Lipedema: Complications in High-Volume Liposuction Are Linked to Preoperative Anemia.

Lipedema is a subcutaneous adipose tissue disorder mainly affecting women. Its progressive nature often requires high-volume liposuction for efficient pain reduction. However, aspiration volumes of more than 5 L within a single session may lead to a variety of complications.

High-Volume Liposuction in Lipedema Patients: Effects on Serum Vitamin D.

: Lipedema is a subcutaneous adipose tissue disorder characterized by increased pathological adipocytes mainly in the extremities. Vitamin D is stored in adipocytes, and serum levels inversely correlate with BMI. As adipocytes are removed during liposuction, lipedema patients might be prone to further substantial vitamin D loss while their levels are already decreased.

Median Nerve Traction Caused by Palmaris Profundus Muscle: A Case Report.

The palmaris longus muscle is one of the most variant muscles in the human body. Its variations such as the palmaris profundus can cause nerve compression symptoms. Here, we present a case of severe nerve affection due to a palmaris profundus muscle.

The med AUSTRON/OGRO patterns of care study on radiotherapy indications in Austria.

Purpose: In Austria a national survey was conducted by Med AUSTRON/Osterreichische Gesellschaft for Radio--Onkologie, Radiobiologie und Medizinische Radiophysik (OGRO) in order to estimate the indications, patient numbers and radiotherapy treatment planning procedures and performances at all Austrian radiotherapy institutes. Results were correlated with incidence rates (Austrian cancer registry) to determine patterns of radiotherapy practice in Austria.

Material And Methods: At 12 radiotherapy departments of Austria data of all patients receiving irradiation within a 3 months (2002/2003) period were assessed.

Epidemiological aspects of hadron therapy: a prospective nationwide study of the Austrian project MedAustron and the Austrian Society of Radiooncology (OEGRO).

Background: The planned MedAustron hadron therapy facility is designed to compare proton and carbon ion beam therapy under the same technical conditions. For the calculation of the number of potential patients for hadron therapy so far, only epidemiological estimations on cancer incidence are available without inclusion of the percentage of patients routinely referred to conventional radiotherapy.

Materials And Methods: Nationwide prospective survey to collect disease and treatment related data on patients receiving conventional radiotherapy at all 12 treatment facilities.

LINAC radiosurgery in skull base meningiomas.

LINAC radiosurgery has provided increasing access and changed treatment strategies in patients with benign skull base meningiomas in recent years. From January 1996 to January 2003, 37 patients with skull base meningiomas were treated with LINAC radiosurgery. A combination of the University of Florida system and the X Knife System, developed by Radionics, was used in all patients.

Adjuvant vs. neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: the German trial CAO/ARO/AIO-94.

Aim: The standard treatment for patients with clinically resectable rectal cancer is surgery. Postoperative radiochemotherapy (RCT) is recommended for advanced disease (pT3/4 or pN+). In recent years, encouraging results of pre-operative radiotherapy have been reported.

Adjuvant versus neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer. A progress report of a phase-III randomized trial (protocol CAO/ARO/AIO-94).

Aim: The standard treatment for patients with clinically resectable rectal cancer is surgery. Postoperative radiochemotherapy is recommended for patients with advanced disease (pT3/4 or pN+). In recent years, encouraging results of preoperative radiotherapy have been reported.

Hyaluronidase as additive to induction chemotherapy in advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

Forty-eight patients with advanced head and neck tumours were treated with irradiation and concomitant chemotherapy with cisplatin, vindesine and hyaluronidase. The disease-free survival rate at 5 years was 47%. The toxic effects were mucositis (48 patients), nausea (25 patients, vomiting in six patients), bone marrow depression (15 patients) and peripheral neuropathy (14 patients).

Combined application of cisplatin, vindesine, hyaluronidase and radiation for treatment of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

In a prospective pilot study, 32 patients with advanced inoperable squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were treated with polychemotherapy and hyaluronidase combined with radiation therapy. Polychemotherapy consisted of 5 mg vindesine on day 1 and 80 mg/m2 cisplatin on day 2. The patients were given 200,000 IU hyaluronidase intravenously 20 minutes prior to vindesine and cisplatin.

[Experiences with intraoperative radiotherapy in inoperable pancreatic carcinoma].

From January 1983 to April 1985 six patients suffering from unresectable pancreatic cancer underwent intraoperative irradiation therapy (IORT) followed by external radiotherapy. All tumors showed T4-stages except one tumor staged as T2N2. From the onset of symptoms to IORT the median time of hospitalization was 26.

[Collaborative report on "Therapy of bronchial carcinoma from the radiotherapist's viewpoint"].

The paper refers to the radiotherapy treatment of patients with operated or non-operable bronchial carcinoma. The operated group includes patients with pneumonectomy and lobectomy with histological positive lymphnodes in hilum and/or mediastinum. These patients all had a curative radiotherapy with a 50 Gy radiation dose on mediastinum, hilum and the supraclavicular area.

[Combined surgical and radiological therapy of pancreatic cancer--case report--future aspects].

On the basis of the literature [1, 3-5], combined surgical management and intraoperative radiotherapy of carcinoma of the pancreas is demonstrated and illustrated by a case report and further aspects are discussed.

[Combination therapy of local tumour recurrence in patients with breast cancer (author's transl)].

Treatment of 54 patients with extensive loco-regional recurrence of breast cancer is reported. Combined radio-chemotherapy was given to all patients with the aim of reducing the irradiation dosage and also decreasing the side effects of chemotherapy by reduced drug dosage. In this way a significant improvement in the quality of life could be achieved.

[Endoscopy and radiological investigations of the stomach and duodenum. Alternative or complementary procedures? (author's transl)].

The results of radiological and endoscopic examination in 1,030 patients were compared. In one third of cases there was some discrepancy relating to a significant diagnostic finding (malignant process, peptic ulcer, polyp, stenosis or deformity, abnormal folds, diverticula or normal findings). In analysing false negative and false positive radiological diagnoses, the patients were divided into two groups (with or without a double contrast technique).

[Radiation therapy in myasthenia gravis (author's transl)].

The etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of myasthenia gravis are discussed. We treated 16 patients, 13 of them with conventional X-rays and three by megavoltage irradiation. Our results show that radiotherapy has a definite role in the management of patients with myasthenia gravis and should be considered more frequently in future.

[Ideal application of computer tomography in the field of radiotherapeutic planning (author's transl)].

The value of computerized radiotherapeutic planning is illustrated by the case report of a patient with an extensive pelvic wall metastasis of a carcinoma of the uterine cervix diagnosed by conventional methods. The exact topography is delineated by computer tomography and enables optimum dosimetric radiotherapeutic planning.

[Pulmonary perfusion, ventilation, and gas exchange during modified cobalt-60 teletherapy of operated on breast carcinomas].

Post ablationem mammae, 22 patients were exposed to a modified telecobalt-irradiation because of mammary carcinoma. (Tangential pendulum irradiation of the thoracic wall with deflection of the central beam off the pendulum axis, parasternal irradiation with pendulum fields, irradiation of the supraclavicular and axillar area with deflection of the central beam to lateral and cranial directions.) During radiation therapy and up to six months after its termination, periodical pulmonary function tests were accomplished, consisting in a radiogram of the thorax, in spirometric check-up and blood gas analysis, and in an examination of pulmonary perfusion and ventilation using radionuclide techniques.