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Gamma knife radiosurgery in skull base meningiomas: a possible relationship between somatostatin receptor decrease and early neurological improvement without tumour shrinkage at short-term imaging follow-up
Background. This study investigates a possible relationship between the effects of gamma knife (GK) on meningioma somatostatin receptors (SRs) and the high rate of early neurological improvement without tumour re...
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Gamma knife radiosurgery in brain metastases from testicular tumors
To our knowledge, there are no published reports on the effectiveness of radiosurgery in the management of brain metastases from testicular nonseminomatous germ cell tumor. The authors evaluate the results of ...
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A non-parametric method for the analysis of experimental tumour growth data
Analysis of tumour growth is required to investigate the biology of tumours and to determine the effects of new anti-tumour therapies. A non-parametric mathematical method for the analysis of a set of experime...
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Heterogeneous response of individual multicellular tumour spheroids to immunotoxins and ricin toxin
The cytoreductive effects of anti-transferrin receptor (anti-TfnR) immunotoxins (ITs) and of ricin toxin against tumour micromasses have been evaluated in a multicellular tumour spheroid (MTS) model. More than...
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New compartmental model approach to dialysis
Compartmental models are used for solving the problem of the control of dialysis therapy. The inadequacy of the existing monocompartmental model is faced, first with a careful analysis of the physiology of the...
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Extramedullary plasmacytoma of the testicle
Extramedullary plasmacytomas of the testis are extremely rare. This is a report of a patient with plasmacytoma of the testicle who also had an extramedullary plasmacytoma of the epipharynx 12 months earlier. S...
