Accurate preoperative staging and restaging of mediastinal lymph nodes in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is of paramount importance. It will guide choices of treatment and determine prognosis and outcome. Over the last years, different techniques have become available. They vary in accuracy and procedure-related morbidity. The Council of the ESTS initiated a workshop on preope...

OBJECTIVES Lung cancer staging has improved in recent years. Assuming that contemporary detailed preoperative staging may yield a lower rate of stage change after surgery, we were interested to determine the impact of our lymph node dissections performed at the time of surgical resection. METHODS We retrospectively analysed a database in our surgical unit that prospectively captured informati...

BACKGROUND In order to decrease surgery-related morbidity, we evaluated the reliability of the evaluation of lymph node metastasis in patients with uterine corpus cancer by positron-emission tomography (PET) with 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) before surgical staging. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with newly diagnosed uterine corpus cancer scheduled for surgical staging, including l...

This paper describes the staging, imaging, treatment, and prognosis of renal cell carcinoma. Three case studies are presented on three separate patients with renal cell carcinoma. Each patient shows specific staging, imaging and treatment of renal cell carcinoma, but all demonstrate different metastases to other areas of the body. Each patient was at a higher stage of cancer, but depending on t...

The role of elective radiotherapy of the pelvic nodal regions in clinically node-negative prostate cancer patients remains highly controversial. This review will address the difficulty of non-invasive nodal staging, even with more advanced imaging techniques, and will show that surgical staging still finds a relatively high percentage of patients with intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer ...

Background/Introduction Lung cancer management is defined by stage and accurate pre-surgical staging is fundamental. The PET scan has become central to this process, but the technology has imperfect sensitivity and specificity. In determining nodal disease in early adenocarcinoma there appears to be a particular dilemma. The different subtypes of adenocarcinoma as per IASLC/ATS/ERS histopatholo...

First metatarsophalangeal joint osteoarthritis, commonly known as hallux rigidus, is a progressive disabling condition. Several staging classification systems exist. We present a staging system incorporating radiographic findings, range of motion, and presence or absence of mid-motion pain and sesamoid pain. On the basis of these clinically significant variables, we present an algorithm for tre...

BACKGROUND Staging laparoscopy can detect radiographically occult peritoneal metastases and prevent futile laparotomy in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. We sought to assess the use of staging laparoscopy for gastric adenocarcinoma in a cohort of older patients and to compare outcomes after laparoscopy alone with nontherapeutic laparotomy. STUDY DESIGN Using Surveillance, Epidemiology an...

The treatment options for patients with melanoma have expanded significantly over the past decade. In particular, use of targeted therapy and immunotherapy has dramatically transformed outlook advanced disease. These treatments are now being utilised as adjuvant earlier stage after surgical resection. We review latest updates staging, resection, radiotherapy systemic therapies.

A 79-year old male with lung nodules on chest computed tomography underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic-surgical middle lobe wedge resection, with pathology proven adenosquamous carcinoma. Repeat video-assisted thoracoscopic-surgical-biopsy was performed for recurrent disease. Subsequent staging computed tomography revealed herniation of the gallbladder through the abdominal wall (Figs 1 and 2...