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  1. Adnexal masses are not uncommon in patients with breast cancer. Breast cancer and ovarian malignancies are known to be associated. In patients with breast cancer and co-existing pleural effusions, ascites and ...

    Authors: Sophocles Lanitis, Sivahamy Sivakumar, Kasim Behranwala, Emmanouil Zacharakis, Ragheed Al Mufti and Dimitri J Hadjiminas
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:10
  2. A number of non-malignant diseases that share similar morphological features as gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) have been reported. Co-existence of GIST with these other diseases is rarely recognized or ...

    Authors: Chee Khoon Lee, Alison Hadley, Keshani Desilva, Gareth Smith and David Goldstein
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:8
  3. Th1/Th2 cell balance is thought to be shifted toward a Th2-type immune response not only by malignancy but also by surgical stress. The aim of this study was to estimate perioperative immune responses with res...

    Authors: Masashi Ishikawa, Masanori Nishioka, Norikazu Hanaki, Takayuki Miyauchi, Yutaka Kashiwagi, Hiromi Ioki, Akihiro Kagawa and Yoichi Nakamura
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:7
  4. Extended liver resections are being performed more liberally than ever. The extent of resection of liver metastases, however, is restricted by the volume of the future liver remnant (FLR). An intervention that...

    Authors: Seza A Gulec, Kenneth Pennington, Michael Hall and Yuman Fong
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:6
  5. Peritoneal tumor dissemination arising from colorectal cancer, appendiceal cancer, gastric cancer, gynecologic malignancies or peritoneal mesothelioma is a common sign of advanced tumor stage or disease recurr...

    Authors: Gabriel Glockzin, Hans J Schlitt and Pompiliu Piso
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:5
  6. Intraductal and invasive adenocarcinoma of duct of Luschka is rare. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second case report of intraductal and invasive carcinoma arising from ducts of Luschka.

    Authors: Mumtaz Jahan, Philip Xiao, Alan Go, Muhammad Cheema and Arif Hameed
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:4
  7. Inferior vena cava (IVC) leiomyosarcoma is a rare tumor of smooth muscle origin. It is often large by the time of diagnosis and may involve adjacent organs. A margin-free resection may be curative, but the res...

    Authors: John A Stauffer, G Peter Fakhre, Marjorie K Dougherty, Raouf E Nakhleh, William J Maples and Justin H Nguyen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:3
  8. In recent years, apart from antibacterial properties, doxycycline is reported to have cytotoxic and anti-proliferative actions in various cancers including colorectal cancer. Colorectal cancer constitutes one ...

    Authors: Jayesh Sagar, Kevin Sales, Sas Dijk, JanWillem Taanman, Alexander Seifalian and Mark Winslet
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:2
  9. Splenosis is a heterotropic implantation of splenic fragments onto exposed vascularised peritoneal and intrathoracic surfaces, following splenic injury or elective splenectomy.

    Authors: M Abu Hilal, A Harb, B Zeidan, B Steadman, JN Primrose and NW Pearce
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7:1
  10. Primary sternal malignant fibrous histiyocytoma (MFH) is highly rare. Effective treatment modality is surgical resection with wide margins. However, to date, the effects of radiotherapy or chemotherapy has not...

    Authors: Bulent Kocer, Gultekin Gulbahar, Bulent Erdogan, Burcin Budakoglu, Selim Erekul, Koray Dural and Unal Sakinci
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:138
  11. Coexistence of adenocarcinoma and mantle cell lymphoma in the same or different anatomical sites is extremely rare. We present a case of incidental discovery of primary lung adenocarcinoma and mantle cell lymp...

    Authors: Dimitrios Hatzibougias, Mattheos Bobos, Georgia Karayannopoulou, Georgios Karkavelas, Georgios T Karapanagiotidis, Christophoros N Foroulis and Ioannis Kostopoulos
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:137
  12. Primary closure of the perineum with drainage after abdominoperineal excision of the rectum for carcinoma, is widely accepted. However hematoma, perineal abscess and re-operation are significantly more frequen...

    Authors: Silvia Cresti, Mehdi Ouaïssi, Igor Sielezneff, Jean-Baptiste Chaix, Nicolas Pirro, Bruno Berthet, Bernard Consentino and Bernard Sastre
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:136
  13. Squamous cells are normally not found inside the breast, so a primary squamous cell carcinoma of the breast is an exceptional phenomenon. There is a possible explanation for these findings.

    Authors: Elvira R Flikweert, Mans Hofstee and Mike SL Liem
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:135
  14. Adrenal cortex oncocytic carcinoma (AOC) represents an exceptional pathological entity, since only 22 cases have been documented in the literature so far.

    Authors: Pinelopi Argyriou, Charalambos Zisis, Nektarios Alevizopoulos, Emmanuel M Kefaloyannis, Constantine Gennatas and Constantina D Petraki
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:134
  15. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors are mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract of varying malignant potential that are believed to originate from neoplastic transformation of the interstitial cells of Ca...

