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  1. Currently the routine non-invasive screening methods for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and cervical cancer are Thinprep cytology test (TCT) and human papillomavirus testing. However, both methods ar...

    Authors: Geping Yin, Juan Li, Tongyu Zhu and Xiaoli Zhao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:168
  2. We report two cases of gastrointestinal perforation (GIP) after radiotherapy in patients receiving tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Case 1 was a 61-year-old woman with l...

    Authors: Takaaki Inoue, Hidefumi Kinoshita, Yoshihiro Komai, Takashi Kawabata, Gen Kawa, Yoshiko Uemura and Tadashi Matsuda
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:167
  3. Xanthogranulomatous inflammation is a rare clinico-pathological condition involving many organ systems. Breast involvement with this rare condition reported from a few cases of mastitis has been limited to onl...

    Authors: Tasadooq Hussain, Bilal Elahi, Ervine Long, Tapan Mahapatra, Penelope L McManus and Peter J Kneeshaw
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:166
  4. Mounting clinical and experimental data suggest that the migration of tumor cells into lymph nodes is greatly facilitated by lymphangiogenesis. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and D have been ident...

    Authors: Ying-Chun Zhao, Xiao-Jian Ni, Yong Li, Min Dai, Zhong-Xu Yuan, Yong-Yun Zhu and Chuan-Yu Luo
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:165
  5. There is no definite agreement on the better therapy (radiofrequency ablation (RFA) versus surgical resection (SR)) for early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) eligible for surgical treatments. The purpose of thi...

    Authors: Gang Xu, Fu-zhen Qi, Jian-huai Zhang, Guo-feng Cheng, Yong Cai and Yi Miao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:163
  6. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of two neoadjuvant chemotherapies (FLEEOX and XELOX) with different routes of administration for unresectable gastric cancer.

    Authors: Caihua Zhang, Guoli Li, Chaogang Fan, Jian Xu, Jianmin Cao, Shen Liu and Ning Li
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:162
  7. Although neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) is widely used, it is not clear which subgroup of locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients should be treated with this approach, and if a particular ...

    Authors: Hakan Bozcuk, Huseyin Abali and Senol Coskun
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:161
  8. The loss of tumor suppressor gene (TSG) function is a critical step in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer. RBM5 (RNA-binding motif protein 5, also named H37/LUCA-15) gene from chromosome 3p21.3 demonstrated...

    Authors: Chen Shao, Lijing Zhao, Ke Wang, Wei Xu, Jie Zhang and Baoxue Yang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:160
  9. The aim of this study was to analyze the early postoperative outcome of esophageal cancer treated by subtotal esophageal resection, gastric interposition and either intrathoracic or cervical anastomosis in a s...

    Authors: Christian D Klink, Marcel Binnebösel, Jens Otto, Gabriele Boehm, Klaus T von Trotha, Ralf-Dieter Hilgers, Joachim Conze, Ulf P Neumann and Marc Jansen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:159
  10. We report five cases of primary synovial sarcomas arising in the parapharyngeal space. The patients were all men with a median age of 35 years (range 22 to 41 years). The tumors were non-encapsulated solid masses...

    Authors: Ming Zhu, Jun Li, Ke-Jing Wang and Jin-Biao Shang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:158
  11. The prognosis of patients with liver metastases from gastric cancer (LMGC) is dismal, and little is known about prognostic factors in these patients; so justification for surgical resection is still controvers...

    Authors: Fabrizio Romano, Mattia Garancini, Fabio Uggeri, Luca Degrate, Luca Nespoli, Luca Gianotti, Angelo Nespoli and Franco Uggeri
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:157
  12. Centrally necrotizing carcinoma is a rare subtype of breast carcinoma, which is characterized by an extensive central necrotic zone accounting for at least 70% of the cross-sectional area of the neoplasm. This...

    Authors: Fernando Hernanz, Pilar Alonso-Bartolomé and Irene González-Rodilla
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:156
  13. BRAF inhibitors such as vemurafenib are a new family of biological drugs, recently available to treat metastatic malignant melanoma.

