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Clinical Articles / BY: F. Michelle Sutter, MD, FRCSC March 2018
... is not necessary after mastectomy for DCIS. Invasive node-negative breast cancer   In general, adjuvant ... whole-breast radiation is recommended for patients with node-negative disease who have undergone BCS as this approach ... delivered daily, with patients in the treatment room for 10 to 15 minutes for each session. Typically, radiation ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kenneth M. Madden, MD, MSc March 2017
... external validation has demonstrated poor specificity.[ 10 ] Neuroautonomic syncope, cardiac syncope, and syndromes ... of 20 mm Hg or a drop in diastolic blood pressure of 10 mm Hg after standing upright for 3 minutes.[ 13 ] ... stenosis in older adults) and arrhythmias (usually sinus node disease or heart blocks). Cardiac syncope has a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Perminder Bains, MD, FRCPC January/February 2017
... Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in 2006.[ 10 ] Hopps took his life’s work quite literally to heart. ... engineering until his death in 1998 at the age of 79.[ 10 ] Questions about pacemaker use   While pacemaker use has ... implantation include bradycardia resulting from sinus node dysfunction and third-degree or advanced second-degree ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... hypertension is common in adult CHD, complicating around 10% of all cases.[ 9 , 10 ] PAH is a progressive condition ... 20% of patients develop complete atrioventricular node conduction block by adulthood and require pacemaker ... In patients with prior surgery in the region of the sinus node or its arterial supply (e.g., patients who have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kristy Cho, MD, FRCSC May 2014
... diagnosis by open biopsy would ideally occur in less than 10% of incident cases.[ 8 ] Despite these recommendations, ... require nodal sampling with either a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) or axillary dissection. Occasionally, pathologic examination of the excised node(s) identifies isolated tumor cells with a maximum ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI April 2014
... unit used in the Vancouver Centre of the NBSS was 10 years old at the start of the trial. The false negative ... at screening are less than or equal to 15 mm, and 76% are node negative. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rana S. A. Khan, MBBS, January/February 2013
... survival, recurrence of tumor, resection margin, or lymph node harvest for both total number and number of positive ... surgical oncology technique (resection margins, lymph node count), operating time, conversion rate, and duration of ... hospitals in British Columbia and Washington state.10,11 Our lymph node harvest numbers were higher than in any ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc, July/August 2010
... A large, tender, fluctuant right inguinal lymph node was identified along with several adjacent lymph nodes ... of purulent material was aspirated from the inguinal lymph node.  The patient was given a course of oral ... titre is demonstrated.  Although a total of 16 patients (10 male) diagnosed with tula­remia were identified from 1991 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... gingi­vitis and a 1-cm tender left axillary lymph node. Chest auscultation was limited by the patient’s ... days and the cough and emesis resolved. The left axillary node became nontender and gingivitis abated. By day 4 in ... therapy was then supplied to the patient, who took 700 mg (10 mg/kg) every 8 hours for 5 days and 700 mg every 12 hours ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2006
... MRSA are emerging as common community pathogens. [9,10]  Simultaneously, the nasal carrier rate of MRSA is ... 2002 to Nov. 2005. [img_assist|nid=1018|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=546|height=640] Antibiotics listed ...