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  1. 18F-fluoro-deoxy-glucose (18 F-FDG) positron emission tomography integrated/combined with computed tomography (PET-CT) provides the best diagnostic results in the metabolic characterization of undetermined solid ...

    Authors: Maria Lucia Calcagni, Silvia Taralli, Fabio Maggi, Vittoria Rufini, Giorgio Treglia, Lucia Leccisotti, Lorenzo Bonomo and Alessandro Giordano
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:71
  2. We conducted an observational multicentric clinical study on a cohort of patients undergoing thyroidectomy for thyroid carcinoma. The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefits of the use of ultrasonic dis...

    Authors: Roberto Cirocchi, Carlo Boselli, Salvatore Guarino, Alessandro Sanguinetti, Stefano Trastulli, Jacopo Desiderio, Alberto Santoro, Fabio Rondelli, Giovanni Conzo, Domenico Parmeggiani, Giuseppe Noya, Giorgio De Toma and Nicola Avenia
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:70
  3. The clinical importance of preoperative tumor markers remain elusive in gastric cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of AFP, CEA, CA19-9, and CA50 in T4a stage gastric cancer.

    Authors: Xiaowen Liu, Hong Cai and Yanong Wang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:68
  4. We present the case of a 66-year-old woman with a huge gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach that traversed her upper abdomen. The predominant abdominal sign was a huge, palpable mass, but there were n...

    Authors: Lei Zhou, Chang Liu, Ji-Gang Bai, Ji-Chao Wei, Kai Qu, Feng Tian, Ming-Hui Tai, Rui-Tao Wang and Fan-Di Meng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:66
  5. Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (USEL) is a rare malignant hepatic tumor with a poor prognosis that is usually observed in children (aged 6 to10 years) and rarely seen in adults. We present a c...

    Authors: Keita Noguchi, Hideki Yokoo, Kazuaki Nakanishi, Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Yosuke Tsuruga, Hirofumi Kamachi, Michiaki Matsushita and Toshiya Kamiyama
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:65
  6. In this retrospective study, we evaluated the prognostic effect of positive lymph-node ratio (pLNR) on patients with stage III colorectal cancer (CRC). Our paper is the first analysis, to our knowledge, to dea...

    Authors: Elias Elias, Deborah Mukherji, Walid Faraj, Mohammad Khalife, Hani Dimassi, Mohamad Eloubeidi, Hasan Hattoum, Ghassan K Abou-Alfa, Ahmad Saleh and Ali Shamseddine
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:63
  7. Resistance of breast cancer cells to the available chemotherapeutics is a major obstacle to successful treatment. Recent studies have shown that magnetic nanoparticles might have significant application in dif...

    Authors: Khaled Aljarrah, Nizar M Mhaidat, M-Ali H Al-Akhras, Ahmad N Aldaher, BA Albiss, Khaled Aledealat and Fawzi M Alsheyab
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:62
  8. Single-port laparoscopic surgery is a new technique that leaves no visible scar. This new technique has generated strong interest among surgeons worldwide. However, single-port laparoscopic colon surgery has n...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Egi, Minoru Hattori, Takao Hinoi, Yuji Takakura, Yasuo Kawaguchi, Manabu Shimomura, Masakazu Tokunaga, Tomohiro Adachi, Takashi Urushihara, Toshiyuki Itamoto and Hideki Ohdan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:61
  9. The combined effects of anticancer drugs with nutritional factors against tumor cells have been reported previously. This study characterized the efficacy and possible mechanisms of the combination of sorafeni...

    Authors: Wei Du, Jing-ru Zhou, Dong-liang Wang, Kai Gong and Qing-jun Zhang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:60
  10. Soft tissue sarcomas are uncommon tumors, and intraduodenal soft tissue sarcoma manifestation is even more rare. Only three cases of intraduodenal sarcomas have been reported in the literature thus far. Here, ...

    Authors: Jean J Bao, John C Mansour, Robert D Timmerman, Amanda Kirane, Gene E Ewing and Roderich E Schwarz
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:59
  11. In the following report we discuss a very rare case of malignant T-cell lymphoma of the thyroid gland that developed in a 70-year-old woman with a past history of hypothyroidism due to chronic thyroiditis. The...

