Doubtless, the knowledge about the pathogenesis of primary gastric lymphoma could be improved during the last decade. This knowledge is based, above all on histomorphological, experimental and epidemiological investigations which demonstrated that Helicobacter pylori infection plays the important role in developing gastric MALT lymphoma [1]. Nevertheless, the management of this disease remains ...

During a control check-up after rectal cancer treatment, a 67-year-old woman reported experiencing frequent bowel movements. Five years before, she was treated for a stage I tumour (T2N0M0), located 5 cm from the anal verge. The treatment consisted of short-course pelvic radiotherapy (5 × 5 Gy), followed by low anterior resection (LAR) with straight colorectal anastomosis. No post-operative com...

The optimal treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) remains controversial. We aimed to investigate the best treatment for patients with HCC with PVTT. From January 2002 to January 2014, the data from all consecutive patients with HCC with PVTT who underwent surgical treatment (ST),TACE,TACE combined with sorafenib (TACE-Sor), or TACE combined with rad...

The term “multimodality” incorporates visible gestures as part of language, a goal first put forward by Adam Kendon, and this idea revolutionized the scope linguistic inquiry. But here I show that itself is rife with ambiguity, sometimes referring to different physical channels transmission (auditory vs. visual), integration structures more imagistic, less conventionalized expressions (see Davi...

Glucagonomas are pancreatic islet cell tumors arising from the alpha cells which belong to neuroendocrine tumors. They frequently metastasize to the liver. We report the case of a 52- year old man with a pancreatic glucagonoma with synchronous multiple liver metastases treated by surgery, transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous radiofrequency thermal ablation and long-acting octreotide. O...

The case analysis involves the unusual symptomatology and urodynamic findings of a 12 year old girl who presented to the out-patient department with new-onset daytime incontinence. A visual representation of the stabilization of her bladder dynamics following therapy is presented in the form of serial urodynamic studies. What follows is a précis of the subject which will help readers to underst...

The interest of using combined MR and CT information for radiotherapy planning is well documented. However, many planning workstations do not allow to use MR images, nor import predefined contours. This paper presents a new simple approach for transferring segmentation results from MRI to a CT image that will be used for radiotherapy planning, using the same original CT format. CT and MRI image...

M alignancies of the paranasal sinuses represent a rare and biologically heterogeneous group of cancers. Understanding of tumor biology continues to evolve and will likely facilitate the development of improved treatment strategies. For example, some sinonasal tumors may benefit from treatment through primarily nonsurgical approaches, whereas others are best addressed through resection. The res...

This paper documents how children embed multimodality in their journal entries using blogs. Multimodality is the combination of semiotic modes that may include spoken language(s), written language(s), static or moving images and music. Each of them generally offers opportunities for the construction of meaning. In this research, a case study approach was employed to gain an in-depth understandi...

This chapter introduces the concepts of multimodal and federated interaction. Because multimodality means, simply, the combination of multiple modalities (or types of input and output), the authors first introduce some of the various modalities available for computer interaction. The chapter then discusses how multimodality can be used both in desktop and mobile computing environments. The goal...