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In patients with known cardiac, renal, or pulmonary diseases, fluid should be administered with caution, and concomitant measurement of central venous pressure and respiratory function is desirable. After correction of acute hypovolemia, the remaining fluid deficit should be corrected slowly over 24-48 hours; additional fluid should be given to accommodate ongoing losses. Hypovolemic Hypernatremia Disorders associated with losses of both sodium and water but with a relatively greater loss of water lead to hypovolemic hypernatremia. Hypernatremia in these situations develops because of failure to ingest hypotonic fluids. The renal causes are usually associated with a urine sodium concentration higher than 20 mEq/L. Euvolemic Hypernatremia Pure water losses do not lead to volume contraction unless the water losses are large; these patients therefore appear euvolemic. In addition, hypernatremia develops only when the hypotonic losses are not accompanied by appropriate water intake. The autosomal recessive form occurs in association with diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy, and deafness (Wolfram syndrome). The urine is hypo-osmolar and remains so even when these children develop dehydration and consequently increased serum osmolality. Repeated episodes of hypernatremic dehydration can lead to permanent neurologic sequelae. There is considerable individual variation in the required dosage, and it is important to allow patients to revert to mild polyuria before the next dose is given, to prevent excessive water accumulation. An intravenous form of antidiuretic hormone can be used in sick and comatose patients. Because obligatory urinary water losses increase with increasing solute load, restriction of sodium intake reduces the urine output. Administration of diuretics, such as thiazides and amiloride, keeps these patients in a mildly dehydrated state, which leads to increased water reabsorption in the more proximal segments of the nephron, thereby decreasing urine output. Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs such as indomethacin also reduce polyuria and may be used in combination with diuretics. Careful attention should be paid to the fluid balance in these patients when they are sick and have poor oral fluid intake because they require large quantities of water replacement. It is important to obtain an ionized calcium level when evaluating calcium derangements. Most of the causes are iatrogenic (administration of improperly formulated oral rehydration solution, administration of intravenous fluids, excessive bicarbonate administration during resuscitative efforts, inadvertent dialysis against a high sodium concentration dialysate, salt poisoning, and seawater drowning). With severe hypocalcemia, patients may present with paresthesias of the extremities, Chvostek sign, Trousseau sign, muscle cramps or spasm, laryngospasm, tetany, and seizures. Clinical Signs and Symptoms of Hypernatremia Hypernatremia causes intracellular dehydration by movement of water from the intracellular to the extracellular compartment. The consequences of intracellular dehydration are particularly marked in the brain and manifest with irritability, altered sensorium, lethargy, and hyperreflexia and eventually seizures, coma, and death. Brain hemorrhages can result from tearing of small blood vessels when the brain contracts as a result of intracellular dehydration. They increase intracellular osmolality, consequently restoring intracellular volume. This protective response has significant implications for therapy and the speed with which hypernatremia should be corrected. Hypercalcemia usually occurs through 1 of 3 mechanisms: increased bone resorption, increased gastrointestinal absorption of calcium, and decreased renal excretion. Patients with severe hypercalcemia may have neurologic manifestations ranging from drowsiness to coma. Large volumes of isotonic crystalloid may be necessary to replace the fluid deficit. Once initial fluid resuscitation has been performed, the serum sodium concentration should be restored slowly over a minimum period of 48 hours. During the correction of hypernatremia, the idiogenic osmoles that brain cells produce to prevent cellular dehydration dissipate slowly. If hypernatremia is corrected too rapidly, the increased intracellular osmolality from the idiogenic osmoles can lead to cerebral edema. In patients with hypervolemic hypernatremia, the 1st line of therapy is restriction of salt intake, followed by administration of diuretics. In patients with rickets, the growth plate cartilage and osteoid continues to expand but mineralization is inadequate, and as a result, the growth plate thickens. The circumference of the growth plate and the metaphysis also increases, which expands bone width at the location of the growth plates and causes some of the classic clinical manifestations, such as widening of the wrists and ankles. There is also softening of the bones that can lead to bone deformities and causes them to bend easily, especially when subject to certain forces. Children at risk are those with limited sun exposure, ages 6-24 months, prematurity, solely breast-fed infants, use of anticonvulsants, and darker skin pigmentation. Rickets is still a significant problem in developing countries, likely