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Incidence and prognostic influence of lymph node micrometastases in rectal cancerF J Fleming
Surgical Professorial Unit, Department of Surgery, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland
Eur J Surg Oncol 33:998-1002. 2007..The aim of this study was to determine the rate of lymph node micrometastases and evaluate their prognostic significance in rectal cancer...
Reversal of Hartmann's procedure following acute diverticulitis: is timing everything?Fergal J Fleming
Surgical Professorial Unit, Department of Surgery, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland
Int J Colorectal Dis 24:1219-25. 2009..Patients who undergo a Hartmann's procedure may not be offered a reversal due to concerns over the morbidity of the second procedure. The aims of this study were to examine the morbidity post reversal of Hartmann's procedure...
Factors affecting metastases to non-sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancerF J Fleming
Department of Surgery, St Vincent's University Hospital and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Ireland
J Clin Pathol 57:73-6. 2004..985; 95% CI, 1.291 to 37.785). CONCLUSIONS: In patients with invasive breast cancer and a positive SLN, extranodal extension or macrometastasis within the SLN were both independent predictors of non-SLN involvement...
Intradermal radioisotope injection optimises sentinel lymph node identification in breast cancerF J Fleming
Departments of Surgery, St Vincent's University Hospital and Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Eur J Surg Oncol 29:835-8. 2003..CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that intradermal isotope injection in combination with intraparenchymal blue dye optimises the localization of the sentinel lymph node in breast cancer...
