initial treatment

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All external beam treatments in this centre undergo a primary and a secondary check prior to, or in conjunction with, the initialtreatment fraction.
Although initialtreatment effects were evident, no differences between treated and untreated children were found by 2-year posttreatment follow-up.
This description will enable the reader to be able to follow every patient from the initialtreatment to the end of the study period.
This means that initialtreatment usually needs to be the construction of a systemic-pulmonary arterial shunt, which is usually required in very early life.
Survival and life-quality gains are also described after a second series of treatments when the effects of initialtreatment are insufficient.
Patients with persistent (initialtreatment ineffective) or recurrent symptoms during the time period were considered symptomatic failures, independent of the outcome of subsequent therapies.
Positive effects from chemotherapy are also documented for a second series of palliative treatments when the effects of initialtreatment are insufficient.
The high ratio of near misses per actual error demonstrates an effective error prevention system, independent of the quality of the initialtreatment preparation.
The purpose of the present study was to investigate long-term outcome and prognosis in an anorexic sample 21 years after the initialtreatment.
No correlation could be found and therefore no conclusions drawn as to why the initialtreatment failed to control tumour growth.
To prevent a thrombus from becoming larger, initialtreatment involves injection of anticoagulants, that is, unfractionated heparin or low molecular weight heparin.
The authors concluded that lamotrigine could be regarded as an acceptable choice of initial treatment for elderly patients with newly diagnosed epilepsy.
Patients with a diagnosis of critical pulmonary stenosis were excluded from the study, mainly on the basis of their present suitability for initialtreatment by interventional catheterization techniques.
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