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  1. Pure mucinous carcinoma (MC) is found in about 3.5% of all newly diagnosed breast cancer patients in Taiwan. MC is a relatively rare malignancy of breast cancer, and its nature, behaviors, treatment pattern an...

    Authors: Hsin-Shun Tseng, Che Lin, Szu-Erh Chan, Su-Yu Chien, Shou-Jen Kuo, Shou-Tung Chen, Tsai-Wang Chang and Dar-Ren Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:139
  2. Because of its safety, relative low cost and widespread availability, conventional ultrasound (US) is the modality of choice for initial evaluation of the liver. Following US, in patients eligible for surgery,...

    Authors: Marcela P Cohen, Paulo Herman, Rubens Chojniak, Miriam RB Poli, Paula NV Barbosa and Almir GV Bitencourt
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:138
  3. The aim of the study was to evaluate the concentration of proteolytic enzymes, MMP-2 and MMP-9, and their tissue inhibitors, TIMP-1 and TIMP-2, in the blood of patients with benign and malignant pancreatic tum...

    Authors: Jacek Śmigielski, Łukasz Piskorz, Renata Talar -Wojnarowska, Ewa Malecka-Panas, Sławomir Jabłoński and Marian Brocki
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:137
  4. The expression of CK19 in primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with a poor outcome. However, few studies have investigated the expression profile of CK19 in regional lymph nodes (LNs) of HCC af...

    Authors: Chao-Wei Lee, Wen-Ling Kuo, Ming-Chin Yu, Tse-Ching Chen, Chi-Neu Tsai, Wei-Chen Lee and Miin-Fu Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:136
  5. The role of portal vein embolization to increase future liver remnant (FLR) is well-established in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases. However, the role of hepatic vein embolization is unclear.

    Authors: Gitonga Munene, Robyn D Parker, John Larrigan, Jason Wong, Francis Sutherland and Elijah Dixon
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:134
  6. Approximately 15 to 30% of colorectal cancers present as an emergency, most often as obstruction or perforation. Studies report poorer outcome for patients who undergo emergency compared with elective surgery,...

    Authors: Sam Ghazi, Elisabeth Berg, Annika Lindblom and Ulrik Lindforss
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:133
  7. Golgi protein 73 (GP73) is a type II Golgi transmembrane protein. It is over-expressed in several cancers, including hepatocellular carcinomas, bile duct carcinomas, lung cancer and prostate cancer. However, t...

    Authors: Le-Gao Chen, Hui-Ju Wang, Hai-bo Yao, Tian-Pei Guan, Fang Wu, Xu-Jun He, Ying-Yu Ma, Hou-Quan Tao and Zai-Yuan Ye
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:132
  8. Pancreaticoduodenectomy is an increasingly common procedure performed for both benign and malignant disease. There are conflicting data regarding the safety of pancreatic resection in older patients. Potential...

    Authors: Walid Faraj, Raafat Alameddine, Deborah Mukherji, Khaled Musallam, Ali Haydar, Mohamed ELoubiedi, Ali Shamseddine, Ali Halal, Ghassan K Abou-Alfa, Eileen M O’Reilly, Faek Jamali and Mohamed Khalife
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:131
  9. Little information is available on the use of chest computed tomography (CT) to predict breast tumor size in breast cancer, despite the fact that chest CT examinations are being increasingly used. The purpose ...

    Authors: Su Joa Ahn, Young Saing Kim, Eun Young Kim, Heung Kyu Park, Eun Kyung Cho, Yoon Kyung Kim, Yon Mi Sung and Hye-Young Choi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:130
  10. Metaplastic breast carcinoma is a rare aggressive malignant neoplasm. The purposes of this study are to review the pathologic features and clinical outcomes of metaplastic breast carcinoma compared to invasive...

    Authors: Yanni Song, Xiaolong Liu, Guoqiang Zhang, Hongtao Song, Yanlv Ren, Xiaoguang He, Yanbo Wang, Jinfeng Zhang, Youxue Zhang, Shanshan Sun, Xiaoshuan Liang, Qian Sun and Da Pang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:129
  11. Primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the breast is a heterogeneous group of rare tumors with positive immunoreactivity to neuroendocrine markers in at least 50% of cells. Diagnosis also requires that other prim...

