Volume 15, Number 2 / February, 2008

Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Practice Pearl: A Novel use of Botulinum toxin for Unicameral Bone Cyst Ablation

Hamid Namazi MD
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Breast Oncology

Is there any Prognostically Different Subgroup among Patients with Stage IIIC (Any TN3M0) Breast Carcinoma?

Nüvit Duraker MD, Zeynep C. Çaynak MD, Bakır Batı MD
Original Papers
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Terminal Duct Lobular Units are Scarce in the Nipple: Implications for Prophylactic Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy : Terminal Duct Lobular Units in the Nipple

Alan J. Stolier MD FACS, Jianzhou Wang MD
Original Papers
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Patterns of Surgical Treatment for Women Diagnosed with Early Breast Cancer in Queensland

Bridie Thompson BSc, Peter Baade PhD, Michael Coory PhD, Philippe Carrière MD, Lin Fritschi PhD
Original Papers
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MRI Screening in a Clinic Population with a Family History of Breast Cancer

Jeanne Yu MD, Anna Park BS, Elizabeth Morris MD, Laura Liberman MD, Patrick I. Borgen MD, Tari A. King MD
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The Role of Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration of Axillary Nodes in the Staging of Breast Cancer

Ajay Jain MD, Mary Ellen Haisfield-Wolfe MSN, Julie Lange MD, Nita Ahuja MD, Nagi Khouri MD, Theodore Tsangaris MD, Zhe Zhang MS, Charles Balch MD, Lisa K. Jacobs MD
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How Important is the Axillary Nodal Status for Adjuvant Treatment Decisions at a Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Tumor Board? A Survival Analysis

Toralf Reimer MD, Rainer Fietkau PhD, Susanne Markmann MD, Angrit Stachs MD, Bernd Gerber PhD
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Endocrine Tumors

Value of Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Monitoring

Jyotirmay Sharma MD, Mira Milas MD, Eren Berber MD, Peter Mazzaglia MD, Alan Siperstein MD, Collin J. Weber MD
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Gastrointestinal Oncology

Stage-Specific Effect of Adjuvant Therapy Following Gastric Cancer Resection: a Population-based Analysis of 4,041 Patients

Natalie G. Coburn MD, MPH, Anand Govindarajan MD, MSc, Calvin H. L. Law MD, MPH, Ulrich Guller MD, MHS, Alex Kiss PhD, Jolie Ringash MD, Carol J. Swallow MD, PhD, Nancy N. Baxter MD, PhD
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Indication for endoscopic mucosal resection in early signet ring cell gastric cancer

T. K. Ha MD, J. Y. An MD, H. K. Youn ND, J. H. Noh MD, T. S. Sohn MD, S. Kim MD
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A Novel Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in XRCC4 Gene is Associated with Gastric Cancer Susceptibility in Taiwan

Chang-Fang Chiu MD, PhD, Chung-Hsing Wang MD, Cheng-Li Wang MD, Cheng-Chieh Lin MD, PhD, Nan-Yung Hsu MD, Jing-Ru Weng PhD, Da-Tian Bau PhD
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Effect of Adjuvant Radiotherapy on Local Recurrence in Stage II Rectal Cancer

In Ja Park MD, PhD, Hee Cheol Kim MD, PhD, Chang Sik Yu MD, PhD, Tae Won Kim MD, PhD, Se Jin Jang MD, PhD, Jin Cheon Kim MD, PhD
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Pseudomyxoma Peritonei: Clinical Pathological and Biological Prognostic Factors in Patients Treated with Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)

Dario Baratti MD, Shigeki Kusamura MD, PhD, Daisuke Nonaka MD, Martin Langer MD, Salvatore Andreola MD, Miriam Favaro MD, Cecilia Gavazzi MD, Barbara Laterza MD, Marcello Deraco MD
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Safety and Efficacy of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemoperfusion with High-Dose Oxaliplatin in Patients with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis

Wim P. Ceelen MD, PhD, Marc Peeters MD, PhD, Philippe Houtmeyers MD, Christophe Breusegem MD, Filip De Somer, Piet Pattyn MD, PhD
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Closed Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy with Open Abdomen: a Novel Technique to Reduce Exposure of the Surgical Team to Chemotherapy Drugs

Laurent Benoit MD, Nicolas Cheynel MD, PhD, Pablo Ortega-Deballon MD, PhD, Giovanni Di Giacomo MD, Bruno Chauffert MD, Patrick Rat MD
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The Expression of Type IV Collagen α6 Chain Is Related to the Prognosis in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Yoshifumi Baba, Ken-ichi Iyama MD, PhD, Koei Ikeda, Shinji Ishikawa, Naoko Hayashi, Nobutomo Miyanari, Yoshikazu Sado, Yoshifumi Ninomiya, Hideo Baba
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Impact of the Site of Anastomosis after Oncologic Esophagectomy on Quality of Life — A Prospective, Longitudinal Outcome Study

Jan-Hendrik Egberts MD, Bodo Schniewind MD, Beate Bestmann PhD, MA, Clemens Schafmayer MD, MBA, Friederike Egberts MD, Fred Faendrich MD, FRCS, Thomas Kuechler PhD, Juergen Tepel MD
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Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy or Endoscopic Stenting for Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Esophagus: A Case-Control Study

