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A single-institution experience with the Optilume Urethral Drug Coated Balloon for management of urethral stricture disease.
Transl Androl Urol
August 2024
Department of Urology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Background: Urethral stricture disease is detrimental to quality of life. The Optilume Urethral Drug Coated Balloon (DCB) offers a solution utilizing a paclitaxel-coated balloon to expand strictures and prevent recurrence. Following the ROBUST trials, it has been proposed that DCB is more effective than conventional endoscopic management for recurrent, small anterior urethral strictures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiffuse Dermal Angiomatosis of the Breast Clinically Mimicking Cellulitis and Inflammatory Breast Cancer.
Am Surg
November 2024
Department of Surgery, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA.
A 40-year-old woman admitted for hyponatremia and anasarca due to decompensated cirrhosis after a recent steroid taper developed extremely painful cutaneous breast lesions clinically mimicking cellulitis and inflammatory breast cancer and was biopsy-diagnosed instead with diffuse dermal angiomatosis (DDA) of the breasts, a rare and painful disease that can be a diagnostic chameleon. This case highlights the importance of early surgical consultation and tissue biopsy to correctly diagnose the etiology of severely painful mastitis and prevent prolonged symptomology and repeated administrations of ineffective treatments. Diffuse dermal angiomatosis should be considered when suspected breast cellulitis is refractory to treatment or there is concern for inflammatory breast cancer, especially in pendulous-breasted women with comorbidities that increase susceptibility to local tissue hypoxia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShear Wave Elastography in Assessing Spongiofibrosis of Urethral Stricture: Is It Clinically Useful?
Acad Radiol
August 2024
Men's Health and Reproductive Health Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Rationale And Objectives: To compare urethral stricture shear wave elastography (SWE) with normal areas and assess its association with other explanatory variables.
Subjects And Methods: we recruited all men with urethral stricture disease referred to our center between December 2021 and July 2023. Patients underwent SWE and elasticity in the stricture area, and one and three centimeters distant from the stricture were measured.
Impact of duodenal papilla anatomy on needle knife papillotomy safety and efficacy in patients with difficult biliary canulation.
BMC Surg
February 2024
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Dongyang People's Hospital, Affiliated Dongyang Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, 60 West Wuning Road, Dongyang, 322100, Zhejiang, P.R. China.
Background And Aims: Needle-knife papillotomy (NKP) is widely performed when biliary cannulation is difficult during endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). However, its safety and efficacy in different types of duodenal papilla are not clear.
Patients And Methods: This retrospective study analyzed 217 patients with difficult biliary cannulation who underwent NKP during ERCP procedures from June 2013 to May 2022 in our institution.
Toward a Skin Dose-Area Metric Predictive of Moist Desquamation Using In Vivo Skin Dosimetry and Skin Assessments.
Adv Radiat Oncol
January 2024
Department of Medical Physics, BC Cancer, Vancouver, Canada.
Purpose: Moist desquamation (MD) is a concerning acute side effect of radiation therapy for breast cancer, often seen in skin folds for patients having large or pendulous breasts. In vivo skin dosimetry, clinical assessments, and patient-reported skin reactions were used to determine a relationship between dose-area metrics and the development of MD, to lend insight into skin tolerances and possibly guide future treatment planning dose constraints.
Methods And Materials: Skin dose was measured using GafChromic film on the inner surface of an early prototype carbon-fiber accessory for breast support to remove the inframammary fold in 20 patients at high risk of developing MD undergoing adjuvant whole breast radiation therapy.
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