    Authors: Fernando A Angarita, Jorge L Rodríguez, Eugenio Meek, Jesus O Sánchez, Mauricio Tawil and Lilian Torregrosa
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:128
  12. Skeletal metastasis of breast carcinoma is refractory to intensive chemo-radiation therapy and therefore is assumed impossible to cure. Here, we report an advanced case of breast cancer with vertebra-Th7 metas...

    Authors: Fumito Kuranishi and Tadao Ohno
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:127
  13. The aim of this study is to describe the feasibility and efficacy of the laparoscopic upper vaginectomy (LUV) in vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia(VAIN) and superficially invasive vaginal carcinoma.

    Authors: Youn Jin Choi, Soo Young Hur, Jong Sup Park and Keun Ho Lee
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:126
  14. Mature teratoma is the most common primary germ cell tumor in the mediastinum. On rare occasions, cystic teratomas rupture in adjacent structures, such as pleural space, pericardium, lung or tracheobronchial t...

    Authors: Mounia Serraj, Marouane Lakranbi, Jamal Ghalimi, Yassine Ouadnouni and Mohamed Smahi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:125
  15. Adenosquamous carcinoma is defined as a tumor in which both glandular and squamous elements are histologically malignant. Although some published studies have analyzed and discussed adenosquamous carcinomas, h...

    Authors: Shang-Ju Yang, Chun-Hsiang Ooyang, Shang-Yu Wang, Yu-Yin Liu, I-Min Kuo, Chien-Hung Liao and Ting-Jung Wu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:124
  16. RBM5 (RNA-binding motif protein 5, also named H37/LUCA-15) gene from chromosome 3p21.3 has been demonstrated to be a tumor suppressor. Current researches in vitro confirm that RBM5 can suppress the growth of lung...

    Authors: Chen Shao, Baoxue Yang, Lijing Zhao, Song Wang, Jie Zhang and Ke Wang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:123
  17. We report the first European case of cerebral iodized lipid embolism post transcatheter arterial embolization for hepatocellular carcinoma. Lipiodol emboli and corresponding multifocal brain ischemia were docu...

    Authors: Zoltán Bánsághi, Pál Novák Kaposi, Gábor Lovas, Gyöngyvér Szentmártoni, György Várallyay, Pál Bata, Ildikó Kalina, Balázs Futácsi and Viktor Bérczi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:122
  18. 10-Hydroxycamptothecin (10-HCPT), isolated from a Chinese tree Camptotheca acuminate, inhibits the activity of topoisomerase I and has a broad spectrum of anticancer activity in vitro and in vivo. It has been sho...

    Authors: Bojian Fei, Alfred L Chi and Yuan Weng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:120
  19. Renal oncocytomas are benign tumors of the kidneys, which are usually diagnosed postoperatively, due to differential diagnostic problems, from a sample of a renal cell carcinoma. The development of a renal onc...

    Authors: Spyridon Vernadakis, George Karaolanis, Demetrios Moris, Vasileios Zavvos, George Liapis and George Zavos
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:119
  20. Nitric oxide (NO), is a ubiquitous, water soluble, free radical gas, which plays key role in various physiological as well as pathological processes. Over past decades, NO has emerged as a molecule of interest...

    Authors: Sheetal Korde Choudhari, Minal Chaudhary, Sachin Bagde, Amol R Gadbail and Vaishali Joshi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:118
  21. Gemcitabine is a pyrimidine nucleoside analog that is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent for unresectable or recurrent biliary tract cancer (BTC). Several molecules involved in gemcitabine metabolism, incl...

    Authors: Akihiro Murata, Ryosuke Amano, Nobuya Yamada, Kenjiro Kimura, Masakazu Yashiro, Bunzo Nakata and Kosei Hirakawa
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:117
  22. Mediator complex subunit 19 (Med19) is a critical subunit of the mediator complex that forms a bridge between the transcription factors and RNA polymerase II. Although it has been reported that Med19 plays an ...

    Authors: Li-Jun Zhu, Wang-Xiang Yan, Zhong-Wei Chen, Yu Chen, Dan Chen, Tong-Han Zhang and Gui-Qing Liao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:116
  23. Between April 2005 and December 2012, we performed laparoscopic colorectal resection with regional lymph node dissection on 273 cases of colorectal cancer patients. However, Laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery ...

