Correlation between pre- or postoperative MRI findings and cerebellar sequelae in patients with medulloblastomas.

Introduction: Immediate and delayed cerebellar dysfunction may be expected after surgical resection of a medulloblastoma. We investigated whether pre-operative and delayed post-operative MRI may correlate with such sequelae.

Material And Methods: The data of 31 patients in continuous complete remission after removal of medulloblastoma, irradiation and chemotherapy, were retrospectively reviewed.

Effect of vitamin C on prevention of complex regional pain syndrome type I in foot and ankle surgery.

Background: The public health cost impact of complex regional pain syndrome type I (CRPS I) is considerable in both emergency and scheduled orthopaedic surgery. We proposed to assess the effectiveness of vitamin C in prevention of CRPS I in foot and ankle surgery.

Methods: We carried out a "before-after" quasi-experimental study comparing two chronologically successive groups without (Group I: July 2002-June 2003) and with (Group II: July 2003-June 2004) preventive 1g daily vitamin C treatment.

Preradiation chemotherapy may improve survival in pediatric diffuse intrinsic brainstem gliomas: final results of BSG 98 prospective trial.

Radiation therapy remains the only treatment that provides clinical benefit to children with diffuse brainstem tumors. Their median survival, however, rarely exceeds 9 months. The authors report a prospective trial of frontline chemotherapy aimed at delaying radiation until time of clinical progression.

Shared medical information: expectations of breast cancer patients.

Unlabelled: Allowing cancer patients to hold medical records containing essential information for managing their disease may improve their satisfaction and the coordination of their medical care.

Objective: Our aim was to determine breast cancer patients' interest in and expectations of such medical records and the exchange of information during their treatment.

Methods: Eighty-six hospital physicians were selected to distribute an anonymous questionnaire to all of the breast cancer patients they saw in consultations.

[Exchanges of medical information during the follow up of breast cancer patients: perceptions and expectations of the community- and the hospital based practitioners].

The multidisciplinary dimension which imposes the follow up of patients suffering from breast cancer raises difficulties of communication between community and hospital practitioners. The aim of this study was to assess information needs and expectations when the general practitioners and private gynecologists on one hand, and the hospital practitioners on the other hand, exchange medical information in the follow up of patients suffering from breast cancer. This descriptive study included a sample of 225 general practitioners and 216 gynecologists in private practice, and 233 hospital practitioners in the Rhone-Alps French region.