due to nutritional vitamin D deficiency and inadequate calcium intake. Clinical Manifestations Most clinical features of rickets are due to skeletal changes. Craniotabes is a softening of the cranial bones, which can be appreciated by applying pressure at the occiput or over the parietal bones. Increased circumference of the wrists and ankles is a result of growth plate widening. Patients with rickets may have an indentation of the lower ribs, known as a Harrison groove, which occurs from the pulling of the softened ribs by the diaphragm during inspiration. Softening of the ribs can impair air movement and predisposes patients to atelectasis and pneumonia. In addition to the skeletal manifestations, rickets can present with hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, and tetany (Table 46. It is important to note that most children are asymptomatic, and rickets is diagnosed through an incidental finding on physical or radiologic examination. About 50% of the calcium is in the ionized form, 40% is protein bound (mainly to albumin), and 10% is associated with anions, such as bicarbonate, citrate, sulfate, phosphate, and lactate. It is important to remember that serum albumin levels and pH affect calcium levels. There is a direct relationship between serum albumin concentration and total serum calcium. Changes in the lower extremities tend to be the dominant feature in X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. Symptoms secondary to hypocalcemia occur only in those forms of rickets associated with decreased serum calcium (Table 46. Diagnosis of rickets is usually made by radiographic examination of the long bones. This is true in all causes of shock, such as dehydration, adrenal crisis, or systemic hemorrhage. The circulating blood volume must be quickly reestablished; this is usually performed as part of the resuscitation phase of treating dehydration or shock.
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The diagnostic evaluation and multidisciplinary management of neurofibromatosis 1 and neurofibromatosis 2. A rare and intriguing disease opening new insight into basic mechanisms of carcinogenesis. We have truncated this review; eyelid lesions are not covered and tumors that affect them are discussed under cutaneous neoplasms. Similarly, retinoblastoma, which occurs predominately in children under 5 years of age, is covered in Chapter 47. These overall statistics largely reflect those of melanoma, which is the most common cancer of the eye and orbit. However, because of the great diversity of other eye and orbit cancers, this chapter presents their risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment separately for the most common of these cancers. The most frequent are squamous cell carcinomas, followed by melanomas, lymphomas, and Kaposi sarcoma. In addition, cutaneous malignancy such as sebaceous carcinoma or, rarely, basal cell carcinoma, can involve the conjunctiva. The two most common conjunctival malignancies (squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma) arise from the epithelium. Therefore, if one places a drop of tetracaine in the conjunctiva and with a cotton tip applicator can move the conjunctival epithelium, and the lesion does not move. Conjunctival squamous cell neoplasms initially arise as an intraepithelial process, usually occurring at the junction of the cornea and the conjunctiva (the limbus). In the management of conjunctival carcinomas, the hallmark is an incisional or, if easily obtainable, an excisional biopsy. There are no data that an incisional biopsy adversely affects prognosis in any conjunctival malignancy. Most of these tumors remain superficial and rarely (<5%), in the invasive form, invade into the globe itself. The management of these intraepithelial lesions has changed markedly over the last decade [5, 6]. Most squamous cell carcinomas that are in situ can be managed with topical agents. There is a paucity of randomized prospective control data comparing different topical agents. If one topical agent is not effective often another with a different mechanism of action will control the tumor. Most centers favor topical interferon with possibly a better control rate with less morbidity [7]. Malignant Tumors of the Eye 609 Unfortunately, topical agents have firstorder pharmacokinetics of diffusion thus, in a thick lesion that is invasive, this is not a good option for treatment. Invasive carcinomas are treated by surgical resection, usually with frozen section control of the margins, followed with either adjunctive cryotherapy or topical agents to the resection bed of the tumor. Radiation is usually limited to patients with multiple recurrences or deep invasion; although in some of those cases we and others have reported surgical ocular salvage with good vision [3]. Incisional biopsy to assess the cellular atypia of melanocytes at the basal layer is highly predictive of whether or not these lesions will undergo malignant degeneration. Conjunctival melanomas have approximately onetwentieth the frequency of melanomas arising in the uveal tract [3].
