Rectum

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of coplanar four-field techniques for conformal radiotherapy of the prostate. 
  • A knowledge-based approach to improving and homogenizing intensity modulated radiation therapy planning quality among treatment centers: an example application to prostate cancer planning. 
  • A prospective comparison of a noninvasive cardiac output monitor versus esophageal Doppler monitor for goal-directed fluid therapy in colorectal surgery patients. 
  • A prospective pathologic analysis using whole-mount sections of rectal cancer following preoperative combined modality therapy: implications for sphincter preservation. 
  • A review of rectal biopsy. 
  • A simple, inexpensive method of monitoring brain temperature in conscious rodents. 
  • APC promoter hypermethylation contributes to the loss of APC expression in colorectal cancers with allelic loss on 5q. 
  • Anal-rectal cytology: a review. 
  • Anal-rectal cytology: correlation with human papillomavirus status and biopsy diagnoses in a population of HIV-positive patients. 
  • Anastomotic leaks after colorectal anastomosis occurring more than 30 days postoperatively: a single-institution evaluation. 
  • Anatomic relationships of the tension-free vaginal mesh trocars. 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis and non-group B streptococcal neonatal sepsis. 
  • Assessing tumor perfusion and treatment response in rectal cancer with multisection CT: initial observations. 
  • Atlas-guided prostate intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning. 
  • Avoiding complications with radical cystectomy. 
  • Baseline Prostate Atrophy is Associated with Reduced Risk of Prostate Cancer in Men Undergoing Repeat Prostate Biopsy. 
  • Body mass index, dose to organs at risk during vaginal brachytherapy, and the role of three-dimensional CT-based treatment planning. 
  • Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies Display Potential for Prevention of HIV-1 Infection of Mucosal Tissue Superior to That of Nonneutralizing Antibodies. 
  • Cancer of the bile ducts associated with ulcerative colitis. 
  • Carcinoma of the cervix: analysis of bladder and rectal radiation dose and complications. 
  • Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 18-2004. A 61-year-old man with rectal bleeding and a 2-cm mass in the rectum. 
  • Central modulation of rectal distension-induced blood pressure changes by alosetron, a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist. 
  • Colitis cystica profunda: a pediatric case report. 
  • Colonic "coloplasty": novel technique to enhance low colorectal or coloanal anastomosis. 
  • Coloplasty in low colorectal anastomosis: manometric and functional comparison with straight and colonic J-pouch anastomosis. 
  • Commissioning of Varian ring & tandem HDR applicators: reproducibility and interobserver variability of dwell position offsets. 
  • Comparison of rectal mucosal proliferation measured by proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) immunohistochemistry and whole crypt dissection. 
  • Comparison of treatment techniques for conformal radiotherapy of the prostate using dose-volume histograms and normal tissue complication probabilities. 
  • Computed axial tomography tandem and ovoids (CATTO) dosimetry: three-dimensional assessment of bladder and rectal doses. 
  • Computed tomography of the rectum. 
  • Continent urinary diversion. 
  • Control of a mucosal challenge and prevention of AIDS by a multiprotein DNA/MVA vaccine. 
  • Correlation of endoscopic optical coherence tomography with histology in the lower-GI tract. 
  • Correlation of vaccine-elicited systemic and mucosal nonneutralizing antibody activities with reduced acute viremia following intrarectal simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac251 challenge of rhesus macaques. 
  • Culture of non-genital sites increases the detection of gonorrhea in women. 
  • DNA and virus particle vaccination protects against acquisition and confers control of viremia upon heterologous simian immunodeficiency virus challenge. 
  • Delayed endoluminal vacuum therapy for rectal anastomotic leaks after rectal resection in a swine model: a new treatment option. 
  • Determining the Optimal Quantitative Threshold for Preoperative Albumin Level Before Elective Colorectal Surgery. 
  • Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Murine Model of Chronic Radiation-Induced Proctitis. 
  • Development of RTOG consensus guidelines for the definition of the clinical target volume for postoperative conformal radiation therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Doppler-guided hemorrhoidal artery ligation and rectoanal repair modification for the treatment of grade III and grade IV hemorrhoids: one-year follow-up. 
  • Dosimetric comparison of four target alignment methods for prostate cancer radiotherapy. 
  • Effect of colectomy on gastric secretion in dogs. 
  • Elective clinical target volumes for conformal therapy in anorectal cancer: a radiation therapy oncology group consensus panel contouring atlas. 
  • Endoluminal negative-pressure therapy for preventing rectal anastomotic leaks: a pilot study in a pig model. 
  • Enhanced neonatal Fc receptor function improves protection against primate SHIV infection. 