    Authors: Junkichi Yokoyama, Shin Ito, Shinichi Ohba, Mitsuhisa Fujimaki, Eriko Sato, Norio Komatsu, Katsuhisa Ikeda and Makoto Hanaguri
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:58
  12. Surgical excision of the primary tumor with safe margins remains the mainstay of treatment for oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). The standard of care for assessment of intraoperative margins is froze...

    Authors: Montasir Junaid, Moaz M Choudhary, Zain A Sobani, Ghulam Murtaza, Sadaf Qadeer, Naeem S Ali, Mumtaz J Khan and Anwar Suhail
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:57
  13. Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a promising treatment for patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). Our objective was to identify new prognostic factors in pa...

    Authors: Emmanuel I Benizri, Jean-Louis Bernard, Amine Rahili, Daniel Benchimol and Jean-Marc Bereder
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:56
  14. Enteric duplications are rare, but can occur anywhere along the digestive tract. Most of the patients become symptomatic in early childhood and only a few cases of adult patients have been reported in literatu...

    Authors: Gregor Blank, Alfred Königsrainer, Bence Sipos and Ruth Ladurner
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:55
  15. Recently, a Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) survey of melanoma patterns of care by the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale showed remarkable deviations from best practice patterns throughout the country. ...

    Authors: Edibaldo Silva
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:54
  16. The tumor-associated calcium signal transducer (TACSTD) genes, originally designated epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) and TROP2, represent true oncogenes. Little is known about EpCAM and TROP2 gene expre...

    Authors: Min Gyoung Pak, Dong Hoon Shin, Chang Hun Lee and Min Ki Lee
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:53
  17. Leiomyoma is the most common benign tumor of the esophagus. Surgical enucleation is indicated in case of symptoms or an unclear diagnosis, and open thoracotomy has long been the standard approach for this proc...

    Authors: Shi-Ping Luh, Sheng-Mou Hou, Chien-Chung Fang and Chi-Yi Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:52
  18. Serous adenomas represent 1-2% of pancreatic neoplasms and typically are asymptomatic not requiring any treatment and simple observation is the option of choice. Although, they carry a realistic risk of malign...

    Authors: K Bramis, A Petrou, A Papalambros, A Manzelli, E Mantonakis, N Brennan and E Felekouras
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:51
  19. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is an aggressive malignant tumor that occurs throughout the world. Îœetastases from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were generally considered to be rare in the past, because the ca...

    Authors: Eleftherios I Mantonakis, Theodora S Margariti, Athanasios S Petrou, Anastasios C Stofas, Andreas C Lazaris, Alexandros E Papalampros, Demetrios N Moris and Panagiotis O Michail
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:50
  20. Colorectal (CRC) carcinogenesis through various morphological stages has been linked to several genetic and epigenetic changes. The Raf/MEK/ERK (MAPK) signal transduction cascade is an important mediator of a ...

    Authors: Georgia Levidou, Angelica A Saetta, Fanie Gigelou, Maria Karlou, Polyanthi Papanastasiou, Angeliki Stamatelli, Nikolaos Kavantzas, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos, George Agrogiannis, Efstratios Patsouris and Penelope Korkolopoulou
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:47
  21. Paragangliomas represent only 10% of chromaffin tissue tumors and those arising from the mesentery seem to be a rare occurrence. We report a case of a 55 year old man in whom an abdominal mass was discovered f...

    Authors: Michael Chetrit, Pierre Dubé, Virginie Royal, Guy Leblanc and Lucas Sideris
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:46
  22. The solid variant of aneurysmal bone cyst (solid ABC) is rarely encountered in long bones and appropriate treatment for this disease remains unclear. We experienced a 13-year-old boy suffering from pain in his...

    Authors: Rumi Takechi, Takashi Yanagawa, Tetsuya Shinozaki, Toshio Fukuda and Kenji Takagishi
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:45
  23. The optimum protocol for expander volume adjustment with respect to the timing and application of radiotherapy remains controversial.

