Publications by authors named "K Nackaerts"
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- Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening in high-risk populations reduces mortality from lung cancer, but identifying malignant nodules among benign ones is challenging.
- * The NELSON trial, the largest lung cancer screening trial in Europe, uses nodule size and growth rate to differentiate between benign and malignant nodules.
- * This review analyzes the NELSON study's findings on nodule characteristics and compares them with other studies to enhance lung nodule management strategies in screening programs.
Purpose: To retrospectively analyze the technical and long-term clinical outcome of angioplasty and stenting using the Venovo™ venous stent for the treatment of malignant and benign superior vena cava (SVC) occlusive disease.
Materials And Methods: Consecutive patients treated with the Venovo™ venous stent for SVC occlusive disease were included. SVC obstruction symptoms were classified according to the Kishi score.
Imaging continues to gain a greater role in the assessment and clinical management of patients with mesothelioma. This communication summarizes the oral presentations from the imaging session at the 2023 International Conference of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (iMig), which was held in Lille, France from June 26 to 28, 2023. Topics at this session included an overview of best practices for clinical imaging of mesothelioma as reported by an iMig consensus panel, emerging imaging techniques for surgical planning, radiologic assessment of malignant pleural effusion, a radiomics-based transfer learning model to predict patient response to treatment, automated assessment of early contrast enhancement, and tumor thickness for response assessment in peritoneal mesothelioma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtended pleurectomy-decortication is a cytoreductive surgical treatment for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Prolonged air leak remains a major postoperative challenge, lengthening hospital stay and increasing morbidity. In this video report, we present a stepwise approach for visceral decortication and introduce the concept of aerostasis by construction of an artificial neopleura.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Somatostatin receptor (SSTR) positron emission tomography (PET) is a cornerstone of neuroendocrine tumor (NET) management. Hybrid PET/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is now available for NET-imaging, next to PET/computed tomography (CT).
Objectives: To determine whether CT or MRI is the best hybrid partner for [Ga]Ga-DOTATATE PET.