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An academic health center cost analysis of screening mammography
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-09-01)
BACKGROUND The current study sought to determine the institutional financial impact of a screening mammography (SM) program in the context of an integrated cancer center. METHODS Using administrative databases, 10,048 ...
Spectrum of pheochromocytoma in the 131 I-MIBG era
(Springer-Verlag; Société Internationale de Chirurgie, 1988-08)
131 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ( 131 I-MIBG) scintigraphy allows for both functional diagnosis and anatomical localization of pheochromocytoma. The spectrum of pheochromocytoma since the routine use of preoperative 131 ...
Repeat hepatic resections for colorectal metastases
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1990-02)
We identified 106 patients who had undergone complete resection of isolated colorectal hepatic metastases. Nine of these patients subsequently underwent repeat liver resections for isolated hepatic recurrences. The median ...
Divergent effects of TNF[alpha] in the adoptive immunotherapy of a murine sarcoma
(Elsevier, 1992-08)
We have previously described an in vitro sensitization (IVS) procedure which enabled the generation of therapeutic T cells from tumor-bearing mice for adoptive immunotherapy. The procedure involved culture of tumor-draining ...
Primary hyperaldosteronism caused by adrenocortical carcinoma
(Springer-Verlag; Société Internationale de Chirurgie, 1986-08)
Since the syndrome of primary hyperaldosteronism was described by Jerome Conn in 1955, over 300 patients with this disorder have been identified in the medical centers of Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan. ...
Intratumoral IL-12 and TNF-α–Loaded Microspheres Lead To Regression of Breast Cancer and Systemic Antitumor Immunity
(Springer-Verlag; The Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc., 2004-01)
Background: Local, sustained delivery of cytokines at a tumor can enhance induction of antitumor immunity and may be a feasible neoadjuvant immunotherapy for breast cancer. We evaluated the ability of intratumoral ...
Severe and Refractory Peptic Ulcer Disease: The Diagnostic Dilemma
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-11)
The recognition of Helicobacter pylori infection as a cause of peptic ulcer disease, medical regimens to eradicate the organism, and the widespread use of proton pump inhibition to suppress gastric acid secretion have ...
Efficient tumour formation by single human melanoma cells
(Nature Publishing Group, 2008-12-04)
A fundamental question in cancer biology is whether cells with tumorigenic potential are common or rare within human cancers. Studies on diverse cancers, including melanoma, have indicated that only rare human cancer cells ...