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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

TWA (Thoraxwandabstand)

English translation:

tumor-to-thoracic-wall distance

Added to glossary by Patricia Daehler
Nov 7, 2008 04:44
15 yrs ago
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German term

TWA

German to English Medical Medical (general) Sonographie
Sonographie:
Linke Brust: cutis, subcutis sowie retroareolär unauffällig. Inhomogenes DP, ACR III. Kleiner Herdbefund links unten aussen bei 5 Uhr, Grösse 18 x 9 x 22 mm,
HA 3 mm, ***TWA*** 6 mm, queroval, lobuliert, glatt begrenzt, mittlere Echodichte.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +4 tumor-to-thoracic-wall distance
3 TWA (tumor width after radiation)

Proposed translations

+4
5 hrs
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tumor-to-thoracic-wall distance

Br J Radiol. 2008 May 28; Whole-body PET/CT-mammography for staging breast cancer: initial results. T-A Heusner, L S Freudenberg, H Kuehl, E A Hauth, P Veit-Haibach, M Forsting, A Bockisch, G Antoch
... 40 patients with suspected recurrent breast cancer underwent ...PET/CT of the breasts and axillae ...Images were compared in terms of the tumour-to-thoracic-wall distance, tumour-to-skin distance, and tumour volume, diameter, density, maximal standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and localization.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2008-11-07 12:28:01 GMT)
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TWA = Thoraxwandabstand
Peer comment(s):
agree Gisela Greenlee
2 hrs
agree Cetacea
3 hrs
agree Sabine Akabayov, PhD
3 hrs
agree Lirka
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3 hrs

TWA (tumor width after radiation)

TLA tumor length after radiation and TWA tumor width after radiation is what it says in the short Google info of the following link.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/l496991m8u401q02/

Unfortunately I cannot access the entire document to quote directly.


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Note added at 3 Stunden (2008-11-07 08:03:29 GMT)
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TLB X TWB - TLA X TWA ... is the tumor width before radiation, TLA is the tumor ... tumor cells by fibrotic tissue was either less than ...

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_qdr=all&q=TLA TWA "tumo...
Peer comment(s):
neutral Cetacea : Schon, aber der Ausgangstext ist deutsch, nicht englisch.//Mit englischen Abkürzungen hast Du natürlich Recht, aber bitte nicht mit der Anzahl Google-Treffer argumentieren -- die macht richtige Begriffe nicht falsch, und umgekehrt.
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Wäre nicht die erste englische Abkürzung in deutschen Texten. Thoraxwandabstand hat auch nur 1 Google Treffer! Your guess is as good as mine ...
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