The risk for complications while providing any level of sedation or general anesthesia is greatest when caring for patients having significant medical compromise. It is reassuring that significant untoward events can generally be prevented by careful preoperative assessment, along with attentive intraoperative monitoring and support. Nevertheless, we must be prepared to manage untoward events s...

PURPOSE Patients with locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancer have a dismal prognosis. The aim of proposed combined therapy - surgery and intraoperative brachytherapy, is to improve results of already applied methods and to define optimal group of patients for this treatment. We introduce practical experience of Brachytherapy Department in Cancer Centre - Institute in Warsaw. MATERIAL AN...

IMPORTANCE We report our experience with uveal melanoma-specific gene expression profile (GEP) testing on a series of choroidal metastatic tumors confirmed by cytopathology so that clinicians may be aware that receiving a class 1 or class 2 test result in nonmelanoma is possible. OBSERVATIONS Retrospective review of all cytopathology and DecisionDx-UM GEP reports between January 2012 to Decem...

The purpose of this study was to present a novel surgical method for intraoperative precise sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) and to determine its clinical efficacy and sensitivity in breast cancer patients. The sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) were preoperatively evaluated by axillary ultrasound. The intraoperative detection of SLNs was guided by lymphatic drainage pathway. The lymphatic vessels an...

Objective: In this paper we report in a larger series the use of radio-probe-guided surgery (RGS) in nonradioiodineavid, well-differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Design: Thirty-seven patients with locoregional recurrent, nonradioiodine avid DTC were studied with Tc-sestamibi directed RGS using a handheld gamma probe as an intraoperative detector. Outcome: Twenty-three women and 14 men were fol...