Volume 17, Number 11 / November, 2010

Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas

Osteosarcoma of the Proximal Tibia: Limb-Sparing Resection and Reconstruction with a Modular Segmental Proximal Tibia Tumor Prosthesis

James C. Wittig MD, Camilo E. Villalobos MD, Brett L. Hayden MS, Ikjoon Choi BS, Andrew M. Silverman MS, Martin Malawer MD
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Breast Oncology

Predicting Four or More Metastatic Axillary Lymph Nodes in Patients with Sentinel Node-Positive Breast Cancer: Assessment of Existent Risk Scores

Benjamin Zendejas MD, Tanya L. Hoskin MS, Amy C. Degnim MD, Carol A. Reynolds MD, David R. Farley MD, Judy C. Boughey MD
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Pathological Processing Techniques and Final Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Florian Rudolf Fritzsche MD, Tanja Reineke MD, Lars Morawietz MD, Glen Kristiansen MD, Manfred Dietel MD, Daniel Fink MD, Christoph Rageth MD, Christoph Honegger MD, Rosmarie Caduff MD, Holger Moch MD, Zsuzsanna Varga MD
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Present-Day Locoregional Control in Patients with T1 or T2 Breast Cancer with 0 and 1 to 3 Positive Lymph Nodes After Mastectomy Without Radiotherapy

Ranjna Sharma MD, Isabelle Bedrosian MD, Anthony Lucci MD, Rosa F. Hwang MD, Loren L. Rourke MD, Wei Qiao MS, Thomas A. Buchholz MD, Steven J. Kronowitz MD, Savitri Krishnamurthy MD, Gildy V. Babiera MD, Ana M. Gonzalez-Angulo MD, Funda Meric-Bernstam MD, Elizabeth A. Mittendorf MD, Kelly K. Hunt MD, Henry M. Kuerer MD, PhD, FACS
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Minimal Disease in the Sentinel Lymph Node: How to Best Measure Sentinel Node Micrometastases to Predict Risk of Additional Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Disease

Shicha Kumar MD, Matthew Bramlage MD, Lindsay M. Jacks MS, Jessica I. Goldberg BA, Sujata M. Patil PhD, Dilip D. Giri MD, Kimberly J. Van Zee MS, MD
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Sentinel Lymph Node Intraoperative Imprint Cytology in Patients with Breast Cancer—Costly or Cost Effective?

Jan P. Kamiński BS, Doug Case PhD, Marissa Howard-McNatt MD, Kim R. Geisinger MD, Edward A. Levine MD, FACS
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Tissue Expander Breast Reconstruction is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Lymphedema

Tomer Avraham MD, Sanjay V. Daluvoy MD, Elyn R. Riedel MA, Peter G. Cordeiro MD, Kimberly J. Van Zee MS, MD, Babak J. Mehrara MD
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The Effect of Simultaneous Peripheral Excision in Breast Conservation upon Margin Status

Roshani R. Patel MD, Tianyu Li MS, Eric A. Ross PhD, Linda Sesa MSN, CRNP, AOCNP, Elin R. Sigurdson MD, PhD, Richard J. Bleicher MD
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Ductal Carcinoma in Situ of the Breast Treated with Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation Using Balloon-Based Brachytherapy

Philip Z. Israel MD, Frank Vicini MD, Angela B. Robbins MD, Paulomi Shroff MD, Mark McLaughlin MD, Keri Grier, Maureen Lyden MS
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Colorectal Cancer

Absence of hMLH1 or hMSH2 Expression as a Stage-Dependent Prognostic Factor in Sporadic Colorectal Cancers

Ji Won Park MD, Hee Jin Chang MD, Sohee Park PhD, Byung Chang Kim MD, Dae Yong Kim MD, Ji-Yeon Baek MD, Sun Young Kim MD, Jae Hwan Oh MD, Hyo Seong Choi MD, Sung Chan Park MD, Seung-Yong Jeong MD
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Prognostic Value of the Lymph Node Ratio in Stage III Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review

W. Ceelen MD, PhD, FACS, Y. Van Nieuwenhove MD, PhD, P. Pattyn MD, PhD
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Robotic Right Colon Resection: Evaluation of First 50 Consecutive Cases for Malignant Disease

Annibale D’Annibale MD, Graziano Pernazza MD, Emilio Morpurgo MD, Igor Monsellato MD, Vito Pende MD, Giorgio Lucandri MD, Barbara Termini MD, Camillo Orsini MD, Gianna Sovernigo MD
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Long-Term Survival and Recurrence Outcomes Following Surgery for Distal Rectal Cancer

Eric J. Silberfein MD, Kiran M. Kattepogu MS, Chung-Yuan Hu MPH, John M. Skibber MD, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas MD, Barry Feig MD, Prajnan Das MD, Sunil Krishnan MD, Christopher Crane MD, Scott Kopetz MD, Cathy Eng MD, George J. Chang MD, MS
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Endocrine Tumors

25-Hydroxyvitamin D Status Does Not Affect Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone Dynamics in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Joel T. Adler MD, Rebecca S. Sippel MD, FACS, Herbert Chen MD, FACS
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Prospective Evaluation of the Rate and Impact of Hemolysis on Intraoperative Parathyroid Hormone (IOPTH) Assay Results