    Authors: Elisa Castellani, Piero Covarelli, Carlo Boselli, Roberto Cirocchi, Antonio Rulli, Francesco Barberini, Daniela Caracappa, Carla Cini, Jacopo Desiderio, Gloria Burini and Giuseppe Noya
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:155
  14. Castleman disease (CD) is an uncommon benign lymphoproliferative disorder, which usually presents as solitary or multiple masses in the mediastinum. Peripancreatic CD was rarely reported. Herein, we report two...

    Authors: Hua Guo, Yan Shen, Wei-Lin Wang, Min Zhang, Hong Li, Ying-Sheng Wu, Sheng Yan, Xiao Xu, Jian Wu and Shu-Sen Zheng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:154
  15. Patients with neurofibromatosis-1 (NF-1) sometime develop neuroendocrine tumors (NET). Although these NETs usually occur in the duodenum or peri-ampullary region, they occasionally grow in the pancreas (PNET)....

    Authors: Takeshi Nishi, Yasunari Kawabata, Youko Hari, Hiroshi Imaoka, Noriyoshi Ishikawa, Seiji Yano, Riruke Maruyama and Yoshitsugu Tajima
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:153
  16. We sought to compare the baseline demographics, standard pathologic factors and long- term clinical outcomes between ILC and infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) using a large database.

    Authors: A-Yong Cao, Liang Huang, Jiong Wu, Jin-Song Lu, Guang-Yu Liu, Zhen-Zhou Shen, Zhi-Ming Shao and Gen-Hong Di
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:152
  17. Primary breast lymphoma is an uncommon disease with poor clinical outcome. Breast lymphomas present less than 0.5% of malignant breast neoplasms and 2.2% of extranodal lymphomas. This study investigated the cl...

    Authors: Bourhafour Mouna, Boutayeb Saber, El Harroudi Tijani, M’rabti Hind, Taleb Amina and Errihani Hassan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:151

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  18. Primary splenic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a rare clinical condition, which is generally treated by six to eight cycles of chemotherapy involving a combination of rituximab and the cyclophosphami...

    Authors: Ying-Chu Lin, Hung-Chieh Chen, Shao-Bing Cheng, Wen-Li Hwang, Ren-Ching Wang and Chieh-Lin Jerry Teng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:150
  19. Late rupture of external iliac artery pseudo-aneurysm is an uncommon complication in patients who undergo extensive gynecologic radical surgeries. A 28-year-old woman with stage IB cervical cancer underwent pe...

    Authors: Enzo Ricciardi, Giampaolo Di Martino, Paolo Maniglio, Mauro Schimberni, Antonio Frega, Marina Jakimovska, Borut Kobal and Massimo Moscarini
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:149
  20. Cutaneous leiomyosarcoma (CLM) is a very rare smooth muscle tumour that accounts for about 2–3% of all superficial soft tissue sarcomas. Although the development of various malignancies in scar tissue is well ...

    Authors: Robert A Pol, Hilde Dannenberg, Jan-Lukas Robertus and Robert J van Ginkel
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:148
  21. Totally laparoscopic (without hand-assist) resection for rectal cancer continues to evolve, and both obesity and locally advanced disease are perceived to add to the complexity of these procedures. There is a ...

    Authors: Tolutope Oyasiji, Keith Baldwin, Steven C Katz, N Joseph Espat and Ponnandai Somasundar
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:147
  22. Clusterin is known to be expressed in many human neoplasms, and is believed to participate in the regeneration, migration, and anti-apoptosis of tumor cells. However, few reports have addressed the relationshi...

    Authors: Junshuo Jin, Joon-Mee Kim, Yoon-Seok Hur, Won Pyo Cho, Keon-Young Lee, Seung-Ik Ahn, Kee Chun Hong and In-Sun Park
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:146
  23. This study describes 2-year impact on quality of life (QOL) in relation to the anatomical discrepancy among T4a oral cancer patients after free flap reconstruction in Taiwan.

