Desmopressin nasal spray reduces blood loss and improves the quality of the surgical field during functional endoscopic sinus surgery.

Background And Aims: Making a dry surgical field during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is a challenge for anesthetists. This study was conducted to evaluate the pre-emptive hemostatic effects of a single dose of an intranasal spray of desmopressin (DDAVP) in sinus surgery.

Material And Methods: Sixty consecutive patient's as first-time candidates for FESS due to chronic sinusitis were enrolled.

Effect of Electric Field Distribution on the Heating Uniformity of a Model Ready-to-Eat Meal in Microwave-Assisted Thermal Sterilization Using the FDTD Method.

Microwave assisted thermal sterilization (MATS) is a novel microwave technology currently used in the commercial production of ready-to-eat meals. It combines surface heating of high-temperature circulation water with internal microwave heating in cavities. The heating pattern inside the food packages in a MATS process depends heavily on the electric field distribution formed by microwaves from the top and bottom windows of the microwave heating cavities.

Patient reported cosmetic outcome after vacuum assisted excision of benign breast lesions: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: Better cosmetic outcome after vacuum assisted excision (VAE) compared to surgical excision of benign breast lesions is suggested in previous studies but has never been evaluated with validated outcome measures. In this study, patient reported cosmetic outcome after VAE was evaluated.

Methods: Patients who underwent VAE between July 2017 and December 2018 were invited to complete the cosmetic subscale of the Dutch Breast Cancer Treatment Outcome Scale, comparing the treated with the untreated breast.

Injection of radiopaque hydrogel at time of lumpectomy improves the target definition for adjuvant radiotherapy.

Background And Purpose: During oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery (BCS), the surgical cavity is closed to reduce seroma formation. This makes the radiotherapy target definition using clips challenging, leading to poor inter-observer agreement and potentially geographical misses. We hypothesize that injecting a radiopaque hydrogel in the lumpectomy cavity before closure improves radiotherapy target definition and agreement between observers.

A randomized controlled trial testing a hyaluronic acid spacer injection for skin toxicity reduction of brachytherapy accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI): a study protocol.

Background: Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is a treatment option for selected early stage breast cancer patients. Some APBI techniques lead to skin toxicity with the skin dose as main risk factor. We hypothesize that a spacer injected between the skin and target volume reduces the skin dose and subsequent toxicity in permanent breast seed implant (PBSI) patients.