Patients included were 54 smokers with bilateral Reinke's edema submitted to surgery in the Otolaryngology Department, Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University, Brazil, between 2002 and 2006.
The four patients with diagnosis based on biopsy were not submitted to surgery and treated with primary radio-chemotherapy, but all them evolved with progressive disease, and only one was still doing clinical follow-up in our hospital.
Moreover, DeHCA optical image processing was not feasible in some women with very small, firm breasts that could not be properly illuminated as well as in women previously submitted to surgery and/or bioptic procedures due to the presence of residual edema and extravasation.
Digitally stored grayscale sonographic images from a random sample of 98 women with an adnexal mass submitted to surgery after a grayscale transvaginal sonography were evaluated by five different examiners with different degrees of experience in three European university departments of obstetrics and gynecology.
and were submitted to surgery 4 h later.
Peripheral blood lymphocytes were obtained from five healthy donors, and normal colon mucosa tissue was ressected from five individuals submitted to surgery for gun shot wounds or non-malignant lesions.
From the initial 51 animals submitted to surgery, only 8 remained though the whole study, because we succeeded in separating confounding effects of spontaneous and stem cell-mediated processes of functional recovery after stroke.
Twelve (32%) patients were submitted to surgery.
All patients were submitted to surgery followed by radiotherapy.
Twelve patients with pancreatic tumours were submitted to surgery.
