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Tumor Immunology

Haidong Dong, MD, PhD, Svetomir N Markovic, MD, PhD, Rachel L Maus, PhD
    • Development of effective immunotherapies hinges on addressing the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment to overcome immune tolerance.
    • Immunotherapies aimed at reengaging the antitumor immune response have yielded encouraging preclinical and clinical results.
    • Alternatively, neutralizing immunotherapies target inhibitory immune mechanisms within the cancer setting, resulting in impressive clinical responses.
    • Novel combinatorial immunotherapy approaches hold great promise for establishing durable clinical responses.

Dental Emergencies

E Brennan Bollman, MD, Annelies L De Wulf, MD, MPH
    • Oral antibiotics for dental pain are indicated if concomitant fever, purulence, intraoral swelling, extraoral swelling, and trismus.
    • Penicillin is first line, with alternatives amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, azithromycin, and clindamycin.
    • Dysphagia is a red flag symptom in patients with odontogenic abscess, possibly indicating deep space infection.
    • Gingivitis is a common condition reversible by oral hygiene, and also associated with cardiovascular disease and other systemic illnesses.
    • Malocclusion, unilateral swelling, trismus, jaw deviation, and bony point tenderness or step–off, and positive tongue blade test should prompt the provider to obtain a maxillofacial CT scan for mandible fracture.

Voiding Cystourethrography

Adam S Howe, MD, Lane S Palmer, MD, FACS
    • Complete listing of indications for performing VCUG
    • Review of radiation exposure experienced during VCUG study in comparison with other imaging modalities 
    • Description of proper protocol to be performed for management of patients undergoing VCUG  
    • Discussion of alternative techniques to VUR investigation, including cyclic VCUG, PIC cystography, and nuclear medicine VCUG 
    • Thorough pictorial overview of the many different types of pathology that can be identified on VCUG

Malignant Diseases of the Peritoneum and Retroperitoneum

Amanda K. Arrington, MD
    • Hyperthermic intra-abdominal chemotherapy treatment in the setting of colorectal carcinomatosis, gastric carcinomatosis, pseudomyxoma peritonei
    • Enhanced understanding of the pathophysiology of pseudomyxoma peritonei

Malignant Tumors of the Spleen

Brandon Chapman, MD, Ana Gleisner, MD, PhD, Alessandro Paniccia, MD
    • Role of imaging for preoperative characterization of splenic lesions
    • Use of laparoscopy for splenectomy 

Dystonia

Cristian Calandra, MD, Federico Micheli, MD, PhD , Carolina Candelaria Ramírez Gómez, MD
    • Genetic advances in dystonia
    • Clinical features in different forms of dystonia
    • Treatment options

Dystonia

Cristian Calandra, MD, Federico Micheli, MD, PhD , Carolina Candelaria Ramírez Gómez, MD
    • Genetic advances in dystonia
    • Clinical features in different forms of dystonia
    • Treatment options

Adjuvant Radiation for Tissue Extremity and Truncal Sarcomas 

Melody Qu, MD, MPH, Nabil Wasif, MD, MPH
    • Indications for radiation therapy
    • Sequencing of radiation therapy
    • Technique for radiation delivery
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