Issue 1/2008
Content (139 Articles)
Multimodality approach of perioperative 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging, intraoperative 18F-FDG handheld gamma probe detection, and intraoperative ultrasound for tumor localization and verification of resection of all sites of hypermetabolic activity in a case of occult recurrent metastatic melanoma
Stephen P Povoski, Nathan C Hall, Edward W Martin Jr, Michael J Walker
Intra-arterial chemoradiation for T3-4 oral cavity cancer: Treatment outcomes in comparison to oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinoma
Ilana Doweck, K Thomas Robbins, Sandeep Samant, Francisco Vieira
Outcomes of surgical treatment for upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma: Comparison of retroperitoneoscopic and open nephroureterectomy
Tawatchai Taweemonkongsap, Chaiyong Nualyong, Teerapon Amornvesukit, Sunai Leewansangtong, Sittiporn Srinualnad, Bansithi Chaiyaprasithi, Phichaya Sujijantararat, Anupan Tantiwong, Suchai Soontrapa
Small cell carcinoma of the appendix
Anna M O'Kane, Mark E O'Donnell, Rajeev Shah, Declan P Carey, Jack Lee
A rare case of isolated wound implantation of colorectal adenocarcinoma complicating an incisional hernia: case report and review of the literature
Aninda Chandra, Lester Lee, Fahad Hossain, Harnaik Johal
Painful swollen leg – think beyond deep vein thrombosis or Baker's cyst
Buchi RB Arumilli, Vinayagam Lenin Babu, Ashok S Paul
Pulmonary echinococcosis mimicking multipl lung metastasis of breast cancer: The role of fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography
Yavuz Kurt, İlker Sücüllü, Ali İlker Filiz, Muammer Urhan, Mehmet Levhi Akın
Laparotomy enables retrograde dilatation and stent placement for malignant esophago-respiratory fistula
Alexander Rehders, Kenko Cupisti, Marcus Schmitt, Marc A Renter, Patrick Kröpil, Özcan Iskender, Wolfram T Knoefel
Alternative reconstruction after pancreaticoduodenectomy
Michael G Wayne, Irving A Jorge, Avram M Cooperman
Skin invasion and prognosis in node negative breast cancer: a retrospective study
Keiichiro Tada, Hidetomo Morizono, Kotaro Iijima, Yumi Miyagi, Seiichiro Nishimura, Masujiro Makita, Rie Horii, Futoshi Akiyama, Takuji Iwase
Forefoot plantar multilobular noninfiltrating angiolipoma: a case report and review of the literature
Theodoros B Grivas, Olga D Savvidou, Spyridon A Psarakis, Georgia Liapi, George Triantafyllopoulos, Ioannis Kovanis, Panagiotis Alexandropoulos, Vasiliki Katsiva
Prognostic factors in primary adenocarcinoma of the small intestine: 13-year single institution experience
Kongkrit Chaiyasate, Akhilesh K Jain, Laurence Y Cheung, Michael J Jacobs, Vijay K Mittal
Does the surgeon still have a role to play in the diagnosis and management of lymphomas?
