[Organ-sparing surgery in laryngeal cancer].
Abstract: Basing on their experience with sparing surgery in combined treatment of pharyngeal carcinoma, the authors have developed a method for specification of the diagnosis before treatment and in the course of surgical intervention. Preoperative gamma-beam...
Intraoperative radiation with external irradiation: an alternative for nonresectable non-small-cell lung cancer?
Abstract: In 15 patients with nonresectable non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) (10 squamous, 1 large cell, 4 adenocarcinomas; T1-T3, N0-N2, all M0), lymph node dissection and intraoperative irradiation of the tumour (IORT) with doses between 10 and 20 Gy (11-20 MeV...
Use of hyperbaric oxygen in postradiation head and neck surgery.
Abstract: Data are presented to indicate the value of hyperbaric oxygen in all stages of treatment of patients with irradiation complications following head and neck surgery. Hyperbaric oxygen stimulates angiogenesis, with increased neovascularization and optimization...
Osteoradionecrosis: causes and prevention.
Abstract: Osteoradionecrosis (ORN) is one of the most serious complications arising from head and neck radiation therapy. Current research has shown that ORN represents nonhealing, dead bone and is not a state of infection. ORN is the result of functional and...
[Our experience of spinal anesthesia for transurethral resection of the bladder and prostate. Retrospective study of 334 patients operated in 1986].
Abstract: Retrospective study of one years is performed on 334 patients who undergo transurethral surgery. Spinal anesthesia is used in 263 cases, general anesthesia in 71. Spinal administration of local anesthetics (lidocaine hyperbaric 5% or bupivacaine 0.5%) or...
Hyperbaric oxygen increases survival following carotid ligation in gerbils.
Abstract: We studied the effects of graded exposure to hyperbaric (1,875 mm Hg) oxygen therapy in an acute stroke model prepared by unilateral carotid artery interruption in gerbils. Pentobarbital alone, superoxide dismutase alone, two periods of hyperbaric oxygen...
[Mechanisms of the therapeutic effect of hyperbaric oxygenation in minor differential pressure in stroke].
Abstract: Analysis is made of a complex of clinicoelectrophysiologic, biochemical and biophysical studies conducted in 220 patients with brain stroke, receiving a course of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) at minor differential pressure (1.2-1.3 absolute atmospheres). It...
[Infections of soft tissues by bacterial synergism].
Abstract: The treatment of synergistic bacterial soft tissue infections includes usually surgical debridements and radical excisions of necrotic tissues, antibiotic therapy and volumic resuscitation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy did not prove efficient in these...
Management of chronic staphylococcal osteomyelitis of the temporal bone: the use of hyperbaric oxygen.
Abstract: Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) is an effective adjunct in the management of selected otolaryngologic problems including radiation-induced necrosis of the temporal bone, malignant external otitis, mandibular osteoradionecrosis and refractory osteomyelitis, soft...