Publications by authors named "R J Smeenk"

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess Dutch surgical practice and outcomes for acute pilonidal abscess.

Method: Patients with pilonidal sinus disease (PSD) who underwent surgical treatment between 1 March 2020 and 1 March 2021 at 36 participating hospitals were included in a prospective observational cohort study. For the present study, only patients with an acute abscess were included for analysis.

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Aim: Managing pilonidal sinus disease (PSD) remains challenging due to high recurrence rates and morbidity associated with treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes one year after surgical treatment for chronic PSD in the Netherlands.

Method: Patients with PSD who underwent surgical treatment between March 1, 2020, and March 1, 2021, at 36 participating hospitals were included in a prospective observational cohort study.

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Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of focal boosting in online adaptive MRI-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with prostate cancer (PCa) with seminal vesicle invasion (T3b) by analyzing the impact of intrafraction motion on the dose planned for the gross tumor volume (GTV) and clinical target volume (CTV).

Methods And Materials: Data from 23 patients with T1-T3a PCa who received focal boosting SBRT on a 1.5T MR-Linac was used.

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Background: The addition of an integrated focal boost to the intraprostatic lesion is associated with improved biochemical disease-free survival (bDFS) in patients with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer (PCa) in conventionally fractionated radiotherapy. Furthermore, whole gland stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) demonstrated to be non-inferior to conventional radiotherapy for low- and intermediate-risk PCa. To investigate the combination of ultra-hypofractionated prostate SBRT with iso-toxic focal boosting for intermediate- and high-risk PCa, we performed the hypo-FLAME trial.

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