PURPOSE Postoperative recurrence remains the major cause of death in patients with primary retroperitoneal tumors (PRT). This study aimed at investigating the potential biological and surgical factors associated with postoperative recurrence and survival in PRT patients. METHODS Retrospective data were collected from 231 PRT patients from January 1980 and December 2005 from the General Hospit...

Complete tumor resection is still the only potentially curative therapy option for patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Surgical exploration is the gold standard for the determination of tumor resectability. Radiological resectability assessment is of great importance because many clearly unresectable cases can be identified preoperatively and it became essential for surgical pl...

Solitary metastatic brain tumors are the most common intracranial neoplasms encountered by neurosurgeons. Surgical resection of brain metastasis with whole brain radiotherapy (WBR) significantly increases survival in comparison with WBR alone. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SR) seems to provide results that are similar to those of surgical resection. To analyze the economic efficiency of these diff...

Differential diagnosis is important for the surgical and the postsurgical management of a chordoma. The accurate diagnosis of tumors is of valuable prognostic significance. Fine-needle aspiration biopsy or core-needle biopsy in the case of bony lesions has been suggested to be the most oncologically sound approach to establish a diagnosis before resection, with care to avoid tumor seeding [5, 7...

Maxillary defects resulting from resection involving the maxilla pose unique surgical and prosthetic rehabilitation challenges. Such defects occur as a consequence of congenital malformations, trauma or surgical resection of tumors. Surgical reconstruction of large maxillary defect is seldom tried. The obturator is a prosthesis used to close maxillary defects to restore masticatory and phonetic...

In the past 130 years, many surgical procedures for turbinate reduction have been developed. We analyzed the long-term efficacy of 6 of these surgical techniques (turbinectomy, laser cautery, electrocautery, cryotherapy, submucosal resection, and submucosal resection with lateral displacement) over a 6-year follow-up period. We randomly divided 382 patients into 6 therapeutic groups and surgica...

This paper was designed to evaluate a novel surgical procedure of using a gastroduodenal artery graft for reconstruction of the hepatic artery during radical resection of hilar cholangiocarcinoma, which is citation-free and self-contained. In this paper we retrospectively analyzed the clinical data, surgical procedure, and follow-up results in nine patients who underwent hepatic artery reconstr...

OBJECTIVE Secondary cytoreductive surgery (SCS) is reported to be beneficial for patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma (EOC). The current study is to evaluate risk factors that would affect the surgical optimal resection rate and prognosis of recurrent EOC after SCS in Chinese patients. METHODS In our study, 44 patients with recurrent EOC treated with SCS at Shandong Cancer Hos...

OBJECTIVE To design a treatment algorithm based on experience with facial nerve schwannomas (FNS) over a 30-year period. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. METHOD Seventy-nine patients with facial nerve schwannomas seen from 1979 through 2009 at a tertiary referral private otologic practice were categorized by treatment modality. Interventions included surgical resection with grafting...

PURPOSE Evaluation of demographic, pathological, and clinical patterns in addition to treatment outcome of pediatric NRSTS patients treated at the NCI, Egypt. PROCEDURE 21 pediatric patients of NRSTS between 2001 and 2006 were included. Clinical and pathological diagnosis and subtyping verification were done. Patients' cohort formed of 3 treatment groups. (1) Patients who underwent complete s...