Gareth Morris-Stiff, Peipei Cheang, Steve Key, Anju Verghese, Timothy J Havard
Acute airway failure secondary to thyroid metastasis from renal carcinoma
Mario Testini, Germana Lissidini, Angela Gurrado, Gaetano Lastilla, Amato Stabile Ianora, Raffaele Fiorella
Application of light microscopical and ultrastructural immunohistochemistry in the study of goblet cell carcinoid in the appendix
Maya V Gulubova, Yovcho Yovchev, Tatyana Vlaykova, Philip Hadjipetkov, Diana K Prangova, Angel Popharitov
Solitary fibrous tumor of the male breast: a case report and review of the literature
Francesca Rovera, Giovanna Imbriglio, Giorgio Limonta, Marina Marelli, Stefano La Rosa, Fausto Sessa, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Luigi Boni, Renzo Dionigi
Regression of sporadic intra-abdominal desmoid tumour following administration of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
Keita Tanaka, Reigetsu Yoshikawa, Hidenori Yanagi, Makoto Gega, Yoshinori Fujiwara, Tomoko Hashimoto-Tamaoki, Syozo Hirota, Tohru Tsujimura, Naohiro Tomita
Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein-1 (LMP-1) 30-bp deletion and Xho I-loss is associated with type III nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Malaysia
Hui Shien See, Yoke Yeow Yap, Wai Kien Yip, Heng Fong Seow
A case of virilization induced by a Krukenberg tumor from gastric cancer
Matthias Hornung, Peter Vogel, Thomas Schubert, Hans-Jürgen Schlitt, Ulrich Bolder
Correspondence: Prostatic sarcoma after treatment for rectal cancer
Noel J Aherne, Charles M Gillham
Letter to Editor: Carpal tunnel syndrome due to an atypical deep soft tissue leiomyoma: The risk of misdiagnosis and mismanagement
Giuseppe Granata, Carlo Martinoli, Costanza Pazzaglia, Pietro Caliandro, Luca Padua, Diana Ferraro
Adenocarcinoma of the appendix presenting as bilateral ureteric obstruction
Kamran Ahmed, Robiol Hoque, Sherif El-Tawil, Mohammad S Khan, Mark L George
Substernal oxyphil parathyroid adenoma producing PTHrP with hypercalcemia and normal PTH level
Angela Gurrado, Andrea Marzullo, Germana Lissidini, Agostino Lippolis, Domenico Rubini, Gaetano Lastilla, Mario Testini
Extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the greater omentum: report of a case and review of the literature
Christian Franzini, Luciano Alessandri, Irene Piscioli, Salvatore Donato, Rosario Faraci, Luca Morelli, Franca Del Nonno, Stefano Licci
Barriers to adequate follow-up during adjuvant therapy may be important factors in the worse outcome for Black women after breast cancer treatment
Steve H Kim, Jeanne Ferrante, Bok Ran Won, Meera Hameed
Notice of redundant publication: Surgical resection for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST): Experience on 25 patients
Luigi Boni, Angelo Benevento, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Francesca Rovera, Renzo Dionigi
Post-traumatic soft tissue tumors: Case report and review of the literature a propos a Post-traumatic paraspinal desmoid tumor
Sarit Cohen, Dean Ad-El, Ofer Benjaminov, Haim Gutman
Coexistence of carcinoma and tuberculosis in one breast
Ahmed Alzaraa, Neha Dalal
Extensive necrosis of visceral melanoma metastases after immunotherapy
David Stoeter, Nicola de Liguori Carino, Ernest Marshall, Graeme J Poston, Andrew Wu
Pyoderma gangrenosum after totally implanted central venous access device insertion
Ihsan Inan, Patrick O Myers, Rolf Braun, Monica E Hagen, Philippe Morel
Merkel cell carcinoma of the upper extremity: Case report and an update
