Is there a detrimental effect of waiting for radiotherapy for patients with localized prostate cancer?
Delaying the start of radiotherapy showed little effect on the rate of BR in the group of 288 prostate cancer patients analyzed in this study.
Spinal cord injury after stented elephant trunk deployment might be related to occlusion of the excessive intercostal arteries or thromboembolism. Patients with a history of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair who require extensive deployment of the stented elephant trunk seem to be at a higher risk for spinal cord injury.