A Master-Slave Haptic System for Neurosurgery by Vanni Zanotto, Paolo Boscariol, Alessandro Gasparetto, Albano Lanzutti, Renato Vidoni, Nicola Di Lorenzo, Pasquale Gallina, Aldo Dalla Via, Aldo Rossi

“…This paper presents a master-slave haptic robotic system for minimally invasive neurosurgery, which can aid surgeons in performing safer and more accurate stereotactic neurosurgical treatments. The design of the proposed system is based on LANS (Linear Actuator for NeuroSurgery), which has been developed by our Research Group. …”
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Magnetic resonance imaging in primates. The example of the mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus): From detection of pathological aging to therapeutic evaluations by Nelly Joseph-Mathurin, Olene Dorieux, Audrey Kraska, Anne Bertrand, Mathieu Santin, Nadine El Tannir El Tayara, Marc Dhenain

“…Finally, MRI can be used to practice cerebral surgery in lemurs and determine coordinates for stereotactic injections. …”
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Lymphopenia Is Associated with Gross Target Volumes and Fractions in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Treated with External Beam Radiation Therapy and Also Indicates Worse Overall... by Hai-Ge Zhang, Ping Yang, Tao Jiang, Jian-Ying Zhang, Xue-Juan Jin, Yong Hu, Jing Sun, Shi-Suo Du, Zhao-Chong Zeng

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Surgical resection, radiotherapy and percutaneous thermal ablation for treatment of stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Arun Chockalingam, Menelaos Konstantinidis, Brandon Koo, John Timothy Moon, Andrew Tran, Sahar Nourouzpour, Emily Lawson, Kathleen Fox, Peiman Habibollahi, Bruno Odisio, Mohammed Loya, Ali Bassir, Nariman Nezami

“…We will conduct a meta-analysis, reviewing literature investigating these therapies in adult patients diagnosed with stage 1 NSCLC, with neither hilar nor mediastinal nodal involvement, confirmed either through cytology or histology regardless of type.Methods and analysis We will search electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, ClinicalTrials.gov, Cochrane) from their inception to January 2021 to identify randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs and cohort studies comparing survival and clinical outcomes between any two interventions (lobectomy, wedge resection, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery/robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, cryoablation and consolidated radiation therapies (external beam radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and 3D conformal radiation therapy). …”
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Symptomatic Pituitary Metastasis as Initial Manifestation of Renal Cell Carcinoma: Case Report and Review of Literature by Gunjan Y. Gandhi, Russell Fung, Patrick E. Natter, Raafat Makary, K. C. Balaji

“…Clinical, biochemical, and radiologic characteristics of pituitary metastasis are poorly defined and can be difficult to diagnose before surgery. We present an unusual case with pituitary metastasis as the first manifestation of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). …”
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Long-Term Intracranial Progression-Free Survival in Lung Cancer Brain Metastases Extended Beyond 50 Months with Gubenxiaoyi Formula (GBXY): A Groundbreaking Case Study by Zhengzheng Yang, Haiming Li, Lei Chen, Shujiao Li, Dong Chen, Taicheng Lu, Tongjing Ding, Ruiyang Han, Peiyu Cheng, Xiaomin Wang

“…Case presentation Here, we present a case of a middle-aged female with lung cancer BM, whose condition was assessed as progressive post-standard treatment including two local surgeries (both involving resection of cerebellar space-occupying lesions), stereotactic radiotherapy, chemotherapy and EGFR-TKIs. …”
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Urethra-sparing prostate cancer radiotherapy: Current practices and future insights from an international survey by Jennifer Le Guévelou, Paul Sargos, Piet Ost, Filippo Alongi, Stefano Arcangeli, Alejandro Berlin, Pierre Blanchard, Anna Bruynzeel, Olivier Chapet, Alan Dal Pra, Robert T. Dess, Matthias Guckenberger, Andrew Loblaw, Amar U. Kishan, Barbara Alicja Jereczek-Fossa, David Pasquier, Mohamed Shelan, Shankar Siva, Alison C. Tree, Costantinos Zamboglou, Stephane Supiot, Vedang Murthy, Thomas Zilli

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