Neuromas or Schwannomas are extremely rare among tumors of the larynx. They are Schwann cell tumors that can be difficult to distinguish from neurofibromas. They present usually as supraglottic masses, since they may arise from the internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve. Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging is the best diagnostic technique, conferring a high degree of suspicion. We prese...

BACKGROUND Breathing motion should be considered for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) of lung tumors. Four-dimensional computer tomography (4D-CT) offers detailed information of tumor motion. The aim of this work is to evaluate the influence of inhomogeneous dose distributions in the presence of breathing induced target motion and to calculate margins for motion compensation. METHODS Bas...

The kinetics of activation of tumoricidal functions in mouse macrophages incubated with macrophage-activating factors (MAF) released by mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes (free MAF) and MAF encapsulated with liposomes (liposome-MAF) have been compared. Development of tumoricidal activity requires incubation of macrophages with free or liposome-encapsulated MAF for a minimum of 4 hr. Macrophages inc...

HYPOTHESIS An image-guided robotic system can safely perform the bulk removal of bone during the translabyrinthine approach to vestibular schwannoma (VS). BACKGROUND The translabyrinthine approach to VS removal involves extensive manual milling in the temporal bone to gain access to the internal auditory canal (IAC) for tumor resection. This bone removal is time consuming and challenging due ...

Bell peppers grown in greenhouses in the Mediterranean region are frequently subjected to high temperatures in summer and low temperatures in winter. The present experiment was designed to quantify the effect of season on pepper fruit growth, maturation and ripening. Three bell pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivars (Yolo Wonder, California Wonder and E84066) were cultivated in an unheated ...

Substantial disagreement exists over appropriate PET segmentation techniques for non-small cell lung cancer. Currently, no segmentation algorithm explicitly considers tumor motion in determining tumor borders. We developed an automatic PET segmentation model as a function of target volume, motion extent, and source-to-background ratio (the VMSBR model). The purpose of this work was to apply the...

The kinetics of activation of tumoricidal functions in mouse macrophages incubated with macrophage-activating factors (MAP) released by mitogen-stimulated lymphocytes (free MAP) and MAP encapsulated within liposomes (liposome-MAF) have been compared. Development of tumoricidal activity requires incubation of macrophages with free or liposome-encapsulated MAP for a minimum of 4 hr. Macrophages i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MR imaging is the standard of reference for diagnosing tumor in the cerebellopontine angle, high-resolution T2-weighted imaging may show more details of the seventh and eighth cranial nerve branches, resulting in more accurate tumor volume measurements. The purpose of this study was to compare two MR sequences for their ability to de...

OBJECTIVE: The internal auditory canal (IAC) also known as acoustic meatus is a bone channel that connects the ear to posterior cranial fossa. mean length approximately 1 cm. edge of IAC called pore (IAP), and this aperture blunt rounded. Important formations such facial nerve, vestibulocochlear labyrinth artery vein pass through IAC. In addition, on precise determination morphometry in surgica...