María Teresa Gutiérrez Amares

• Medical Doctor at Universidad de Cádiz

Background: The aim of this study was to ascertain whether the extemporaneous technetium-99m radiopharmaceuticals -prepared by closed procedures- maintain or not sterility throughout their lifespan regardless the quality of the environmental air where they are prepared, stored and dispensed, provided that the basic aseptic rules for closed procedu...

Background: The use of antiestrogens in the treatment of breast cancer has become significant as a therapy used in association with other treatments such as surgery, radio or chemotherapy. A retrospective study of the efficacy of adjuvant hormone treatment was performed to evaluate the significance of this therapy. Methods: From March 1977 to March...

Of a total of 472 patients treated for breast cancer in the Radiotherapy Department of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cadiz, over a period from January 1977 to December 1984 the clinical features and the evolution of the neoplastic breast disease were analyzed in patients under the age of 40 (60) and in patients over the age of 70 (74) wi...

581 patients referred to the Radiology Department of the University Hospital in Cadiz took part in a dosimetric study. 56.69 per 100 underwent chest X-rays and 43.20 per 100 had some type of bone X-ray examination. We have established the Dose Absorbed by the patient at the point of incidence of the direct beam and at other points of interest, such...

From 1976 to 1983 we monitored 439 patients who were treated at the Radiotherapy Unit of University Clinic of Cádiz. Of all the patients who were examined we discovered only six cases of unusual histopathological forms of carcinoma of the larynx, representing 1.36%. The survival in the case of these patients was studied five years later. From the s...

A study was carried out in 138 lung cancer patients from the Department of Radiology and Physiotherapy of the Faculty of Medicine of Cadiz between 1983 and 1986. The patients were classified according to the pathologic anatomy in order to analyze the statistical variations in relation to sex, localization, metastases, clinical stage and radiation t...

Thirty five patients with brain metastases and edema were treated with dexamethasone. The results were evaluated by cranial computed tomography and nuclear medicine. Edema was alleviated in 32 out of the 35 patients after a two weeks treatment.