PURPOSE To recalculate the radiation doses delivered to structures of interest within the eye, i.e., the lens, tumor apex, 5-mm point, optic disk, and macula for patients treated with eye plaque radiotherapy on the Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) Medium Tumor Trial, using updated dosimetric data. METHODS AND MATERIALS Using the Plaque Simulator planning system, doses were recalcula...

Estrogens are a family of female sexual hormones with an exceptionally wide spectrum of effects. When rats and mice are used in estrogen research they are commonly ovariectomized in order to ablate the rapidly cycling hormone production, replacing the 17β-estradiol exogenously. There is, however, lack of consensus regarding how the hormone should be administered to obtain physiological serum co...

BACKGROUND Stenosis of the glottis can influence both phonation and respiration. The management of laryngeal web is difficult because of the tendency of readhesion to recur locally. METHODS Twenty-five patients with web from the anterior glottis to the entire membranous portion of the vocal folds were included. All patients underwent endoscopic mucosal suturing or combined with placement of l...

conclusions endoscopic keel placement should be done with heavy suture through cricothyroid and thyrohyoid membranes. surgeons should suture the keel to the anterior laryngeal wall with specially designed lichtenberger’s needle-carriers to prevent complications such as keel aspiration, adhesion formation and imposing a second trip under general anesthetics, which put the patient at increased ri...

Background: The effect of in vivo implantation on breast implants is important to both physicians and patients, but little information about the in vivo aging process of silicone gel-filled breast implants has appeared in the literature. The effects of the in vivo aging process could affect the durability of breast implants. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the...