Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors-Case Series from a Tertiary Care Center with Review of Literature.

Neuroendocrine tumors account for 0.5% of all malignancies, and their incidence is around 2/100,000 with a female predilection within the age range of 50 years at the time of presentation. NETs in India have a different clinicopathological profile compared to those in Western countries.

Fibroadenoma With Multiple Epidermal Inclusion Cysts Masquerading as Malignancy: An Underreported Entity With Review of Literature.

Fibroadenomas in postmenopausal women are quite uncommon, and so are epidermal inclusion cysts in the breast. The coexistence of both is very rare, and very limited literature is available about this occurrence. We report a postmenopausal female patient with complaints of breast lump masquerading as malignancy on triple assessment which upon subsequent histopathological evaluation was confirmed to be fibroadenoma with intervening multiple epidermal inclusion cysts.

A Phantom Study on Feasibility of Manual Field-in-Field Clinical Implementation for Total Body Irradiation and Comparison of Midplane Dose with Different Bilateral TBI Techniques.

Objective: The aim of this study is to implement a new treatment technique in total body irradiation (TBI) using the manual field-in-field-TBI (MFIF-TBI) technique and dosimetrically verifying its results with respect to compensator-based TBI (CB-TBI) and open field TBI technique.

Materials And Methods: A rice flour phantom (RFP) was placed on TBI couch with knee bent position at 385 cm source to surface distance. Midplane depth (MPD) was calculated for skull, umbilicus, and calf regions by measuring separations.

Implementation and Evaluation of Phantomless Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Delivery Verification Using FractionCHECK.

Introduction: The objective was to implement the DynaLog file-based automated FractionCHECKTM software which verifies the delivery accuracy of all patient treatments without any measuring devices and evaluate this tool for dynamic IMRT delivery verification of 40 cases. The present work was aimed to find the generalized results with user-defined tolerances of all treatment deliveries and asses the delivery results in terms of Pass/Warn/fail analysis. In addition to this, an in-depth analysis of mean RMS error of each BANK of the MLC's and mean 95th Percentile error of all the leaves and percentage of pixels passing Gamma between the planned and delivered fluences for all 40 dynamic IMRT cases.

PineElm_SSRdb: a microsatellite marker database identified from genomic, chloroplast, mitochondrial and EST sequences of pineapple ( (L.) Merrill).

Background: Simple Sequence Repeats or microsatellites are resourceful molecular genetic markers. There are only few reports of SSR identification and development in pineapple. Complete genome sequence of pineapple available in the public domain can be used to develop numerous novel SSRs.