Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1992-07-02
1995-08-01
Zele, Krista M.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
1286532, 128898, A61B 603, A61B 500
Patent
active
054372798
ABSTRACT:
A method of predicting the locations of the lymph nodes most at risk of metastasis from a primary tumor of, e.g., the neck or head. The method utilizes data on the location of the primary tumor and the identity of lymph nodes to which the cancer has already spread. The data are transformated by a weighted multidimensional scaling (WMDS) process; points representing clusters of lymph nodes are placed in an imaginary mathematical space such that distances between points in that space are proportional to differences in the occurrence frequency of metastases.
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Board of Regents , The University of Texas System
Zele Krista M.
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