Michail Papamichail, Ioannis Nikolaidis, Nicolas Nikolaidis, Chryssoula Glava, Ioannis Lentzas, Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, Kriton Karassavsa, Michail Digalakis
Invasive micropapillary carcinomas arising 42 years after augmentation mammoplasty: A case report and literature review
Yuko Tanaka, Isamu Morishima, Kazunori Kikuchi
Primary multifocal osseous Hodgkin's lymphoma
Clare R Langley, Simon JW Garrett, Jill Urand, Janice Kohler, Nick MP Clarke
High grade B-cell gastric lymphoma with complete pathologic remission after eradication of helicobacter pylori infection: Report of a case and review of the literature
Luigi Cavanna, Raffaella Pagani, Pietro Seghini, Adriano Zangrandi, Carlo Paties
Thyroid cancer causing obstruction of the great veins in the neck
Steve L Hyer, Prasad Dandekar, Kate Newbold, Masud Haq, Kshama Wechalakar, Clive Harmer
The Merendino procedure following preoperative imatinib mesylate for locally advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the esophagogastric junction
Wilko I Staiger, Ulrich Ronellenfitsch, Georg Kaehler, Hans Ulrich Schildhaus, Antonia Dimitrakopoulou-Strauss, Matthias HM Schwarzbach, Peter Hohenberger
Radical hysterectomy in the elderly
Azamsadat Mousavi, Mojgan Karimi Zarchi, Mitra Modares Gilani, Nadereh Behtash, Fatemeh Ghaemmaghami, Maryam Shams, Maryam Irvanipoor
Application of Portsmouth modification of physiological and operative severity scoring system for enumeration of morbidity and mortality (P-POSSUM) in pancreatic surgery
Appou Tamijmarane, Chandra S Bhati, Darius F Mirza, Simon R Bramhall, David A Mayer, Stephen J Wigmore, John AC Buckels
Erratum to: Thyroid cancer causing obstruction of the great veins in the neck
Steve L Hyer, Prasad Dandekar, Kate Newbold, Masud Haq, Kshama Wechalakar, Khin Thway, Clive Harmer
Surgical treatment of a rare primary renal carcinoid tumor with liver metastasis
Roberto Gedaly, Hoonbae Jeon, Thomas D Johnston, Patrick P McHugh, Randall G Rowland, Dinesh Ranjan
Intramuscular recurrence in a Hepatocellular carcinoma patient with indolent disease course
Thomas Yau, Hilda Wong, Pierre Chan, MC To, Ronnie T Poon
Skin Sparing Mastectomy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction (SSMIR) for early breast cancer: Eight years single institution experience
Ramesh Omranipour, Jean yves Bobin, Mustafa Esouyeh
Glycogen-rich clear cell carcinoma of the breast
Christos Markopoulos, Dimitris Mantas, T Philipidis, Efstatios Kouskos, Zoi Antonopoulou, ML Hatzinikolaou, Helen Gogas
Predictive factors for beneficial application of high-frequency electromagnetics for tumour vaporization and coagulation in neurosurgery
Rainer Ritz, Stefan Heckl, Sam Safavi-Abbasi, Guenther C Feigl, Boris Krischek, Wolf Lüdemann, Javed M Mirzayan, Andrei Koerbel, Madjid Samii, Marcos Tatagiba, Alireza Gharabaghi
A multidisciplinary approach for the treatment of GIST liver metastasis
Pejman Radkani, Marcelo M Ghersi, Juan C Paramo, Thomas W Mesko
Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction
Rashmi Birla, Kamal Kumar Mahawar, Mavis Orizu, Muhammad S Siddiqui, Arun Batra
Middle bile duct cancer with portal vein tumor thrombus
Mitsugi Shimoda, Yukihiro Iso, Shigeki Tomita, Takahiro Fujimori, Koji Murakami, Tokihiko Sawada, Keiichi Kubota
Colonoscopy is mandatory after Streptococcus bovis endocarditis: a lesson still not learned. Case report
Alberta Ferrari, Ivan Botrugno, Elisa Bombelli, Tommaso Dominioni, Emma Cavazzi, Paolo Dionigi
A malignant omental extra-gastrointestinal stromal tumor on a young man: a case report and review of the literature
