Circumferential resection margins and perineal complications after neoadjuvant long-course chemoradiotherapy followed by extralevator abdominoperineal excision of the rectum: Five years of activity at a single institution.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Patients with Stage IV melanoma have limited therapeutic options with few long-term survivors. Our goal was to study the impact of metastasectomy on survival in these patients. METHODS:Patients with Stage IV melanoma were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database (198...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Wasif N,Bagaria SP,Ray P,Morton DL

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resection of abdominal wall tumors often leaves patients with debilitating soft tissue defects. Modern reconstructive techniques can be used to restore abdominal wall integrity. In this article, we present an overview of preoperative patient evaluation, analysis of the defect, surgical planning, and the spectrum of av...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Khansa I,Janis JE

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proper tip position is a major determinant of totally implantable venous access device (TIVAD) outcome. The aim of this study is to analyze the potential utilization of intravenous electrocardiography (IV-ECG) to help inexperienced operators for TIVAD placement. PATIENTS AND METHODS:This is a retrospective,...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Wang YC,Huang CH,Lin FS,Lin WY,Fan SZ,Lin CP,Sun WZ

更新日期：2012-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optimal treatment strategy for patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) remains undetermined. This study compared outcomes in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nCT) and neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) for EAC. METHODS:Patients who underwent nCT or nCRT followed by surgery for EAC w...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Visser E,Edholm D,Smithers BM,Thomson IG,Burmeister BH,Walpole ET,Gotley DC,Joubert WL,Atkinson V,Mai T,Thomas JM,Barbour AP

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unusual presentations of perforated mucoid adenocarcinoma of the appendix are described. One patient presented with a large periappendicular abscess that extended into the gluteal region, the other with a retroperitoneal abscess and abscesses in the right flank and groin. Recognition of the source of the abscess m...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Waizbard E,Michowitz M,Baratz M,Papo J,Stavorovsky M

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hemicorporectomy, or translumbar amputation, the bony pelvis, pelvic contents, lower extremities, and external genitalia are removed following disarticulation of the lumbar spine and transection of the spinal cord. Malignancies of the pelvic organs, skin, or musculoskeletal structures, usually locally advanced, may...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Weaver JM,Flynn MB

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective analysis of 328 cases of Hodgkin's Disease (HD) subjected to a staging laparotomy at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Bombay, India, from 1974 to 1986 was undertaken to assess its relevance to our setup. Eighty percent of the patients were from clinical stages (CS) I and II, 38% with lymphocyte predominance...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Dinshaw KA,Pande SC,Shrivastava SK,Gonsalves MA,Advani SH,Gopal R,Shrikhande SS,Desouza LJ,Jagannath P,Desai PB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:566 stage-II melanoma patients treated at the National Cancer Institute of Milan, Italy, were analyzed to evaluate the prognosis. Among the criteria considered, four were significantly associated with survival when considered as single factors: growth pattern, levels of invasion, the number of involved lymph nodes, an...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Cascinelli N,Vaglini M,Nava M,Santinami M,Marolda R,Rovini D,Clemente C,Bufalino R,Morabito A

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Outcomes and recommendations regarding adjuvant therapy (AT) for stage I ampullary adenocarcinoma (AAC) are inadequately described. We sought to determine factors associated with survival and better define the impact of AT. METHODS:The NCDB was queried for stage I AAC patients undergoing rese...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Stiles ZE,Behrman SW,Deneve JL,Glazer ES,Dong L,Wan JY,Martin MG,Dickson PV

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human tumor stem cell assay (HTSCA) was applied to 103 primary and metastatic colorectal carcinomas. Thirty-four carcinomas could not be evaluated for colony formation (clonogenicity) because of microbial contamination. Of the remaining 69 carcinomas, 18 (26%) demonstrated clonal growth in vitro. Colony formation ...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Agrez MV,Kovach JS,Beart RW Jr,Rubin J,Moertel CG,Lieber MM

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A malignant tumor of the submandibular gland was found to consist predominately of spindle cell elements that initially suggested a primary sarcoma. Further examination revealed that the spindled malignant cells were derived from a high-grade mucoepidermoid carcinoma. ...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Love GL,Sarma DP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review evaluates the use of robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of gynecologic malignancies and objectively evaluates the use of these systems in performing radical hysterectomies and surgical staging of gynecologic malignancies. The review focuses on surgical length, blood loss, complications,...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Lowery WJ,Leath CA 3rd,Robinson RD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Gastric cancer recurrence after curative surgery remains high. Although no preoperative marker of gastric cancer progression after radical gastrectomy exists, recent studies suggest that C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with cancer progression. Our study evaluated the significance of pre...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Woo Y,Hyung WJ,Obama K,Kim HI,Pak KH,Son T,Noh SH

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A treatment option for patients with peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis (PMCA) from an appendiceal neoplasm is cytoreductive surgery and perioperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Also, these patients are recommended for systemic chemotherapy using an oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil (FOLFOX) regimen. A major...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Sugarbaker PH,Bijelic L,Chang D,Yoo D

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Low-heat treated autograft may have an advantage over allograft in that they provide a size-matched and biologically compatible graft. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We compared the graft survival and complications between the low-heat treated autografts (n = 13) and allografts (17) for intercalary reconstruction ...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Han I,Kim JH,Cho HS,Kim HS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Receptor-binding cancer antigen expressed on SiSO cells (RCAS1) has been reported to act as a ligand for a receptor present on normal peripheral lymphocytes and to induce apoptotic cell death. We aimed to elucidate the significance of RCAS1 expression in human esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (ESCC). MET...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Kato H,Nakajima M,Masuda N,Faried A,Sohda M,Fukai Y,Miyazaki T,Fukuchi M,Tsukada K,Kuwano H