    Authors: Burcu Celet Ozden, Erdem Guven, Isik Aslay, Gonul Kemikler, Vakur Olgac, Merva Soluk Tekkesin, Bengul Serarslan, Burcak Tumerdem Ulug, Aylin Bilgin Karabulut, Atilla Arinci and Ufuk Emekli
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:44
  24. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are morphologically and clinically heterogeneous tumors, and their biological behavior is difficult to predict, ranging from clinically benign to malignant. The aim of o...

    Authors: Naoki Tanimine, Kazuaki Tanabe, Takahisa Suzuki, Noriaki Tokumoto and Hideki Ohdan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:43
  25. Serum levels of the extracellular domain of HER2/neu (HER2 ECD) have been demonstrated to be associated with clinical outcomes. A disintegrin and metalloproteinase-10, a sheddase of HER2/neu, can drive cancer ...

    Authors: Hsiu-Pei Tsai, Shin-Cheh Chen, Huei-Tzu Chien, Yi-Yin Jan, Tzu-Chieh Chao, Miin-Fu Chen and Ling-Ling Hsieh
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:42
  26. Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is one of the most effective treatments for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) within the Milan criteria. However, for patients beyond these criteria, the recur...

    Authors: Chieh-Lin Teng, Wen-Li Hwang, Yi-Ju Chen, Kuang-Hsi Chang and Shao-Bin Cheng
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:41
  27. Cyclin D1 gene regulates cell cycle and plays an important role in the tumorigenesis of human cancers. The association between cyclin D1, clinicopathologic parameters and prognosis in oral cavity squamous cell...

    Authors: Shiang-Fu Huang, Sou-De Cheng, Wen-Yu Chuang, I-How Chen, Chun-Ta Liao, Hung-Ming Wang and Ling-Ling Hsieh
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:40
  28. Locally advanced colorectal cancers are best treated with multivisceral resections. The aim of this study is to evaluate early and late results after multivisceral resections.

    Authors: Cem Gezen, Metin Kement, Yunus E Altuntas, Nuri Okkabaz, Mesut Seker, Selahattin Vural, Mahmut Gumus and Mustafa Oncel
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:39
  29. Marjolin's ulcer is a rare but highly aggressive squamous cell cancer that is most often associated with chronic burn wounds. Although many individual case reports exist, no comprehensive evaluation of Marjoli...

    Authors: Phillipo L Chalya, Joseph B Mabula, Peter Rambau, Mabula D Mchembe, Kahima J Kahima, Alphonce B Chandika, Geofrey Giiti, Nestory Masalu, Robert Ssentongo and Japhet M Gilyoma
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:38
  30. Osteosarcoma is a malignant tumor with high ability to form invasion and metastasis. Identifying prognostic factor in osteosarcoma is helpful to select those patients for more aggressive management. Our study ...

    Authors: Ju Han, Bicheng Yong, Canqiao Luo, Pingxian Tan, Tingsheng Peng and Jingnan Shen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:37
  31. The incidence of traumatic neuroma is extremely low, especially in those patients with breast cancer after mastectomy. There are only 10 cases reported in the literature. We report a patient who developed a pa...

    Authors: Quan Li, Er-li Gao, Yin-long Yang, Hong-ye Hu and Xiao-qu Hu
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:35
  32. It is reported the case of a 69 years man who presented to the Emergency Room because of pain and abdominal distension from ascites. After admission and paracentesis placement, he developed a digestive hemorrh...

    Authors: Francesca Ratti, Federica Cipriani, Michele Paganelli, Gianfranco Ferla and Luca AM Aldrighetti
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:34
  33. Clear cell carcinoma of the bladder is a rare tumor of the bladder. There are few reports available on this rare disease, and no cases with recurrence were reported. Here we present a case of 68-year-old woman...

    Authors: Ji Lu, Zhihui Xu, Fengming Jiang, Yan Wang, Yuchuan Hou, Chunxi Wang and Qihui Chen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:33
  34. Laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer has been compared with open colectomy in randomized controlled trials, but these studies may not be generalizable because of strict enrollment and exclusion criteria whi...

