P J Tanis

..All patients had improvement of range of motion and power in the affected wrist and fingers. In this way a better daily function and resumption of work were accomplished...

..We provide a statistical analysis of the learning phase for sentinel node biopsy...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of both lymphatic mapping and probe-guided primary tumor excision by use of intralesional tracer administration in clinically occult breast cancer...

..Delayed imaging and re-injection of the radioactive tracer increase the visualisation rate. The non-visualised sentinel node can be identified intraoperatively in more than half of the patients...

..The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity of frozen section diagnosis of the sentinel node in melanoma and breast cancer patients...

..This report describes the history and the validation of the technique, with particular reference to breast cancer...

..We describe our first false negative sentinel node biopsy after ceasing confirmatory axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer. Palpation of the axilla through the biopsy wound prevented understaging...

..A significant reduction of cases with faint SN uptake enables better surgical efficacy...

..SN identification may lead to a more accurate staging and avoid extensive lymph node dissection in the majority of patients with penile carcinoma...

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..SLNPs were reduced by 14% (37/268). Maximum cortex thickness is the main feature to predict metastatic involvement (area under Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve (A(Z))=0.87)...

..The technique that is best used for lymphatic mapping is well established in melanoma but not in breast cancer. The results of large randomised studies are awaited in both these diseases. Gastrointestinal cancer is the main new focus...

..0018). CONCLUSIONS: Occult lymph node metastases in penile cancer can be detected with a sensitivity of about 80% by dynamic sentinel node biopsy, including preoperative lymphoscintigraphy, vital dye and a gamma ray detection probe...

..006). CONCLUSIONS: Early resection of lymph node metastases in patients with penile carcinoma improves survival...

..An intraparenchymal injection technique should be used when the additional purpose is to determine the stage as accurately as possible and to identify sentinel nodes elsewhere...

..This review compared short-term outcomes after laparoscopic versus open subtotal colectomy for acute, colitis medically refractory...

..The improvement in local control by preoperative radiotherapy for rectal cancer can be at the cost of substantial morbidity...

..This phenomenon might also explain incidental observations of umbilical metastasis in breast cancer...

..Conclusions. From this initial single-center experience, simultaneous laparoscopic colorectal and liver resection appears to be feasible in selected patients with CRC and SLM, with satisfying short-term results...

..New developments aim at further reducing the hospital stay and morbidity, and improving the cosmetic outcomes...

..The purpose of this study was to determine treatment characteristics and clinical outcome for patients with perineal hernia after abdominoperineal excision (APE)...

..Early minimally invasive closure of low anastomotic leaks is therefore possible provided that the para-anastomotic cavity is drained well prior to closure and the anastomosis is defunctioned...

..04). CONCLUSIONS: Early detection of lymph node metastases by dynamic sentinel node biopsy and subsequent resection in clinically node negative T2-3 penile carcinoma improves survival compared with a policy of surveillance...

..At present, sentinel node biopsy in colorectal cancer should be restricted to a research setting...

..012). The application of radio-guided surgery combined with wire localization seems to improve the outcome of therapeutic excision of non-palpable invasive breast cancer compared with wire-directed excision alone...

..Criteria for adjuvant systemic treatment are identical for men and women, although hormonal therapy (tamoxifen) has a more prominent place in the adjuvant setting because of the high percentage of positive hormone receptors in men...