Apoptosis, Ki-67 and survivin expression have been reported as prognostic values in human cancer treated with radiation therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the outcome of canine nasal carcinomas treated with radiation therapy and these cancer markers. The apoptotic index (AI) was evaluated with TUNEL assays, and an immunohistochemical evaluation was performed ...

PURPOSE Sialorrhea is the unintentional loss of saliva and other contents from the mouth. Most patients with this condition are elderly, requiring palliative treatment. These patients have neuropathology with associated poor performance status. Treatment prescribed for this disabling and distressing condition has often been of a surgical nature and described in young patients. It would be inapp...

Abstract Shielded garments are widely recommended for occupational radiation protection in diagnostic and interventional radiology. This study investigated a novel method efficiently verifying shielded garment integrity while simultaneously acquiring data lead-equivalence measurements, using two-dimensional topogram images from computed tomography (CT) scanners. was tested against more-conventi...