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Impact of Factors that Affect Reading Skill Level on King–Devick Baseline Performance Time
The King–Devick (K–D) test is often used as part of a multimodal assessment to screen for sport-related concussion. However, the test involves reading numbers, and little is known about variation in baseline p...
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Health-Related Quality of Life Following Concussion in Collegiate Student-Athletes With and Without Concussion History
The purpose of this study was to compare global and specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) throughout concussion recovery between those with and without concussion history. Student-athletes diagnosed ...
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Transepithelial Leak in Barrett’s Esophagus
Using orally administered sucrose as a probe of gastrointestinal permeability, this study focused on determining whether Barrett’s metaplasia exhibits a paracellular transepithelial leak to small nonelectrolyt...
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MRI of pelvic neurofibromatosis
Pelvic neurofibromatosis is a rare disease and rarely involves the prostate. A 19-year-old male presented with irritative and obstructive voiding symptoms. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a large mass extend...
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Treatment of Renal Cancer
The therapy of renal-cell carcinoma has evolved slowly. The earlier reports of increased benefit from radiotherapy, as adjuvant to nephrectomy, were tempered by the improved survival afforded to patients using...
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Combination of Chemotherapy and Hormones in Prostatic Cancer
The National Prostatic Cancer Project in a four-year period has accessioned 301 patients with newly diagnosed Stage D-2 prostatic cancer into a treatment protocol comparing cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) plus estr...
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Fine-Needle Aspiration of Soft-Tissue Masses in Prostatic Cancer Patients
Fine-needle aspiration cytology of soft-tissue masses can play a major role in both staging and monitoring of therapy for patients with prostatic cancer. The procedure is safe, inexpensive and easy to perform ...
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Criteria for Evaluating Response to Treatment in Prostatic Cancer
Better delineation of criteria for both objective and subjective responses to treatment of prostatic cancer will aid in evaluating new cytotoxic agents as well as combinations of endocrine manipulation and che...
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Renal Cancer — Clinical Studies in the U.S.A.
The five year survival for untreated renal cell cancer is approximately 2%. This increases to 30 – 47% following simple nephrectomy whereas the overall five year survival following radical (perifascial) nephre...
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Chemotherapy of Prostate Cancer: The National Prostatic Cancer Project Experience
Since 1972 the Treatment Subgroup of the National Prostatic Cancer Project has accessioned 1748 patients with various stages of prostatic cancer to 13 different treatment protocols. Seven of these protocols ha...
