PURPOSE To investigate added morbidity associated with the addition of pelvic elective nodal irradiation (ENI) to hypofractionated radiotherapy to the prostate. METHODS AND MATERIALS Two-hundred twelve patients, treated with hypofractionated radiotherapy to the prostate between 2004 and 2011, met the inclusion criteria for the analysis. All patients received 70 Gy to the prostate delivered ov...

BACKGROUND The most frequent cytogenetic alteration in gastrointestinal (GI) B cell lymphoma (BCL) is t(11;18)(q21;q21). GI B cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas lacking this translocation vary in their biology and clinical outcome. The t(11;18) negative subgroup shows increased numerical changes of chromosome 18, although its clinical relevance remains unknown. METHODS Thirty surgically resected prim...

The complexity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)’s pathophysiology is such that microbial dysbiosis in the lung and gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota may be involved its pathogenic process. GI has been associated with respiratory disorders, including COVID-19, as well sporadic colorectal cancer (CRC) through imbalanced compromised immune response. It pertinent to understand possible role pr...

Für einen effizienten Einsatz von Qualitätssicherungsmaßnahmen ist die Kenntnis über die häufigsten Fehlerursachen entscheidend. Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Ergebnisse einer Online-Umfrage zu Fehlerhäufigkeiten in objektorientierten Systemen. Die Umfrage wurde vom GI-Arbeitskreis „Testen objektorientierter Programme“ im Zeitraum vom 19. August bis 31. Oktober 2005 durchgeführt. Die Fragebögen...

Although multiple genotypes of Campylobacter jejuni may be isolated from the same commercial broiler flock, little is known about the infection dynamics of different genotypes within individuals or their colonization sites within the gut. Single experimental infections with C. jejuni M1 (sequence type 137, clonal complex 45) and C. jejuni 13126 (sequence type 21, clonal complex 21) revealed tha...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of urine culture by bag specimen for the detection of neonatal urinary tract infection in full-term newborn infants. Retrospective study (1997) including full-term newborn infants having a positive urine culture (> 100,000 CFU/ml) by bag specimen collection. The urinary tract infection diagnosis was confirmed by positive urine culture (suprapubic bladder aspir...

The articles [20], [23], [6], [22], [9], [2], [14], [17], [18], [24], [1], [5], [3], [4], [21], [10], [11], [16], [15], [7], [8], [12], [13], and [19] provide the terminology and notation for this paper. For simplicity we follow a convention: q will be a point of E 2 T, i, i1, i2, j, j1, j2, k will be natural numbers, r, s will be real numbers, and G will be a Go-board. We now state the proposi...

INTRODUCTION Primary gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are a rarity in childhood and adolescence, with limited information from Asian populations. This study was conducted with the objective of identifying the existence of malignant GI tumors in the young population of Pakistan and to determine high risk geographical areas of the country. METHODOLOGY Pediatric and adolescence (<or=14 years; ...