Abstract: Doxorubicin, an antineoplastic drug, can cause severe ulceration if extravasated when iv injected. In this study, the effects of hyperbaric oxygenation (HBO) and the antioxidants butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and beta-carotene were tested on such ulcers...
Abstract: A patient with severe radiation cystitis resistant to current therapy was treated with hyperbaric oxygen to facilitate closure of a vesicocutaneous fistula. In addition to the fistula healing, her symptoms of radiation cystitis have not recurred for over a...
Abstract: The utilization of various radiomodifiers (hyperbaric oxygenation, metronidazole and their combination, tourniquet and total body gas hypoxia, unconventional dose fractionation) in radiation therapy of over 2000 cancer patients with tumors of the main sites...
Abstract: It has been postulated that tumors contain hypoxic cells of decreased radiation sensitivity, which limit curability with radiation therapy. Hyperbaric oxygen has been used in an attempt to improve tumor oxygenation. The nature of the oxygen...
Abstract: Fournier's gangrene of the external genitals is a complex entity characterized by acute onset, rapid progress to gangrene, toxemia and high mortality rate. The disease may be primary as described by Fournier or secondary with a detectable cause in the...
Abstract: We used a Dacron-urethane mesh tray filled with cancellous bone for mandibular reconstruction in 17 patients. Five patients with traumatic defects and two with benign tumors developed solid, functional mandibles. Among ten patients with squamous cell...
Abstract: A collected series from the English literature up to 1984 of spontaneous clostridial myonecrosis (SCM) is presented in order to reveal possible common denominators. SCM was associated with malignancy (colonic cancer and leukaemia), diabetes, and injections...
Abstract: Three patients with gas gangrene of the lower limbs are presented. In 2 of the 3 patients gas gangrene developed after lower-limb amputation, indications for amputation being atherosclerotic and diabetic gangrene. In the third patient associated leukaemia...
Abstract: Intrathecal neurolytic blocks are performed with either 95% alcohol or with 6-8% phenol in glycerin. Alcohol is hypobaric and phenol hyperbaric compared with the cerebrospinal fluid; positioning of the patient must therefore be done accordingly. This is a...
Abstract: Studies of the effect of pentobarbital anesthesia on the radiation response have been performed using early generation isotransplants of three spontaneous tumors of the C3H mouse: a mammary carcinoma (MCaIV), a fibrosarcoma (FSaII), and a squamous cell...
