Predictors of recurrence in oral cavity cancer with clear surgical margins
Current Medical Issues, 2023 Introduction: Oral cancers recur in a significant proportion of patients, in spite of aggressive treatment strategies. The presence of a clear surgical margin is an important predictor of recurrent disease, among others. Since oral cancers often recur in
Mansi Agrawal +7 more
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Treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma (Klatskin tumors) with hepatic resection or transplantation [PDF]
, 1998 Background: Because of the rarity of hilar cholangiocarcinoma, its prognostic risk factors have not been sufficiently analyzed. This retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate various pathologic risk factors which influenced survival after curative ...
Dvorchik, I +7 more
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Biochemical recurrence rates are similar for pT2-positive surgical margins and pT3a
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2014 Objective Histological details of positive surgical margins in radical prostatectomy specimens have been related to outcome after surgery in rare studies recently published.
Katia R. M. Leite +10 more
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Chordoma. Clinical characteristics, management and prognosis of a case series of 25 patients [PDF]
, 2010 Background: Adequate surgery still remains the only curative treatment of chordoma. Interesting clinical data on advanced disease with molecularly targeted therapies were reported.Methods: We described the clinical outcome of a series of chordoma ...
Virginia Ferraresi +45 more
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Histopathology report on colon cancer specimens; measuring surgical quality, an increasing stress for surgeons [PDF]
, 2018 Introduction. Improving the quality of surgical resections by evaluating surgical specimens is probably the most important feedback a surgeon can receive.
Bilavschi, Karina +5 more
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Urology Research and Practice, 2019 Objective: To identify preoperative factors that predict positive surgical margins in partial nephrectomy. Material and methods: Using our institutional partial nephrectomy database, we investigated the patients who underwent partial nephrectomy
Ercan Malkoç +10 more
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A qualitative study of the development of a multidisciplinary case conference review methodology to reduce involved margins in pelvic exenteration surgery for recurrent rectal cancer [PDF]
, 2018 Aim Pelvic exenteration surgery remains the only curative option for recurrent rectal cancer. Microscopically involved surgical margins (R1) are associated with a higher risk of local recurrence and decreased survival.
Brown, W. E. +4 more
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Craniomaxillofacial osteosarcoma — The role of surgical margins [PDF]
Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, 2019 Osteosarcomas (OS) in the craniomaxillofacial (CMF) region are typically diagnosed at later age than long-bone OS, but they are reported to have better 5-year survival. Curative treatment warrants wide surgical resection, which is often not possible in the CMF region.
Kontio, R. (R.) +8 more
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 ObjectivesThe concept of adequate surgical margins remains controversial in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) surgery. This study aimed to identify surgical margin-related indicators that might impact recurrence and survival of OSCC patients.Materials ...
Meiling Pei +12 more
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Supersensitive PSA-Monitored neoadjuvant hormone treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer: Effects on positive margins, tumor detection and epithelial cells in bone marrow [PDF]
, 1998 Objective: The present study was done to investigate the effects of supersensitive PSA-controlled inductive treatment on positive margins, detection of tumor and epithelial cells in bone marrow of 101 patients with untreated and clinically localized ...
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