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Patients often present with headaches, cranial nerve palsies, obstructive hydrocephalus, etc. Survival is heavily influenced by histologic grade and infiltrative nature of the lesion. If there are features consistent with highgrade lesion, or a focal tumor such as pilocytic astrocytoma, biopsy or resection, respectively, may be indicated, but is feasible only in a small percentage of cases. Prognosis Prognosis has gradually improved over the years for lowgrade astrocytoma, anaplastic astrocytoma, and glioblastoma, but more research is necessary to truly make a significant difference in the lives of most individuals with these tumors. As proteomics and genetic research advance, targeted therapies, novel cytotoxic agents, immunotherapy, and other advances may all prove beneficial in the quest to improve the quality and quantity of life for diffuse astrocytoma patients. Focal Astrocytic Tumors Focal astrocytic tumors differ from diffuse astrocytomas in that they tend to be well circumscribed, and may be surgically 584 Cancer of the Nervous System and Eye curable if they are in a surgically accessible location. It most commonly occurs in the cerebellum, but may also occur along the optic nerve or chiasm, hypothalamus, or supratentorially. Patients tend to present with symptoms related to the location of the tumor, which may include cranial neuropathies, ataxia, or hydrocephalus when tumors are in the posterior fossa, or seizures when occurring supratentorially. Tumors most commonly enhance vigorously with contrast, and may have a cystic component. Surgery is the mainstay of treatment, if the tumor is in a surgically accessible area, and cure may be possible from surgery alone. Radiation treatment is reserved for recurrence or progression when additional surgery is not possible [113]. Histology is characterized by pilocytes in a fibrillar background, and Rosenthal fibers (eosinophilic intracytoplasmic masses). Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma About 90% of pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas occur in individuals less than age 30 and generally in the temporal lobe, presenting with seizures due to cortical involvement [115]. The preferred therapy of these generally cystic lesions with a mural nodule is surgical resection, with the maneuver also helping some individuals with seizure control. Oligodendrogliomas more often contain calcium, additionally cysts in 20%, and hemorrhage in 10%, giving the tumors a heterogeneous appearance on T1 and T2 images. If resection is not feasible, a stereotactic biopsy may be performed for diagnosis. The prognosis of oligodendroglioma is relatively good with outcomes dependent on tumor location, grade, and patient age. Younger patients, with lowgrade lesions centered in the frontal lobe, have the best prognosis. Ependymomas Ependymomas arise from the ependymal cells that line the ventricular system and the central canal of the spinal cord. They have a predilection for the posterior fossa, where they grow within the fourth ventricle and typically cause hydrocephalus. Supratentorial ependymomas also arise from ependymal structures but grow into the parenchyma of the hemisphere and may have no obvious intraventricular component. The incidence is bimodal, with the major peak at 5 years and a smaller peak at 35 years. Ependymomas account for 10% of Nonastrocytic Tumors Oligodendrogliomas Oligodendrogliomas are slowgrowing diffusely infiltrating tumors derived from the white matter of the cerebral hemispheres. Over the last 20 years, these tumors have shown a more robust response to treatment and thus a better prognosis when compared to other glialbased tumors. The presenting Central Nervous System and Peripheral Nerves 585 childhood intracranial tumors, 60% of which occur in the posterior fossa. Symptoms from ependymomas are location dependent and can include headaches, nausea, emesis, changes in vision, rapid increase in head circumference in very young children, and myelopathy. A number of different mutations have been described, however, none are characteristic. In pediatric ependymomas, allelic loss on the short arm of chromosome 17 has been shown. Eventually, most patients succumb to local recurrence rather than metastatic disease [122]. Histopathologically, the distinguishing feature between the three grades is increased mitotic activity. The diagnosis of atypical choroid plexus papilloma is important because it carries a 5fold increase in recurrence at 5 years compared to choroid plexus papilloma [123]. Choroid plexus tumors typically exhibit a contrastenhancing lobulated intraventricular mass. Resection of choroid plexus tumors is serious, though technically possible surgery, as it almost always requires passing through normal neural structures. The main predictors of longterm survival in choroid plexus tumors are the degree of resection and the diagnosis of less malignant histology [124]. They are composed of neuronal cells of the septum pellucidum and the subependymal cells of the lateral ventricles. Stereotypically these lesions have a base originating from the septum and extend into the ventricle. Calcium deposition can be seen in up to 50% of cases with varying distributions of deposition. They most commonly present in infants and young children with a long history of medically refractory partial seizure that can progress to secondary generalized seizures. Typically lesions are located within the cortex, most often as a single focus in the mesial or lateral temporal lobe. Forty percent of lesions