Lung cancer without distant metastasis often requires an invasive surgical procedure to document inoperability. In order to determine how often puncture biopsy was a valid substitute for a surgical procedure, we investigated the performance of endoscopic staging by means of transcarinal needle aspiration biopsy during rigid bronchoscopy. Eighty lung cancer patients with subcarinal lymph nodes v...

BACKGROUND The incidence of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is increasing. Although most patients achieve complete remission with surgical treatment, those with advanced disease have a poor prognosis. The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) is responsible for the staging criteria for all cancers. For the past 20 years, the AJCC cancer staging manual has grouped all nonmelanoma sk...

CONTEXT Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. Despite technological, therapeutic, and scientific advances, most patients present with incurable disease and a poor chance of long-term survival. For those with potentially curable disease, lung cancer staging greatly influences therapeutic decisions. Therefore, surgical pathologists determine many facets of lung cancer pa...

Background: Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common carcinoma in women across globe. Treatment and prognosis are influenced by surgical international federation of gynecology obstetrics staging system with evaluation depth myometrium invasion, cervical extension presence lymph node distant metastasis. This study aims to compare MRI findings preoperative endometrial intra-operative revised ...

There have been sparse reports in literature of avulsion and degloving injuries of individual areas of face like the nose, eyelids, ear and even mandible. Hemi-facial degloving is extremely rare. We present a case of post-assault degloving of the nose, part of forehead with anterior wall of frontal sinus, entire upper and lower eyelids and the cheek. Proper planning and staging of the surgical ...

The aim of this study was to assess the correlation of survival with clinical, surgical, histopathological, and biochemical parameters in patients with ovarian cancer. Age, surgical and histopathological data, the concentrations of estrogen and progesterone receptors, Her-2 neu, p53, U-PA, PAI-1, and Cathepsin D, DNA-and S-phase indexes of 111 ovarian cancer patients have been analyzed and corr...

Endometrial cancer is the most common female genital tract cancer in the United States. The majority of cases are confined to the uterus. Treatment of organ-confined uterine cancer usually comprises total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (TAH/BSO). In 1988, clinical staging of endometrial cancer was replaced with surgical staging because of inaccuracies associated with...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare outcomes of uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) for obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) using anatomy- and severity-based staging systems. DESIGN Prospective design with a retrospective review. SETTING A tertiary-care, sleep disorder referral center. PATIENTS In total, 110 patients with OSAHS (105 men, 5 women; mean age, 43 years; apnea-h...

BACKGROUND Surgery, as the main approach in higher stages of gynecomastia, has different techniques regarding the staging of the disease. The more the grade of gynecomastia, the more complicated the used surgical techniques, conventionally. This study assessed the success rate of the simplest surgical technique in higher grades of gynecology as well as the satisfaction rate in patients and ...

BACKGROUND Gastric cancer remains a formidable treatment challenge. For decades, treatment consisted mostly of surgical intervention for this deadly disease. With improvements in the multi-disciplinary management of solid organ malignancies, the approach to this disease is being stepwise refined. MAIN BODY One of the prevalent controversies in the surgical management of gastric cancer rests o...