    Authors: Kao-Ping Chang, Chung-Sheng Lai, Tung-Ying Hsieh, Yi-Chia Wu and Chih-Hau Chang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:145
  24. Treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with autologous formalin-fixed tumor vaccine after primary resection has been shown to suppress the recurrence of hepatitis B virus-associated HCC, but the effect of...

    Authors: Toshio Inui and Tadao Ohno
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:144
  25. Supraclavicular lymph node metastasis from endometrial carcinoma is considerably rarer than metastasis from uterine cervical cancer. To date, there have been no reported cases regarding systematic neck dissect...

    Authors: Masataka Kojima, Junkichi Yokoyama, Shin Ito, Shinichi Ohba, Mitsuhisa Fujimaki and Katsuhisa Ikeda
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:143
  26. This case report discusses a patient who presented with bile peritonitis due to spontaneous perforation of an aberrant bile duct that originated in the triangular ligament of the liver. It was associated with ...

    Authors: Mehmet Kaplan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:142
  27. The purpose of this study is to clarify the correlations between the expression of membrane-bound estrogen receptor-α (mERα) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation and clinicopathological factors...

    Authors: Katsuhiko Shimizu, Yuji Hirami, Shinsuke Saisho, Takuro Yukawa, Ai Maeda, Koichiro Yasuda and Masao Nakata
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:141
  28. Precursor B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma (PBLL) is an infrequent subtype of lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) that commonly affected site for the diagnosis is the skin, followed by the head and neck. In this report,...

    Authors: Xiu-fang Sui, Wei-yong Liu, Wen Guo, Fang Xiao and Xing Yu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:140
  29. Primary visceral malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is a rare disease, and few cases have been reported in the English literature. However, retained foreign bodies in the abdomen after surgical procedures ar...

    Authors: Mehmet Kaplan and Halil İbrahim İyiköşker
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:139
  30. Pancreatic cancer is a lethal disease without effective treatments at present. It ranks as s as 4th and 5th in cancer-related mortality in the western countries and worldwide. Locally advanced pancreatic duct car...

    Authors: Kun-Chun Chiang, Chi-Chang Yu, Jim-Ray Chen, Yu-Ting Huang, Cheng-Cheng Huang, Chun-Nan Yeh, Chien-Sheng Tsai, Li-Wei Chen, Hsien-Cin Chen, Jun-Te Hsu, Cheng-Hsu Wang and Huang-Yang Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:138
  31. Metastases to the pituitary gland are rare events, and usually indicate widespread malignant disease. The lung and the breast are the most common sites of primary tumors that metastasize to the pituitary gland.

    Authors: Gian Paolo Spinelli, Giuseppe Lo Russo, Evelina Miele, Natalie Prinzi, Federica Tomao, Manila Antonelli, Felice Giangaspero, Valeria Stati, Martina Strudel and Silverio Tomao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:137
  32. Oral or enteral dietary supplementation with arginine, omega 3 fatty acids and nucleotides (known as immunonutrition) significantly improve outcomes in patients undergoing elective surgery. The objective of th...

    Authors: Josephine A Mauskopf, Sean D Candrilli, Hélène Chevrou-Séverac and Juan B Ochoa
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:136
  33. Complete remission from advanced-stage synchronous double primary (SDP) esophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma by chemotherapy alone is rare. We report a case of advanced-stage SDP esophageal and gastric adenoc...

    Authors: Yoritaka Matsuno, Mitsugu Kochi, Masashi Fujii, Noriaki Kanamori, Teruo Kaiga, Yoshiaki Mihara, Tomoya Funada, Teruyuki Miyazaki and Tadatoshi Takayama
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:133
  34. Primary lung lymphoma (PLL) presenting as a primary pulmonary lesion is rare and usually affects elderly people. Here we describe a 25-year-old Chinese man diagnosed with primary lung lymphoma, which presented...

