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  1. Peritoneal metastasis in gastric cancer represents a ubiquitous human health problem but effective therapies with limited side effects are still lacking. Although previous research suggested that u-PA was invo...

    Authors: Youcheng Ding, Hui Zhang, Zhuqing Zhou, Mingan Zhong, Qiliang Chen, Xujing Wang and Zhenggang Zhu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:270
  2. Endoscopic thyroidectomy has been applied prudently to malignant thyroid tumors. The purpose of our study was to compare the surgical outcomes of endoscopic thyroidectomy (ET) and conventional open thyroidecto...

    Authors: Hayemin Lee, Jina Lee and Ki Young Sung
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:269
  3. Laparoscopic gastrectomy has recently been gaining popularity as a treatment for cancer; however, little is known about the benefits of intracorporeal (IC) gastrointestinal anastomosis with pure laparoscopic d...

    Authors: Sang-Woong Lee, Nobuhiko Tanigawa, Eiji Nomura, Takaya Tokuhara, Masaru Kawai, Kazutake Yokoyama, Masako Hiramatsu, Junji Okuda and Kazuhisa Uchiyama
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:267
  4. Adenoid cystic cancer arising in the salivary glands has distinctive features such as perineural invasion, distant metastasis, and a variable prognosis. In salivary gland cancer, c-kit, EGFR, and VEGF are repr...

    Authors: Seok Ki Lee, Min Su Kwon, Yoon Se Lee, Seung-Ho Choi, Sang Yoon Kim, Kyoung Ja Cho and Soon Yuhl Nam
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:266
  5. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide secreting tumors(VIPomas) are rare endocrine tumors of the pancreas with an estimated incidence of 0.1 per million per year. The molecular mechanisms that mediate development ...

    Authors: Sven Müller, Susan Kupka, Ingmar Königsrainer, Hinnak Northoff, Karl Sotlar, Thomas Bock, Reinhard Kandolf, Frank Traub, Alfred Königsrainer and Derek Zieker
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:264
  6. Situs inversus is an uncommon anomaly with rare incidence. Some cases of situs inversus totalis have been described with different types of associations. Here we report a case of situs inversus with carcinoma ...

    Authors: Pan Ke, Zhong Dewu, Miao Xiongying, Liu Guoqing, Jiang Qunguang and Liu Yi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:263
  7. Breast ductal cancer in situ (DCIS) can recur or progress to invasive ductal cancer (IDC), and the interim stage include DCIS with microinvasion (DCIS-Mi). In this article, we attempt to study the study the diffe...

    Authors: Zhang Wei, Gao Er-li, Zhou Yi-li, Zhai Qi, Zou Zhang-yong, Guo Gui-long, Chen Guo-rong, Zheng Hua-min, Huang Guan-li and Zhang Xiao-hua
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:262
  8. Primary retroperitoneal cavernous hemangioma (PRCH) in an adult is extremely rare. We report on the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with PRCH with subtle clinical features and atypical findings on imaging...

    Authors: Hang He, Zunguo Du, Sijie Hao, Lie Yao, Feng Yang, Yang Di, Ji Li, Yongjian Jiang, Chen Jin and Deliang Fu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:261
  9. We report the case of a parosteal osteosarcoma of the distal ulna, treated with wide resection without reconstruction. The patient developed lung metastasis and a mass in the interosseus membrane of the forear...

    Authors: Maria Silvia Spinelli, Carlo Perisano, Carlo Della Rocca, Jendrick Hardes, Carlo Barone, Carlo Fabbriciani and Giulio Maccauro
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:260
  10. Skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) and latissimus dorsi (LD) flap immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) is a tailored surgical procedure. The surgical and patient-reported outcome (PRO) of SSM and LD IBR were asses...

    Authors: Zisun Kim, Sang Gue Kang, Jung Ho Roh, Ji Hye Park, Jihyoun Lee, SungYong Kim, Cheol Wan Lim and Min Hyuk Lee
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:259
  11. The combination of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a curative treatment option for peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). There have been few studies on the pulmon...

    Authors: Erebouni Arakelian, Michael R Torkzad, Antonina Bergman, Sten Rubertsson and Haile Mahteme
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:258
  12. Despite marked decreases in its incidence, particularly in developed countries, gastric cancer is still the second most common tumor worldwide. There is a paucity of information regarding gastric cancer in nor...

    Authors: Joseph B Mabula, Mabula D Mchembe, Mheta Koy, Phillipo L Chalya, Fabian Massaga, Peter F Rambau, Nestory Masalu and Hyasinta Jaka
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:257
  13. The most common sites of breast cancer metastasis are the bone, lung, liver and brain. However, colonic metastases from breast cancer are very rare in the clinic. We describe an unusual case of sigmoid colonic...

    Authors: Xiao-cong Zhou, Hong Zhou, Ying-hai Ye, Xiu-feng Zhang and Yi Jiang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:256
  14. Transanal endoscopic microsurgery as a local therapy option for rectal neoplasms is a tissue-sparing technique that protects the anal sphincter. The present retrospective analysis reports the course of observa...