Mario Castillo-Sang, Salim Mancho, Albert W Tsang, Barbu Gociman, Babatunde Almaroof, Mohammed Y Ahmed
Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: A comparison of 11-gauge and 8-gauge needles in benign breast disease
Markus Hahn, Stella Okamgba, Peter Scheler, Klaus Freidel, Gerald Hoffmann, Bernhard Kraemer, Diethelm Wallwiener, Ute Krainick-Strobel
Primary lymphoma of the breast involving both axillae with bilateral breast carcinoma
Neeraj K Garg, Nitin B Bagul, Gary Rubin, Elizabeth F Shah
Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in gynecological cancers: a critical review of the literature
Ali Ayhan, Husnu Celik, Polat Dursun
An unusual case of low-grade tubulopapillary adenocarcinoma of the sinonasal tract
Ashish Bansal, Keloth E Pradeep, Krishna P Gumparthy
Port site metastasis following diagnostic laparoscopy for a malignant Gastro-intestinal stromal tumour
Andrew R Davies, Waseem Ahmed, Shaun F Purkiss
Real time PCR analyses of expression of E-cadherin, alpha-, beta- and gamma-catenin in human breast cancer for predicting clinical outcome
Amit Goyal, Tracey A Martin, Robert E Mansel, Wen G Jiang
Clinical efficacy and problems with CT lymphography in identifying the sentinel node in breast cancer
Masako Takahashi, Mitsunori Sasa, Chieko Hirose, Sonoka Hisaoka, Masako Taki, Toshiyuki Hirose, Yoshimi Bando
Male breast cancer: is the scenario changing
Kaiyumars B Contractor, Kanchan Kaur, Gabriel S Rodrigues, Dhananjay M Kulkarni, Hemant Singhal
Coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor expression in human endometrial adenocarcinoma: possible clinical implications
Costas T Giaginis, Apostolos C Zarros, Maria A Papaefthymiou, Aikaterini E Papadopouli, Ioannis K Sfiniadakis, Stamatios E Theocharis
A case of matrix-producing carcinoma of the breast
Toshiyuki Hirose, Junko Honda, Yoshimi Bando, Mitsunori Sasa, Yukiko Hirose, Taeko Nagao, Akira Tangoku
The significance of the Van Nuys prognostic index in the management of ductal carcinoma in situ
Onur Gilleard, Andrew Goodman, Martin Cooper, Mary Davies, Julie Dunn
Late widespread skeletal metastases from myxoid liposarcoma detected by MRI only
Sammy A Hanna, Yassar A Qureshi, Lee Bayliss, Lee A David, Paul O'Donnell, Ian R Judson, Timothy WR Briggs
Fibrin sealant does not decrease seroma output or time to drain removal following inguino-femoral lymph node dissection in melanoma patients: A randomized controlled trial (NCT00506311)
Melinda M Mortenson, Yan Xing, Storm Weaver, Jeffrey E Lee, Jeffrey E Gershenwald, Anthony Lucci, Paul F Mansfield, Merrick I Ross, Janice N Cormier
FDG PET-CT demonstration of metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of prostate
Yiyan Liu
bcl-2 expression is not associated with survival in metastatic cutaneous melanoma: A historical cohort study
Marília B Espíndola, Oly C Corleta
Solitary skull metastasis as initial manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma
Yu Shik Shim, Jung Yong Ahn, Jun Hyung Cho, Kyu Sung Lee
Successful treatment of perineal necrotising fasciitis and associated pubic bone osteomyelitis with the vacuum assisted closure system
Susim Kumar, Mark E O'Donnell, Khalid Khan, Gillian Dunne, P Declan Carey, Jack Lee
Abnormal hCG levels in a patient with treated stage I seminoma: a diagnostic dilemma
Noel J Aherne, Cormac A Small, Gerard P McVey, David A Fitzpatrick, John G Armstrong
Intraoperative frozen section assessment of sentinel lymph nodes in the operative management of women with symptomatic breast cancer
