• High concordance of BRAF mutational status in matched primary and metastatic melanoma 

  Cormican, David; Kennedy, Ciaran; Murphy, Sandra; Werner, Reiltin; Power, Derek G.; Heffron, Cynthia C. B. B. (Wiley, 2018-11-14)

  Background: Techniques for the accurate identification of activating mutations of BRAF in metastatic melanoma are of great clinical importance, due to the availability of targeted therapies for these tumours. There is ...
• Ionizing radiation dose exposure to the ocular region of pain physicians during C-arm guided pain interventions 

  Kelly, Raymond; McMahon, Aisling; Hegarty, Dominic (American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, ASIPP Publishing, 2018-09)

  BACKGROUND: The growth of interventional pain medicine in recent years has resulted in more procedures being carried out under fluoroscopic guidance. The proximity of the pain physician (PP) to ionization radiation (IR) ...
• Sarcopenia and post-operative morbidity and mortality in patients with gastric cancer 

  O'Brien, Stephen; Twomey, Maria; Moloney, Fiachra; Kavanagh, Richard G.; Carey, Brian W.; Power, Derek; Maher, Michael M.; O'Connor, Owen J.; Ó Súilleabháin, Criostoir (Korean Gastric Cancer Association, 2018-09-05)

  Purpose: Surgical resection for gastric adenocarcinoma is associated with significant post-operative morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic significance of sarcopenia in patients ...
• Efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions to treat malnutrition in older persons: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The SENATOR project ONTOP series and MaNuEL knowledge hub project 

  Correa-Pérez, Andrea; Abraha, Iosef; Cherubini, Antonio; Collinson, Avril; Dardevet, Dominique; de Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.; de van der Schueren, Marian A. E.; Hebestreit, Antje; Hickson, Mary; Jaramillo-Hidalgo, Javier; Lozano-Montoya, Isabel; O'Mahony, Denis; Soiza, Roy L.; Visser, Marjolein; Volkert, Dorothee; Wolters, Maike; Cruz Jentoft, Alfonso J. (Elsevier B.V., 2018-11-02)

  Introduction: We aimed to perform a review of SRs of non-pharmacological interventions in older patients with well-defined malnutrition using relevant outcomes agreed by a broad panel of experts. Methods: PubMed, Cochrane, ...
• Using body mass index to estimate individualised patient radiation dose in abdominal computed tomography 

  O'Neill, Siobhán B.; Kavanagh, Richard G.; Carey, Brian W.; Moore, Niamh; Maher, Michael M.; O'Connor, Owen J. (Springer, 2018-11-28)

  Background: The size-specific dose estimate (SSDE) is a dose-related metrics that incorporates patient size into its calculation. It is usually derived from the volume computed tomography dose index (CTDIvol) by applying ...

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