have microscopic cystic components, and 30% are associated with subtle cortical dysplastic changes in the adjacent cortex [127]. Gliomas of the pineal region are a distinct form of brainstem glioma commonly arising from the cells located within the quadrigeminal plate. Variable degrees of contrast enhancement are seen in tectal lesions and correlate with the grade of the lesion. Embryonal Tumors Gangliogliomas have both neuronal and glial cell elements and gangliocytomas are composed of ganglion cells alone. These tumors are the most common neoplastic reason for chronic, intractable, focal epilepsy in young patients [129]. A systematic neurophysiological workup must precede the tailored resection in order to achieve seizure control and to avoid postsurgical deficits including amnesia and/or emotional malfunctions [130].
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After obtaining a gradient image from n channels, the local minima watershed method was used for segmentation of region of interest. The performance analysis of the results is: Accuracy 96%, sensitivity 95%, and specificity 99%. The preprocessing was done by the use of a median filter for noise removal and anisotropic diffusion for edge enhancement from digitized histopathological images. The basal layers were extracted from preprocessed images using thresholding by fuzzy divergence to segment out the surface epithelium. In the next step, edge boundary was detected by the use of canny edge detector from the binary images and the longest edge was extracted by connected component labeling to find out the lower boundary. Then the shape and the orientation of the lower boundary were detected by a parabola-fitting method. To separate out the epithelial cell border in H & E stain, the color deconvolution was performed to separate the hematoxilin plane. Though watershed segmentation was used to segment the cell boundary, it only gave the boundary with background epithelial region. To get the best classifier performance, they compared two supervised and three unsupervised classification systems. Though histopathology is a well-established method, the sample collection of this technique is invasive. The energy functional contains a data cost, which depends on intensity and an edge cost, which depends on intensity gradient. To optimize the energy functional, min-cut segmentation approach was used to obtain a binary segmentation mask. For cell tracking from the binary mask, they used foreground propagation and no constraint merging from frame to frame and assigned a specific label on each object. Their directiondependent asymmetric boundary cost gave good results in comparison to symmetric graph cut boundary cost function in terms of recall and precision, where recall measures the ratio of ground truth boundary pixels with the computed boundary pixels within four neighborhood tolerance. For this purpose, firstly they used a circular Hough transform for automated straight line and curvature detection. They divided the images into background and foreground regions either by object or by object edges. Though no major works particularly on oral cancer have been reported, here the image analysis part regarding this imaging modalities has been reported. To fulfill this, they 1st used a robust shear vector detection procedure based on morphological gradient with linear structuring element. Then for image reconstruction, a 2D Hilbert transform is used with this estimated orientation in the Fourier domain. The positive parts of the image are only considered to reduce the side effect of Hilbert transform. Then for post processing to remove the small artifacts morphological opening was performed by using disk-structuring elements. After detecting the bacterial cells, a cell centerline detection was done by combining the Euclidean distance with the shortest path algorithm. The Euclidean distance maps calculated the distance of every boundary pixel, and the minimum cost path was calculated using the shortest path algorithm. In the next step, they implemented different parameters like cell centroid and centerline length to determine the position of the intracellular proteins. Then for image reconstruction, they used a Hilbert transform including lowpass filtering in Fourier domain. Then the image was transformed to an intensity-based image by using the deconvolution method. For cell segmentation, they first detected the center of each cell by an iterative method using oriented kernels. In the second step, the center pixel was taken as seed point to grow the regions using the level set method in sequence of three level set functions (i) initial expansion, which was used to detect the internal boundary of the cells, (ii) free expansion, which was used to detect the external boundary of the cells, and finally (iii) surface wrapping, which determined the direction of evolution. The algorithm is able to detect individual cells-whether they are regular or irregular, touching cells or overlapping cells. In this study, a total of 56 neoplastic patients and 11 normal patients were taken as volunteers. Autofluorescence images were obtained at different excitation ranges from 365 to 450 nm excitation wavelengths using a Multispectral Digital Microscope. The data taken from first 39 patients and 7 volunteers were selected for training purpose and rest