Rohanna Ali, Ann M Hanly, Peter Naughton, Constantino F Castineira, Rob Landers, Ronan A Cahill, R Gordon Watson
Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor producing rectal cancer
Hiroki Takahashi, Akira Yasuda, Nubuo Ochi, Masaki Sakamoto, Satoru Takayama, Takehiro Wakasugi, Hitoshi Funahashi, Hirozumi Sawai, Mikinori Satoh, Yoshimi Akamo, Hiromitsu Takeyama
Alveolar soft part sarcoma: clinicopathological findings in a series of 11 cases
Adrien Daigeler, Cornelius Kuhnen, Joerg Hauser, Ole Goertz, Daniel Tilkorn, Lars Steinstraesser, Hans-Ulrich Steinau, Marcus Lehnhardt
Simultaneous adrenal and extra-adrenal myelolipoma – an uncommon incident: case report and review of the literature
Derek Zieker, Ingmar Königsrainer, Stephan Miller, Ulrich Vogel, Karl Sotlar, Wolfgang Steurer, Alfred Königsrainer, Thorsten G Lehmann
Prognostic factors for lymph node metastasis from advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the skin of the trunk and extremities
Vinicius de Lima Vazquez, Teoclito Sachetto, Natalia Martins Perpetuo, Andre Lopes Carvalho
Helicobacter pylori and gastroesophageal reflux disease
Michele Grande, Federica Cadeddu, Massimo Villa, Grazia Maria Attinà, Marco Gallinella Muzi, Casimiro Nigro, Francesco Rulli, Attilio M Farinon
Spinal cord compression by a solitary metastasis from a low grade leydig cell tumour: a case report and review of the literature
Efthimios P Samoladas, Ashraf S Anbar, Jonathan D Lucas, Hlias Fotiadis, Byron E Chalidis
Spontaneous intratumoral bleeding and rupture of giant gastric stromal tumor (> 30 cm) in a young patient
Ruy J Cruz Jr, Rodrigo Vincenzi, Bernardo M Ketzer, Andre L Cecilio, Lourdes A Cepeda
Management of gastrointestinal stromal tumours in the Imatinib era: a surgeon's perspective
Ravindra S Date, Nicholas A Stylianides, Kishore G Pursnani, Jeremy B Ward, Muntzer M Mughal
Gastric metastases originating from occult breast lobular carcinoma: diagnostic and therapeutic problems
Antonio Ciulla, Gioacchino Castronovo, Giovanni Tomasello, Alfonso Maurizio Maiorana, Leila Russo, Elio Daniele, Gaspare Genova
Biphasic anaphylactic reaction to blue dye during sentinel lymph node biopsy
Margaret I Liang, William E Carson III
Multi-visceral resection of pancreatic VIPoma in a patient with sinistral portal hypertension
David L Joyce, Kelvin Hong, Elliot K Fishman, Joshua Wisell, Timothy M Pawlik
Giant gluteal lipoma-like liposarcoma: a case report
Maitham Sultan, Hisham Burezq, Rameshwar L Bang, Moustafa El-Kabany, Waddah Eskaf
Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma
Kenko Cupisti, Uwe Ramp, Andreas Raffel, Markus Krausch, Alexander Rehders, Wolfram T Knoefel
Paraneoplastic pemphigus regression after thymoma resection
Nikolaos Barbetakis, Georgios Samanidis, Dimitrios Paliouras, Ioannis Boukovinas, Christos Asteriou, Eleni Stergiou, Kostas Laschos, Christodoulos Tsilikas
Epithelioid sarcoma with muscle metastasis detected by positron emission tomography
Akio Sakamoto, Osamu Jono, Minako Hirahashi, Masafumi Oya, Yukihide Iwamoto, Ken Arai
Management of malignant pleural effusion and ascites by a triple access multi perforated large diameter catheter port system
Ihsan Inan, Sandra De Sousa, Patrick O Myers, Brigitte Bouclier, Pierre-Yves Dietrich, Monica E Hagen, Philippe Morel
Solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura presenting with syncope episodes when coughing
Luigi Santambrogio, Mario Nosotti, Alessandro Palleschi, Lorenzo Rosso, Davide Tosi, Matilde De Simone, Michele M Ciulla, Marco Maggioni, Ugo Cioffi