    Authors: Michael Amann, Ali Modabber, Jens Burghardt, Christian Stratz, Claudius Falch, Gerhard F Buess and Andreas Kirschniak
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:255
  15. The prognostic value of the three constituents of undifferentiated-type gastric adenocarcinoma remains unclear. The present study assessed the clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of undifferentia...

    Authors: Han Hong Lee, Kyo Young Song, Cho Hyun Park and Hae Myung Jeon
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:254
  16. Cervical metastasis has a tremendous impact on the prognosis in patients with carcinomas of the head and neck and the frequency of such spread is greater than 20% for most squamous cell carcinomas. With emergi...

    Authors: Harald Essig, Riaz Warraich, Gulraiz Zulfiqar, Madiha Rana, André Michael Eckardt, Nils-Claudius Gellrich and Majeed Rana
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:253
  17. The histopathological and molecular heterogeneity of normal tissue adjacent to cancerous tissue (NTAC) and normal tissue adjacent to benign tissue (NTAB), and the availability of limited specimens make deciphe...

    Authors: Guo-Yan Liu, Kun-Hong Liu, Yin Li, Chao Pan, Ji-Qin Su, Hong-Feng Liao, Ren-Xiang Yv, Zhao-Hui Li, Li Yuan, Huan-Jing Zhang, Chi-Meng Tzeng and Bing Xiong
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:252
  18. We report a case of pure invasive cribriform carcinoma of the breast, which had been untreated for thirteen years, being found with bone metastasis at initial presentation, because distant metastasis is rarely...

    Authors: Wei Zhang, Zhichun Lin, Tongxian Zhang, Fen Liu and Yun Niu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:251
  19. The periacetabular area is one of the primary sites of metastatic tumors, which often present as osteolytic bone destruction. Bone destruction in the acetabulum caused by metastatic tumors will cause hip pain ...

    Authors: Jinlei Zhang, Zuozhang Yang, Jiaping Wang, Jinde Wang, Pengjie Liu, Hongpu Sun, Kun Li and Yunshan Yang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:250
  20. Retropubic radical prostatectomy with intentional wide resection (RRP-WR), which enables clear location of the prostate apex and the performance of posterolateral wider resection to remove extraprostatic exten...

    Authors: Eijiro Okajima, Motokiyo Yoshikawa, Yasumasa Masuda, Kazuhiro Shimizu, Nobumichi Tanaka, Akihide Hirayama, Keiji Shimada, Kiyohide Fujimoto and Yoshihiko Hirao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:249
  21. The application of laparoscopic surgery for advanced gastric cancer (AGC) remains questionable on account of technical difficulty of D2 lymphadenectomy, and there has been few large-scale follow-up results reg...

    Authors: Qi-Yue Chen, Chang-Ming Huang, Jian-Xian Lin, Chao-Hui Zheng, Ping Li, Jian-Wei Xie, Jia-Bin Wang and Jun Lu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:248
  22. Recent studies have indicated that the nuclear RNA-binding protein RBM5 has the ability to modulate apoptosis and suppress tumor growth. The aim of this study is to investigate the expression of RBM5 in human ...

    Authors: Lijing Zhao, Ranwei Li, Chen Shao, Ping Li, Jian Liu and Ke Wang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:247
  23. For many years, the understanding of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), which are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, has been very limited. However, it is now possible to p...

    Authors: Chun-Nan Yeh, Tsann-Long Hwang, Ching-Shui Huang, Po-Huang Lee, Chew-Wun Wu, Ker Chen-Guo, Yi-Yin Jan and Miin-Fu Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:246
  24. Myxofibrosarcoma is a common sarcoma in the extremities of older people, but is rare in the head and neck region. Here, we report the case of a 42-year-old male patient in whom myxofibrosarcoma generated from ...

    Authors: Zhu Qiubei, Lin Cheng, Xu Yaping, Lin Shunzhang and Fan Jingping
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:245
  25. The aquaporins (AQPs) are a family of small membrane transport proteins whose overexpression has been implicated in tumorigenesis. However, the expression of AQP5 and AQP8 in colorectal cancer and the clinical...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Qing Li, Tao Yang, Guang Bai, Dongsheng Li, Qiang Li and Hongzhi Sun
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:242
  26. To explore the feasibility of laparoscopic spleen-preserving No. 10 lymph node dissection in a left-sided approach for advanced proximal gastric cancer.

    Authors: Wang Jia-Bin, Huang Chang-Ming, Zheng Chao-Hui, Li Ping, Xie Jian-Wei and Lin Jian-Xian
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:241
  27. A 53-year-old Taiwanese male had several episodes of left epididymitis with hydrocele refractory to antibiotic treatment. Partial epididymectomy plus preventive vasectomy were planned, and, incidentally, an il...

    Authors: Ching-Heng Yen, Chun-Te Lee, Chung-Jen Su and Hua-Cheng Lo
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:238
  28. Preoperative characterization of complex solid and cystic adnexal masses is crucial for informing patients about possible surgical strategies. Our study aims to determine the usefulness of apparent diffusion c...

