OBJECTIVES Recent developments in computer and video technology, multimedia resources enter quickest way possible into medical education and have started to gain popularity. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of video-supported lectures on leaning, with comparison to traditional lectures. METHODS According to lecture techniques, two separate groups; one is the traditional lecture...

UNLABELLED Assessment of tumor response after chemotherapy using (18)F-FDG PET metrics is gaining acceptance. Several studies have suggested that the parameters metabolically active tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) are superior to SUVmax for measuring tumor burden. However, the measurement of MTV and TLG is still controversial; the most common method uses an absolute thresho...

Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy with extracorporeal anastomosis is a widely used procedure; several authors have published their approach to intracorporeal anastomosis. In this paper, we present an approach developed by us and compare short-term outcomes with those of extracorporeal anastomosis in colon cancer patients.Retrospective review of colon cancer patients treated with laparoscopic rig...

INTRODUCTION Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are a treatment option in the second- or third-line palliative setting in EGFR wild-type (wt) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. However, response rates are low, and only approximately 25% will achieve disease control. Early prediction of treatment resistance could accelerate discontinuation of inef...

UNLABELLED Synchronous colorectal cancer liver metastasis (SCLM) remains a clinical challenge, largely because of the limited availability of tools that use reliable prognostic indicators to guide treatment. This study assessed the prognostic ability of preoperative (18)F-FDG PET/CT in patients with SCLM who had undergone curative-intent colorectal and liver surgery. METHODS All included pati...

BACKGROUND Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas arising from the tissues other than primary lymphatic organs are named primary extranodal lymphoma. Most of the studies evaluated metabolic tumor parameters in different organs and histopathologic variants of this disease generally for treatment response. We aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of metabolic tumor parameters derived from initial FDG-PET/CT in...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to investigate the predictive value of sequential (18)F-FDG PET scans for pathological tumor response grade (TRG) after preoperative chemoradiotherapy (PCRT) in locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) and the impact of partial volume effects correction (PVC). METHODS Twenty-eight LARC patients were included. Responders and non-responders status were ...

This study aims to evaluate the role of volume-based positron emission tomography parameters as potential surrogate markers for tumor recurrence in resected pancreatic cancer. Between January 2008 and October 2012, medical records of patients who underwent surgical resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and completed ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT as a part of pr...

Given a text description, Temporal Language Grounding (TLG) aims to localize temporal boundaries of the segments that contain specified semantics in an untrimmed video. TLG is inherently challenging task, as it requires comprehensive understanding both sentence and video contents. Previous works either tackle this task fully-supervised setting large amount annotations or weakly-supervised usual...

Background Validated biomarkers in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) are scarce. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 62 patients with HNSCC treated radiotherapy +/− concurrent chemotherapy. Pretreatment metabolic tumor volume (MTV) total lesion glycolysis (TLG) were measured a 18F-FDG positron emission tomography using liver dependent standardized uptake value threshold. Cox regress...