Incidental littoral cell angioma of the spleen
May Tee, Patrick Vos, Peter Zetler, Sam M Wiseman
Transhiatal esophagectomy in a high volume institution
Andrew R Davies, Matthew J Forshaw, Aadil A Khan, Alia S Noorani, Vanash M Patel, Dirk C Strauss, Robert C Mason
The importance of rectal cancer MRI protocols on iInterpretation accuracy
Chikako Suzuki, Michael R Torkzad, Soichi Tanaka, Gabriella Palmer, Johan Lindholm, Torbjörn Holm, Lennart Blomqvist
Results of emergency Hartmann's operation for obstructive or perforated left-sided colorectal cancer
Pierre Charbonnet, Pascal Gervaz, Axel Andres, Pascal Bucher, Béatrice Konrad, Philippe Morel
Primary carcinoid tumors of the liver
Gary Schwartz, Agnes Colanta, Harold Gaetz, John Olichney, Fadi Attiyeh
Conservatively treated glassy cell carcinoma of the cervix
Gabriella Ferrandina, Vanda Salutari, Marco Petrillo, Arnaldo Carbone, Giovanni Scambia
Yttrium-90 microsphere induced gastrointestinal tract ulceration
Christopher D South, Marty M Meyer, Gregory Meis, Edward Y Kim, Fred B Thomas, Ali A Rikabi, Hooman Khabiri, Mark Bloomston
Primary Kaposi sarcoma of the subcutaneous tissue
Liron Pantanowitz, John Mullen, Bruce J Dezube
Clinicopathologic features and outcomes following surgery for pancreatic adenosquamous carcinoma
Jun-Te Hsu, Han-Ming Chen, Ren-Chin Wu, Chun-Nan Yeh, Ta-Sen Yeh, Tsann-Long Hwang, Yi-Yin Jan, Miin-Fu Chen
Late recurrence of large peri-stomal metastasis following abdomino-perineal resection of rectal cancer
Chandrasekar Vijayasekar, Saleem Noormohamed, Mark James Cheetham
Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach with lymph node metastasis
Aras Emre Canda, Yucel Ozsoy, Olcay Ak Nalbant, Ozgul Sagol
Evaluation of clinical, laboratory and morphologic prognostic factors in colon cancer
Michele Grande, Giovanni Milito, Grazia Maria Attinà, Federica Cadeddu, Marco Gallinella Muzi, Casimiro Nigro, Francesco Rulli, Attilio Maria Farinon
Detection of somatostatin receptors in human osteosarcoma
Markos Ioannou, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos, Ioannis Papanastassiou, Ioanna Iakovidou, Stamatios Kottakis, Nikolaos Demertzis
Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome
Omar Barakat, Mark D Skolkin, Barry D Toombs, John H Fischer II, Claire F Ozaki, R Patrick Wood
Low grade epithelial stromal tumour of the seminal vesicle
Bruno Monica, Michelangelo Larosa, Francesco Facchini, Gianluigi Pozzoli, Ilaria Franceschetti, Irene Piscioli
Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
Christopher N Hueser, Nghi C Nguyen, Medhat Osman, Necat Havlioglu, Anjali J Patel
Low grade papillary transitional cell carcinoma pelvic recurrence masquerading as high grade invasive carcinoma, ten years after radical cystectomy
Pankaj P Dangle, Wenle Paul Wang, Joel Mayerson, Amir Mortazavi, Paul Monk
Acute liver failure due to primary angiosarcoma: A case report and review of literature
Chandra S Bhati, Anand N Bhatt, Graham Starkey, Stefan G Hubscher, Simon R Bramhall
Segmental resection of the duodenum for gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)
Rudolf Mennigen, Heiner H Wolters, Bernd Schulte, Friedrich W Pelster
Adenocarcinoma of the third portion of the duodenum in a man with CREST syndrome
Georgios Anastasopoulos, Athanasios Marinis, Christos Konstantinidis, Theodosios Theodosopoulos, Georgios Fragulidis, Ioannis Vassiliou
Special problems encountering surgical management of large retroperitoneal schwannomas
