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Radiofrequency tissue volume reduction for treatment of auricle keloids
2010
Objectives/Hypothesis: Keloids are often refractive to treatment, and recurrences occur quite frequently. Radiofrequency tissue volume reduction (RFTVR) is a surgical technology that induces extensive fibrosis at the target tissues. Methods: We applied RFTVR in 14 patients (19 auricles, 5 patients treated bilaterally; 9 female, 5 male; range, 10–66 years) with keloids of the auricle. Keloids were located at the earlobe in 4 patients (5 auricles), helix in 9 patients (12 auricles), and at both earlobe and helix in 1 patient (2 auricles). In 6 patients (8 auricles) RFTVR was the sole treatment modality applied, and in 7 patients (10 auricles) intralesional steroid injection was also performed…
Direct Measurement of Reoxygenation in Malignant Mammary Tumors after a Single Large Dose of Irradiation
1984
Due to functional and morphological abnormalities of the terminal vascular bed in malignant tumors, a severe restriction of convective transport occurs even in very early growth stages. This leads to nutritional deprivation of the cancer cells and to unfavourable cellular microenvironments as well. During advanced tumor growth stages, the nutritional deprivation and the milieu conditions get worse because pronounced deterioration of diffusive transport is superimposed on the insufficient blood supply. This transport limitation is mainly caused by increases of intercapillary distances and by decreases of vascular surface areas per unit tissue volume. Moreover, these peculiarities of the tumo…
Long-Term Efficacy of Radiofrequency Treatment of Turbinate Hypertrophy: A Patient Based Point of View
2010
Nasal turbinate hypertrophy is a major cause of nasal airway obstruction that affects up to 20% of the European general population. This study aims to determine the efficacy of radiofrequency treatment as perceived by patients during a 2-years period. From 2007 to 2009, an observational study was conducted on 36 patients who consecutively underwent temperature-controlled radiofrequency tissue volume reduction. A questionnaire was administered to each patient in order to collect demographic data, lifestyle habits, health status and visual analogue scale (VAS) score of perceived symptoms. Mean VAS scores of nasal obstruction, headache, rhinorrhoea and anosmia after treatment were significantl…