acid metabolism will provide new ideas for tumor treatment and become an important therapeutic approach after surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. In this review, we systematically summarize the recent progress of amino acid metabolism in malignancy and their interaction with signal pat...
Treatment is not usually necessary for a rhabdomyoma in the heart, since surgery of the heart would carry more risk than any benefit it might provide. But for rhabdomyomas located in an area other than the heart, surgery to remove them should be fairly uncomplicated since they are not very...
4.9.1 Surgical Treatment Most of the patients with gastric adenocancer are diagnosed in the advanced stage and the rate of curative surgery is low because of this property, so 5-year survival is 10%–15%.117 Palliative surgery and gastric bowel bypass operations can be performed in advanced ...
A method to follow the progress of tumor treatment in subjects utilizes bacteria that have been modified to express a fluorescent protein. The method can also monitor expression of genes associated with the bacteria that produce therapeutic agents during the course of treatment, optionally against a ...
Implantable devices for treatment of proliferative disorders are described. In one aspect, the invention provides an implantable apparatus for treating a proliferative disorder in a patient. The devic