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Clinical Articles / BY: Valerie C. Doyon, MD January/February 2024
... needle biopsies, 13 lymphadenectomies, 56 sentinel lymph node biopsies, 17 subcutaneous masses, and 15 internal ... multiple lesions in the same formalin container. On 16 instances, a second biopsy was taken as an intermediate ... for two surgical specimens and four sentinel lymph node biopsies. Incisional biopsies were slightly more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David F. Schaeffer, MD, FRCPC July/August 2023
... the submucosa (T1) is associated with low rates of lymph node metastases and excellent outcomes. A subset of patients ... through the muscularis mucosae, there is no risk for lymph node metastasis. Therefore, as per the BC Colon Screening ... follows a similar pattern to that of adenomatous lesions.[ 16 ] Two randomized trials underway in Europe (EPoS trial ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Paul J. Oxley, MD, FRCSC April 2021
... motor response, which causes impulses to the sinoatrial node and triggers a slowing of the heart rate. The most ... (treated with atorvastatin). His surgery was performed 16 days after the injury to allow time to come off ASA. No ... delayed nature of the treatment caused the asystole. By 16 days posttrauma, the bones would have started to knit ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... tissues, which often involves the atrioventricular (AV) node, as evidenced by autopsy findings.[ 5 ] The severity of ... conduction abnormalities, such as sinus bradycardia, sinus node disease, intra-atrial block, atrial fibrillation, ... carditis than the standard methodology of whole cell EIA.[ 16 ] In BC, most clinicians cannot independently order the C6 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Julian Marsden, MD May 2019
... in its early phase of development. Each urban and rural node represents an ED or diagnostic and treatment centre with ... in the diagram does not signify value, the size of each node does. The larger the node the more value respondents ... then invited to take part in semi-structured interviews, 16 (76%) participated. When all comments were analyzed, five ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Colin Mar, MD, FRCPC December 2019
... size, whether less than or more than 15 mm, and lymph node involvement (Objective 4). The 2011 to 2015 data ... (annual, biennial, and triennial) is commonly observed.[ 16 ] Other studies have also found that rates of ... density on prognostic factors such as tumor size and lymph node involvement (Objective 4). The 2011 to 2015 data ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rebecca Warburton, MD, FRCSC March 2018
... than 2 mm) does not significantly improve their outcome.[ 16 ] Unnecessary reoperation has increased risk of ... all patients with invasive breast cancer. Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has now been replaced by sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for most patients with clinically ...
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 ... therapy is delivered in an accelerated fashion over 16 to 20 sessions. Depending on patient factors such as large ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Connie G. Chiu, MD, FRCSC March 2018
... The estimated risk for patients undergoing axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is 20%, compared with 5% for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB).[ 1 ] However, a more clinically ... sleeves were shown to be useful management strategies.[ 14-16 ] Cosmesis Once a cancer is surgically excised, patients ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Christine E. Simmons, MD, MSc, FRCPC March 2018
... largely accepted as the standard of care in patients with node-positive or high-risk node-negative breast cancer.[ 3 ] Currently, guidelines ... are being used predominantly in research settings.[ 15,16 ] As further work is done to validate these outcomes we ...