BACKGROUND Cutaneous plasmacytosis (CP) is a syndrome of multiple cutaneous plasma cell tumors, in the absence of multiple myeloma. Although rare in both humans and dogs, treatment recommendations are usually extrapolated from multiple myeloma protocols. To date, no case series of CP have been described in the veterinary literature. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES To describe clinical presentation, det...

PURPOSE MOPPEBVCAD (mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone, epidoxirubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, lomustine, doxorubicin, and vindesine) chemotherapy with limited radiotherapy was devised in 1987 to reduce late toxicity and second tumor incidence while trying to improve effectiveness through increases of dose intensity and dose density. Late results, toxicity, and second tumor...

Reprinted from Luke’s Journal (CMDF Aus) Feb 2001. Allan Day (MD, DPhil, DSc, BTh) is Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne and Senior Academic Fellow, Ridley College, Since retiring from the Chair in Physiology in 1988 he has been active in the interaction between Science and Christian Belief having been until the end of 1999 Exec Sec of ISCAST (Vic). He currently conducts a course on Sc...

1 Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine INRA, UMR 1120, Nancy, France, 3 School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 4 Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 5 Department of Biology, Furman University, G...

R. Schnittker1,* and S.D. Marshall2,3 1 Monash Injury Research Institute, Monash University, Building 70, 21 Alliance Lane, Clayton Campus, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia, 2 Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia, and 3 Monash Simulation Centre, Monash Health, 823-865 Centre Road, East Bentleigh, Melbourne, VIC 3165, Australia *Corr...