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Objective:To understand the supportive care needs of patients with prostate cancer during their illness, so as to construct the supportive care needs intervention program.Methods:Purposive sampling method was used to conduct semi-structured interviews on 17 patients with prostate cancer from June 2019 to January 2020 in Haikou Hospital of Xiangya Affiliated Hospital of Central South University, and the data were analyzed by content analysis method.Results:Seven themes were extracted: the need of health information, the need of social support, the need of health care services, psychological and emotional need, the need of symptom management, the need of economic support and disease specific need.Conclusions:Patients with prostate cancer have multiple supportive care needs. The results of this study could be important reference for medical staff to provide comprehensive, personalized and humanistic care for patients and improve patients′ the quality of life and medical experience.
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Objective:To evaluate the usefulness of fast FLAIR pulse sequence in the MRI of intraspinal canal disease.Methods:Forty-four patients with suspected intraspinal canal disease were imaged with fast FLAIR pulse sequence after routine T1 and T2 weighted imaging in a 0.5 T superconducting MR scaner.The parameters of FLAIR were TR/TI/TE=6000/1500～2000/90～120 ms.Results:There were 26 intraspinal extramedullary tumors,4 intramedullary tumors,11 myelitis,3 localized ischemic necrosis or malacia of spinal cord.The images of FLAIR pulse sequence clearly detected all lesions of the 44 cases.They were superior to routine T2 weighted images in demonstrating the extent of the lesions and their T2 signal character,expecially in inflammatory disease of spinal cord.Conclusion:FLARI is a very useful pulse sequence in the MRI of intraspinal canal disease,it may be use as an important supplement of routine T2 weighted sequence.
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Objective To evaluate the value of Compas technique( computed optimun method for profile angle of singht,Compas) in displaying intracranial aneurysms. Methods DSA images of 31 cases of subarachnoid hemorrhage diagnosed by CT were studied. The DSA images in routine A-P and Lateral projections were compared with the images obtained by Compas technique in the same equipment. Results 23 of 31 were diagnosed as intracranial aneurysms by Compas and confirmed by operation, while only 5 were diagnosed definitely with routine A-P & Lateral projections. The other 18 studies were discovered as blurred margin of the artery but indefinite for the diagnosis of aneurysms. There is a statistical difference between the two methods. ?~2=14.93,P