Simon K. H. Wong MBChB, FRCSEd, Philip W. Y. Chiu MBChB, FRCSEd, S. F. Leung MD, FRCR, K. Y. Cheung MBChB, FRSCEd, Angus C. W. Chan MD, FRCS, Alex C. M. Au-Yeung BSc, James F. Griffith FRCR, Sydney S. C. Chung MD, FRCP, FRCS, Enders K. W. Ng MD, FRCSEd
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Serum Cytokeratin 19 Fragment (CYFRA21-1) as a Prognostic Factor in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

Takahiro Uenishi MD, Osamu Yamazaki MD, Hiromu Tanaka MD, Shigekazu Takemura MD, Takatsugu Yamamoto MD, Shogo Tanaka MD, Shuhei Nishiguchi MD, Shoji Kubo MD
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Biological and Genetic Characteristics of Tumor-Initiating Cells in Colon Cancer

Keisuke Ieta MD, PhD, Fumiaki Tanaka MD, PhD, Naotsugu Haraguchi MD, PhD, Yoshiaki Kita MD, Hiroyuki Sakashita MD, Koshi Mimori MD, PhD, Toshifumi Matsumoto MD, PhD, Hiroshi Inoue MD, PhD, Hiroyuki Kuwano MD, PhD, Masaki Mori MD, PhD
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Cetuximab Shows Activity in Colorectal Cancer Patients With Tumors for Which FISH Analysis Does Not Detect an Increase in EGFR Gene Copy Number

Antoine Italiano MD, Philippe Follana MD, François-Xavier Caroli MD, Jean-Luc Badetti MD, Daniel Benchimol MD, Georges Garnier MD, Jean Gugenheim MD, Juliette Haudebourg MD, Frédérique Keslair MS, Gérard Lesbats MD, Gérard Lledo MD, Jean-Francois Roussel MD, Florence Pedeutour PharmD, PhD, Eric François MD
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Gynecologic Oncology

Prognosis of Patients Who Relapse after Fertility-Sparing Surgery in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

Olivier Marpeau MD, Jeanne Schilder MD, Yaelle Zafrani MD, Catherine Uzan MD, Sebastien Gouy MD, Catherine Lhommé MD, Philippe Morice MD
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Fluorescence in situ Hybridization and Immunohistochemical Analysis of p53 Expression in Endometrial Cancer: Prognostic Value and Relation to Ploidy

Olivier Graesslin MD, Sandra Chantot-Bastaraud MD, Marianne Lorenzato MD, Philippe Birembaut MD, PhD, Christian Quéreux MD, Emile Daraï MD, PhD
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Head and Neck Oncology

Prospective Identification of Chyle Leakage in Patients Undergoing Lateral Neck Dissection for Metastatic Thyroid Cancer

Jong-Lyel Roh MD, Dong Hyun Kim MD, Chan IL Park MD
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Hepatic and Pancreatic Tumors

Prognosis of Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Hilar Bile Duct Cancer versus Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Involving the Hepatic Hilus

Tsuyoshi Sano MD, Kazuaki Shimada MD, Yoshihiro Sakamoto MD, Hidenori Ojima MD, Minoru Esaki MD, Tomoo Kosuge MD
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Surgical Management of Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma - A Population-Based Study

Jensen C. C. Tan MD, Natalie G. Coburn MD, Nancy N. Baxter MD, Alex Kiss PhD, Calvin H. L. Law MD
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Prognostic Significance of the Immediate Early Response Gene X-1 (IEX-1) Expression in Pancreatic Cancer

Tetsuro Sasada MD, PhD, Koichi Azuma MD, PhD, Tatsuya Hirai, Hiroki Hashida MD, PhD, Michiyuki Kanai MD, PhD, Takashi Yanagawa PhD, Arimichi Takabayashi MD, PhD
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Prognostic Factors and Optimal Treatment Strategy for Intrahepatic Nodular Recurrence After Curative Resection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Gi-Hong Choi MD, Dong-Hyun Kim MD, Chang-Moo Kang MD, Kyung-Sik Kim MD, Jin-Sub Choi MD, Woo-Jung Lee MD, Byong-Ro Kim MD
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Letter to the Editor

The Importance of Surgical Margin Control in Breast-Conserving Therapy

Dimosthenis Ziogas MD, Nikolaos Xeropotamos MD, Charalabos Batsis MD
Gastrointestinal Oncology
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Letters to the Editor

Isolated Adrenal Mass in Cachectic Patients—Don’t Forget Malignant Pheochromocytoma

Rinkoo Dalan MBBS, MRCP (UK), Veerendra Chadachan MBBS, MRCP (UK), Melvin Khee Shing Leow MBBS, MMed, MSc, FACP (USA), FACE (USA), FAMS (Endocr), PhD
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Melanomas

Origin of Cancer Stem Cells: The Role of Self-Renewal and Differentiation

Xiong-Zhi Wu PhD
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The Complex Relationships Between Sentinel Node Positivity, Patient Age, and Primary Tumor Desmoplasia: Analysis of 2303 Melanoma Patients Treated at a Single Center

Sander Sassen MD, Helen M. Shaw PhD, Marjorie H. Colman BSc, Richard A. Scolyer MD, John F. Thompson MD
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Multimedia Article

Laparoscopic Resection of Extraadrenal Pheochromocytoma

Emmanuel E. Zervos, Alan J. Durkin, Desiree Villadolid, Nasreen Vohra
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Other

Limitations of Claims and Registry Data in Surgical Oncology Research

Hari Nathan MD, Timothy M. Pawlik MD, MPH
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