Dexamethasone implant was safely and effectively used as a local therapy for non-necrotizing scleritis.
Good outcome has been observed in patients treated with local therapy for oligometastasis.
Among these six patients, three patients survived after local therapy by radiation or surgical resection.
With the development of minimally invasive surgery, more internal organs can be reached for local therapy.
Treatment of the primary, termed local therapy (LT), may improve survival in metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) versus no local therapy (NLT).
"A stent is just a local therapy for a systemic problem".
Successful local therapy could also theoretically elicit systemic immune responses against cancer.
Finally, heavy ion irradiation with carbon ions was performed as radical local therapy (70.4 GyE/16 Fr).
The patient initially responded well to local therapy but eventually required a steroid-sparing agent for long-term inflammatory control.
Acute anterior uveitis resolves spontaneously or after local therapy with corticosteroids, whereas posterior uveitis oftentimes requires systemic treatment.
Two of them had primarily received a local therapy and one interferon-α-2a.
