Predicting factors of symptomatic radiation pneumonitis induced by durvalumab following concurrent chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer.

Background: Concurrent chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) followed by durvalumab is the standard of care for unresectable locally-advanced non-small cell carcinoma (LA-NSCLC). However, a major concern about administration of durvalumab after CCRT is whether the incidence of symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (RP) may increase or not. In the present analysis, we report the initial results of CCRT followed by durvalumab in patients with LA-NSCLC in a real-world setting with focus on predicting factors for symptomatic RP.

Plan comparison of prostate stereotactic radiotherapy in spacer implant patients.

In prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), hydrogel spacers are increasingly used. This study aimed to perform a dosimetry comparison of treatment plans using CyberKnife (CK), commonly used for prostate SBRT, Helical TomoTherapy (HT), and TrueBeam (TB) in patients with hydrogel spacer implantations. The data of 20 patients who received hydrogel spacer implantation for prostate SBRT were retrospectively analyzed.

Conditional unnecessity of head CT for whole-body CT of traffic accident victims: a pilot study.

Purpose: To investigate whether head CT should be included in whole-body CT in road traffic accident victims.

Methods: A review of electronic medical records identified 124 patients (81 males, 43 females; age 4 to 92 years, mean 47.7 years) involved in a road traffic accident in a 12-month period.

Successful transarterial embolization with cellulose porous beads for occipital haemangioma in an infant with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome.

We report a 3-month-old boy with Kasabach-Merritt Syndrome (KMS) with an occipital haemangioma who underwent successful transarterial embolization (TAE) with cellulose porous beads (CPBs). As his response to steroids and coil embolization was inadequate, we performed TAE with CPBs, carefully preventing their migration via dangerous anastomoses. The tumour blush decreased, there were no complications, all coagulation tests were immediately normalized and the tumor size decreased gradually.