background: colorectal tumor is one of the main causes of death in our country. the aim of the present study was to determine the clinicopathological aspects of tumor and the presence of hepatic micrometastasis in patients with colorectal cancer (crc). materials and methods: forty two patients with crc were evaluated in the study surgical treatment was performed and liver biopsy was taken for t...

The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical significance of nodal micrometastasis detected by immunohistochemistry in patients that had undergone curative surgery for pancreatic cancer. Between 2005 and 2006, a total of 208 lymph nodes from 48 consecutive patients with pancreatic cancer that had undergone curative resection were immunostained with monoclonal antibody against pan-ck ...

Recently, lymph node micrometastasis has been evaluated for its prognostic value in gastric cancer. Lymph node micrometastasis cannot be detected via a usual pathologic examination, but it can be detected by using some other techniques including immunohistochemistry and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay. With the development of such diagnostic techniques, the detection rate ...

BACKGROUND Colorectal tumor is one of the main causes of death in our country. The aim of the present study was to determine the clinicopathological aspects of tumor and the presence of hepatic micrometastasis in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty two patients with CRC were evaluated in the study surgical treatment was performed and liver biopsy was taken for t...

We recently established a metastasis model in nude mice using the MKL-4 cell line, a contransfectant of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line with fgf-4 and lacZ in which micrometastases in several organs can be quantitatively observed. First, to develop a new postsurgical metastasis model, we investigated the timing of occurrence of micrometastasis and the influence of tumor removal on the p...

PURPOSE Micrometastases are often found in regional lymph nodes of colorectal cancer (CRC). The aim of this study is to examine the extent and distribution of such lymph nodes. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN We immunohistochemically assessed localization and frequency of micrometastases in 878 lymph nodes from 98 patients with CRC. The anatomical position of lymph nodes was defined as level 1 to level 3...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the role of lymph node micrometastasis in oral and oropharyngeal cancers. METHODS We investigated the presence of micrometastases by cytokeratin immunohistochemical staining in 54 patients with node-negative oral and oropharyngeal carcinomas. RESULTS The positive rate of cytokeratin expression was 13.0% (7 of 54 patients). The incidence ...

BACKGROUND Lymph node micrometastases are important for prognosis and treatment. Their identification in neck dissection specimens with large numbers of nodes is a matter of chance unless serial sectioning or step sectioning at intervals of 200 μm is used, a method which is impractical. MATERIALS AND METHODS For a case of squamous cell laryngeal carcinoma where a micrometastasis was found in ...

BACKGROUND Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy plays a major role in the surgical management of primary breast cancer. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the assessment of axillary frozen sections of SLNs for micrometastasis diagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study focused on 278 SLNs from 149 patients. Each lymph node was fully analyzed by frozen section. After fix...

This paper discussed the detection of tumor micrometastasis, and analysed the influence of chemotherapy and blood transfusion on the immunity of tumor patients. Chemotherapy and blood transfusion can increase the opportunity of tumor metastasis. By analysing the mechanism of the treatment of tumor with traditional Chinese medicine, the author put forward the new method about eliminating tumor m...