    Authors: Nobuhisa Matsuhashi, Takao Takahashi, Kenichi Nonaka, Toshiyuki Tanahashi, Hisashi Imai, Yoshiyuki Sasaki, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Naoki Okumura, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Shinji Osada and Kazuhiro Yoshida
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:115
  24. Adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) and minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA) with fibrous stromal invasion are newly introduced subtypes of small lung adenocarcinoma. AIS is a small localized adenocarcinoma in whi...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Imai, Yoshihiro Minamiya, Akiteru Goto, Hiroshi Nanjo, Hajime Saito, Satoru Motoyama, Yusuke Sato, Satoshi Kudo, Shinogu Takashima, Yasushi Kawaharada, Nobuyasu Kurihara, Kimito Orino and Jun-ichi Ogawa
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:113
  25. Accurate predictors of survival for patients with advanced gastric cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy are currently lacking. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the prognostic significance of the neu...

    Authors: Hailong Jin, Geer Zhang, Xiaosun Liu, Xiaokun Liu, Chao Chen, Hang Yu, Xiaomei Huang, Qing Zhang and Jiren Yu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:112
  26. An intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct is a biliary, epithelium-lined, cystic lesion that exhibits papillary proliferation and rarely causes large hemorrhagic cystic lesions. Here, we report a case...

    Authors: Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Toshiya Kamiyama, Hideki Yokoo, Kazuaki Nakanishi, Kenji Wakayama, Yosuke Tsuruga, Hirofumi Kamachi, Tomoko Mitsuhashi and Akinobu Taketomi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:111
  27. While performing sacrectomy from a posterior approach enables the en bloc resection of sacral tumors, it can result in deep posterior peritoneal defects and postoperative complications. We investigated whether...

    Authors: Yao Weitao, Cai Qiqing, Gao Songtao and Wang Jiaqiang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:110
  28. The recurrence rate after aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) treatment is quite high despite its benign nature. In ABC therapy, curettage is the treatment of choice; en bloc excision results in a lower recurrence rate...

    Authors: Pawel Flont, Marta Kolacinska-Flont and Kryspin Niedzielski
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:109
  29. Castleman’s disease is a rare disease characterized by lymph node hyperplasia. Its occurrence in the retroperitoneal space has rarely been reported, making its preoperative diagnosis difficult. Here, we report...

    Authors: Satoshi Nagano, Masahiro Yokouchi, Takuya Yamamoto, Hideyasu Kaieda, Takao Setoguchi, Tsubasa Hiraki, Yukie Tashiro, Suguru Yonezawa and Setsuro Komiya
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:108
  30. Cardiac metastasis from known cervical cancer is rare. Even through a routine check-up, this type of metastasis can present as pulmonary emboli. Suspicion of this diagnosis in an oncology patient with complica...

    Authors: Seung Won Byun, Sung Taek Park, Eun Young Ki, Hyun Song, Suk Hee Hong and Jong Sup Park
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:107
  31. Middle-preserving pancreatectomy (MPP) is a parenchyma-sparing surgical procedure which has recently been sporadically reported for the treatment of multicentric periampullary-pancreatic lesions. However, a co...

    Authors: Kun Cheng, Bai-yong Shen, Cheng-hong Peng, Li-ma Na and Dong-feng Cheng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:106
  32. In this report, we describe the surgical resection of a pedunculated solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura (SFTP) by single-incision thoracoscopic surgery (SITS). SITS may be a suitable surgical option for pedu...

    Authors: Masaya Tamura, Yosuke Shimizu and Yasuo Hashizume
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:105
  33. Generally, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is performed in patients with clinically negative axillary lymph node (LN). This study was to assess imaging techniques in axillary LN staging and to evaluate the f...

    Authors: Hee Yong Kwak, Byung Joo Chae, Ja Seong Bae, Eun Jin Kim, Eun Young Chang, Sang Hoon Kim, Sang Seol Jung and Byung Joo Song
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:104
  34. Here, we report a new case of botryoid Wilms’ tumor, a 4-year-old boy, who was referred to us with a chief complaint of dysuria and gross hematuria. The computed tomography and radical nephroureterectomy showe...

