BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Experiences with the ProstaLund Feedback Treatment (PLFT) with the CoreTherm device and results from a previous positron emission tomography (PET) study suggest that the intraprostatic blood flow increases considerably during treatment in response to heat exposure. Early results with intraprostatic injection of mepivacaine epinephrine prior to PLFT have indicated greater ...

This paper presents a new robotic mechanism for ultrasound imaging. The device is placed on a patient's body by an operator, and an ultrasound expert controls the motions of the device to obtain ultrasound images. The paper focuses on the robotic mechanism that performs ultrasound imaging. The design of the mechanism is based on two approaches to produce center of motion for an ultrasound probe...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the early response of uveal melanomas in patients treated with ruthenium-106 brachytherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the period between April 2002 and July 2003, 20 patients diagnosed with uveal melanoma were submitted to ruthenium-106 brachytherapy. The calculated dose delivered at the apex of the tumor ranged between 55 Gy and 100 Gy. Patients with lesions greater than ...

A new method for treating malignant glioma by concurrent intra-arterial injection of adriamycin during thermotherapy was performed in seven patients with malignant glioma, four males and three females, with five cases of glioblastoma and two of anaplastic oligodendroglioma. Adriamycin was intra-arterially injected at a dose of 20 mg via the common carotid artery during thermotherapy. The heatin...

OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of guidelines published in peer-reviewed literature concerning the role of physiotherapy in the management of patients with RA. METHODS A systematic literature search for clinical practice guidelines that included physiotherapy interventions was performed in four electronic databases. We assessed the quality of the selected guidelines using the appraisal of gui...

Laser-induced thermotherapy (LITT) is a minimally invasive laser hyperthermia procedure for the treatment of localized tumors. Mathematical modeling of the photothermal processes in laser-irradiated tissues is essential for optimal treatment planning. In this study, A Monte Carlo method is introduced to simulate photon transport in the tumor tissues with complex geometries. The dual reciprocity...

Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma is a surgical complication with significant morbidity to the vision and eye. Few reports in the literature have addressed this complication exclusively. A review of the published literature with reference to local treatment failure in the management of choroidal melanoma was performed to make known the potential diffe...

Background: A possible mechanism by which hyperthermia enhances tumor immunogenicity is the induction of NKG2D ligands on tumor cells. Although the expression of MHC class I chain-related protein A and B (MICA/B) has previously been reported in different carcinomas, there is no information about MICA/B expression in liposarcomas. Objective: To investigate MICA/B induction in a human liposarcoma...