III Radiology
1. A 69-year-old woman with a history of poorly controlled hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with a history of left-sided weakness and sensory deficit predominantly involving the lower…
I Board Images
Section I BOARD IMAGES 1. A 45-year-old woman presents to clinic with a new pruritic rash on the flexor surface of her left forearm. Her medical history is significant for…
II Cardiology
Section II CARDIOLOGY 1. A 30-year-old woman presents to her primary care physician with complaints of occasional palpitations occurring over the last 10 years. She currently is asymptomatic and has…
How to Use the INTRABEAM System
3.2.1.2 Control Console The XRS is powered by this component. The control console receives instructions from the user terminal to perform QC and treatment tasks. It executes them, monitors them…
Other Applications of INTRABEAM®
Fig. 12.1 Various (spherical, needle, cylindrical) applicators for the INTRABEAM system 12.2 Surgical Applications Between January 2008 and July 2011, a total of 223 IORT procedures were performed in Mannheim,…
Case Reports
Fig. 15.1 Chest x-ray of the patient showing the pacemaker in situ and the approximate position of the breast cancer Fig. 15.2 Mammogram (mediolateral view) showing the pacemaker. The breast…
Surgical Aspects of the TARGIT Technique in Breast Cancer
Fig. 7.1 Various sizes of applicators are available which can be used according to the size of the surgical cavity after WLE 7.1 Obtaining Informed Consent During the consent process,…
Radiobiology
Fig. 6.1 Cell survival curves representing early-reacting/high α/β (e.g. tumour, mucosa) and late-reacting/low α/β (e.g. brain, lung, breast) tissues have a different shape. At low doses (A) there is relatively…
Intraoperative Photon Radiosurgery in Patients with Malignant Brain Tumours
(1) Centre for Neurosciences, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK Abstract Malignant brain tumours (MBTs) comprise primary malignant tumours (PMTs) and metastatic tumours (METs). MBTs…
Health Economics of TARGIT
, Stephen Morris2 and Michael Alvarado2 (1) Division of Surgery and Intervention Science, Department of Surgery, University College London, London, UK (2) Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, University of California,…