    Authors: Kontantinos Vasiliadis, Evangelos Kogopoulos, Michael Katsamakas, Evangelos Karamitsos, Christos Tsalikidis, Byron Pringos and Andreas Tsalikidis
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:133
  16. Many cancers are known to be associated with paraneoplastic syndromes. These syndromes are usually treated by chemotherapy with or without immunosupression but they often respond poorly. There are no published...

    Authors: Joanna P Wood, Andrew P Haynes and KL Cheung
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:132
  17. Leiomyosarcomas of the stomach are very rare. At the time of primary diagnosis the tumors are most often in advanced stage and the patients complain of abdominal pain due to large tumor size. Endosonographical...

    Authors: Ursula Pauser and Horst Grimm
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:131
  18. A long-term follow up case of hepatobiliary cystadenoma originating from simple hepatic cyst is rare.

    Authors: Naoto Fukunaga, Masashi Ishikawa, Hisashi Ishikura, Toshihiro Ichimori, Suguru Kimura, Akihiro Sakata, Koichi Sato, Jyunichi Nagata and Yoshiyuki Fujii
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:129
  19. The finding of metastasis in colorectal cancer, stage IV disease, has a major impact on prognosis and treatment strategy. Known important factors include the extent of the metastasis and the patients' performa...

    Authors: Kristoffer Derwinger and Bengt Gustavsson
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:127
  20. The aim of the present article was to evaluate whether angiogenic parameters as assessed by transvaginal color Doppler ultrasound (TVCD) may predict those prognostic factors related to recurrence.

    Authors: Matias Jurado, Rosendo Galván, Rafael Martinez-Monge, Jesús Mazaira and Juan Luis Alcazar
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:126
  21. Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) has been recognized as a successful way of managing symptomatic and/or progressive hepatic carcinoid metastases not amenable to surgical resection. Although it is a fairl...

    Authors: Andrew C Pearson, Steven Steinberg, Manisha H Shah and Mark Bloomston
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:125
  22. Metastatic involvement of the ovary from malignant melanoma is uncommon and presents a diagnostic challenge. Most cases are associated with disseminated disease and carry a dismal prognosis. Delayed ovarian re...

    Authors: Anastasios Boutis, Rosalia Valeri, Ippokratis Korantzis, Dimitrios Valoukas, Ioannis Andronikidis and Charalambos Andreadis
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:124
  23. Tumor related pancreatic surgery has progressed significantly during recent years. Pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) with lymphadenectomy, including vascular resection, still presents the optimal surgical procedure f...

    Authors: Matthias Glanemann, Baomin Shi, Feng Liang, Xiao-Gang Sun, Marcus Bahra, Dietmar Jacob, Ulf Neumann and Peter Neuhaus
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:123
  24. Metastatic malignancy to the thyroid gland is generally uncommon due to an unfavourable local thyroid micro-environment which impairs the ability of metastatic cells to settle and thrive. Metastases to the thy...

    Authors: Martin H Cherk, Maggie Moore, Jonathan Serpell, Sarah Swain and Duncan J Topliss
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:122
  25. Primary sacral tumors are rare and experience related to accompanying effects of these tumors is therefore limited to observations on a small number of patients.

    Authors: Lars Steinstraesser, Michael Sand, Stefan Langer, Gert Muhr, Thomas A Schildhauer and Hans-Ulrich Steinau
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:121
  26. Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare condition characterized by mucinous tumors, disseminated intra-peritoneal implants, and mucinous ascites. So far its diagnosis remains challenging to most clinicians.

    Authors: Chin-Fan Chen, Che-Jen Huang, Wan-Yi Kang and Jan-Sing Hsieh
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:118
  27. Phyllodes tumors are biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasms of the breast. While the surgical management of these relatively uncommon tumors has been addressed in the literature, few reports have commented on the ...

    Authors: Margaret I Liang, Bhuvaneswari Ramaswamy, Cynthia C Patterson, Michael T McKelvey, Gayle Gordillo, Gerard J Nuovo and William E Carson III
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:117
  28. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is a relative common malignancy with a very poor prognosis, even adopting an integrated and multidisciplinary approach. According to the literature, gastrointestinal stromal ...

    Authors: Gian Paolo Spinelli, Evelina Miele, Federica Tomao, Luigi Rossi, Giulia Pasciuti, Angelo Zullo, Federica Zoratto, Jose Nunnari, Giovanni Codacci Pisanelli and Silverio Tomao
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:116
  29. Liposarcoma is the most frequent histopathological variety of the retroperitoneum, surgery is the gold standard for treatment.

    Authors: Ángel Herrera-Gómez, César Ortega-Gutiérrez, Alejandro Mohar Betancourt and Kuauhyama Luna-Ortiz
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:115
  30. Extranodal T/NK cell lymphomas possess distinctive clinico-pathological characteristics: they are angiocentric, exhibit extensive necrosis. Prognosis is poor in the short term. The objective is to explore the ...