of the data were for test. At each excitation level, the ratio of green and red pixel intensities was obtained. They developed an algorithm based on the extracted features and performance of the algorithm was evaluated against the histopathology images. This study is basically a simple classification algorithm based on red and green autofluorescence intensity collected from normal as well as neoplastic patients and found to be 96% sensitive and 91. The preprocessing was done by using contrast stretching method to make the brighter side brighter and darker side darker. According to their findings, k-means and canny edge-based segmentation perform better than other algorithms. The resulted low-pass outcome is rescaled and then subtracted from the raw image to produce the final outcome. They compared their segmentation outcome pictorially with the level set algorithm and the Marr-hildreth algorithm. However, they did not use any comparison parameter to quantitatively compare their algorithm. However, visual examination of the lesion site often introduced false-positive outcomes. One such approach introduced in 1964 by Neibel and Chromet is the use of toluidine blue to assess the oral neoplastic disorders [51]. However, such methods have not been recommended as superior screening tools due to appearance of false color by variation in staining procedure [55]. The most established prognostic screening of malignancy is biopsy, in which a sample tissue or cell is collected from the site of target for conducting the test. Histological images provide detailed and clear view of the disease and any change that occurs during the disease progression. Beside its wide range of applicability, histological assessment suffers from significant interobserver and intraobserver variability in diagnosis of oral dysplasia. Additionally, this method is considered to be invasive, painful, expensive, time consuming, and specially not suitable for routine monitoring. To overcome the problem arising from routine monitoring by the biopsy method, the screening techniques are subdivided into two main categories - optical microscopy and spectroscopy. Vizilite examines the oral cavity with an illuminated chemiluminescent light stick. The manufacturer of these screening aids does not make any claim that the device is either sensitive or specific to the identification of any type of abnormal oral lesion [14]. So, the use of these light-based system along with conventional screening examination was not beneficial in identifying dysplasia or cancer [29]. Bright-field microscopy is another simple optical microscopy technique and can be used to image label-free samples. Though traditionally staining is required to enhance the contrast of images, now attention is shifted toward unstained samples. In this direction, for label-free monitoring of oral samples, exfoliative brush cytology with advanced imaging technique is now gaining clinical importance to differentiate between normal, premalignant, and cancerous cells [57].
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The diagnosis can be made easier if evidence is found of a clonal chromosomal abnormality, of which monosomy 7 is the most prevalent. These patients have a leu kocytosis without monocytosis, and characteristically have dys plastic neutrophils in the peripheral blood. Over 80% of cases have cytogenetic abnormalities, with +8 and del(20q) being the most prevalent. However, there were increased rates of thrombo sis in the phlebotomy only arm during the first 3 years when compared to the other arms [158]. When compared with best sup portive care, ruxolitinib led to superior response rates and Hct control. The goal of treatment is to prevent complications from thrombocytosis, such as thrombosis and cardiovascularrelated morbidities, as well as hemorrhagic events secondary to acquired von Willebrand disease. Other therapies are aimed at improving quality of life, decreas ing symptoms, and decreasing progression of the disease. 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One needs to counsel the women regarding the multifocal nature of this condition, high recurrence rate (15% by 4 years) and need for further treatment in one-fifth of the cases. Also, one needs to explain the high false-positive rate of glandular abnormality in cervical cytology and consequent negative biopsy on histology. If the margins of the first cone biopsy are not clear, it is reasonable to offer a repeat cone biopsy in order to exclude invasion and obtain negative margins. A hysterectomy (preferably vaginally) should be offered if she has completed her family or does not wish to conceive in the future. Close surveillance for 10 years of conservatively treated women should consist of cytology (with endocervical brush) and may be best managed in colposcopy clinic. The symptoms (pressure symptoms) and ascites and effusion usually resolve once the tumour is removed. Pseudo-Meigs syndrome: It is characterised by ascites, pleural effusion and benign ovarian tumours (other than fibromas). Atypical Meigs syndrome: It is associated with benign pelvic mass with a rightsided pleural effusion but no ascites. However, 15% of the bowel injuries are not recognised at the time of surgery and may present later. The risk of death is 8/100,000 because of complications and is not routinely discussed