Primary brain tumors
Added value of advanced over conventional magnetic resonance imaging in grading gliomas and other primary brain tumors
... for brain tumor grading, its accuracy has been reported to be relatively ...with primary brain tumors (118 gliomas) classified as low-grade in 30 cases and high-grade in 99 ...
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Multiple, Primary Brain Tumors with Diverse Origins and Different Localizations: Case Series and Review of the Literature.
... Multiple, primary brain tumors with different histological types occurring in the same patient are extremely ...coexisting tumors has long been debated; however, due to low incidence, standard ...
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Non-coplanar trajectories to improve organ at risk sparing in volumetric modulated arc therapy for primary brain tumors
... Fifteen patients treated with radiotherapy for primary brain tumors were planned using VMAT. Mean and standard deviation planning target volume (PTV) size was 336.6 ± 214.1 cc (range 5.5–723.6 cc), ...
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The role and clinical significance of DNA damage response and repair pathways in primary brain tumors
... Primary brain tumors, in particular, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), continue to have dismal survivability despite advances in treating other ...normal brain cells will allow for an increase in ...
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Expression and activity of the urokinase plasminogen activator system in canine primary brain tumors
... 1 μ g/mL leupeptin, 1 μ g/mL trypsin inhibitor, and 1 mM phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride]) and incubated for 5 minutes at 37 ° C. Extracts were then centrifuged at 2500 × g for 5 minutes to separate a detergent phase that ...
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Occurrence of primary brain tumors in cochlear implant patients in Sweden between 1989 and 2014
... The observed incidence of brain tumors in the cochlear implant cohort was well within the numbers expected, con- sidering random variation, as reflected by the 95% CI. The number of cochlear implant ...
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Dendritic Cell Therapy of Primary Brain Tumors
... A spontaneously arisen astrocytoma mouse model resembling phenotypically and morphologi- cally human glioma was employed by Heimberger et al. (34). DC prepared from murine bone marrow were pulsed with homogenate from the ...
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Non-coplanar trajectories to improve organ at risk sparing in volumetric modulated arc therapy for primary brain tumors.
... This work evaluates three non-coplanar VMAT trajectory optimization techniques for a cohort of primary brain tumour patients. Having performed a systematic comparison of these techniques, alone and in ...
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[11C]Methionine PET, Histopathology, and Survival in Primary Brain Tumors and Recurrence
... of brain tumors consists of surgical re- section, followed by radiation therapy and/or ...the primary tumor. Because many brain tumors, especially gliomas, are heterogeneous and contain ...
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Critical appraisal of temozolomide formulations in the treatment of primary brain tumors: patient considerations
... DNA integrity. This is called a suicide enzyme because by doing that, MGMT inactivates itself irreversibly. MGMT plays a key role in reverting lethal DNA damage induced by TMZ, and thus neutralizing the cytotoxic effect. ...
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Immunotherapy for pediatric brain tumors
... There are two main ways mAbs can promote an immune response: ADCC and immune modulation. MAbs can trigger ADCC, in which cells of the innate immune system, specifically NK cells and phagocytes, lyse a tumor cell coated ...
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Neuroimaging and Cartography: Mapping Brain Tumors
... Although MR images are currently of exquisite resolution, as neuroradiologists we all acknowledge that confidently mapping the margins of primary brain tumors is very difficult. Malignant gliomas ...
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Utility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Evaluation of the Peritumoral Region in Patients with Primary and Metastatic Brain Tumors
... Distinguishing Primary Brain Tumors from Metastases Brain tumors, regardless of whether primary or metastatic, are surrounded by some degree of vasogenic edema, detectable as ...
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Targeting the PD-1 pathway in pediatric solid tumors and brain tumors
... different tumors, and in dendritic cells, mac- rophages, and ...by tumors is driven by inflammation when cytokines such as interferon gamma are ...mechanism tumors utilize to escape immune ...that ...
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Pathologically confirmed brain metastases from primary uterine cervical tumors: two cases and a literature review
... trolled primary disease or extensive systemic metastases; it is the treatment of choice in patients who are not suit- able for surgery or SRS [35] and is used an adjuvant treatment to surgery or SRS to increase ...
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Contrast Leakage Patterns from Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Perfusion MRI in the Grading of Primary Pediatric Brain Tumors
... pediatric brain tumors is not known but is also likely related to the balance between T1-shortening and T2* effects of paramagnetic contrast me- dium that has leaked into the extravascular extracellular ...
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Brain Tumors A HANDBOOK FOR THE NEWLY DIAGNOSED
... It can take some time to come to terms with the diagnosis . Some newly diagnosed patients have difficulty absorbing all of this information, while others desire more information right away . It is important to take time ...
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Management and Outcomes in Primary Tumors of the Appendix
... carcinoid tumors, four pa- tients were found carcinoid tumors at the base of the ap- pendix discovered during ...carcinoid tumors subsequently developed metastatic disease and all survived for a ...
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Renal tumors and second primary pancreatic tumors: a relationship with clinical impact?
... multiple primary malignant tumors is expected to increase as the popula- tion ages ...pancreatic tumors as an incidental finding [2]. These tumors are typically smaller than those that produce ...
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Marker in Primary Malignant Brain Tumors
... Correlation between study variables and HER2 status in the brain tumor patients (n=107).. 116[r] ...
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