Twitter dataset on public sentiments towards biodiversity policy in Indonesia.

In recent years, biodiversity has emerged as a prominent and pressing topic due to the urgent need to address biodiversity loss and the recognition of its connections to climate change and sustainable development. Additionally, increased public awareness and the consideration of economic factors have further underscored the significance of biodiversity conservation. To investigate the sentiment of the Indonesian people towards biodiversity, we conducted a comprehensive data collection on Twitter, focusing on keywords we have set.

Symptomatic subependymomas of the ventricles. Review of twenty consecutive cases.

Background And Purpose: Intraventricular subependymomas are rare benign tumors, which are often misdiagnosed as ependymomas. To review the clinicopathological features of subependymomas. PATIENT SELECTION AND METHODS: Retrospective clinical analysis of intraventricular subependymomas and systematic review of histological slides operated on at our center between 1985 and 2005.

Effectiveness of leech therapy in chronic lateral epicondylitis: a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: Leech therapy has been found to be effective in osteoarthritis of the knee and hand in previous trials. Chronic epicondylitis is a prevalent pain syndrome with limited treatment options. In this study, we tested whether leech therapy would be beneficial in the symptomatic treatment of chronic lateral epicondylitis.

Ependymoma in adults: surgery, reoperation and radiotherapy for survival.

Purpose: to retrospectively determine the long-term outcome of adult intracranial ependymoma patients treated with surgery, reoperation, and postoperative radiation therapy.

Material And Methods: 61 patients were treated at our institution between 1980 and 2004. Forty patients had World Health Organization (WHO) Grade II ependymoma, and 21 patients had Grade III ependymoma.

Effectiveness of leech therapy in women with symptomatic arthrosis of the first carpometacarpal joint: a randomized controlled trial.

Leech therapy has been shown to be effective for symptomatic treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of leech therapy in another type of osteoarthritis, osteoarthritis of the first carpometacarpal joint (thumb saddle joint). Thirty-two women with symptomatic painful osteoarthritis of the first carpometacarpal joint and who scored>40 mm on a 100mm VAS pain scale were randomized to a single treatment with 2-3 locally applied leeches (leech group) or a 30-day course with topical diclofenac twice a day.

Adjuvant dibromodulcitol and BCNU chemotherapy in anaplastic astrocytoma: results of a randomised European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer phase III study (EORTC study 26882).

Background: In a previous randomised EORTC study on adjuvant dibromodulcitol (DBD) and bichloroethylnitrosourea (BCNU) in adults with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and anaplastic astrocytoma (AA), a clinically significant trend towards a longer overall survival (OS) and a progression-free survival (PFS) was observed in the subgroup of AA. The aim of the present study was to test this adjuvant regimen in a larger number of AA patients.

Methods: Continuation of the previous phase III trial for newly diagnosed AA according to the local pathologist.

Lateral ventricle gliomas and central neurocytomas in adults diagnosis and perspectives.

Neuroimaging data of lateral ventricle gliomas and central neurocytomas diagnosed in one institution were reviewed and compared to the corresponding literature data. CT and MRI imaging characteristics of the two tumour types are rather different, both in reported cases as well as in our material. In our series ventricular ependymomas (eight cases) were mostly hyperdense with pronounced contrast uptake.

Long-term efficacy of early versus delayed radiotherapy for low-grade astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma in adults: the EORTC 22845 randomised trial.

Background: Postoperative policies of "wait-and-see" and radiotherapy for low-grade glioma are poorly defined. A trial in the mid 1980s established the radiation dose. In 1986 the EORTC Radiotherapy and Brain Tumor Groups initiated a prospective trial to compare early radiotherapy with delayed radiotherapy.

Temozolomide chemotherapy of patients with recurrent anaplastic astrocytomas and glioblastomas.

Introduction: Anaplastic astrocytomas and glioblastomas are the most frequent and most malignant hemispherial tumours. Unfortunately, astrocytic tumours are of infiltrative character and radical removal is not possible. Recurrent malignant gliomas are rarely suitable for reoperation.

Role of early radiotherapy in the treatment of supratentorial WHO Grade II astrocytomas: long-term results of 97 patients.

Object: To determine principal prognostic factors and the effect of timing of radiotherapy (RT) on disease-specific survival (DSS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in WHO Grade II astrocytomas.

Methods: Histologic slides of 166 consecutive patients with the original tissue diagnosis of low-grade, non-pilocytic astrocytoma were reviewed. One-hundred and six were selected where two additional certified neuropathologist agreed on the grading of WHO Grade II astrocytoma.

BCNU-DBD (Dibromodulcitol) chemotherapy of recurrent supratentorial anaplastic astrocytomas and glioblastomas.

Our aim was to investigate the effect of BCNU and DBD combined chemotherapy in patients with recurrent malignant gliomas. Forty-six patients were treated with combined chemotherapy. Out of 26 patients with anaplastic astrocytomas 11 were originally low-grade where no postoperative radiotherapy was applied.

[Chemotherapy of recurrent supratentorial malignant gliomas (phase II study)].

At the Hungarian National Institute of Neurosurgery 73 recurrent supratentorial malignant tumours were treated by chemotherapy during the last ten years. Chemotherapy was applied after postoperative radiotherapy but in some cases following reoperation only. All cases were clinically and by CT or MRI verified recurrences.

