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Oncology
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Laboratory Research
Recent advances in laboratory research and their clinical application have enabled the clinician to reconcile clinical observations with related scientific observations of which the identification and detectio...
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Diagnosis of Endometrial Carcinoma
Endometrial carcinoma is primarily a disease of postmenopausal women. The peak incidence between 55 and 59 years of age is later than for cervical cancer. Only 2%–5% of all cases are diagnosed before the age o...
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Treatment of Endometrial Carcinoma
Nearly one century has passed since Thomas Cullen, in his book Cancer of the Uterus published in 1900, described the treatment of endometrial carcinoma with abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral sal**o-oophorect...
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Epidemiology and Etiology
Endometrial carcinoma is also called corpus cancer. During the past 20 years there has been a drastic increase in the worldwide incidence of endometrial carcinoma, such that in many areas endometrial carcinoma...
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Medicopsychologic Problems in Patients with Gynecologic Cancers
The life process of all persons involves a continuous interchange between the internal and external environments. It is characterized by input-interaction-output phenomena in consistent, often cyclic or repeti...
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Natural killer cell activity in patients with liver cirrhosis relative to severity of liver damage
To evaluate the role of severe liver damage on natural killer cell activity, 29 patients with liver cirrhosis were examined. The natural killer cell activity was measured with a 4-hr chromium release assay, an...
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Treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma by transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and analysis of prognostic factors
A total of 100 patients with histologically proven hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) underwent transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) and were followed for more than 1 year and 10 months. Portal vein bra...
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Radiotherapy in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma and its metastases
A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of external radiation therapy on hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and its metastatic lesions. A total of 33 patients with cytopathologically proven HCC were subjected...
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Differentiation of single solid lesions in the lungs by means of single-photon emission tomography with technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile
The value of technetium-99m methoxy-isobutylisonitrile (MIBI) single-photon emission tomography (SPET) of the chest in differentiating lung carcinomas of various histological types and benign lesions was asses...
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Accuracy of a rapid 10-minute carbon-14 urea breath test for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori-associated peptic ulcer disease
Urease in the human gastric mucosa is a marker for infection with Helicobacter pylori (HP), an organism which is associated with peptic ulcer disease. To detect gastric urease, we examined 184 patients (144 males...
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Preparation and biodistribution of yttrium-90 Lipiodol in rats following hepatic arterial injection
In this study, we labelled Lipiodol with yttrium-90 and analysed the biodistribution in rats after intrahepatic arterial injection. An RP-18 column (E. Merck) was used to separate90Y from strontium-90.90Y was ret...
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Rhenium-188 sulphur colloid as a radiation synovectomy agent
Radiation synovectomy has been shown to be an effective treatment for the rheumatoid arthritic knee. In this study, we evaluated the suitability of rhenium-188 as a radiation synovectomy agent. In addition, we...
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Biodistribution of rhenium-188 Lipiodol infused via the hepatic artery of rats with hepatic tumours
The purpose of this study was to analyse the biodistribution of rhenium-188 Lipiodol in rats with hepatic tumours following intrahepatic arterial injection to assess the potential of188Re-Lipiodol as a radiopharm...
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Detection of acute inhalation injury in fire victims by means of technetium-99m DTPA radioaerosol inhalation lung scintigraphy
Mortality and morbidity in fire victims are largely a function of injury due to heat and smoke. While the degree and area of burn together constitute a reliable numerical measure of cutaneous injury due to hea...
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Rhenium-188 hydroxyethylidene diphosphonate: a new generator-produced radiotherapeutic drug of potential value for the treatment of bone metastases
The search for an ideal radioisotope for systemic radiotherapy continues. As a generator-produced radioisotope emitting both beta and gamma rays and having a short physical half-life of 16.9 h, rhenium-188 is ...
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A simple method for preparing radioactive capsules in colon transit study
Colon transit study is currently performed by delivering technetium-99m or indium-111 labelled activated charcoal to the colon in a methacrylate-coated capsule (coated capsule). However, the coating procedure ...
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Semi-quantitative evaluation of gallium-67 scintigraphy in lupus nephritis
Within nuclear medicine there is a trend towards quantitative analysis. Gallium renal scan has been reported to be useful in monitoring the disease activity of lupus nephritis. However, only visual interpreta...
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Uptake of gallium-67 citrate in clean surgical incisions after colorectal surgery
Non-specific accumulation of gallium-67 citrate (gallium) in uncomplicated surgical incisions is not uncommon. It is important to know the normal pattern of gallium uptake at surgical incision sites in order t...
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Clinical features and gallium scan in the detection of post-surgical infection in the elderly
Common signs of infection, such as an elevated level of C-reactive protein (CRP), raised white blood cell (WBC) count and increased temperature, may not be present in elderly patients when infection occurs. I...
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Risk of hepatocellular carcinoma and habits of alcohol drinking, betel quid chewing and cigarette smoking: a cohort of 2416 HBsAg-seropositive and 9421 HBsAg-seronegative male residents in Taiwan
Objectives: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the world. The specific aim of this study is to assess the associations between the risk of HCC and habits of alcohol dri...
