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Francesco Tramacere

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The Potential Role of Lung Ultrasound B-Lines for Detection of Lung Radio-Induced Toxicity in Breast Cancer Patients after Radiation Therapy.

2016

Breast cancer patients exposed to doses of radiation after radiotherapy could develop toxicity to lung. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is able to detect interstitial lung disease by the evaluation of B-lines. The aim of our study was to assess the number of B-lines to diagnose lung involvement after chest radiotherapy.We measured LUS B-lines in the treated and contralateral lung of 20 breast cancer patients, 1-3 months after the end of radiotherapy and 1 year after previous LUS. The sum of the B-lines number in the 72 sites on anterior and posterior chest yielded a global B-lines score.B-lines were more numerous in treated (median: 21; 1st-3rd quartiles: 11-31) versus untreated hemithorax (median: 3…

Adultmedicine.medical_specialtymedicine.medical_treatmentBreast Neoplasms030204 cardiovascular system & hematologySensitivity and Specificity03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineBreast cancermedicineHumansRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingStage (cooking)Subclinical infectionUltrasonographyLungbusiness.industryInterstitial lung diseaseReproducibility of ResultsMiddle Agedmedicine.diseaseRadiation therapyRadiation Pneumonitismedicine.anatomical_structureTreatment Outcome030220 oncology & carcinogenesisToxicityBiomarker (medicine)Feasibility StudiesFemaleRadiotherapy AdjuvantRadiologyRadiotherapy ConformalCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessEchocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
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Southern Italy: How the Availability of Radiation Therapy, Patient Outcomes, and Risk to Health Care Providers Have Changed During the Coronavirus Di…

2020

The first actions and provisions in a Southern Italy Department of Radiation Oncology are described at the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019-20 coronavirus outbreakmedicine.medical_specialtyCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)business.industrySevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)medicine.medical_treatmentMEDLINECOVID-19humanities030218 nuclear medicine & medical imagingRadiation therapy03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineOncologyRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging030220 oncology & carcinogenesisPandemicRadiation oncologyHealth careMedicineRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingbusinessIntensive care medicineAdvances in Radiation Oncology
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