Vivian E Strong

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..Additional studies will help clarify these remaining controversies further. The laparoscopic approach for adrenalectomy has demonstrated that significant and beneficial advances in surgery are improving the care offered patients...

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..These PET probes are handheld, allowing for real-time evaluation of cancer using a tool that provides surgeons with better intraoperative assessment of tumor sites...

..The aim of this study is to compare technical feasibility and oncologic efficacy of totally laparoscopic versus open subtotal gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma...

..We investigated the ability of a novel, handheld tool to evaluate suspicious nodes intraoperatively and to correlate its findings with those seen on preoperative PET scan...

..The efficacy of laparoscopic celiac plexus block (CPB) in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer has not been reported...

..We sought to assess the use of staging laparoscopy for gastric adenocarcinoma in a cohort of older patients and to compare outcomes after laparoscopy alone with nontherapeutic laparotomy...

..To study the pathology, treatment, and outcome of patients with gastric remnant cancer (GRC) after resection for peptic ulcer disease (PUD)...

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..It appears that the minimally invasive approach for gastric resection of adenocarcinoma is safe and satisfies oncologic requirements, and is justified for use in selected patients...

..To compare disease-specific survival (DSS) between the US and Korea following R0 resection for gastric carcinoma (GC)...

..To perform a meta-analysis of high-quality published trials, randomized and observational, comparing laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (LDG) and open distal gastrectomy (ODG) for gastric cancer...

..Tumor size however frequently plays a role in surgical approach with larger tumors tending toward laparotomy, raising concern that favorable outcomes reported for the laparoscopic approach may reflect this selection bias...

..The management of this indolent disease is controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate endoscopic surveillance (ES) compare with surgical resection (SR) for type I GC...

..Positive peritoneal cytology is a predictor of poor survival in patients with gastric cancer. Our aim is to more clearly define the natural history of this cohort...

..To solve this, two novel probes have been created to accurately detect the (18)F-FDG radiotracer intraoperatively...

..The purpose of this study is to determine the yield of repeat SL following neoadjuvant therapy for G/GEJ adenocarcinoma after initial negative pretreatment SL...

..The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of being overweight on surgical and long-term outcomes for patients with gastric cancer...

..The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in blood is an easily assessable parameter of systemic inflammatory response. The aim of this study was to determine whether the NLR is prognostic in GIST...

..For most benign lesions, laparoscopic approaches are safe and feasible and conversion to an open approach is necessary only for lesions where size limits the ability of a minimally invasive resection...

..Pheochromocytomas are malignant in approximately 10% of patients. The histologic differentiation between benign and malignant tumors is difficult, the latter diagnosed by the presence of metastatic disease or recurrence...

..The impact of large vessel extension (LVE) as a prognostic factor for adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is not fully understood. This study aimed to assess outcome of ACC in the presence and absence of LVE...

..The primary aim of this analysis was to examine the quantitative features of antibody-antigen interactions in tumors and normal tissue after parenteral administration of antitumor antibodies to human patients...

..Such a presentation has only been documented once before and raises the importance of vigilant and thorough follow-up. In addition, this case questions the relationship of prolonged treatment and subsequent sites of recurrence...

..Nevertheless, minimal-access metastasectomy and cytoreductive surgery harbor great potential for selected patients, but further clinical studies are needed...

..However, some suggest that the survival outcome among patients with a synchronous metastasis is poor. It remains unclear whether this treatment approach is warranted among those with synchronous metastasis...