Background: Risk stratification and treatment benefit prediction models are urgent to improve negative sentinel lymph node (SLN-) melanoma patient selection, thus avoiding costly and toxic treatments in patients at low risk of recurrence. To this end, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) could help clinicians to better calculate the recurrence risk and choose whether to perform adjuvant therapy.
Methods: We made use of AI to predict recurrence-free status (RFS) within 2-years from diagnosis in 94 SLN- melanoma patients.
The deployment of fluorinated functional groups has become a widespread tool in medicinal chemistry due to the impact of fluorine on lipophilicity and metabolic stability. Among these compounds, enantiopure secondary trifluoromethylcarbinols are recurrent features in bioactive compounds. Herein, we present a diastereoselective redox-neutral process allowing the stereospecific synthesis of 1,5-carboxamido-trifluoromethylcarbinols through the formal reduction of a trifluoromethylketone into a trifluoromethylcarbinol.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare safety and effectiveness of two-different directions of suturing the posterior vaginal breach (horizontal [Ho] vs vertical [Ve]) in women undergoing recto-vaginal endometriosis (RVE) nodule resection.
Methods: A multicenter, retrospective, observational, cohort study was performed including all women of reproductive age undergoing RVE nodule resection between March 2013 and December 2018 at our tertiary centers. Patients included in the present study were divided into two groups based on the direction in suturing the posterior vaginal fornix defect, for comparisons in terms of rate of postoperative complications, pain relief, pain and anatomical recurrence, and length of hospital stay.