Radiation therapy of breast cancer in the Nahe Breast Center: first results of an analysis in the context of health services research.

Background: The first evaluation of radiotherapy results in patients with breast cancer treated as part of a multimodal oncologic therapy in the Nahe Breast Center is presented. Analysis of the results was performed using an in-practice registry.

Patients And Methods: From September 2016 to December 2017, 138 patients (median age 62.

[Histopathological degeneration score of fibrous cartilage. Low- and high-grade meniscal degeneration].

Although histopathology of meniscal degeneration plays an important role, no criteria to assess severity of the degeneration are available to date. Our aim was to create a histopathological scoring system for meniscal degeneration with good interobserver variability, taking matrix degradation and cellularity in meniscal tissue into consideration. Degeneration is classified as follows: grade 1 (low), grade 2 (intermediate), grade 3 (high).

[Brain-natriuretic-peptide (BNP) for improvement of the diagnostic determination in a conserving emergency room].

Background: Dyspnea is one of the most common symptoms for presentation in an emergency department. Evaluation of this very unspecific symptom can be very time-consuming and costly. Thus, we investigated the value of a rapid bedside-test for BNP in discriminating dyspnea due to "cardiac" reasons from "non-cardiac" dyspnea in the emergency room.