by doctors during consent. Therefore, a lateral port more than 7 mm in size and central ports >10 mm should be closed with a J-shaped needle. The risk of frequent complications includes shoulder tip pain (due to leftover gas in the abdomen irritating the diaphragm), wound bruising, gaping and infection. The additional procedures one should discuss include laparotomy, rectification of serious complications. The length of the trocars can be 100 mm instead of 75 mm so the length is appropriate for the depth of the abdominal wall. Postoperatively, good pain relief is important as it will promote early mobilisation and discharge from the hospital. These cells are basically rounded, nucleated keratinocytes formed due to antibody-mediated damage to cell adhesion protein desmoglein. Systemic immunosuppressive therapy and oral corticosteroids are usually required to prevent scarring. It is not known whether Intralipid can cause harm to fetus when administered to pregnant women or if it can affect fertility (no animal studies reported as per U. Intralipid preparations have been used for parenteral nutrition to deliver essential fatty acids. There is no evidence to suggest its use in assisted reproduction or recurrent miscarriage. Therefore they need to be advised regarding using contraception and more so reliable contraception in view that if a woman gets pregnant these pregnancies may be at higher risk for the mother and the baby (increased risk of miscarriage and also ectopic pregnancies). It is a quick procedure which takes less than five minutes and does not require general anaesthesia. Following the procedure 40% will have complete amenorrhoea and 90% will have light, normal or no periods. Post ablation tubal sterilization syndrome: 10% risk (cyclical or intermittent pelvic pain in women who have had prior tubal sterilization). Long term recurrent bleeding: may be due to endometrial regeneration or other pathology such as adenomyosis or fibroids. However if the ablation is more than a year and the bleeding persists, an endometrial biopsy is warranted to exclude endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial cancer. If adequate sample cannot be obtained due to intrauterine adhesions which are often the case, a hysterectomy should be offered to these women. Hysteroscopic endometrial destruction, optimum method for preoperative endometrial preparation: A prospective, randomized, multicenter evaluation. Endometrial surveillance incorporating outpatient endometrial biopsy is recommended after a diagnosis of hyperplasia without atypia. At least two consecutive 6-monthly negative biopsies should be obtained prior to discharge. Women should be advised to seek a further referral if abnormal vaginal bleeding recurs after completion of treatment because this may indicate disease relapse. Once two consecutive negative endometrial biopsies have been obtained then long-term follow-up should be considered with annual endometrial biopsies. The risk of concurrent endometrial cancer with complex atypical hyperplasia is up to 40%. Therefore, a further hysteroscopy and thorough endometrial sampling should be considered despite diagnosis of hyperplasia on endometrial Pipelle biopsy. Women with atypical hyperplasia should undergo a total hysterectomy because of the risk of underlying malignancy or progression to cancer. There is no benefit from intraoperative frozen section analysis of the endometrium or routine lymphadenectomy. Postmenopausal women with atypical hyperplasia should be offered bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy together with the total hysterectomy. For premenopausal women, the decision to remove the ovaries should be individualised; however, bilateral salpingectomy should be considered as this may reduce the risk of a future ovarian malignancy. Endometrial ablation is not recommended because complete and persistent endometrial destruction cannot be ensured and intrauterine adhesion formation may preclude endometrial histological surveillance. Women wishing to retain the infertility should be counselled about the risks of underlying malignancy and subsequent progression to endometrial cancer. Pretreatment investigations should aim to rule out invasive endometrial cancer or co-existing ovarian cancer. Histology, imaging and tumour marker results should be reviewed in a multidisciplinary meeting and a plan for management and ongoing endometrial surveillance formulated. Once fertility is no longer required, hysterectomy should be offered in view of the high risk of disease relapse. Review intervals should be every 3 months until two consecutive negative biopsies are obtained. Prior to assisted reproduction, regression of endometrial hyperplasia should be achieved as this is associated with higher implantation and clinical pregnancy rates. Explain to women that there is some evidence that isoflavones or black cohosh may relieve vasomotor symptoms. However, explain that multiple preparations are available and their safety is uncertain.