    Authors: Linda C Cummings, Conor P Delaney and Gregory S Cooper
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:31
  35. The spacer placement is a prevalent procedure to separate the surrounding normal tissues from locally recurrent rectal tumor before the application of radiotherapy. However, complications could occur due to th...

    Authors: Takayuki Ogino, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Junichi Nishimura, Ichiro Takemasa, Tsunekazu Mizushima, Masataka Ikeda, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Yuichiro Doki and Masaki Mori
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:30
  36. The usual treatments for pleural malignancies are mostly palliative. In contrast, peritoneal malignancies are often treated with a curative intent by cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy. As ...

    Authors: Olivier Facy, Pierre-Benoit Pages, Pablo Ortega-Deballon, Guy Magnin, Sylvain Ladoire, Bernard Royer, Bruno Chauffert and Alain Bernard
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:29
  37. To investigate the expression of E-cadherin, beta-catenin and topoisomerase-II alpha and examine their clinical relevance in liposarcomas.

    Authors: Pinelopi Gogou, Emilios Pakos, Anna Batistatou, Ioannis Panelos, Evangelos Briasoulis, Dimitrios Stefanou, Nikoforos Apostolikas and Periclis Tsekeris
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:28
  38. Bile reflux is one of the primary factors involved in the pathogenesis of gastric mucosal lesions in patients with chronic gastritis; however, little is known about the exact histological features of bile refl...

    Authors: Yanyi Zhang, Xi Yang, Weizhong Gu, Xiaoli Shu, Ting Zhang and Mizu Jiang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:27
  39. We present one case with symptom of paroxysmal abdominal pain for over 20 days. Abdominal computerized tomography (CT) scan revealed intestinal obstruction and a mass of 6.0 cm × 6.0 cm in size located at the ...

    Authors: Yongmao Song, Modan Li, Jianzhen Shan, Xiaoxian Ye, Shangyi Tang, Xuefeng Fang, Kefeng Ding and Ying Yuan
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:26
  40. Lung cancer is a common cause of cancer-related death. Staging typically includes positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, in which18F-fluoro-2-dexoy-D-glucose (FDG) is taken up by cells proportional to metab...

    Authors: Richdeep S Gill, Troy Perry, Jonathan T Abele, Eric LR Bédard and Daniel Schiller
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:25
  41. Isolated splenic metastasis from lung cancer is a very rare occurrence with only a few reports available. Here, we report the case of a 82-year-old male who underwent a bilobectomy for a lung squamous cell car...

    Authors: Andre R Dias, Rodrigo A Pinto, Juliana N Ravanini, Renato M Lupinacci, Ivan Cecconello and Ulysses Ribeiro Jr
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:24
  42. Liver angiosarcoma is a rare disease, however it still ranks as the third of most common primary liver maligancies. The prognosis of liver angiosarcoma is very poor with almost all patients with this kind of d...

    Authors: Chin-Ying Chien, Cheng-cheng Hwang, Chun-nan Yeh, Huang-yang Chen, Jui-Teng Wu, Siu-Cheung Chan, Chih-Lang Lin, Cho-li Yen, Wen-yen Wang and Kun-Chun Chiang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:23
  43. Hepatic resection is the only effective treatment for combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma.

    Authors: Hiromichi Ishii, Takuma Kobayashi, Michihiro Kudou, Masumi Nishimura, Atsushi Toma, Kenji Nakamura, Takeshi Mazaki and Tsuyoshi Itoh
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:22
  44. Thyrotoxic hypokalemic periodic paralysis (THPP) is a rare, potentially life-threatening endocrine emergency. It is characterized by recurrent muscle weakness and hypokalemia. Because many THPP patients do not...

    Authors: Yi-Chu Lin, Che-Wei Wu, Hui-Chun Chen, Hsiu-Ya Chen, I-Cheng Lu, Cheng-Jing Tsai, Wen-Rei Kuo and Feng-Yu Chiang
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:21
  45. Despite efforts to improve surgical techniques, serious complications still sometimes occur. Use of a physiological posterior mediastinal pathway has increased given advances such as automated anastomotic devi...

    Authors: Noriyuki Hirahara, Tetsu Yamamoto and Tsuneo Tanaka
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:20

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