Issue 6/2007
Content (24 Articles)
Should Surgical Resection Be Combined with Imatinib Therapy for Locally Advanced or Metastatic Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors?
Sam S. Yoon, Kenneth K. Tanabe
Teaching Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues: A Core Curriculum for Surgical Residents
Daniel D. Klaristenfeld, David T. Harrington, Thomas J. Miner
Selection of Patients with Colorectal Peritoneal Carcinomatosis for Cytoreductive Surgery and Perioperative Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Tristan D. Yan, Junyang Sim, David L. Morris
Optimization of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy With Oxaliplatin Plus Irinotecan at 43°C After Compete Cytoreductive Surgery: Mortality and Morbidity in 106 Consecutive Patients
Dominique Elias, Diane Goere, François Blot, Valérie Billard, Marc Pocard, Niaz Kohneh-Shahri, Bruno Raynard
The Pylorus: Take It or Leave It? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Pylorus-Preserving versus Standard Whipple Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Pancreatic or Periampullary Cancer
Paul J. Karanicolas, Edward Davies, Regina Kunz, Matthias Briel, H. Pavan Koka, Darrin M. Payne, Shona E. Smith, Hui-Ping Hsu, Pin-Wen Lin, Christian Bloechle, Karl-Joseph Paquet, Gordon H. Guyatt
High Serum Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels Predict Poor Prognosis after Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Importance of Tumor Biomarker in Ablative Therapies
Ronnie T. P. Poon, Cecilia Lau, Roberta Pang, Kelvin K. Ng, Jimmy Yuen, Sheung Tat Fan
Factors Influencing the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Gastrectomies: A Population-Based Study
David L. Smith, Linda S. Elting, Peter A. Learn, Chandrajit P. Raut, Paul F. Mansfield
Clinical Correlation of Endoscopic Ultrasonography with Pathologic Stage and Outcome in Patients Undergoing Curative Resection for Gastric Cancer
David Bentrem, Hans Gerdes, Laura Tang, Murray Brennan, Daniel Coit
Gastrointestinal Perforation Due to Bevacizumab in Colorectal Cancer
Muhammad Wasif Saif, Aymen Elfiky, Ronald R. Salem
Pelvic Exenteration Affords Safe and Durable Treatment for Locally Advanced Rectal Carcinoma
Christopher J. Gannon, Jonathan S. Zager, George J. Chang, Barry W. Feig, Christopher G. Wood, John M. Skibber, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas
Laparoscopic Medial-to-lateral Approach for the Curative Resection of Right-Sided Colon Cancer
Jin-Tung Liang, Hong-shiee Lai, Po-Huang Lee
α1,2Fucosylation Is a Superior Predictor of Postoperative Prognosis for Colorectal Cancer Compared with Blood Group A, B, or Sialyl Lewis X Antigen Generated within Colorectal Tumor Tissues
Kaori Tsuboi, Takayuki Asao, Munenori Ide, Shinji Hashimoto, Kasumi Noguchi, Yoshihiko Kominato, Abby R. Saniabadi, Hiroyuki Kuwano, Shin Yazawa
Axillary Reverse Mapping (ARM): A New Concept to Identify and Enhance Lymphatic Preservation
Margaret Thompson, Soheila Korourian, Ronda Henry-Tillman, Laura Adkins, Sheilah Mumford, Kent C. Westbrook, V Suzanne Klimberg
Association of the Presence of Bone Marrow Micrometastases with the Sentinel Lymph Node Status in 410 Early Stage Breast Cancer Patients: Results of the Swiss Multicenter Study
Igor Langer, Ulrich Guller, Ossi R. Koechli, Gilles Berclaz, Gad Singer, Gabriel Schaer, Mathias K. Fehr, Thomas Hess, Daniel Oertli, Lucio Bronz, Beate Schnarwyler, Edward Wight, Urs Uehlinger, Eduard Infanger, Daniel Burger, Markus Zuber
Lymphedema Therapy Reduces the Volume of Edema and Pain in Patients with Breast Cancer
John B. Hamner, Martin D. Fleming
Differential Expression and Prognostic Implications of the CCN Family Members WISP-1, WISP-2, and WISP-3 in Human Breast Cancer
Simon R. Davies, Gareth Watkins, Robert E. Mansel, Wen G. Jiang
Determination of the Necessary Total Protein Substitution Requirements in Patients with Advanced Stage Ovarian Cancer and Ascites, Undergoing Debulking Surgery. Correlation with Plasma Proteins
George Vorgias, Christos Iavazzo, John Mavromatis, Joanna Leontara, Michael Katsoulis, Nickolas Kalinoglou, Thrassivoulos Akrivos
Detection of First Relapse in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients: Implications for the Formulation of Evidence-Based Follow-up Guidelines
Anne Brecht Francken, Helen M. Shaw, Neil A. Accortt, Seng-Jaw Soong, Harald J. Hoekstra, John F. Thompson
Patterns of First-Recurrence and Post-recurrence Survival in Patients with Primary Cutaneous Melanoma After Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
Kimberly M. Dalal, Ami Patel, Mary S. Brady, David P. Jaques, Daniel G. Coit
Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Assessing the Effect of Wide Local Excision, Lymph Node Dissection, and Radiotherapy on Recurrence and Survival in Early-Stage Disease—Results From a Review of 82 Consecutive Cases Diagnosed Between 1992 and 2004
James Jabbour, Robert Cumming, Richard A. Scolyer, George Hruby, John F. Thompson, Stephen Lee
Treatment and Outcome of 82 Patients with Angiosarcoma
John A. Abraham, Francis J. Hornicek, Adam M. Kaufman, David C. Harmon, Dempsey S. Springfield, Kevin A. Raskin, Henry J. Mankin, David G. Kirsch, Andrew E. Rosenberg, G. Petur Nielsen, Vikram Desphpande, Herman D. Suit, Thomas F. DeLaney, Sam S. Yoon