Search Results for staging

... are at an advanced stage including evidence of local cervical nodal metastasis and distant metastasis. The TNM staging system continues to be the “gold standard” for reporting and evaluation of treatment outcomes, but more recent reports show that the use of “tumour volume” obtained from disease stage scanning...

... for an invasive airway procedure. Based on simple clinical staging systems, patients are divided into 2 groups. Those with a favorable anatomy are directed to surgery after failing continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). However, patients with an unfavorable anatomy are warned of the limited success...

... Abstract It was not until recently that consensus definitions for acute kidney injury (AKI) were proposed and published. The RIFLE (Risk-Injury-Failure-Loss-End-stage renal disease) and AKIN (Acute Kidney Injury Network) classifications were designed in order to be easily understood and applied...

... Abstract Accurate staging of lung cancer is requisite to choose the optimal therapeutic strategy and is very important for prognosis. Multimodality diagnostic imaging is currently used for detection, staging, and follow-up. Whole-body FDG PET/CT provides ‘anatometabolic’ information...

... Abstract Accurate preoperative staging in patients with non-small cell lung cancer is of paramount importance. It will guide choices of treatment and determine prognosis and outcome. Over the last years, different techniques have become available. For primary staging of the mediastinum and also...

... pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) do not offer a sufficient grade of reliability.However, the limitation of the dissection area results in missing about 50-60% of N+ patients. In addition,the preoperative diagnostics often underestimate the true pathological stage. Presently, itseems that only...