Jacob Moalem MD, Daniel T. Ruan MD, Rachel L. Farkas MD, Wen T. Shen MD, Steve Miller MD, PhD, Quan-Yang Duh MD, FACS, Orlo H. Clark MD, FACS, Electron Kebebew MD, FACS
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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Papillary Thyroid Cancer: 12 Years of Experience at a Single Institution

Deborah K. Cunningham MD, Katherine A. Yao MD, Roderick R. Turner MD, Frederick R. Singer MD, Andre R. Van Herle, Armando E. Giuliano MD
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Gastrointestinal Oncology

Mucinous Gastric Cancer Presents with More Advanced Tumor Stage and Weaker β-Catenin Expression than Nonmucinous Cancer

Min-Gew Choi MD, Chang Ohk Sung MD, Jae Hyung Noh MD, Kyoung-Mee Kim MD, Tae Sung Sohn MD, Sung Kim MD, Jae Moon Bae MD, PhD
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Gynecologic Oncology

Role of Systematic Lymphadenectomy and Adjuvant Radiation in Early-Stage Endometrioid Uterine Cancer

Nan-Hee Jeong MD, PhD, Jong-Min Lee MD, PhD, Jae-Kwan Lee MD, PhD, Mi-Kyung Kim MD, PhD, Young-Jae Kim MD, PhD, Chi-Heum Cho MD, PhD, Seok-Mo Kim MD, PhD, Sang-Yoon Park MD, PhD, Chan-Yong Park MD, PhD, Ki-Tae Kim MD, PhD
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Head and Neck Oncology

Association of High Levels of Jagged-1 and Notch-1 Expression with Poor Prognosis in Head and Neck Cancer

Jen-Tsun Lin MD, Mu-Kuan Chen MD, PhD, Kun-Tu Yeh MD, Cheng-Shyong Chang MD, Tung-Hao Chang MD, Chi-Yon Lin MS, Yi-Chuan Wu MS, Bi-Wen Su MS, Kuan-Der Lee MD, PhD, Pey-Jium Chang PhD
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Tongue and Buccal Mucosa Carcinoma: Is There a Difference in Outcome?

Chun-Ta Liao MD, Shiang-Fu Huang MD, I-How Chen MD, Chung-Jan Kang, Chien-Yu Lin MD, Kang-Hsing Fan MD, Hung-Ming Wang MD, Shu-Hang Ng MD, Chuen Hsueh MD, Li-Yu Lee MD, Chih-Hung Lin, Tzu-Chen Yen MD, PhD
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Healthcare Policy and Outcomes

Disparities in Utilization of High-Volume Hospitals for Cancer Surgery: Results of a Korean Population-Based Study

So Young Kim MD, Jong Hyock Park MD, MPH, PhD, Sung Gyeong Kim MPH, Hye Kyung Woo MPH, Jae Hyun Park MD, PhD, Yoon Kim MD, PhD, Eun Cheol Park MD, PhD
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Rehospitalization among Elderly Patients with Thyroid Cancer after Thyroidectomy are Prevalent and Costly

Charles T. Tuggle BS, Lesley S. Park MPH, Sanziana Roman MD, Robert Udelsman MD, Julie Ann Sosa MD
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Trends in Centralization of Cancer Surgery

Karyn B. Stitzenberg MD, MPH, Neal J. Meropol MD
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Hepatobiliary Tumors

Extended Preoperative Chemotherapy Does Not Improve Pathologic Response and Increases Postoperative Liver Insufficiency After Hepatic Resection for Colorectal Liver Metastases

Yoji Kishi MD, Daria Zorzi MD, Carlo M. Contreras MD, Dipen M. Maru MD, Scott Kopetz MD, Dario Ribero MD, Manuela Motta MD, Nicoletta Ravarino MD, Mauro Risio MD, Steven A. Curley MD, Eddie K. Abdalla MD, Lorenzo Capussotti MD, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey MD
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Melanomas

The Prognostic Value of Tumor Mitotic Rate and Other Clinicopathologic Factors in Patients with Locoregional Recurrences of Melanoma

Rajmohan Murali MBBS, Marc D. Moncrieff MD, Jonathan Hong MBBS, Caroline L. Cooper MBBS, Meena V. Shingde MBBS, David G. Samuel MBBS, John F. Thompson MD, Richard A. Scolyer MD
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Long-Term Results of Melphalan-Based Isolated Limb Perfusion With or Without Low-Dose TNF for In-Transit Melanoma Metastases

Carlo Riccardo Rossi MD, Sandro Pasquali MD, Simone Mocellin MD, PhD, Antonella Vecchiato MD, Luca Giovanni Campana MD, Pierluigi Pilati MD, Antonio Zanon MD, Donato Nitti MD
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Total Sentinel Lymph Node Tumor Size Predicts Nonsentinel Node Metastasis and Survival in Patients with Melanoma

Ali Cadili MD, MSc, Richard A. Scolyer MD, FRCPA, FRCPath, Philip T. Brown MD, FRCPA, