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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bacterial Community Structure of an IFAS-MBRs Wastewater Treatment Plant
In this work, the bacterial community putatively involved in BNR events of a UCT-MBMBR pilot plant was elucidated by both culture-dependent and metagenomics DNA analyses. The presence of bacterial isolates bel...
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Article
Long-term efficacy of microbiology-driven periodontal laser-assisted therapy
Periodontitis represents a highly prevalent health problem, causing severe functional impairment, reduced quality of life and increased risk of systemic disorders, including respiratory, cardiovascular and ost...
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Article
Influence of the concentration of Sb2O3 on the electrical properties of SnO2 varistors
Varistors are electronic materials with nonohmic behavior. In traditional SnO2 varistors, CoO acts as a densifying agent, Nb2O5 increases the electrical conductivity of SnO2 grains, and Cr2O3 produces a more unif...
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Pulmonary nodules in osteosarcoma patients: differential diagnosis of central venous catheter–related infections in the lungs
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodules by conventional radiography and computed tomography (CT) in osteosarcoma patients with central venous catheter.
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Urinary Excretion of Pyridinium Cross-Links and Serum Osteocalcin Levels in Patients with Primary High-Grade Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma is the most frequent primary high grade bone tumor, usually occurring in adolescents and children. The aim of the present study was to investigate parameters of bone turnover as urinary excretion ...
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Knee arthrodesis with a temporary spacer performed in malignant tumor around the knee
The issue of utilizing a temporary cement spacer after a knee resection arthrodesis of a highly malignant bone tumor is discussed. In our experience, this is the first type of reconstruction performed in the ...
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Granisetron, tropisetron, and ondansetron in the prevention of acute emesis induced by a combination of cisplatin–Adriamycin and by high-dose ifosfamide delivered in multiple-day continuous infusions
The antiemetic efficacy of granisetron, ondansetron and tropisetron was evaluated in patients treated with cisplatin–Adriamycin (CDP/ADM) and ifosfamide (IFO) by continuous infusion (CI). In all, 90 patients ...
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Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Childhood Metastatic Osteosarcoma
Over the past few years the outcome of patients with high grade osteosarcoma (OST) improved dramatically, with survival rates rising from 15% up to 70% [1]. The relatively large series of subjects reported by ...
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Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Childhood Metastatic Osteosarcoma
Over the past few years the outcome of patients with high grade osteosarcoma (OST) has improved dramatically with survival rates rising from 15% up to 70% [1]. The relatively large series of subjects reported ...
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Chapter
Surgery of Osteosarcoma of the extremities: Indications and complications in the recent Experience at the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
In the surgical treatment of localized osteosarcoma of the extremities, limb-salvage procedures are currently used whenever wide surgical margins can be achieved [1–3]. The increased indications for conservative ...
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for nonmetastatic osteosarcoma of the extremities: The recent experience at the Rizzoli Institute
In the late 1970s Rosen et al. was the first to report the advantages of primary chemotherapy and delayed surgery (neoadjuvant chemotherapy) over adjuvant chemotherapy. The excellent results reported by these ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Segmental Allograft Reconstruction Concomitant with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
The effect of chemotherapy on the outcome of allograft reconstruction procedures after the resection of bone tumors is of considerable interest in the light of both experimental [1,2] and clinical evidence [3,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Effect of Chemotherapy on Uncemented Prosthetic Replacement
Recently, pre- and/or postoperative chemotherapy has been widely used to achieve better general and local control of high grade bone sarcomas. With neoadjuvant treatment, limb salvage is now performed in about...
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Article
Ewing's sarcoma of the pelvis
Two hundred and thirty-nine patients with Ewing's sarcoma were treated at our institution between 1972 and 1987: 42 of these had lesions in the pelvis, 29 were in the wing of the ilium or involved the sacroili...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy for Osteosarcoma of the Extremities: The Experience at the Rizzoli Institute in 210 Patients Treated with Two Successively Activated Preoperative Protocols Using High-Dose or Moderate-Dose Methotrexate + Cisplatin or High-Dose Methotrexate + Cisplatin + Doxorubicin
The prognosis of localized osteosarcoma of the extremities (LOE) treated by surgery alone is very poor. In our experience, in spite of amputation, the disease-free survival rate for these patients is only 10%....
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Telangiectatic or Hemorrhagic Osteosarcoma of Bone: A Clinicopathologic Study of 41 Patients at the Rizzoli Institute
Forty-one patients were treated for telangiectatic osteogenic sarcoma of bones at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna, Italy. Age, sex, and symptoms were those of usual osteosarcoma. Radiographically,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Osteosarcoma
From March 1983 to September 1986, 126 patients with localized high-grade osteosarcoma of the extremities were treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Preoperative treatment consisted of two cycles of i.v. meth...
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Chapter
Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Osteosarcoma — Results of a Prospective Study
In March 1983, the Bone Tumor Center of the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli of Bologna, in collaboration with the Department of Pediatric Oncology of the University of Torino, and the 3rd Pediatric Clinic of the U...
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Results of a Randomized Trial for the Treatment of Localized Soft Tissue Tumors (STS) of the Extremities in Adult Patients
The purpose of the protocol was to obtain a homogeneous group of adult patients with localized and high grade STS in an extremity (including pelvic and shoulder girdle) treated with three different local surgi...
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Pelvic Resection in Bone Sarcomas
Between 1968 and 1986, 77 pelvic resections were performed at the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli for the treatment of primary bone tumors. There were 73 malignant tumors: 35 were low grade (all chondrosarcomas) a...
