Dissuasion in women surgical trainees pursuing cardiothoracic surgery.

Background: The reasons for persistent gender disparity in cardiothoracic surgery (CTS) are multifaceted. The objective of this paper is to understand if and why women surgical trainees are dissuaded from pursuing CTS.

Methods: A survey was sent to self-identified women participating in Women in Thoracic Surgery speed mentoring.

Prostate specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography for lesion-directed high-dose-rate brachytherapy dose escalation.

Background And Purpose: Prostate specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography imaging (PSMA-PET) has demonstrated potential for intra-prostatic lesion localization. We leveraged our existing database of co-registered PSMA-PET imaging with cross sectional digitized pathology to model dose coverage of histologically-defined prostate cancer when tailoring brachytherapy dose escalation based on PSMA-PET imaging.

Materials And Methods: Using a previously-developed automated approach, we created segmentation volumes delineating underlying dominant intraprostatic lesions for ten men with co-registered pathology-imaging datasets.

Management of disappearing colorectal liver metastases: an international survey.

Background: Improved chemotherapy response rates have lead to "disappearing" colorectal liver metastases (dCRLM). We aim to assess management patterns of dCRLM from an international body of hepatobiliary surgeons.

Methods: A survey was designed, tested for item relevance, readability and content validity, and distributed to the AHPBA, IHPBA and ANZHPBA.

Histologic validation of auto-contoured dominant intraprostatic lesions on [F] DCFPyL PSMA-PET imaging.

Background: PSMA-PET has shown good concordance with histology, but there is a need to investigate the ability of PSMA-PET to delineate DIL boundaries for guided biopsy and focal therapy planning.

Objective: To determine threshold and margin combinations that satisfy the following criteria: ≥95% sensitivity with max specificity and ≥95% specificity with max sensitivity.

Design, Setting And Participants: We registered pathologist-annotated whole-mount mid-gland prostatectomy histology sections cut in 4.

Successful percutaneous CT-guided microwave ablation of adrenal gland for ectopic Cushing syndrome.

Adrenocorticotropic hormone production by pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET) is rare and results in hyperstimulation of the adrenal gland to produce ectopic Cushing syndrome. Our case showcases the safety and effectiveness of percutaneous CT-guided microwave ablation of the adrenal gland in a 49-year-old female with PNET and hepatic metastases who presented with ectopic Cushing syndrome despite surgical resection of the primary pancreatic tumor and left adrenal gland. Prior to ablation, the right adrenal gland measured 4.