  • Evaluation of CHROMagar™ KPC for the detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in rectal surveillance cultures. 
  • Evaluation of a novel precision template-guided biopsy system for detecting prostate cancer. 
  • Evolutionary insights into the ecology of coronaviruses. 
  • Facial diplegia due to amyloidosis. 
  • Factors influencing postoperative adverse events after Hartmann's reversal. 
  • Free of speckle ultrasound images of small tissue structures. 
  • From esophagus to rectum: a comprehensive review of alimentary tract perforations at computed tomography. 
  • Full depth measurement of tenofovir transport in rectal mucosa using confocal Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography. 
  • GM-CSF DNA: an adjuvant for higher avidity IgG, rectal IgA, and increased protection against the acute phase of a SHIV-89.6P challenge by a DNA/MVA immunodeficiency virus vaccine. 
  • Gentamicin-collagen sponge for infection prophylaxis in colorectal surgery. 
  • Geometric and dosimetric evaluations of an online image-guidance strategy for 3D-CRT of prostate cancer. 
  • Group B Streptococci Screening Before Repeat Cesarean Delivery: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. 
  • Guidelines for perioperative care in elective rectal/pelvic surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS(®)) Society recommendations. 
  • Guidelines for perioperative care in elective rectal/pelvic surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society recommendations. 
  • HIV-1 CD4-induced (CD4i) gp120 epitope vaccines promote B and T-cell responses that contribute to reduced viral loads in rhesus macaques. 
  • High Doses of GM-CSF Inhibit Antibody Responses in Rectal Secretions and Diminish Modified Vaccinia Ankara/Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccine Protection in TRIM5α-Restrictive Macaques. 
  • Human Non-neutralizing HIV-1 Envelope Monoclonal Antibodies Limit the Number of Founder Viruses during SHIV Mucosal Infection in Rhesus Macaques. 
  • Impact of radical prostatectomy in the management of clinically localized disease. 
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  • Increased rectal microbial richness is associated with the presence of colorectal adenomas in humans. 
  • Indispensable pre-mitotic endocycles promote aneuploidy in the Drosophila rectum. 
  • Inferences about prostate intrafraction motion from pre- and posttreatment volumetric imaging. 
  • Intranasal immunization is superior to vaginal, gastric, or rectal immunization for the induction of systemic and mucosal anti-HIV antibody responses. 
  • Intraoperative radiation therapy for locally advanced recurrent rectal or rectosigmoid cancer. 
  • Ion therapy of prostate cancer: daily rectal dose reduction by application of spacer gel. 
  • Kinetics of expansion of SIV Gag-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes following challenge of vaccinated macaques. 
  • Lack of utility of symptoms and signs at first presentation as predictors of inflammatory bowel disease in secondary care. 
  • Laparoscopic ileostomy and colostomy. 
  • Laparoscopy decreases complications for obese patients undergoing elective rectal surgery. 
  • Late rectal bleeding following combined X-ray and proton high dose irradiation for patients with stages T3-T4 prostate carcinoma. 
  • Lateral rectal shielding reduces late rectal morbidity following high dose three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer: further evidence for a significant dose effect. 
  • Local excision of rectal cancer revisited: ACOSOG protocol Z6041. 
  • Low-dose mucosal simian immunodeficiency virus infection restricts early replication kinetics and transmitted virus variants in rhesus monkeys. 
  • Lymphoid hyperplasia causing recurrent rectal prolapse. 
  • Mucosal B Cells Are Associated with Delayed SIV Acquisition in Vaccinated Female but Not Male Rhesus Macaques Following SIVmac251 Rectal Challenge. 
  • Multicenter retrospective comparative study of laparoscopically assisted and conventional anorectoplasty for male infants with rectoprostatic urethral fistula. 
  • Multimodality management of locally advanced rectal cancer. 
  • Neural network classification of nerve activity recorded in a mixed nerve. 
  • Number and orientations of beams in intensity-modulated radiation treatments. 
  • Obstetric damage and faecal incontinence. 
  • Obstetric rectal injury: risk factors and the role of physician experience. 
  • Penalized likelihood fluence optimization with evolutionary components for intensity modulated radiation therapy treatment planning. 
  • Perineal one-stage pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease. 
  • Perioperative adverse events after minimally invasive abdominal sacrocolpopexy. 
  • Persistence of proctitis in 2 cases of clindamycin-associated colitis. 
  • Postischemic diazepam is neuroprotective in the gerbil hippocampus. 
  • Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery for IBD: A Common but Rarely Addressed Problem. 
  • Predictors of severe gastrointestinal toxicity after external beam radiotherapy and interstitial brachytherapy for advanced or recurrent gynecologic malignancies. 
