Contrast-enhancing computed tomography ring in glioblastoma multiforme after intraoperative endocurietherapy.

The significance of the contrast-enhancing ring seen on serial follow-up postirradiation computed tomograms (CT) of the brain was evaluated in a group of 41 patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GM) who were treated in a phase I/II study by means of intraoperative remote afterloading endocurietherapy (ECT) with a high activity cobalt 60 probe (20.00 Gy) in one high-dose rate fraction), and conventional fractionated external-beam (EXRT) radiotherapy (60.00 Gy in 30 fractions in 7.

Pain-patient Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) subgroups: evaluation of long-term treatment outcome.

Six hundred thirty-five chronic pain patients completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) prior to participation in a multidisciplinary inpatient pain treatment program. Three male and four female MMPI subgroups were identified by means of cluster analyses for each of two samples. Pretreatment and long-term follow-up differences were then examined among the MMPI subgroups.

Local control of recurrent clival and sacral chordoma after interstitial irradiation with iodine-125: new techniques for treatment of recurrent or unresectable chordomas.

Using new 125I brachytherapy techniques, we were able to deliver safely a tumor volume dose of 16,000 rads to a previous irradiated, large, recurrent sacral chordoma by means of the intraoperative interstitial implantation of 229 low activity 125I seeds and 40,000 rads to a previously irradiated, small, recurrent clival chordoma by means of the transnasal needle implantation of two high activity 125I seeds. Iodine-125 brachytherapy was followed by regression of tumor, lessening of symptoms, and bony recalcification in both cases.

Spinal metastases from pituitary hemangiopericytic meningioma.

A rare, previously irradiated, recurrent malignant angioblastic meningioma of the pituitary, hemangiopericytic type, was locally controlled by a new endocurietherapy technique that allows delivery of very high (10,000 cGy), sharply localized irradiation. Rather than succumbing to the local tumor recurrence, as would otherwise be expected, the patient developed distant spinal metastases several years later.