Fine-needle versus core-needle biopsy - which one to choose in preoperative assessment of focal lesions in the breasts? Literature review.

Aim: The aim of the study was to review two techniques that can be used to verify focal lesions in the breasts: fine-needle aspiration biopsy and core-needle biopsy.

Material And Methods: Fifty-five articles (original papers and reviews), half of them published within the past 5 years, were included in the analysis. The authors also took their own experience into account.

Splenic abscess owing to cancer at the splenic flexure: A case report and comprehensive review.

Background: The cancer of the splenic flexure of the colon is a rare medical entity with severe morbidity because of its insidious onset.

Methods: We present the case of a 59-year-old male patient with dull left upper quadrant pain, leukocytosis, and anemia. A splenic abscess described as an air-fluid level with splenocolic fistula was found on CT scan imaging.

Relationships between various indices of doses distribution homogeneity.

Aim: In this study we compared three different methods of evaluation of dose distribution.

Background: The aim of treatment planning is to prepare the treatment plan which the criteria are defined according to the international recommendations.

Materials And Methods: For three groups of patients, for lung, breast and prostate, treated radically in Brzozow with external beams the treatment plans were prepared.

Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation: high outcome variation between two siblings.

Leukoencephalopathy with brain stem and spinal cord involvement and lactate elevation is a rare disorder caused by mutations in the gene encoding a mitochondrial aspartyl-tRNA synthetase, DARS2. Clinical features include childhood or adolescent onset, slowly progressive ataxia, spasticity, and dorsal column dysfunction with or without mild cognitive decline. Magnetic resonance (MR) images show a characteristic leukoencephalopathy with multiple long tract involvement.

Persistent colonization of 2 hospital water supplies by L. pneumophila strains through 7 years--sequence-based typing and serotyping as useful tools for a complex risk analysis.

Contamination with Legionella spp. of hot water system (HWS) in hospitals is a considerable problem and elimination of bacteria poses difficulties. Obligatory control of Legionella spp.

Technology evaluation: HYB-2055, Hybridon.

Hybridon is developing immunomodulatory oligonucleotides. including injectable HYB-2055 (IMOxine) which acts as an agonist of toll-like receptor 9, for the potential treatment of cancer. HYB-2055 is currently undergoing phase II clinical trials.

A multicentre randomized/controlled trial of a conventional versus modestly accelerated radiotherapy in the laryngeal cancer: influence of a 1 week shortening overall time.

Background And Purpose: To compare in a phase III study the loco-regional control, disease-free survival and overall survival induced by an accelerated regimen (AF) as compared with conventional regimen (CF) and to analyze the early and late post-radiation morbidity in both arms.

Materials And Methods: Patients with age < or = 75, WHO 0-1, suitable for a radical course of radiotherapy T1-T3, N0, M0, stage of glottic and supraglottic laryngeal cancer were randomized to either CF: 66Gy given in 33 fractions over 45 days or AF: 66Gy given in 33 fractions over 38 days (2 fractions every Thursday). A total of 395 patients were included from 05.

Concomitant boost radiotherapy of supraglottic cancer--preliminary results, morbidity.

Forty-two patients with supraglottic squamous cell carcinoma were irradiated with Co60 using concomitant boost technique, a variant of accelerated fractionation. This technique is characterized by administering the boost as a second daily fraction during the basic wide-field irradiations. Daily dose in the first 4 weeks was 1.