Radiation Therapy for Chronic Vesicular Hand Dermatitis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Chronic vesicular hand dermatitis is a chronic disease that can be debilitating for patients, and many treatment options do not provide lasting remission. OBJECTIVE: We attempted to determine the efficacy of megavoltage irradiation in the treatment of this disease. METHODS: Between July 2001 and March 2005, 9 patients with severe chronic vesicular hand dermatitis had megavoltage radiation therapy to their sites of disease. Eight pairs of hands and seven pairs of feet were irradiated (15 total sites). RESULTS: All patients had an improvement in their disease during the course of radiation therapy. Patients were followed after radiation therapy for a median follow-up time of 20.2 months (range, 1 to 45 months). The disease completely resolved in 7 of the 15 (47%) sites irradiated. There was a decrease in the severity or frequency of flare-ups at the other 8 sites (53%). CONCLUSION: Megavoltage radiation therapy may be effective in the treatment of chronic vesicular hand dermatitis and may provide durable remissions in some patients.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".