    Authors: Abelardo Meneses-García, Alejandro Mohar Betancourt, Jorge Herrera Abarca, Adriana Becerril Montes, Lourdes Suarez Roa and Luz Ruíz-Godoy
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:114
  31. Intravascular leiomyosarcoma is a rare tumour entity originating from venous vessel structures and most frequently affecting the inferior vena cava.

    Authors: Daniel-Johannes Tilkorn, Marcus Lehnhardt, Jörg Hauser, Adrien Daigeler, Detlev Hebebrand, Thomas Mentzel, Hans Ulrich Steinau and Cornelius Kuhnen
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:113
  32. Breast carcinoma is a disease with a tremendous heterogeneity in its clinical behavior. Newer prognostic factors and predictors of response to therapy are needed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the expr...

    Authors: Lobna Ayadi, Abdelmajid Khabir, Habib Amouri, Sondes Karray, Abdallah Dammak, Mohamed Guermazi and Tahya Boudawara
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:112
  33. The risk of developing lymphoma is greatly increased in HIV infection. Musculoskeletal manifestations of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are common and are sometimes the initial presentation of the dise...

    Authors: Domenico Marotta, Alessandro Sgambato, Simone Cerciello, Nicola Magarelli, Maurizio Martini, Luigi Maria Larocca and Giulio Maccauro
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:111
  34. Osteomas of ethmoid sinus are rare, especially when they involve anterior skull base and orbit, and lead to ophthalmologic and neurological symptoms.

    Authors: Ioannis Yiotakis, Anna Eleftheriadou, Evagelos Giotakis, Leonidas Manolopoulos, Eliza Ferekidou and Dimitrios Kandiloros
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:110
  35. Postoperative pancreas fistula (POPF) is a major complication after total gastrectomy with splenectomy. We retrospectively studied the effects of upper abdominal shape on the development of POPF after gastrect...

    Authors: Naoto Yamamoto, Takashi Oshima, Tsutomu Sato, Hirochika Makino, Yasuhiko Nagano, Shoichi Fujii, Yasushi Rino, Toshio Imada and Chikara Kunisaki
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:109
  36. Extremity liposarcomas can metastasize to different areas of the body but have rarely been demonstrated to metastasize to the liver. Due to the unusual occurrence of isolated metastatic extremity liposarcoma t...

    Authors: Christopher A Garces, John D Reith, Stephen R Grobmyer and Steven N Hochwald
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:108
  37. Retroperitoneal schwannomas are rare, usually benign tumors that originate in the neural sheath and account for only a small percentage of retroperitoneal tumors. The aim of this clinical study is to present o...

    Authors: Theodosios Theodosopoulos, Vaia K Stafyla, Paraskevi Tsiantoula, Anneza Yiallourou, Athanasios Marinis, Agathi Kondi-Pafitis, Achilleas Chatziioannou, Efstathios Boviatsis and Dionysios Voros
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:107
  38. CREST (Calcinosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, Esophageal dysmotility, Sclerodactyly and Telangiectasias) syndrome has been rarely associated with other malignancies (lung, esophagus).This is the first report of a p...

    Authors: Georgios Anastasopoulos, Athanasios Marinis, Christos Konstantinidis, Theodosios Theodosopoulos, Georgios Fragulidis and Ioannis Vassiliou
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:106
  39. Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are the most frequent mesenchymal tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. The biological appearance of these tumors reaches from small lesions with benign appearance to agg...

    Authors: Rudolf Mennigen, Heiner H Wolters, Bernd Schulte and Friedrich W Pelster
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:105
  40. Hepatic angiosarcoma is a primary sarcoma of the liver, accounting for only 2% of all primary hepatic malignancies. Acute liver failure is an extremely rare presentation of a primary liver tumour.

    Authors: Chandra S Bhati, Anand N Bhatt, Graham Starkey, Stefan G Hubscher and Simon R Bramhall
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:104
  41. Tumor recurrence following radical cystectomy for a low-grade superficial transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) is exceedingly uncommon and has not been reported previously.

    Authors: Pankaj P Dangle, Wenle Paul Wang, Joel Mayerson, Amir Mortazavi and Paul Monk
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:103
  42. The mixed epithelial stromal tumour is morphologically characterised by a mixture of solid and cystic areas consisting of a biphasic proliferation of glands admixed with solid areas of spindle cells with varia...

    Authors: Bruno Monica, Michelangelo Larosa, Francesco Facchini, Gianluigi Pozzoli, Ilaria Franceschetti and Irene Piscioli
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:101
  43. Morbid obesity strongly predicts morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. However, obesity's impact on outcome after major liver resection is unknown.

    Authors: Omar Barakat, Mark D Skolkin, Barry D Toombs, John H Fischer II, Claire F Ozaki and R Patrick Wood
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:100
  44. The location of osteosarcoma in the metaphysis as well as the age of the patients during the most rapid tumour growth suggest that factors related to skeletal growth are involved in the pathogenesis of this tu...

    Authors: Markos Ioannou, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos, Ioannis Papanastassiou, Ioanna Iakovidou, Stamatios Kottakis and Nikolaos Demertzis
    Citation: World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6:99

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