Sentences with phrase «tumor during surgery»

Unfortunately, to do this, surgeons must rely on indirect and crude methods to assess the extent of the tumor during surgery.

Near infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging is a novel technique that may assist the surgeons to improve visualization of tumors during surgery,» Vahrmeijer said.

In this study, samples were taken from patients» tumors during surgery and transplanted into mice to grow new pancreatic cancer tumors.

Our pediatric neurosurgeons use innovative intraoperative MRI technology to provide a detailed view of brain and spinal cord tumors during surgery.

Purpose: This clinical trial is being done to investigate whether small particles called nanoporhphyrins can be used to better visualize tumors during surgery and potentially to see if they will be a useful method to deliver drugs into brain tumors for treatment.

Not exact matches

In January 2013, The Hartford announced that McGee had surgery for the removal of a brain tumor found during a routine checkup, and that he was cancer - free.

She suffered a stroke during surgery to remove the tumor, which initially left her unable to speak or walk, but she made it to D.C. to protest the tax bill.

Republicans with exploratory committees include Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, whose $ 33,790 in the third quarter brought his total to $ 195,941 (Boughton underwent surgery to remove a brain tumor during the quarter); State Sen. Toni Boucher of Wilton ($ 43,336 third quarter, $ 58,890 total) and Norwalk's Steve Obsitnik, who raised $ 63,696 in the third quarter and $ 265,363 to date.

After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 - times as likely to die, 6.9 - times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 - times more likely to have a recurrence.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

Produced by a technique called fiber tractography, the image helped doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital Center in Quebec avoid cutting vital circuitry during brain surgery: The reddest nerve fibers were those most likely to be severed by incisions to remove the tumor.

During a postgraduate medical fellowship, he developed radio - frequency ablation techniques to remove cancerous tumors and he wanted to know how well his technique compared with traditional surgery.

The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.

Called craniotomy, this skull - cutting technique is still used today during brain surgery to treat neurological diseases, injuries, tumors, and blood clots.

«Currently, approximately 1 in 5 women who undergo breast - conserving surgery, also known as lumpectomy, require repeat surgery due to inadequate excision of the tumor during the initial surgical procedure,» explains Arnie D. Purushotham, MD, professor at King's College London, UK.

CLI's high - resolution and small - sized imaging equipment make it a promising technology for assessing tumor margins during breast tumor surgery.

The purpose is to allow surgeons to see tumors better during surgery,» said senior author Dr. Jinming Gao, Professor of Oncology, Pharmacology and Otolaryngology with the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

This phenomenon could be due to tumor cells released into the circulation during surgery or could be the result of existing metastatic outgrowth.

A newly devised tumor - specific fluorescent agent and imaging system guided surgeons in real time to remove additional tumors in ovarian cancer patients that were not visible without fluorescence or could not be felt during surgery, reports Alexander L. Vahrmeijer MD, PhD, head of the Image - guided Surgery group in the Department of Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center in the Nethesurgery, reports Alexander L. Vahrmeijer MD, PhD, head of the Image - guided Surgery group in the Department of Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center in the NetheSurgery group in the Department of Surgery at Leiden University Medical Center in the NetheSurgery at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

If Zika were used in people, it would have to be injected into the brain, most likely during surgery to remove the primary tumor.

During open surgery, doctors rely on their sense of touch to identify the edges of hidden tumors and to locate hidden blood vessels and other anatomical structures: a procedure they call palpation.

Next steps include He's collaboration with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital to retrieve T cells, liver cancer cells and healthy tissue normally removed from patients during surgery, put the mouse receptor genes on these T cells and monitor in a dish both how those cells now fight the tumor and react to healthy human tissue.

Nguyen is developing ways to guide surgeons during tumor removal surgery by using fluorescent compounds to make tumor cells — and just tumor cells — glow during surgery, which helps surgeons perform successful operations and get more of the cancer out of the body.

It is often difficult for surgeons to see whether the entire tumor has been removed during surgery to remove complex brain or spinal cord tumors.

Introduced during tumor removal surgery, the nanotubes could light the way for surgeons.

Penn's Center for Precision Surgery is testing the impact of an investigational dye designed to make tumors «glow» during surgery, so we can more easily detect and remove cancerous Surgery is testing the impact of an investigational dye designed to make tumors «glow» during surgery, so we can more easily detect and remove cancerous surgery, so we can more easily detect and remove cancerous tumors.

They tagged it with a molecule that acts like a flashlight, causing brain tumors to «light up» during surgery so the margins can be seen more easily.

The most important finding was that among 892 patients who had their thyroid tumors removed, none had any spread of the cancer during the 20 years after the surgery.

Patients with tumors that are highly invasive may require blood transfusions during surgery and more care after surgery.

Also during her spay surgery they removed 2 small tumors, one was a mammary tumor and the other was attached to the fat connected to her falopian tube.

The staff constantly exceeded the level of service I expected from them, from calling my every hour on the hour, during our elderly Labs tumor removal surgery to helping us through 9 months of grueling animal export procedures for our departure to Australia!

This will allow us to see the margins of the tumor more readily during surgery.

Tumors can recur if not completely removed during surgery.