    Authors: Ping Zhang, Yanfen Cui, Wenhua Li, Gang Ren, Caiting Chu and Xiangru Wu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:237
  29. Lung carcinoid tumor and low grade glioma are two uncommon malignancies.

    Authors: Emeline Tabouret, Maryline Barrié, Cecile Vicier, Anthony Gonçalves, Olivier Chinot, Patrice Viens and Anne Madroszyk
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:236
  30. About 20% to 40% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) will develop brain metastases during the natural course of their disease. The prognosis for such patients is very poor with limited survival...

    Authors: Ying Yuan, Chunwen Tan, Modan Li, Hong Shen, Xuefeng Fang, Yinghong Hu and Shenglin Ma
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:235
  31. The aim of this study was to investigate age-specific incidence rates and to compare disease stage, treatment, and survival according to age group in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma.

    Authors: Deniz Tural, Fatih Selçukbiricik, Süheyla Serdengeçti and Evin Büyükünal
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:234
  32. Axillary reverse mapping (ARM) is a new technique to preserve upper extremity lymphatic pathways during axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), thereby preventing lymphedema patients with breast cancer. However...

    Authors: Katsumi Ikeda, Yoshinari Ogawa, Hisateru Komatsu, Yoshihiro Mori, Akira Ishikawa, Takayoshi Nakajima, Gou Oohira, Shinya Tokunaga, Hiroko Fukushima and Takeshi Inoue
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:233
  33. The optimal treatment for pulmonary mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC), a rare type of tumor, has not been established yet. This study analyzed the survival of pulmonary MEC patients and attempted to find clues fo...

    Authors: Jun-jie Xi, Wei Jiang, Shao-hua Lu, Chun-yan Zhang, Hong Fan and Qun Wang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:232
  34. Colorectal metastasis of lobular carcinoma of the breast is a diagnostic challenge. It may macroscopically simulate primary colon cancer or inflammatory bowel disease. In some cases, the interval between the p...

    Authors: Ikuo Matsuda, Nagahide Matsubara, Nobuo Aoyama, Mie Hamanaka, Daisuke Yamagishi, Takashi Kuno, Kiyoshi Tsukamoto, Tomoki Yamano, Masafumi Noda, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Naohiro Tomita and Seiichi Hirota
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:231
  35. Recently, laparoscopic resection for relatively small sized gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) has been widely accepted as minimally invasive surgery. However, no report on the long-term safety an...

    Authors: Ki-Han Kim, Min-Chan Kim, Ghap-Joong Jung, Su-Jin Kim, Jin-Seok Jang and Hyuk-Chan Kwon
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:230
  36. Although about 30% of gastric cancers have distant metastasis at the time of initial diagnosis, metastatic tumor embolus in the main blood vessels is not common, especially in the main artery. The report prese...

    Authors: Ying Zhang, Xiu-feng Zhang, Wei-hui Shentu, Guan-gen Yang, Zhong Shen and Pin-tong Huang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:229
  37. The purpose of the research is to investigate the roles of Jak-STAT3 signaling pathway in bufalin-induced apoptosis in colon cancer SW620 cells.

    Authors: Zhitu Zhu, Enze Li, Yangyang Liu, Yu Gao, Hongzhi Sun, Guangyou Ma, Zhenghua Wang, Xiaomei Liu, Qingjun Wang, Xiujuan Qu, Yunpeng Liu and Yunlong Yu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:228
  38. The nasolabial flap is a simple flap used for reconstructing small intraoral defects created after the excision of malignant tumors.

    Authors: Seema Singh, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Manoj Pandey
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:227
  39. Recently, lymph node metastasis (LNM) has been regarded as an important factor influencing loco-regional recurrence and survival rate in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) patients. The aims of this study were to ...

    Authors: Won Woong Kim, Song I. Yang, Jeong Hoon Kim, Young Sik Choi, Yo-Han Park and Su Kyoung Kwon
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:226
  40. MicroRNA let-7i has been proven to be down-regulated in many human malignancies and correlated with tumor progression and anticancer drug resistance. Our study aims to characterize the contribution of miRNA le...

    Authors: Kun Liu, Tao Qian, Liming Tang, Jie Wang, Haohua Yang and Jun Ren
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:225
  41. Mucins are high molecular glycoproteins and play protective and lubricating roles in various epithelial tissues. Deregulated expression of mucins is involved in carcinogenesis and tumor invasion. MUC4 expressi...

    Authors: Hyeon Kook Lee, Min-Sun Cho and Tae Hun Kim
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:224
  42. The indications and extent of cervical lymph node dissection in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are still being debated. The aim of this study was to analyze the patterns of cervical lymph node metastasis in...

    Authors: Hyo Sub Keum, Yong Bae Ji, Jong Min Kim, Jin Hyeok Jeong, Woong Hwan Choi, You Hern Ahn and Kyung Tae
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:221
  43. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and malignant primary intracranial tumor, and has a median survival of only 10 to 14 months with only 3 to 5% of patients surviving more than three years. Recur...

    Authors: Aaron Michael Rulseh, Jiří Keller, Jan Klener, Jan Šroubek, Vladimír Dbalý, Martin Syrůček, František Tovaryš and Josef Vymazal
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:220

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