Salvage re-irradiation in non-melanoma skin cancers: A multicenter analysis.

Background And Purpose: We conducted a multicentre real-world study to assess the outcomes of radical salvage re-irradiation for non-melanoma skin cancer (nMSC) recurrences following definitive or postoperative radiotherapy.

Materials And Methods: Data on patients treated between 2006 and 2022 with re-irradiation for nMSCs were retrospectively collected from five high-volume brachytherapy centers. The primary endpoint was local control (LC).

Pre-operative high-dose-rate brachytherapy in early-stage cervical cancer: long-term single-center results.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to report the outcomes of pre-operative high-dose-rate brachytherapy (pHDR-BT), followed by hysterectomy in patients with early cervical cancer.

Material And Methods: From January, 1998 to December, 2003, 113 women with IB1, IB2, and IIA1 cervical cancer (according to International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics [FIGO] 2018) were treated with pHDR-BT, and 6 to 8 weeks later followed by radical hysterectomy. Patients found to have positive lymph nodes, residual cervical cancer, involved parametria, or lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) received post-operative adjuvant therapy.

Advanced dose calculation algorithm in superficial brachytherapy - the impact of tissue inhomogeneity on treatment plan dosimetry.

Purpose: Given tissue inhomogeneity and lack of backscatter media, superficial brachytherapy necessitates more accurate dosimetry than TG-43 formalism. However, the introduction of modern model-based dose calculation algorithms into clinical practice should be carefully evaluated. The aim of this work was to compare dose distributions calculated with TG-43 and advanced collapsed cone engine (ACE) algorithms for individual multi-catheter moulds, and investigate the impact of target size and the lack of bolus to differences between plans.

[An attempt to use Gore-Tex surgical membrane in lumbar disc surgery].

Background: Peridural fibrosis developing after lumbar discectomy may be responsible for as much as 20% of all Failed Back Surgery Syndrome. A variety of biological and non-biological materials have been used as a barrier to invasion of fibrous tissue into the vertebral canal.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) surgical membrane (Gore-Tex membrane) to inhibit peridural fibrosis and reduce FBSS symptoms after lumbar discectomy.

[Pulmonary microlithiasis--difference between radiology results and pulmonary function tests].

The case od 22-years old woman with pulmonary microlithiasis is described. The diagnosis was confirmed by histopathological examination of lung tissue. In electron microscopy lung fibrosis was seen.

[Clinical course and results of surgical treatment of epidermoid and dermoid tumors].

Seventeen cases (7 males and 10 females) of intracranial epidermoid tumours and one case (a male) of intracranial dermoid tumours were described. The patients with epidermoids represented 1.7% and the patients with dermoids represented 0.

[Lung lipoproteinosis--diagnostic problems].

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis is a very rare disease, first described by Rosen in 1958. It is characterized by the accumulation of lipoproteins in the pulmonary alveoli. Clinical and radiologic presentations are typical for the interstitial lung disease.