The Outcome of Patients with Melanoma Is Not Associated with the Time Point of Lymphatic Mapping with Respect to Excisional Biopsy of the Primary Tumor [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has become the standard care for melanoma and is an important diagnostic procedure. It has been doubted whether lymphoscintigraphy detects the correct sentinel lymph node (SLN) when excision of the tumor and ...
Baumert, Jens +7 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 +7 more
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, 2012 Melanoma is a relatively common neoplasm which is increasing in incidence. Melanoma appears as a variegated irregular maculopapular lesion usually on the skin, but possibly on mucosae, conjunctiva, orbit, nails and oesophagus. They may be black, brown,
Magri, Stephanie, Pace, Keith
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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 +6 more
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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 +8 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 +7 more
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Controversy over the medial border of lymph node dissection during CME/D3 surgery of right colon cancer [PDF]
Waike lilun yu shijian, 2023 Radical surgery is the most important treatment for colon cancer. The development and application of complete mesentery excision (CME)/D3 lymph node dissection has promoted the standardization of surgical techniques for colon cancer.
SUN Yueming, ZHANG Dongsheng
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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 +25 more
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Life, 2023 (1) Background: Surgical-oncological treatment methods are continuously put to the test in times of evidence-based medicine—notably, a constant reevaluation remains key, especially for tumor entities with increasing incidence such as vulvar carcinoma. (2)
Peter Jankowski +7 more
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Locally Advanced Spiroadenocarcinoma in the Regional Axilla of a Breast Cancer Patient: Hallmarks of Definitive Diagnosis and Management. [PDF]
, 2015 Eccrine spiroadenocarcinoma is an extremely rare malignant eccrine gland tumor which may masquerade as other more common malignancies such as poorly differentiated squamous carcinoma or metastatic breast cancer.
Canter, Robert J +3 more
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