Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, 2020 Aim To investigate the effectiveness of the institutional medical structure and of the implemented clinical practice guidelines for improving colon cancer surgical outcomes.
Hirotoshi Kobayashi +8 more
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Is preoperative bowel preparation necessary for gynecological oncology surgery?
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2016 Objective: We investigated the necessity of preoperative bowel preparation for gynecological oncology surgery. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent gynecological oncology surgery with ...
Wei-Tin Liu +10 more
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Stratification of rate of lymph node metastasis according to risk factors and oncologic outcomes in patients who underwent radical resection for rectal neuroendocrine tumors [PDF]
Annals of Coloproctology, 2023 Purpose Most predictive factors for lymph node metastasis in rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have been based on local and endoscopic resection.
Myung Jae Jin +12 more
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Analysis of Minnesota colon and rectum cancer point patterns with spatial and nonspatial covariate information [PDF]
Annals of Applied Statistics 2009, Vol. 3, No. 3, 943-962, 2009 Colon and rectum cancer share many risk factors, and are often tabulated together as ``colorectal cancer'' in published summaries. However, recent work indicating that exercise, diet, and family history may have differential impacts on the two cancers encourages analyzing them separately, so that corresponding public health interventions can be more ...
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Association of perioperative blood pressure with long-term survival in rectal cancer patients
Chinese Journal of Cancer, 2016 Background Several studies suggested that hypertension is positively related to cancer incidence and mortality. In this study, we investigated the association between perioperative blood pressure (BP) and long-term survival outcomes in patients with ...
Hui-Chuan Yu +8 more
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Interactive and Scale Invariant Segmentation of the Rectum/Sigmoid via User-Defined Templates [PDF]
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2016, Paper 9784-113, 2016 Among all types of cancer, gynecological malignancies belong to the 4th most frequent type of cancer among women. Besides chemotherapy and external beam radiation, brachytherapy is the standard procedure for the treatment of these malignancies. In the progress of treatment planning, localization of the tumor as the target volume and adjacent organs of ...
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Reducing the Model Variance of a Rectal Cancer Segmentation Network [PDF]
IEEE Access, vol. 7, Issue. 1, pp. 182725-182733, 2019, 2019 In preoperative imaging, the demarcation of rectal cancer with magnetic resonance images provides an important basis for cancer staging and treatment planning. Recently, deep learning has greatly improved the state-of-the-art method in automatic segmentation.
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Calcifying fibrous tumor of the rectum - a case report
Libri Oncologici, 2020 A calcifying fibrous tumor (CFT) is a benign tumor of unknown etiology. A calcifying fibrous tumor is rare in the intestinal tract. A calcifying fibrous tumor is characterized by hyalinized collagenous fibrous tissue, psammomatous or dystrophic ...
Tomislav Pavlović +2 more
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Case series of retained rectal foreign body. A Malaysian experience. [PDF]
Malaysian Family Physician, 2021 Retained rectal foreign body, with its associated social stigma, is a medical condition that is infrequently reported in Malaysia. We report the surgical management of five cases of retained foreign objects in the rectum seen over a one-year period ...
Pang Wei Soon +3 more
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