Theodosios Theodosopoulos, Vaia K Stafyla, Paraskevi Tsiantoula, Anneza Yiallourou, Athanasios Marinis, Agathi Kondi-Pafitis, Achilleas Chatziioannou, Efstathios Boviatsis, Dionysios Voros
Isolated metastatic extremity liposarcoma to the liver, an uncommon and transient finding
Christopher A Garces, John D Reith, Stephen R Grobmyer, Steven N Hochwald
Upper abdominal body shape is the risk factor for postoperative pancreatic fistula after splenectomy for advanced gastric cancer: A retrospective study
Naoto Yamamoto, Takashi Oshima, Tsutomu Sato, Hirochika Makino, Yasuhiko Nagano, Shoichi Fujii, Yasushi Rino, Toshio Imada, Chikara Kunisaki
Resection of giant ethmoid osteoma with orbital and skull base extension followed by duraplasty
Ioannis Yiotakis, Anna Eleftheriadou, Evagelos Giotakis, Leonidas Manolopoulos, Eliza Ferekidou, Dimitrios Kandiloros
Soft tissue non-Hodgkin lymphoma of shoulder in a HIV patient: a report of a case and review of the literature
Domenico Marotta, Alessandro Sgambato, Simone Cerciello, Nicola Magarelli, Maurizio Martini, Luigi Maria Larocca, Giulio Maccauro
Correlation of HER-2 over-expression with clinico-pathological parameters in Tunisian breast carcinoma
Lobna Ayadi, Abdelmajid Khabir, Habib Amouri, Sondes Karray, Abdallah Dammak, Mohamed Guermazi, Tahya Boudawara
Intravascular leiomyosarcoma of the brachiocephalic region – report of an unusual tumour localisation: case report and review of the literature
Daniel-Johannes Tilkorn, Marcus Lehnhardt, Jörg Hauser, Adrien Daigeler, Detlev Hebebrand, Thomas Mentzel, Hans Ulrich Steinau, Cornelius Kuhnen
Expression of the metalloproteases MMP-1, MMP-2, MMP-3, MMP-9, MMP-11, TIMP-1 and TIMP-2 in angiocentric midfacial lymphomas
Abelardo Meneses-García, Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, Jorge Herrera Abarca, Adriana Becerril Montes, Lourdes Suarez Roa, Luz Ruíz-Godoy
Giant retroperitoneal liposarcoma
Ángel Herrera-Gómez, César Ortega-Gutiérrez, Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, Kuauhyama Luna-Ortiz
The synchronous occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) at esophageal site
Gian Paolo Spinelli, Evelina Miele, Federica Tomao, Luigi Rossi, Giulia Pasciuti, Angelo Zullo, Federica Zoratto, Jose Nunnari, Giovanni Codacci Pisanelli, Silverio Tomao
Giant breast tumors: Surgical management of phyllodes tumors, potential for reconstructive surgery and a review of literature
Margaret I Liang, Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, Cynthia C Patterson, Michael T McKelvey, Gayle Gordillo, Gerard J Nuovo, William E Carson III
Experience with adjuvant chemotherapy for pseudomyxoma peritonei secondary to mucinous adenocarcinoma of the appendix with oxaliplatin/fluorouracil/leucovorin (FOLFOX4)
Chin-Fan Chen, Che-Jen Huang, Wan-Yi Kang, Jan-Sing Hsieh
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature
Pankaj P Dangle, Wenle Paul Wang, Kamal S Pohar
Lung adenocarcinoma presenting as obstructive jaundice: a case report and review of literature
Stephanos Pericleous, Samrat Mukherjee, Robert R Hutchins
Transsacral colon fistula: late complication after resection, irradiation and free flap transfer of sacral chondrosarcoma
Lars Steinstraesser, Michael Sand, Stefan Langer, Gert Muhr, Thomas A Schildhauer, Hans-Ulrich Steinau
Metastatic colorectal cancer to a primary thyroid cancer
Martin H Cherk, Maggie Moore, Jonathan Serpell, Sarah Swain, Duncan J Topliss
Surgical strategies for treatment of malignant pancreatic tumors: extended, standard or local surgery?
