DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Total body irradiation
Total body irradiation
Total body irradiation (TBI) is a form of radiotherapy used primarily as part of the preparative regimen for haematopoietic stem cell (or bone marrow) transplantation. As the name implies, TBI involves irradiation of the entire body, though in modern practice the lungs are often partially shielded to lower the risk of radiation-induced lung injury. Total body irradiation in the setting of bone marrow transplantation serves to destroy or suppress the recipient's immune system, preventing immunologic rejection of transplanted donor bone marrow or blood stem cells...
Total body irradiation - List of case studies
- Rectal Carcinoma, Gastric Carcinoma, Metastases.
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signet ring cells, at pT3N2 stage. A preoperative full-body PET Scan demonstrated the presence of lesions with elevated carbohydrate ... Seven lymph nodes with adenocarcinoma metastasis out of a total of 10 examined. pT3N2G3. Attached is the report for the chest and ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_3
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III left ribs. On 4/2008 a whole body bone scintigraphy revealed a single area of increased uptake in the left ... - Total body multi-layer volumetric CAT scan à o ...
- 3-year old boy with Medulloblastoma
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probably originating in the vermis. A gross total resection was achieved. He is undergoing a chemotherapy based protocol ... site of the primary tumor and in the csf AND to delay irradiation therapy . The use of high dose chemotherapy, that may cause ... peripheral blood stem cells that have stayed in the body, but those are replaced by the re-infusion. ...
- Recurrent metastases in malignant tumor of left forearm
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of therapy (the CCG protocol used melphalan and total body irradiation). It is unfortunate that most of the ...
- Pulmonary heteroplasia_2
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ribs. On 4/2008 a whole body bone scintigraphy revealed a single area of increased uptake in the ... - Total body multi-layer volumetric CAT scan à o ...
- Adeno Carcinoma of Lung
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data as to the tumor stage could be learned from a total body C.T. scan performed on October. The tumor was found to obstruct the left ...
- Metastatic Heteroplasia of the Lung
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lesions in his brain consistent with metastases. A total body CAT scan demonstrated a mass in the right lung. The diagnosis of poorly ...