The term adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is useful clinically because it describes
a syndrome with common clinical and pathophysiological features and for which certain …

This article discusses the clinical entity of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), its
manifestations, and its natural history. The problems of defining the syndrome and its …

The lung is a dose-limiting organ when thoracic neoplasms are irradiated [11. The number
of patients who are candidates for chest irradiation is large as it includes patients with …

A new method has been developed for measuring carbon monoxide (CO) uptake in mice.
Each animal was placed in a syringe and allowed to rebreathe a mixture of CO and helium …

Twenty-two patients suffering from oat-cell carcinoma of the bronchus were treated by
various forms of wide field radiation. Ten patients were treated with high dose upper half …

Zusammenfassung Der maligne Tumor der Trachea ist eine außerordentlich seltene
Erkrankung, sein Anteil am Sektionsgut aller malignen Tumoren beträgt ca. 0, 05%(G iese …

Die Strahlentherapie der otorhinolaryngologischen Tumoren sowie der Tumoren des
Respirationstraktes stellt eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben des Radioonkologen dar. Er ist hier …

The ARDS is characterized by the presence of an acute direct or indirect damage to the
lungs followed within 24–72 hours by respiratory distress, arterial hypoxaemia, reduced …

Abstract “Necessity is the mother of invention and serendipity the handmaiden”. The Toronto
philosophy in radiotherapy has, for several decades, been one of large volume irradiation in …

Clinical and experimental cancer research has enjoyed a tremendous increase in activity
over the last decade. The main thrust has been towards an understanding of fundamental …