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BACKGROUND "Postbariatric" patients are at significant risk for increased postoperative complications. This study aimed to define the risk of venous thromboembolism following body-contouring surgery after massive weight loss. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on all patients who had undergone all forms of body-contouring procedures after massive weight loss between January 2005 a...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact of four different rectum contouring techniques and rectal toxicities in patients with treated with 3D conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT). METHODS Clinical and dosimetric data were evaluated for 94 patients who received a total dose 3DCRT of 70 Gy, and rectal doses were compared in four different rectal contouring techniques: the prostate-containing CT sections (m...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess variation in prostate contouring 12 months following a structured interactive educational intervention (EI) and to test the hypothesis that EIs positively impact on prostate contouring accuracy and consistency long term. METHODS A common set of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data sets were used to assess prostate ...

Iso-surface extraction is one of the most important approaches for volume rendering, and iso-contouring is one of the most effective methods for iso-surface extraction. Unlike most other methods having their search domain be the whole dataset, iso-contouring does its search only on a relatively small subset of the original dataset. This subset, called a seed-set, has the property that every iso...

The metabolic tumor volume (MTV) is the volume of metabolically-active tumor on PET/CT. Although its potential clinical value has been investigated in many cancers, its routine use has been hampered by the delineation method used to calculate the tumor volume. This may be especially difficult for fuzzyPET images. Previous studies have used a lot of approaches for delineation of tumor volume; ho...

BACKGROUND As the obese population increases in Korea, the number of patients who are trying to lose weight has been increasing steadily. In these patients, skin laxity and deformation of the body contour occurs, which could possibly be corrected by various body contouring surgeries. Here, we introduce the brachioplasty method and our experience of various body contouring surgeries performed in...