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Does Wide Excisional Biopsy in Skin Cancer Prevent Finding The Real Sentinel Lymph Node?

Journal of Investigative Surgery, 2020
Purpose/Aim: The presence of nodal metastasis is an important prognostic factor for malignant melanoma and causes a 50% decrease in survival. Patients found not to have lymph node metastasis as a result of sentinel lymph node biopsy but develop regional ...
Selami S Sirvan, Isil Akgun Demir, Fatih Irmak, Mesut Kafi, Kenan Budak, Semra Karsidag   +5 more
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Comparisons of histological features among primary oral squamous cell carcinomas before and after adjuvant chemotherapy and their lymph node metastatic cancer lesions after adjuvant chemotherapy

Journal of Dental Sciences, 2022
Background/purpose: Adjuvant chemotherapy has been used to control the primary oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) size prior to surgical excision of the cancer.
Feng-Chou Cheng, Ling-Hsia Wang, Yi-Ping Wang, Julia Yu-Fong Chang, Chun-Pin Chiang   +4 more
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Evaluation of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After Primary Chemotherapy as Part of De-Escalation of Breast Cancer Treatment [PDF]

Research in Oncology, 2021
Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) after primary chemotherapy for node-positive breast cancer patients has been gaining popularity as part of the de-escalation of treatment. Aim: The 1ry aim was to assess the surgical outcome of node-positive
Mohamed I. AbdelAziz, Sherif Monib
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A modified sentinel node and occult lesion localization (SNOLL) technique in non-palpable breast cancer. A pilot study [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The spread of mammographic screening programs has allowed an increasing amount of early breast cancer diagnosis. A modern approach to non-palpable breast lesions requires an accurate intraoperative localization, in order to achieve a ...
Anibaldi, Paolo, D'Orazi, Valerio, DE VINCENTIS, Giuseppe, Follacchio, GIULIA ANNA, Iacobelli, Silvia, Merola, Raffaele, Monteleone, Francesco, Monti, Massimo, Pasta, Vittorio   +8 more
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Agreement on indication for systemic therapy between biopsied tissue and surgical excision specimens in breast cancer patients. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
In breast cancer therapy, the indication for systemic therapy is typically based on prognostic markers from the surgical excision specimen. If such is unavailable, for instance prior to tumor ablation therapy, the indication for adjuvant systemic therapy
Alexander M Th Schmitz, Joost J Oudejans, Kenneth G A Gilhuijs   +2 more
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Clinical features that affect the number of pelvic lymph nodes harvested in patients with cervical cancer stage IB1 to IIA2 [PDF]

Obstetrics & Gynecology Science, 2021
Objective To investigate clinical features that affect the number of pelvic lymph nodes (PLNs) harvested and prognostic significance of the number of PLNs removed in patients with stage IB1 to IIA2 cervical cancer.
Yae Ji Choi, Woo Yeon Hwang, Nara Lee, Miseon Kim, Dong Hoon Suh, Kidong Kim, Yong Beom Kim, Jae Hong No   +7 more
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Ultrasound mapping of lymph node and subcutaneous metastases in patients with cutaneous melanoma: Results of a prospective multicenter study [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Ultrasound (sonography, B-mode sonography, ultrasonography) examination improves the sensitivity in more than 25% compared to the clinical palpation, especially after surgery on the regional lymph node area.
Blum, A., Dill-Muller, D., Eberle, J. Y., Kuchelmeister, C., Mauss-Kiefer, V., Schmid-Wendtner, M. H.   +5 more
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Complete mesocolic excision does not increase short-term complications in laparoscopic left-sided colectomies : a comparative retrospective single-center study [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Since the implementation of total mesorectal excision (TME) in rectal cancer surgery, oncological outcomes improved dramatically. With the technique of complete mesocolic excision (CME) with central vascular ligation (CVL), the same surgical ...
Claeys, Donald, Defoort, Barbara, Dewulf, Maxime, Kalmar, Alain, Muysoms, Filip, Pletinckx, Pieter, Vandenberk, Bert   +6 more
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Difficulty of predicting lymph node metastasis on CT in patients with rectal neuroendocrine tumors.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BACKGROUND:Surgical indications for rectal neuroendocrine tumors with potential lymph node metastasis remain controversial. Although accurate preoperative diagnosis of nodal status may be helpful for treatment strategy, scant data about clinical values ...
Hajime Ushigome, Yosuke Fukunaga, Toshiya Nagasaki, Takashi Akiyoshi, Tsuyoshi Konishi, Yoshiya Fujimoto, Satoshi Nagayama, Masashi Ueno   +7 more
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Eccrine porocarcinoma of the head: An important differential diagnosis in the elderly patient [PDF]

, 2008
Background: Eccrine porocarcinoma is a rare malignant tumor of the sweat gland, characterized by a broad spectrum of clinicopathologic presentations. Surprisingly, unlike its benign counterpart eccrine poroma, eccrine porocarcinoma is seldom found in ...
Akiyoshi E, Brenn T, Cho SB, Daniela Bruch-Gerharz, Dummer R, Goel R, Grimme H, Gunhan, Gutermuth J, Helmke B, Klaus-Werner Schulte, Lan CC, Matloub HS, Mishima Y, Perna C, Peter Arne Gerber, Pinkus H, Plunkett TA, Puttick L, Ritter AM, Robson A, Shaw M, Sigal R, Thomas Ruzicka, Valverde K, Wittenberg GP   +25 more
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