Ann Chir Plast Esthet
November 2024
Sincipital meningoencephaloceles (MECs) are rare congenital malformations characterized by the herniation of brain or meningeal tissue through an opening in the anterior floor of the skull base. These malformations always affect the frontal bone, specifically the glabellar region and the naso-frontal angle. A collaboration between Médecins du Monde and the Children's Surgical Center in Phnom Penh has enabled the treatment of over four hundred cases over twenty years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: As craniospinal irradiation (CSI) is delivered more frequently by helical tomotherapy (HT) with few reports about late effects, we analysed all patients treated in our centre over an 11-year period.
Methods And Materials: Our study included all patients that underwent CSI by HT, between September 2009 and January 2020, in the Department of Radiation Oncology of the Toulouse Cancer Institute. Acute radiotherapy toxicities were reported and medium- to long-term outcomes analysed.
Background: Glioblastoma (GBM) systematically recurs after a standard 60 Gy radio-chemotherapy regimen. Since magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) has been shown to predict the site of relapse, we analyzed the effect of MRSI-guided dose escalation on overall survival (OS) of patients with newly diagnosed GBM.
Methods: In this multicentric prospective phase III trial, patients who had undergone biopsy or surgery for a GBM were randomly assigned to a standard dose (SD) of 60 Gy or a high dose (HD) of 60 Gy with an additional simultaneous integrated boost totaling 72 Gy to MRSI metabolic abnormalities, the tumor bed and residual contrast enhancements.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
November 2023
Purpose: To highlight the changes in the management of vestibular schwannoma (VS) since 2004 with a focus on small- to middle-size VS.
Methods: Retrospective analysis of the decisions made in skull base tumor board between 2004 and 2021.
Results: 1819 decisions were analyzed (average age 59.