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Hospice care is a form of palliative care that provides care for those at the end of their life pulse pressure 12 discount amlodipine american express. Although hospice services are widely available, most women with terminal ovarian cancer continue to receive anticancer treatment and have repeated hospital admissions during the last 6 months of their life [60]. Earlier referral to hospice would provide higher quality and more satisfactory care in more appropriate and, often, less costly settings. Approximately 10% of patients present with an acute abdomen from torsion, spontaneous tumor rupture, or hemorrhage. Isosexual precocity from ectopic human chorionic gonadotrophin production occurs rarely. These patients should be referred to a gynecologic oncologist or a pediatric surgeon for management as soon as possible. Consequently, if possible, the karyotype should be determined preoperatively in premenarchal girls with a pelvic mass. Lactate dehydrogenase and placental alkaline phosphatase are elevated in most women with dysgerminomas. For patients without clinical evidence of extraovarian spread, comprehensive surgical staging includes assessment of peritoneal cytology, unilateral salpingooophorectomy, omentectomy, bilateral pelvic and paraaortic lymph node sampling, and multiple peritoneal biopsies. However, lack of comprehensive surgical staging does not appear to worsen prognosis if contemporary adjuvant chemotherapy is administered [64]. Based on these data, it has been suggested that the extent of surgical staging be limited to unilateral oophorectomy with biopsy/excision of any masses, and that reoperation solely for comprehensive surgical staging can be avoided. However, selected patients may choose to undergo comprehensive surgical staging in an attempt to avoid chemotherapy. It is worth noting that conservative surgery does not imply ovarian cystectomy; the safety of ovarian cystectomy rather than oophorectomy remains to be determined and cannot be recommended at this time. In general, the uterus can be preserved even for those patients requiring bilateral salpingooophorectomy because assisted reproductive technology with ovum donation could permit future pregnancy. Complete hysterectomy with bilateral salpingooophorectomy may be warranted for patients who have completed childbearing. Patients without gross residual disease and negative tumor markers receive three to four cycles; those with measurable disease or elevated tumor markers are treated for two cycles past normalization of tumor markers, disappearance of measurable disease, or six cycles. In these studies, the relapse rate with surveillance alone approached 50%; however, the salvage rate with chemotherapy ranged from 91 to 100%. Although encouraging, the safety and efficacy of postoperative surveillance without adjuvant chemotherapy in this population remains to be determined. In an attempt to reduce the toxicity associated with bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin, carboplatin may be used in lieu of cisplatin [73]. However, widespread adoption of this regimen awaits the development and completion of a randomized, controlled trial. The few patients who develop recurrent disease after contemporary treatment generally do so within the first year; recurrences after the second year are extremely rare. A mass detected on examination or an imaging study must be adequately biopsied since immature teratoma may recur with nonmalignant mature elements or gliosis. Treatment failures are classified as platinumrefractory (progression during or persistence following primary treatment), platinumresistant (progression with 6 weeks of primary treatment), or platinum sensitive (recurrence beyond 6 weeks after primary treatment). Platinumrefractory disease is incurable and the cure rate for platinumresistant disease is low; ifosphamidebased combination chemotherapy has some activity [74]. Approximately 50% of patients with platinumsensitive disease may be salvaged with secondline ifosphamidebased highdose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue and this approach is preferred [75]. Selected patients may benefit from secondary cytoreductive surgery, particularly those with immature teratoma and isolated foci of recurrent tumor that appear resectable on imaging study [76]. Occasionally, persistence of mature tissue elements can occur with immature teratomas, mimicking persistent disease, but there is no benefit to resecting these lesions. Late Effects the most feared late effect of etoposidebased chemotherapy is the development of acute myeloid leukemia. Factors associated with chemotherapy associated premature ovarian failure include age, cumulative dose, and duration of therapy. Women treated with contemporary fertilitysparing surgery and chemotherapy appear to have a very low risk of premature ovarian failure and have normal fecundity [77]. Women successfully treated for ovarian germ cell tumors are comparable to matched controls except for several chemotherapyassociated sequelae, including peripheral neuropathy, tinnitus, and Raynaud Syndrome [78]. In addition, chemotherapy appeared to have minimal or no effect upon ovarian function for those women who underwent fertility sparing surgery [79]. Similar to the management of ovarian germ cell tumors, fertilitysparing surgery appears to be safe and efficacious [87]. Complete hysterectomy with bilateral salpingooophorectomy is warranted for those patients who have completed childbearing or those with extraovarian disease. Due to the potential for development of endometrial hyperplasia or carcinoma, a thorough curettage must