To resect or not to resect? That is the question [PDF]
Gut, 2010 A 54-year-old Caucasian female, with a strong family history of renal cell carcinoma, presented with a left kidney lesion. She had a hysterectomy 20 years ago and no significant history of oral contraceptive use. During the current evaluation, she was found to have two hypervascular lesions in the left lobe of the liver in addition to a fatty liver on ...
Mazen Noureddin +4 more
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Management of Tiny Meningiomas: To Resect or Not Resect [PDF]
Cureus, 2017 Meningiomas are most often benign primary intracranial tumors that are frequently found incidentally on imaging. Larger sized meningiomas may present with symptoms such as seizures and headaches. Smaller meningiomas are commonly asymptomatic and usually observed with serial imaging.
Schneider, Julia R +9 more
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Multimedia Manual of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 2012 Carinal resection is defined as the resection of tracheo-bronchial bifurcation, with or without lung parenchyma resection. It represents one of the most challenging areas of airway resection and reconstruction, basically due to the variability in the location and extent of the lesions.
L. Spaggiari, F. Petrella, D. Galetta
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Defining a positive circumferential resection margin in oesophageal cancer and its implications for adjuvant treatment [PDF]
, 2013 A positive circumferential resection margin (CRM) has been associated with a poorer prognosis in oesophageal and oesophagogastric junctional (OGJ) cancer. The College of American Pathologists defines the CRM as positive if tumour cells are present at the
Driscoll, P J +6 more
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Dynamics of Serum Cytokines During Resection Surgery for Malignant Neoplasms in the Lungs
Общая реаниматология, 2020 Purpose — to carry out a comparative assessment of inflammation based on evaluation of intraoperative and early postoperative dynamics of blood serum cytokines in pulmonary malignant neoplasm patients in different anesthesia and analgesia settings ...
A. O. Soloviev +5 more
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Preoperative systemic inflammation predicts postoperative infectious complications in patients undergoing curative resection for colorectal cancer [PDF]
, 2009 The presence of systemic inflammation before surgery, as evidenced by the glasgow prognostic score (mGPS), predicts poor long-term survival in colorectal cancer. The aim was to examine the relationship between the preoperative mGPS and the development of
Leitch, E.F. +11 more
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Acta Medica Lituanica, 2023 Background: Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath (GCTTS), also termed Tenosynovial giant cell tumor (TGCT), is a locally aggressive tumor which originates from tendon sheaths or bursas. Around 3–5% of these tumors arise from foot and ankle.
Edoardo Ipponi +6 more
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Does the revised cardiac risk index predict cardiac complications following elective lung resection? [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Revised Cardiac Risk Index (RCRI) score and Thoracic Revised Cardiac Risk Index (ThRCRI) score were developed to predict the risks of postoperative major cardiac complications in generic surgical population and thoracic surgery respectively.
Pala Rajesh +19 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF LYMPH NODE STATUS ON THE OVERALL SURVIVAL IN SURGICALLY TREATED HILAR CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA [PDF]
Romanian Journal of Medical Practice, 2019 Cholangiocarcinoma represents an extremely aggressive digestive malignancy associated with very poor survival rates in the absence of a treatment with curative intent.
Nicolae Bacalbasa +3 more
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Arthroscopic matched osteoplasty of the radial head for painful radiocapitellar osteoarthritis: surgical technique and case series [PDF]
Clinics in Shoulder and ElbowBackground Radiocapitellar arthritis can cause pain, loss of motion, and impaired elbow function. Current surgical treatment options are limited. We have developed an original and simple surgical technique to address this, called arthroscopic matched ...
Dani Rotman, Adam C Watts
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