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Two to three percent of the patients with extremity melanoma develop in-transit metastases in the course of their disease. When local treatments fail, isolated limb perfusion (ILP) is a reasonable option, but is generally only applied to patients without evidence of distant metastases. We assessed the valu...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Takkenberg RB,Vrouenraets BC,van Geel AN,Nieweg OE,Noorda EM,Eggermont AM,Kroon BB

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoadjuvant systemic breast cancer therapy is the administration of systemic therapy to eligible breast cancer patients prior to surgery. This treatment modality was developed out of necessity to downstage inoperable tumors, but it has evolved into a tool for breast conservation surgery. The neoadjuvant approach is al...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Makhoul I,Kiwan E

更新日期：2011-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The cases of 42 patients with malignant ascites treated with a peritoneal venous shunt over a 5-year period are reviewed to establish the incidence of surgical and postsurgical complications. Although the yield of malignant cells found in the peripheral blood was increased after shunting, no new hematogenous metastase...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Campioni N,Pasquali Lasagni R,Vitucci C,Filippetti M,Spagnoli A,Pompei S,Romano P,Pasqualetti A,Sorvillo G,Sega FM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Skip metastasis to mediastinal lymph nodes is a well-known phenomenon in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Little is reported in the literature about its clinical importance. It is still under discussion whether any prognostic differences exist between resected NSCLC with either skip metastases or continuo...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Prenzel KL,Mönig SP,Sinning JM,Baldus SE,Gutschow CA,Grass G,Schneider PM,Hölscher AH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1979 and 1993, 665 Japanese patients with advanced gastric cancer underwent surgery at our hospital. These patients were divided into two groups, consisting of 102 patients with Borrmann type IV carcinoma, and the remaining 563 patients with all other types of gastric carcinoma, which were then compared clinic...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Kitamura K,Beppu R,Anai H,Ikejiri K,Yakabe S,Sugimachi K,Saku M

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transplantable mammary adenocarcinoma, grown in Balb/c mice, with a marked enhancement in its draining lymph node metastatic ability (MM3LN), was obtained through an in vivo procedure from a variant tumor moderately metastatic to lymph nodes (MM3). Both MM3 and MM3LN presented a similar latency and tumor growth rate...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Colombo LL,Gomez DE,Puricelli L,Vidal MC,Ponzio R,Bal de Kier Joffé E

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Discovery of positive lymph nodes (LNs) in patients with cervix cancer is important prognostically, may direct adjuvant therapy, and may have therapeutic benefit. The purpose of this Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) analysis was to assess the value of lymphadenectomy (LND) in patients with ...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Rossi PJ,Horowitz IR,Johnstone PA,Jani AB

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigate the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) as a potential prognostic factor for patients undergoing curative liver resection for colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM). METHODS:We identified patients who underwent liver resection, via our prospectively accumulated surgical database at the Royal Mars...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Giakoustidis A,Neofytou K,Khan AZ,Mudan S

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:miR-301a is significantly overexpressed in many cancers. However, its expression and biological role in gastric cancer remain poorly understood. We investigated microRNA-301a (miR-301a) expression in gastric cancer and determined its effects on cancer cell behavior and its clinical significanc...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Xu XD,He XJ,Tao HQ,Zhang W,Wang YY,Ye ZY,Zhao ZS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UDP-galactose:N-acetylglucosamine galactosyltransferase (GT) is a membrane-bound enzyme active in the biosynthesis of the carbohydrate moiety of glycoproteins and glycolipids. A soluble form of GT, present in human serum, has recently been found to be elevated in the presence of various neoplasms. In this study, GT le...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Paone JF,Waalkes TP,Baker RR,Shaper JH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To propose a distinct anatomical classification for the superior thyroid pole that may serve as a surgical landmark and could help reduce complications in thyroid surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A comprehensive anatomical study based on existing literature and surgical observations. RESULTS:The proposed supe...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Mizrachi A,Swartzwelder CE,Shaha AR

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-nine patients with stage D carcinoma of the prostate under different modalities of treatment were studied for creatine phosphokinase isoenzyme BB (CK-BB) and prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) levels in serum by radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique, in order to study the possible use of CK-BB as a follow-up marker com...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： El-Shribiny A,Bharvaga A,Fitzpatrick J,Murphy GP

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study was made of 38 myosarcomas of the small and large intestines (34 leiomyosarcomas and 4 malignant leiomyoblastomas). Endoenteric, small, and noninvasive tumors were successfully treated by simple wedge excision, cautery snare removal, or segmental bowel resection with a high 5-yr cure rate of 86% ...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Shiu MH,Farr GH,Egeli RA,Quan SH,Hajdu SI

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we resected and reconstructed the sternum in two female patients with thyroid carcinoma metastatic to the sternum. Histological diagnosis of the metastatic lesion was follicular carcinoma in the first case and papillary carcinoma in the second case. Reconstruction of the sternum was accomplished by using an a...

journal_title：Journal of surgical oncology

authors： Ozaki O,Kitagawa W,Koshiishi H,Sugino K,Mimura T,Ito K

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00