  • Proliferative activity of colonic mucosa at different distances from primary adenocarcinoma as determined by the presence of statin: a nonproliferation-specific nuclear protein. 
  • Prostate-specific antigen-detected prostate cancer (stage T1c): an analysis of whole-mount prostatectomy specimens. 
  • Quantifying the dosimetric trade-offs when using intensity-modulated radiotherapy to treat concave targets containing normal tissues. 
  • RTOG GU Radiation oncology specialists reach consensus on pelvic lymph node volumes for high-risk prostate cancer. 
  • Radiotherapy treatment plans with RapidArc for prostate cancer involving seminal vesicles and lymph nodes. 
  • Rectal biopsy in carpal tunnel syndrome in amyloidosis. 
  • Rectal bleeding from a mucous fistula secondary to a Dieulafoy's lesion. 
  • Rectal ejaculation and prostatic carcinoma. 
  • Rectal mucosal ornithine decarboxylase activity is not a useful marker of risk for colorectal neoplasia. 
  • Rectosigmoid perforation and intestinal evisceration from transanal suction. 
  • Regional brain activation in response to rectal distension in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and the effect of a history of abuse. 
  • Response to Mroczkowski. 
  • Robotic Low Anterior Resection for Rectal Cancer: A National Perspective on Short-term Oncologic Outcomes. 
  • Role of rectosigmoidectomy and stripping of pelvic peritoneum in outcomes of patients with advanced ovarian cancer. 
  • SIVmac239 MVA vaccine with and without a DNA prime, similar prevention of infection by a repeated dose SIVsmE660 challenge despite different immune responses. 
  • Similarities between static and rotational intensity-modulated plans. 
  • Small-dose intrathecal lidocaine versus ropivacaine for anorectal surgery in an ambulatory setting. 
  • Species and genotypic diversities and similarities of pathogenic yeasts colonizing women. 
  • Subtotal colectomy for familial polyposis. A clinical series and review of the literature. 
  • Successful chemoprophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis. 
  • Superoxide dismutase mimic, MnTE-2-PyP(5+) ameliorates acute and chronic proctitis following focal proton irradiation of the rat rectum. 
  • Surgical Resection of the Primary Tumor in Stage IV Colorectal Cancer Without Metastasectomy is Associated With Improved Overall Survival Compared With Chemotherapy/Radiation Therapy Alone. 
  • Tea consumption, apoptosis, and colorectal adenomas. 
  • Technical advances in the treatment of patients with rectal cancer. 
  • Temperature differences during sleep between fullterm and preterm neonates at matched post-conceptional ages. 
  • Temperature measurements in normal and tumor tissue of dogs undergoing whole body hyperthermia. 
  • Template for reporting results of biomarker testing of specimens from patients with carcinoma of the colon and rectum. 
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  • The Kraske procedure: a critical analysis of a surgical approach for mid-rectal lesions. 
  • The anatomical distribution of colorectal polyps at colonoscopy. 
  • The appropriateness of 30-day mortality as a quality metric in colorectal cancer surgery. 
  • The colorectal microRNAome. 
  • The effect of epidural clonidine on perioperative cytokine response, postoperative pain, and bowel function in patients undergoing colorectal surgery. 
  • The optimisation of wedge filters in radiotherapy of the prostate. 
  • The paracrine hormone for the GUCY2C tumor suppressor, guanylin, is universally lost in colorectal cancer. 
  • The role of seminal vesicle motion in target margin assessment for online image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Total neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer: An emerging option. 
  • Toxic colitis with megacolon in a patient with malrotation. 
  • Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between human and hamster. 
  • Transrectal gene therapy of the prostate in the canine model. 
  • Transrectal ultrasound and biopsy in diagnosis of malakoplakia of prostate. 
  • Tumor volume changes on 1.5 tesla endorectal MRI during neoadjuvant androgen suppression therapy for higher-risk prostate cancer and recurrence in men treated using radiation therapy results of the phase II CALGB 9682 study. 
  • Unnecessary histologic examination of stapler doughnuts at low anterior resection for rectal cancer: Is it just a blame game? 
  • Ureteral stenting in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. 
  • Vaginal Dose Is Associated With Toxicity in Image Guided Tandem Ring or Ovoid-Based Brachytherapy. 
  • Variation in the definition of clinical target volumes for pelvic nodal conformal radiation therapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Yield of colonoscopy in patients with nonacute rectal bleeding: a multicenter database study of 1766 patients. 
  • Zinc acetate/carrageenan gels exhibit potent activity in vivo against high-dose herpes simplex virus 2 vaginal and rectal challenge. 
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  Keywords of People

  • O'Daniel, Jennifer Colleen, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology
  • Yoo, Sua, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiation Oncology