Limited invasiveness to assess retroperitoneal spread in stage I-II ovarian carcinoma.

Objective: To evaluate the incidence of retroperitoneal metastases, survival rate and site of recurrence in early ovarian tumors undergoing limited retroperitoneal surgery.

Method: Three hundred seventy-three consecutive patients underwent assessment of the retroperitoneum consisting of intraoperative palpation with or without biopsies.

Results: Retroperitoneal metastases were detected in 10 stage-I tumors (3.

Radioendocrine therapy of brain tumors with the long acting opioid antagonist naltrexone in association with radiotherapy.

Aims And Background: Malignant gliomas remain untreatable as the different therapeutic combinations are generally only palliative. Recent experimental evidence suggests that endogenous opioid peptides are involved in brain tumor growth. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect on survival of concomitant administration of the long-acting opioid antagonist naltrexone (NTX) in patients with malignant astrocytomas treated with radiotherapy (RT).

Severe osteoporosis and multiple vertebral collapses in a child during treatment for B-ALL.

The incidence of bone lesions at diagnosis of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is relatively high. However, no cases of severe osteoporosis with multiple vertebral collapses secondary to treatment in children with ALL have been reported. We report the case of a 9-year-old-boy with B-ALL, with no bone lesions at the diagnosis that, following the 4th block of aggressive chemotherapy (protocol B-ALL BFM 86), presented severe back pain and functional impairment with diffuse osteoporosis and vertebral collapses.

[Digital radiography in urography].

The clinical utility was evaluated of a computed radiographic system in urography. The system (FCR 101, Philips Medical Systems, Inc., Shelton, CT) is based on a photo-stimulatable phosphor screen (imaging plate) for X-ray image detection and storage.