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Mucormycosis. Adjunctive therapy with hydrogen peroxide.

Abstract: Mucormycosis is a devastating fungal disease affecting mainly diabetic and immunosuppressed patients and frequently causing death. Mucor rhizopus, the opportunistic fungus, has been controlled via radical extirpation and intravenous Amphotericin B....

Irradiated bone and its management.

Abstract: There are two undeniable attributes of radiotherapy: its value in controlling head and neck malignancies and the progressive damage it inflicts on all treated tissues. It is fortunate that over the past decade, we have developed techniques and treatments...

[Osteoradionecrosis of the jaws].

Abstract: 9 patients with osteoradionecrosis of the mandible were treated during 1975-1994. All primary tumor had received high dose external radiation or brachytherapy, using iridium-192 sources. In 6 patients the complication was triggered, shortly before or after...

Interstitial hyperthermia and iridium-192 treatment alone vs. interstitial iridium-192 treatment/hyperthermia and low dose cisplatinum infusion in the treatment of locally advanced head and neck malignancies.

Abstract: To determine whether the addition of low dose platinum infusional chemotherapy adds to the effectiveness of interstitial hyperthermia/iridium-192 management of locally advanced head and neck malignancies. From 1987 to 1993, 36 patients with locally advanced...

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment for haemorrhagic radiation cystitis.

Abstract: Radiation-induced severe haemorrhagic cystitis is difficult to treat. Conventional treatments may decrease haematuria but do not affect the radiocystitis itself. Hyperbaric oxygen treatment has been reported to do both. We report the results of a prospective...

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