[Treatment of recidive malignant gliomas with temozolomide].

Introduction: The prognosis of malignant gliomas despite of the recent advances of diagnostical and therapeutical techniques remains poor. The majority of gliomas following total removal and postoperative radiotherapy recurs. In case of recurrencies reoperation is rarely possible and chemotherapy is the last treatment modality.

Prognostic factors for survival in adult patients with cerebral low-grade glioma.

Purpose: To identify prognostic factors for survival in adult patients with cerebral low-grade glioma (LGG), to derive a prognostic scoring system, and to validate results using an independent data set.

Patients And Methods: European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) trial 22844 and EORTC trial 22845 are the largest phase III trials ever carried out in adult patients with LGG. The trials were designed to investigate the dosage and timing of postoperative radiotherapy in LGG.

Randomized trial on the efficacy of radiotherapy for cerebral low-grade glioma in the adult: European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Study 22845 with the Medical Research Council study BRO4: an interim analysis.

Purpose: There is no consensus on the treatment strategy for adult patients with cerebral low-grade glioma. The diagnosis and primary treatment are usually undertaken by surgery. Some investigators doubt the efficacy of postoperative radiotherapy (RT), whereas others advise routine postoperative RT.

Preoperative history and postoperative survival of supratentorial low-grade astrocytomas.

The preoperative history and postoperative course of histologically verified 348 low-grade and 383 anaplastic astrocytomas have been reviewed. In 71.2 and 48.

Apoptosis and p53 expression in human gliomas.

Twenty-five human gliomas of different histological grade and type were studied for p53 expression by immunohistochemistry and for apoptosis using ApopTag method. p53 expression (percentage of positive cells) was highest in anaplastic astrocytomas, followed by low grade astrocytomas and surprisingly in glioblastomas. Granular cytoplasmic p53 positivity appeared in 4/5 low grade oligodendroglioma and in 2/5 low grade mixed oligoastrocytomas.

Histologically confirmed changes on CT of reoperated low-grade astrocytomas.

During a 15-year period 37 patients with primary low-grade astrocytoma have been operated upon twice in our institute. CT and histological data at the time of the first and second operations were compared. The majority of primary astrocytomas showed as a low-density area without contrast enhancement; minimal, mainly marginal enhancement was present in six cases.

Re-operations of supratentorial anaplastic astrocytomas.

Results of re-operations of 99 adult patients with recurrent supratentorial lobar glioblastomas (60 patients) and anaplastic astrocytomas (39 patients) have been reviewed. In all cases both surgical interventions were performed at the same institute. Age of patients with glioblastoma varied between 19 and 64 and with anaplastic astrocytoma between 21 and 68 years, with a mean value of 48 and 36 years, respectively.

[Diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities in adult malignant gliomas].

Despite of the recent advances in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques the outcome of patients with malignant gliomas remains poor. The most widely used classifications and management of supratentorial gliomas are reviewed focusing on the chemotherapeutic possibilities. More accurate diagnosis and new therapeutic approaches will be available with the results of immunological studies.

Adjuvant therapy with dibromodulcitol and BCNU increases survival of adults with malignant gliomas. EORTC Brain Tumor Group.

Objective: We tested adjuvant chemotherapy combining dibromodulcitol (DBD) and bischloroethylnitrosourea (BCNU) given postoperatively to adults with newly diagnosed supratentorial malignant gliomas.

Methods: We enrolled 269 patients, 255 of whom were eligible. After surgery, we treated all patients with radiation therapy, using a median dose of 60 Gy given in 30 fractions.

Characterization of human gliomas by a monoclonal antibody both on tissue culture and paraffin-embedded sections.

A monoclonal antibody designated OITIC3-11 was produced against GFAP positive human glioblastoma multiforme tumour cells. The specificity of the monoclonal antibody was tested on different types of human brain tumours and on normal adult brain both on tissue cultures and paraffin-embedded sections. The OITIC3-11 monoclonal antibody reacted with 16 of 18 malignant and 1 of 6 benign gliomas but did not react with meningioma, pituitary adenoma, metastatic brain tumours and normal adult brain tissue.

Chronic extradural haematoma--report of 33 cases.

During 35 years (1955-1989) 236 extradural haematomas were operated on in the National Institute of Neurosurgery, Budapest. 33 of them were operated on after the 4th day following trauma. These cases were termed as chronic ones.

Combined treatment of anaplastic astrocytoma (grade 3-4) with diacetyl-dianhydro-galactitol (DADAG).

Autoradiographic studies of labeled diacetyldianhydro-galactitol (DADAG) with tumor bearing animals revealed that the CNS accumulates high amounts of DADAG-derived radioactivity and the elimination from the brain seems to be relatively slow. This observation and the activity of DADAG against murine ependymoblastoma classified the drug as a promising agent for the treatment of malignant brain tumors. In a series of 30 evaluable consecutive patients who were operated on for anaplastic astrocytomas, DADAG has been applied during and subsequent to postoperative radiotherapy.

Primary spinal intramedullary malignant lymphoma. A case report.

A rare case of primary malignant intramedullary lymphoma, localized in the cervical part of the spinal cord, is presented. The onset of clinical symptoms was associated with herpes zoster infection. Surgery led to the histological diagnosis.