    Authors: Sen Wei, Xin Li, Xiaomin Qiu, Honglin Zhao, Gang Chen, Jun Chen and Qinghua Zhou
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:131
  35. The effects of transthoracic or transhiatal esophagectomy on the long-term survival of patients who had adenocarcinoma of the esophagus were compared, as were factors applicable in preoperative stratification ...

    Authors: Kjell K Ovrebo, Stein A Lie, Ole D Laerum, Knut Svanes and Asgaut Viste
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:130
  36. A 31-year-old man with sigmoid colon cancer with concomitant simultaneous multiple liver metastases had received FOLFIRI (leucovorin, fluorouracil and irinotecan) and FOLFOX6 (leucovorin, fluorouracil and oxal...

    Authors: Yoichi Toyama, Takuro Ushigome, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Hiroaki Kitamura, Shinji Onda, Ryota Saito, Seiya Yoshida, Hidejiro Kawahara, Satoru Yanagisawa and Katsuhiko Yanaga
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:129
  37. We examined the association of tumor-derived hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) with the clinicopathological features of gliomas and investigated the effect of HGF inhibition on the biological behavior of tumor ce...

    Authors: You-feng Guo, Xiao-bing Wang, Xiao-ying Tian, Yang Li, Bin Li, Quan Huang, Meng Zhang and Zhi Li
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:128
  38. Although about 50% of lung cancers have distant metastasis at the time of initial diagnosis, colonic metastases are extremely rare. This report presents a rare clinical case of colonic metastasis from primary ...

    Authors: Hiroshi Sakai, Hiroyuki Egi, Takao Hinoi, Masakazu Tokunaga, Yasuo Kawaguchi, Manabu Shinomura, Tomohiro Adachi, Koji Arihiro and Hideki Ohdan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:127
  39. FDG PET/CT and DWI are both functional modalities that indirectly represent the biological characteristics of cancer, but there are few studies exploring the association between the two modalities and prognost...

    Authors: Bo Bae Choi, Sung Hun Kim, Bong Joo Kang, Ji Hye Lee, Byung Joo Song, Seung Hee Jeong and Hyeon Woo Yim
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:126
  40. Synovial sarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal neoplasm that is frequently misdiagnosed as a benign condition because of its small size, slow growth, and well-delineated appearance. Rapid spread and early death o...

    Authors: Hai-Yan Zhang, Ye Feng, Zhuo Zhang, Ge Gao and Ji-Sheng Zhao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:125
  41. We report the case of a patient with chondrosarcoma involving the right pelvis and contralateral pubic area in a 45-year-old male who underwent an extensive internal hemipelvectomy without bony reconstruction....

    Authors: Apichat Asavamongkolkul and Saranatra Waikakul
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:124
  42. Surgical drainage is a rapid and effective treatment for pericardial tamponade in cancer patients. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of pericardial window formation via mini-thoracotomy for treating pe...

    Authors: Sezai Celik, Muharrem Celik, Bulent Aydemir, Handan Tanrıkulu, Tamer Okay and Nurşen Tanrikulu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:123
  43. We report a case of continued twitching of the latissimus dorsi muscle following breast conservation therapy, along with immediate reconstruction with a latissimus dorsi miniflap, which continued despite sever...

    Authors: Du-Ping Huang, Xiao-He Ye, You-qun Xiang and Xiao-Hua Zhang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:122
  44. Parathyroid metastatic disease from thyroid cancer has not been studied extensively, mainly due to the need for parathyroid preservation during thyroid surgery.

    Authors: Alexandra Chrisoulidou, Stylianos Mandanas, Periklis Mitsakis, Paschalia K Iliadou, Kosmas Manafis, Nikolaos Flaris, Maria Boudina, Lemonia Mathiopoulou and Kalliopi Pazaitou-Panayiotou
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:121
  45. Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava (IVCL) is a rare retroperitoneal tumor. We report two cases of level II (middle level, renal veins to hepatic veins) IVCL, who underwent en bloc resection with reconstr...

    Authors: Quan Wang, Jing Jiang, Chao Wang, Guodong Lian, Mei-Shan Jin and Xueyuan Cao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:120

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