It was this same patient who was the only subject to have persistent positive margins with MIS despite the treatment for 12 weeks.
A total of 45 patients underwent lumpectomy with fiducial marker placement between July 2008 and August 2010; five (11%) patients became ineligible due to nodal positivity, one (2%) patient due to persistent positive margins, two (4%) patients due to large tumor size, and three (7%) patients due to other reasons (Fig. 2).
However, a transient increase in GTV occurred after the first fraction of SBRT and thereafter the trend of decrease was persistent, so the margin added to GTV should consider these variations.
Comparison of the occurrence of vancomycin levels below the therapeutic margin between persistent and non persistent bacteremia appeared difficult, as vancomycin levels were not regularly assessed in all neonates, especially in neonates with a non-persistent bacteremia.
Faced with thin margins, persistent piracy and expensive licensing deals from record companies, dozens of digital music start-ups have collapsed over the last decade, taking with them hundreds of millions of dollars in investment money.
Smooth, corticated margins characterise a persistent ossiculum terminale, whereas irregular, lucent margins are seen with acute type I fractures of the dens, enabling differentiation [31].
Persistent pressures on profit margins are restraining investment spending and, through declines in equity wealth, consumption.
Thereafter, although national income continued to increase (nearly quadrupling between 1851 and 1911), there was persistent pressure on profit margins, with a price fall that lasted until the mid-1890s.
The Fed added: "Persistent pressures on profit margins are restraining investment spending and, through declines in equity wealth, consumption.
Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is a pragmatic and effective approach to sterilize the margins from persistent tumor cells, abrogate post-injury proliferative stimuli and to bridge the therapeutic gap between surgery and radiochemotherapy.
In addition, Keller et al. [6] have described a form of motility in a line of bladder carcinoma cells which involves formation of a large persistent bleb at the advancing margin.
