BACKGROUND Central venous catheters (CVCs) have been an effective access for chemotherapy instead of peripherally intravenous catheters. There were limited studies on the choices and effects of different types of CVCs for chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to compare the complications, cost, and patients' quality of life and satisfaction of three commonly used CVCs for chemotherapy, such a...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study is to review the long-term oncological outcomes and adverse effects of post-operative radiotherapy (PORT) for Stage I/II seminoma patients in an Australian radiation treatment centre. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 125 patients with Stage I/II seminoma treated with PORT at the Alfred Health Radiation Oncology Service between 1992 and 2013. Patients ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of port-site metastases in patients undergoing laparoscopic procedures for gynecologic cancers. METHODS The charts of patients treated by laparoscopy for diagnosis, treatment, or staging of gynecologic cancers by the academic faculty attending physicians were studied from July 1, 1997 to June 30, 2001. No patient without a histological or cytological diag...

BACKGROUND The PAS-Port (Cardica Inc, Redwood City, CA) is an automated system that allows for the clampless anastomosis of vein grafts to the aorta. The intent of this study was to prospectively compare one year graft patency of this system with conventional hand-sewn anastomoses in a prospective, randomized trial. METHODS A total of 99 patients undergoing elective off-pump coronary bypass s...

This paper presents a system based on five-port demodulator which measures DoA (directions-of-arrival) of radio frequency signals received on an antenna array in the azimuth plane. The receiver operating at 2.4 GHz is composed of four five-port demodulators connected to a ULA (uniform linear array) of four patch antennas. The DoA is estimated by measuring the phase difference of signals picked ...

among the naval forces of Port Boyal, Jamaica, this pestilence has ceased to be the scourge it was when Lind wrote: " It is reputed that in the early part of the eighteenth century this island (Jamaica) buried to the amount of the whole number of its white inhabitants once in five years." The writer had an opportunity of studying the disease clinically in 1882, during an outbreak of yellow feve...

BACKGROUND Over the last decades, many changes have occurred in oncology with new chemotherapy combinations and more complex application schemes becoming available. Central venous catheters and implantable venous port systems have become widely used and have facilitated the problem of vascular access. However, important complications are associated with permanent central venous catheters. MAT...

Many machine translation (MT) evaluation metrics have been shown to correlate better with human judgment than BLEU. In principle, tuning on these metrics should yield better systems than tuning on BLEU. However, due to issues such as speed, requirements for linguistic resources, and optimization difficulty, they have not been widely adopted for tuning. This paper presents PORT 1 , a new MT eval...