Recurrence Rate after Marginal Excision of Lipomas

Recurrence After Marginal Excision for Atypical Lipomatous Tumors Versus Lipomas of the Extremities.

This study reviewed the medical records of 90 patients with lipomas (47 patients) and atypical lipomatous tumors (ALT)/well-differentiated liposarcomas (WDL) (43 patients) of the extremities treated from 2006 to 2012. All patients had preoperative biopsy and postoperative histologic analysis of the tumors; surgical margins were marginal in all cases. Histologic sections of the tissue blocks fro...

P-211: Recurrence Rate of Ovarian Endometriomas after A Laparoscopic Excision

Background: Endometrioma is a common cause of gynecologic morbidity and the most common benign ovarian cysts are found at surgery. One of the most troubling aspects of treating endometrioma with laparoscopic excision is disease recurrence after surgery. Present study was conducted to evaluate risk factors for the recurrence of endometrioma after first laparoscopic excision. Materials and Method...

Recurrence of pterygium after excision.

Recurrence of ovarian endometrioma after laparoscopic excision.

BACKGROUND To analyse risk factors that influence the recurrence of endometrioma after laparoscopic excision. METHODS A total of 224 patients who had a minimum of 2 years of post-operative follow-up after laparoscopic ovarian endometrioma excision were studied retrospectively. Recurrence was defined as the presence of endometrioma more than 2 cm in size, detected by ultrasonography within 2 y...

Epidemiology and recurrence rate of pterygium post excision in Ghanaians.

OBJECTIVES To determine the epidemiology and recurrence rate of pterygium after excision using bare sclera technique. DESIGN Prospective non-comparative study. SETTING Ophthalmology unit, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. METHODS The study involved 60 consecutive patients with primary apterygial from July 1998 to December 2000 who had bare sclera excision after informed consent. T...