OBJECTIVES Recent studies have suggested that postoperative complications could have a potential negative effect on long-term outcome after oesophagectomy for cancer. Because respiratory failures represent the most frequent postoperative complication, we have investigated the prognostic impact of these complications on disease-free survival (DFS). METHODS From a prospective single-institution...

Introduction: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is one of the 10 most common malignant tumors and SCC accounts 94% of all oral malignancies. Mast cells are regarded as complex and multifunctional cells, playing a significant role in immunopathology . The aim of this study is to evaluate the number of mast cells in tissue sections of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in comparison with norma...

objective: the aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of protein energy malnutrition(pem) by anthropometric measurements in preschool children of tribal community of chhattisgarh. material and methods: a total of 449 children [237 boys and 212 girls] from 286 families were selected randomly. anthropometric measurements were done as per standard protocol. the level of underweight, stun...

Gliomas are the most frequent primary brain tumors. They are derived from glial cells of astrocytic, oligodendroglial and ependymal origin. According to the WHO classification of brain tumors gliomas are divided in low-grade (grades I and II) and high-grade (grades III and IV) tumors. Low-grade tumors are well-differentiated, slow-growing lesions. Grade I tumors are well-circumscribed and often...

OBJECTIVE To identify and classify the radiographic patterns of megaesophagus in Chagas disease, as seen on esophagograms and chest X-rays. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective study of 35 patients diagnosed with esophageal disease via manometry. The changes found on esophagograms were stratified according to Rezende's classification, divided into four categories (grades I through IV)...

The aim of this study is to test the prognostic accuracy of the 2010-WHO classification for postsurgery survival in nonmetastatic gastric neuroendocrine tumor (NET) cases. Whether the 2010-WHO classification of NETs can predict relapse after surgical resection has not yet been established.We selected 175 nonmetastatic gastric NET patients at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea between 1996 and 20...

Background: This study aims to determine the pathologists’ agreement of modified Black nuclear grading system and Holland classification applied to cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). Methods: Forty-three cases of breast lesions diagnosed as DCIS were selected to interobserver analysis. Eight pathologists received the same set of digitized images from microscopy of DCIS cases, and answere...

BACKGROUND The frequency of mammary malignancies in canine patients is even three times over than in human. In various types of cancer different intracellular signalling pathways are perturbed, thus the patients with pathologically the same type of cancer often have dissimilar genetic defects in their tumours and respond in a heterogeneous manner to anticancer treatment. That is why the objecti...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing emergency surgery have a high risk for surgical complications and death. The Clavien-Dindo classification has been developed and validated in elective general surgical patients, but has not been validated in emergency surgical patients. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications in emergency surgical pat...