    Authors: Guofeng Xu, Jimeng Hu, Yeming Wu, Yongtao Xiao and Maosheng Xu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:102
  35. Chemotherapy-induced amenorrhea (CIA) is one of the most frequent therapy-related adverse events observed in breast cancer patients who have undergone chemotherapy. Although the characteristics of CIA have bee...

    Authors: Kexin Meng, Wei Tian, Meiqi Zhou, Hailong Chen and Yongchuan Deng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:101
  36. We report a case of mucinous cystic neoplasm of pancreas with sarcomatous stroma metastasizing to the liver. The tumor occurred in a male patient aged 46 years. Symptoms included persistent epigastric and righ...

    Authors: Michael Wayne, Deniz Gur, Gil Ascunce, Ben Abodessa and Violette Ghali
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:100
  37. Recurrence patterns in patients who have undergone curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric carcinoma can be classified as peritoneal, hematogenous, or lymphatic. The aim of this study was to clarify differen...

    Authors: Yoshitsugu Nakanishi, Masanori Ohara, Hiromitsu Domen, Toshiaki Shichinohe, Satoshi Hirano and Masanori Ishizaka
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:98
  38. We report a rare case of lymphoepithelioma-like hepatocellular carcinoma. A 79-year-old Japanese man had undergone curative resection of extrahepatic bile ducts because of bile duct cancer 9 years prior. The b...

    Authors: Masahiro Shinoda, Yoshie Kadota, Hanako Tsujikawa, Yohei Masugi, Osamu Itano, Akihisa Ueno, Kisho Mihara, Taizo Hibi, Yuta Abe, Hiroshi Yagi, Minoru Kitago, Shigeyuki Kawachi, Akihiro Tanimoto, Michiie Sakamoto, Minoru Tanabe and Yuko Kitagawa
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:97
  39. A phase II clinical trial previously evaluated the sequential administration of erlotinib after chemotherapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This current pilot study assessed the feasibility o...

    Authors: Chao Lv, Yuanyuan Ma, Qin Feng, Fang Fang, Hua Bai, Bingtian Zhao, Shi Yan, Nan Wu, Qingfeng Zheng, Shaolei Li, Jinfeng Chen, Jia Wang, Yuan Feng, Yuzhao Wang, Yuquan Pei, Jian Fang…
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:96
  40. We present a 25 year old Caucasian male patient with multiple recurrences of cardiac myxomas after surgical removal of the original tumor. His mother was operated on for right ventricular myxoma. The genetic a...

    Authors: Marina Kontogiorgi, Vasiliki E Kalodimou, George Samanidis, Vasiliki Vartela, Androniki Tasouli, Abraham Ghiatas, Loukas Kaklamanis, Andreas Karabinis and Alkiviadis Michalis
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:95
  41. Previous thyroid or parathyroid surgery induces scarring or distorts anatomy, and increases the risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury for a reoperation. The benefit of intraoperative nerve monitoring ...

    Authors: Yu-Chuan Chuang and Shih-Ming Huang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:94
  42. S100A7 signaling plays a critical role in the pathogenesis and progression of human breast cancers but the precise role and mechanism of S100A7 for tumor invasion remains unclear. in the present study, we inve...

    Authors: Huamin Liu, Lei Wang, Xingang Wang, Zhiwei Cao, Qifeng Yang and Kejun Zhang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:93
  43. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a high predilection for portal vein invasion, and the prognosis of HCC with malignant portal vein invasion is extremely poor. The objective of this study was to investigate t...

    Authors: Jong Man Kim, Choon Hyuck David Kwon, Jae-Won Joh, Justin Sangwook Ko, Jae Berm Park, Joon Hyeok Lee, Sung Joo Kim, Seung Woon Paik and Cheol-Keun Park
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:92
  44. Few studies have addressed the biological features of medullary breast carcinoma (MBC) in the context of clinical outcomes. We sought to compare the baseline demographics, standard pathologic factors and long-...

    Authors: A-Yong Cao, Min He, Liang Huang, Zhi-Ming Shao and Gen-Hong Di
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:91
  45. Malignancy-associated spinal cord compression is generally treated by surgical decompression, radiotherapy or a combination of both. Since diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is highly sensitive to both chem...

    Authors: Ching-Ming Chang, Hung-Chieh Chen, Youngsen Yang, Ren-Ching Wang, Wen-Li Hwang and Chieh-Lin Jerry Teng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2013 11:90

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