Publications by authors named "J Matthew Mauro"
In the event of a nuclear explosion in an urban environment, contaminated persons may be directed to Community Reception Centers (CRC) and/or public shelters. This paper is a companion document to a previous paper that addresses the inhalation hazard to workers at a CRC from resuspension of fallout from the evacuees. To limit the inhalation hazard evacuees must be screened to prevent severely contaminated persons from entering a CRC.
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- Isolated vaginal vault recurrence of endometrial cancer can sometimes be treated effectively with rescue radiotherapy, but surgery is often preferred for patients who have previously undergone radiation.
- Vesicovaginal fistulas (VVFs) can develop following surgical interventions due to damaged pelvic tissue from prior treatments, complicating the patient's recovery and management.
- The case study presents a woman who experienced a VVF after robotic surgery for endometrial cancer, ultimately benefiting from a conservative treatment approach involving prolonged catheterization and laser therapy, which successfully resolved the fistula.
Introduction: To evaluate the prognostic impact of substantial lymph vascular space invasion (LVSI) on the sentinel lymph node involvement and recurrence rate of patients with apparent uterine-confined endometrial cancer.
Materials And Methods: We enrolled consecutive patients with apparent confined endometrial cancer who underwent surgical staging with sentinel node mapping from 14 European reference centers. LVSI was analyzed semi-quantitatively, according to a 3-tiered scoring system classified as absent, focal, and substantial.
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- Glasses are formed by rapidly cooling liquids to prevent crystalline structures and are traditionally categorized into inorganic, organic, and metallic types.
- They play a crucial role in various applications such as safe containers and enhancing living spaces, but designing glasses with precise structures remains a challenge.
- Recent advancements have led to the identification of a fourth category, metal-organic or hybrid glasses, which are created through melt-quenching new materials, and this review explores their potential in chemistry, physics, and engineering.
Since the new guidelines for endometrial cancer risk classification have been published, many reviews have proposed a critical re-evaluation. In this review, we look back to how the molecular classification system was built and its evolution in time to highlight the major flaws, particularly the biases stemming from the inherent limitations of the cohorts involved in the discoveries. A significant drawback in some cohorts is the inclusion criteria, as well as the retrospective nature and the notably sparse numbers, especially in the (nonsynonymous mutation in EDM domain of POLE) risk groups, all of which impact the reliability of outcomes.
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