Patterns of Physical Therapy Referral and Subsequent Attendance Among Childhood Cancer Survivors with Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy at a Regional Childhood Cancer Survivorship Clinic.

Objectives: Childhood cancer survivors are at risk for chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). Physical therapy (PT) improves CIPN symptoms, but little is known about survivors' PT utilization. We described characteristics of survivors with ≥ grade 2 CIPN, investigated PT referral and attendance, and described characteristics of survivors who attended and did not attend PT.

Multicentre retrospective analysis on pulmonary metastasectomy: an European perspective.

Objectives: To assess the current practice of pulmonary metastasectomy at 15 European Centres. Short- and long-term outcomes were analysed.

Methods: Retrospective analysis on patients ≥18 years who underwent curative-intent pulmonary metastasectomy (January 2010 to December 2018).

Energy devices versus electrocoagulation in video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: a propensity-match cohort study.

Background: The aim of the study was to compare the effect on perioperative outcome of intraoperative use of different devices for tissue dissection (electrocoagulation [EC] or energy devices [ED]) in patients who underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lobectomy for lung cancer.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 191 consecutive patients who underwent VATS lobectomy, divided into two cohorts: ED (117 patients), and EC (74 patients); after propensity score matching, 148 patients were extracted, 74 for each cohort. The primary endpoints considered were complication rate and 30-day mortality rate.

VATS phrenic nerve harvesting for brachial plexus neurotization: literature review and our experience.

Introduction: Brachial plexus traumatic lesions often lead to severe upper extremity deficits that dramatically compromise quality of life of mostly young patients. Optimal treatment aims to restore elbow flexion transferring various donor nerves. Phrenic nerve (PN) is a powerful source of transferable axons and, despite supraclavicular sectioning being the most used technique, it can be harvested through video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS).

Sense of mastery and attitude towards illness: Examining longitudinal benefits of a medical specialty camp for youth with sickle cell disease.

Medical specialty camps can play an important role in the positive development of psychosocial outcomes for children and youth with sickle cell disease (SCD). This study examined how sense of mastery and attitude towards illness outcomes changed over 6 months for 100 campers aged 8-16 years with SCD. The outcomes were measured twice before and twice after camp.