Intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma: the dosimetric impact.

Purpose: Purposes are (1) to measure main radiation parameters and (2) to propose a method to estimate the absorbed doses of internal organs starting from DAP values. Measuring the exposition of internal organs by repeated irradiations on an anthropomorphic phantom with the same settings used in vivo, we could establish correlations between (1) DAP and the dose recorded by a dosimeter placed along the X-ray beam entrance pathway; (2) the dose recorded by the same dosimeter and the absorbed dose in internal organs.

Methods: Forty-four consecutive patients (16 males, 28 females) (mean age 35.

Giant endobronchial hamartoma resected by fiberoptic bronchoscopy electrosurgical snaring.

Less than 1% of lung neoplasms are represented by benign tumors. Among these, hamartomas are the most common with an incidence between 0.025% and 0.

Surgical management of pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumors: a single center experience.

Background: The pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor (PIP) is a rare disease. It is still debated whether it represents an inflammatory lesion characterized by uncontrolled cell growth or a true neoplasm. PIP is characterized by a cellular polymorphism.

Thoracoscopic resection of a paraaortic bronchogenic cyst.

Bronchogenic mediastinal cysts (BMC) represent 18% of primitive mediastinal tumors and the most frequent cystic lesions in this area. Nowadays, BMC are usually treated by VATS. However, the presence of major adhesions to vital structures is often considered as an unfavourable condition for thoracoscopic treatment.

Vitamins A, E, microelements and membrane lipid peroxidation in patients with neoplastic disease treated with calcium antagonists and antagonists of receptors H2.

We studied the serum levels of vitamins A, E, zinc and copper in two hundred and twenty-five subjects of both sexes. They were divided into two groups: 87 healthy subjects who served as controls and 138 patients with neoplastic disease. The patients were subdivided according to the absence (n = 79) or the presence of metastatic disease (n =59).