Publications by authors named "Paul Wawryko"

Histopathologic criteria of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)/idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) were defined over the years and endorsed by leading organizations decades after Dr. Averill A. Liebow first coined the term UIP in the 1960s as a distinct pathologic pattern of fibrotic interstitial lung disease.

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Background: During coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related operating room closures, some multidisciplinary thoracic oncology teams adopted a paradigm of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) as a bridge to surgery, an approach called SABR-BRIDGE. This study presents the preliminary surgical and pathological results.

Methods: Eligible participants from four institutions (three in Canada and one in the United States) had early-stage presumed or biopsy-proven lung malignancy that would normally be surgically resected.

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Clinical Data: We hereby report a case of limb salvage involving a 64-year-old man who was hospitalized with ischemic foot ulcers for two months. Endarterectomy with patching and stenting of the left iliofemoral artery failed. A composite bypass of two segments of the endarterectomized superficial femoral artery and a cryopreserved saphenous vein graft was implanted one week later.

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A number of studies describe strain-related differences in the motor behavior of rats. Inbred albino F344 rats are found to be impaired in procedural spatial learning, skilled reaching, and over ground locomotion in relation to pigmented out bred Long Evans (LE) rats. These deficits could be related to the functional differences in the motor cortex of the two strains, and the objective of the present study was to examine this hypothesis.

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