be performed to assess the endometrium in all patients with estrogenproducing tumors undergoing fertilitysparing surgery [88]. Despite a paucity of supportive data, aggressive surgical resection of all extraovarian disease appears warranted. Currently, the most active and widely used chemotherapy regimen is bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin [90]. Taxanebased chemotherapy appears to be active and less toxic than bleomycin, etoposide, and cisplatin [91]. Targeted therapy with agents such as bevacizumab is promising and awaits further evaluation [95]. These tumors arise from the sex cords (granulosa and Sertoli cells) or the stroma (fibroblasts, theca, and Leydig cells) (Table 19. Although the peak incidence occurs during the perimenopause, a substantial proportion occurs in women under 40 years old. Excess estrogen production results in agedependent effects ranging from isosexual precocious puberty to menstrual irregularities to postmenopausal bleeding, as well as development of endometrial hyperplasia or endometrial cancer. Excess androgen production results in virilization ranging from oligomenorrhea to frank masculinization. In addition to the hormonal effects, most patients present with abdominal pain, abdominal distention, and a mass. The tumors vary in size from microscopic to over 40 cm, are nearly always unilateral, and over 90% are stage I. Late recurrence, often more than a decade after initial treatment, is an unusual feature of adulttype granulosa cell tumors. Similarly, 22% of recurrences of steroid cell tumors not otherwise specified occur after 5 years [80]. Obesity and the risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: a systematic review and metaanalysis. Menopausal hormone use and ovarian cancer risk: individual participant metaanalysis of 52 epidemiological studies. The utility of human epididymal protein 4, cancer antigen 125, and risk for malignancy algorithm in ovarian cancer and endometriosis. Ovarian malignancy risk stratification of the adnexal mass using a multivariate index assay. Predictive value of symptoms for ovarian cancer: comparison of symptoms reported by questionnaire, interview, and general practitioner notes. Prophylactic salpingectomy in premenopausal lowrisk women for ovarian cancer: primum non nocere.
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Normally medical image analysis by human experts is very time consuming, nonreproducible, and highly dependent on the expert. If such an analysis is done by a computer, then it can identify features of the brain tumor and delineate it in entire three-dimensional (3D) image. The algorithms must generate the reproducible results with the same accuracy on every run. The automated tumor segmentation supports human expert, which in turn results in treatment planning and follow-up. Such data can be captured at remote location and processed at a centralized location. The image intensity can be modulated by using different pulse types and imaging parameters. For example, imaging parameter related to longitudinal relaxation time is varied to generate T1 type of images. Similarly, variation in transverse relaxation time generates images for T2 modality. The specific tissue characteristics can be captured by varying signal intensities in T1- and T2-weighted images [3]. The intensity in brain images is primarily determined exclusively by the T1 and T2 relaxation times. The tumor growth compresses normal tissues deforming shape and making their identification even more difficult. The type of required segmentation is dependent on following factors: (1) type of the body part for which imaging is required; (2) imaging modality; (3) application for which algorithm is to be developed. The possible applications involve organ measurement, cell counting, or growth prediction based on the extracted boundary and temporal data. The greatest challenge in medical image segmentation is a large variability in sensing modality. The captured gray levels are very close to each other for different brain tissues. Image segmentation has to play an important role in identifying tumorous tissues correctly and efficiently. Conventionally, the properties of image used for segmentation include (1) grayscale; (2) color; (3) texture; (4) brightness; (5) contrast. After preprocessing, proper features should be selected for improved image stratification [6]. It is suitable for an image with large patch of uniform intensity for foreground and background. The uniformity in patch is because nearby pixels are correlated and they share similar information about that region [9]. Such discontinuities are detected using first-order edge operators like Prewitt, Sobel, or second-order operators like Laplacian. Usually after application of operators, edges with magnitude greater than threshold are retained while other are discarded. They may be used in conjunction with region-based methods for better segmentation. The region-growing methods can be further divided into region merging, region splitting, or split and merge. The method requires seed point and the segmentation result is dependent on its choice. However, there are possibilities of under- or oversegmentation in brain images using region-growing methods. Texture-based methods [14] depend on the logic of dividing image into region with different textures.
