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Clinical Articles / BY: Valerie C. Doyon, MD January/February 2024
... melanoma-related cases in the Northern Health Region from 2016 to 2020. Ethics approval was granted by the Northern ... needle biopsies, 13 lymphadenectomies, 56 sentinel lymph node biopsies, 17 subcutaneous masses, and 15 internal ... for two surgical specimens and four sentinel lymph node biopsies. Incisional biopsies were slightly more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sympascho Young, MD December 2020
... cases declined from a peak of 40 (0.8 per 100 000) in 2016 to 9 (0.2 per 100 000) in 2018.[ 3 ] Nonetheless, risk ... 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, ...
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 ... all emergency practitioners in BC (unpublished data from 2016 UBC Department of Emergency Medicine survey by Marsden, ...
Editorials / BY: Rona E. Cheifetz, MD, MEd, FRCSC, FACS March 2018
Dr Rona Cheifetz Dr Elaine McKevitt BC statistics from 2016 show an age-adjusted net survival rate for breast cancer ... a greater range of reconstructive options. Axillary lymph node surgery has also evolved, with sentinel lymph node biopsy being recommended for most patients with a ...
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 ... cancer procedures were performed by the same surgeon in 2016 (again excluding cases where patients had neoadjuvant ...