Methotrexate and mucositis: A merry-go-round for oncologists

High-dose methotrexate is the backbone of various regimens for treating lymphoid malignancies.Mucositis is a well-known, dose-related side effect of methotrexate.Prophylactic measures such as folinic acid rescue are useful but do not prevent what is quadruple topical ointment used for mucositis in all the cases.Once severe mucositis (WHO Grade no f

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Histology-specific FGFR2 alterations and FGFR2-TACC2 fusion in mixed adenoid cystic and neuroendocrine small cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix

Neuroendocrine small tenga air-tech regular cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix portends a dismal prognosis with limited treatment options.Rarely, tumors of mixed-lineage appear in gynecologic malignancies.Here, we report a 77-year-old woman who presented with complete uterine prolapse and 4-month history of vaginal bleeding.Histopathologic evalua

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Optical Flow based Robot Obstacle Avoidance

In this paper we try to develop an algorithm for visual obstacle avoidance of autonomous mobile robot.The input of the algorithm is an image sequence grabbed by an embedded camera on the B21r robot kali ws 6.2 in motion.Then, the optical flow information is extracted from the image sequence in order to be used in the navigation algorithm.The optica

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