Matthias Glanemann, Baomin Shi, Feng Liang, Xiao-Gang Sun, Marcus Bahra, Dietmar Jacob, Ulf Neumann, Peter Neuhaus
Delayed malignant melanoma recurrence simulating primary ovarian cancer: Case report
Anastasios Boutis, Rosalia Valeri, Ippokratis Korantzis, Dimitrios Valoukas, Ioannis Andronikidis, Charalambos Andreadis
The complicated management of a patient following transarterial chemoembolization for metastatic carcinoid
Andrew C Pearson, Steven Steinberg, Manisha H Shah, Mark Bloomston
Neoangiogenesis in early cervical cancer: Correlation between color Doppler findings and risk factors. A prospective observational study
Matias Jurado, Rosendo Galván, Rafael Martinez-Monge, Jesús Mazaira, Juan Luis Alcazar
A study of lymph node ratio in stage IV colorectal cancer
Kristoffer Derwinger, Bengt Gustavsson
The use of fulvestrant, a parenteral endocrine agent, in intestinal obstruction due to metastatic lobular breast carcinoma
Jasmine YM Tang, Rajendra Singh Rampaul, Kwok L Cheung
Hepatobiliary cystadenoma exhibiting morphologic changes from simple hepatic cyst shown by 11-year follow up imagings
Naoto Fukunaga, Masashi Ishikawa, Hisashi Ishikura, Toshihiro Ichimori, Suguru Kimura, Akihiro Sakata, Koichi Sato, Jyunichi Nagata, Yoshiyuki Fujii
Post-radiation sciatic neuropathy: a case report and review of the literature
Panagiotis D Gikas, Sammy A Hanna, Will Aston, Nicholas S Kalson, Roberto Tirabosco, Asif Saifuddin, Steve R Cannon
Intramucosal leiomyosarcoma of the stomach following hereditary retinoblastoma in childhood – a case report and review of the literature
Ursula Pauser, Horst Grimm
A paraneoplastic manifestation of metastatic breast cancer responding to endocrine therapy: a case report
Joanna P Wood, Andrew P Haynes, KL Cheung
Ileoileal intussusception induced by a gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Kontantinos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Kogopoulos, Michael Katsamakas, Evangelos Karamitsos, Christos Tsalikidis, Byron Pringos, Andreas Tsalikidis
Adrenocortical oncocytic carcinoma with recurrent metastases: a case report and review of the literature
Pinelopi Argyriou, Charalambos Zisis, Nektarios Alevizopoulos, Emmanuel M Kefaloyannis, Constantine Gennatas, Constantina D Petraki
Squamous cell carcinoma of the breast: a case report
Elvira R Flikweert, Mans Hofstee, Mike SL Liem
Advantage of vacuum assisted closure on healing of wound associated with omentoplasty after abdominoperineal excision: a case report
Silvia Cresti, Mehdi Ouaïssi, Igor Sielezneff, Jean-Baptiste Chaix, Nicolas Pirro, Bruno Berthet, Bernard Consentino, Bernard Sastre
A rare tumoral combination, synchronous lung adenocarcinoma and mantle cell lymphoma of the pleura
Dimitrios Hatzibougias, Mattheos Bobos, Georgia Karayannopoulou, Georgios Karkavelas, Georgios T Karapanagiotidis, Christophoros N Foroulis, Ioannis Kostopoulos
A case of radiation-induced sternal malignant fibrous histiocytoma treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgical resection
Bulent Kocer, Gultekin Gulbahar, Bulent Erdogan, Burcin Budakoglu, Selim Erekul, Koray Dural, Unal Sakinci
Bilateral gluteal metastases from a misdiagnosed intrapelvic gastrointestinal stromal tumor
Dritan Pasku, Apostolos Karantanas, Elpida Giannikaki, Maria Tzardi, Emmanouil Velivassakis, Pavlos Katonis