Clinical utility of a 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging-guided linear accelerator during conventionally fractionated and hypofractionated prostate cancer radiotherapy.

Purpose: To report our initial experience with 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) linear accelerator (LINAC) in prostate cancer radiotherapy in terms of its use in a radiation oncology clinic.

Methods: The medical records of 14 prostate cancer patients treated with MRI-guided radiotherapy were retrospectively evaluated.

Computed Tomography-Guided Optimization of Needle Insertion for Combined Intracavitary/Interstitial Brachytherapy With Utrecht Applicator in Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer.

Purpose: There are no international guidelines for optimal needle insertion during interstitial intracavitary brachytherapy (IS-ICBT) for cervical cancer. We aimed to investigate the clinical feasibility and added value of computed tomography (CT) guidance to optimize needle insertion in IS-ICBT using the Utrecht applicator and to evaluate needle shifts.

Methods And Materials: We enrolled 24 patients who were treated with interstitial-brachytherapy.

Childhood traumatic events and dissociative experiences in patients with chronic headache and low back pain.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine childhood traumatic experiences and dissociative characteristics in women with chronic headache and low back pain.

Setting: The patients were evaluated in the multidisciplinary pain clinic of a university hospital.

Subjects: This study included 73 patients: 41 with chronic headache and 32 with chronic low back pain.

Peripheral nerve maturation in English, West Indian and Turkish newborn infants.

The ulnar and posterior tibial conduction velocities were measured in a group of normal full-term English, West Indian and Turkish infants. The English infants had a faster mean ulnar nerve conduction velocity than the West Indian and Turkish infants, but when the sex of the infants was taken into account only the male West Indian infant was found to have slower mean velocities. By three months of age the velocities were similar between the West Indian and English infants.