The purpose of this study was to analyze the dosimetry and investigate the clinical outcomes of radiation-induced rib fractures (RIRFs) after stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). A total of 126 patients with Stage I primary lung cancer treated with SBRT, who had undergone follow-up computed tomography (CT) at least 12 months after SBRT and who had no previous overlapping radiation exposure we...

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Michael J. Ezell,1 Stanley N. Johnson,1 Yong Yu,2 Véronique Perraud,1 Emily A. Bruns,1 M. Lizabeth Alexander,3 Alla Zelenyuk,3 Donald Dabdub,4 and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts1 1Department of Chemistry, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA 2Currently at California Air Resources Board, El Monte, California, USA 3Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Nat...

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osteoblastoma is a rare benign, but locally aggressive bone tumor with rare malignant transformation. it mostly affects the vertebral column and long bones. radiographically, it is seen as an expansile, oval, sclerotic or lytic mass-like lesion with well-defined borders, although sometimes it may mimic a malignant tumor such as osteogenic sarcoma by its irregular borders. herein, we report a ca...

A seven year-old boy with several painless masses on the ribs and shoulder was referred to our hospital. The masses were so prominent that they prevented the child’s sleep. Since the patient had been ridiculed by his friends due to the rib prominences, he had refused to attend school. After clinical and radiological evaluations, the masses were diagnosed as hereditary multiple exostoses of the ...