Sentence examples for small recurrence from inspiring English sources

Open image in new window Fig. 27 Small recurrence not seen on MRI.

Reader 2 missed one small recurrence on standard MRI, but detected all 7 after addition of DWI (Fig.  4).

Thus, the finding of normal two SMN1 copy dosage significantly reduces the risk of being a carrier; however, there is still a residual risk of being a carrier and subsequently a small recurrence risk of future affected offspring for individuals with 2 SMN1 gene copies.

Locally advanced cancer of the uterine cervix covers a broad disease spectrum comprising primary tumours of >4 cm in size or FIGO stage >IIA and all local tumour relapses except the rare cases of small recurrences in a retained cervix.

Reader 1 detected all 7 small recurrences, both with standard MRI and after addition of DWI.

However, early detection by CT surveillance increases the diagnosis of small recurrences, making surgery feasible and less dangerous.

Residual disease and small recurrences frequently may be removed with in-office procedures, with particularly good results in nasoethmoid disease.

Therefore, we believe that incomplete resection or small recurrences per se should not indicate further management and agree that currently available imaging modalities may allow these tumors to be closely monitored.

In our study we indeed observed that DWI was helpful in such a case: the less experienced radiologist detected one of the small recurrences on MRI+DWI which he had overlooked before (Fig.  4).

The indications for a percutaneous approach are a limited number of small tumors, preferably not adjacent to hollow viscera (but this can be overcome by pre-ablation percutaneous infusion of dextrose fluid into the space between the liver and the adjacent bowel), small recurrences after prior liver resection, and patients ineligible for a surgical approach for anatomic and/or clinical reasons.

In addition, Leung et al. described salvage therapy with a combination of high-dose-rate (HDR) intra-cavitary brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy, and found that a higher radiation dose and a smaller recurrence was associated with improved outcomes [ 14].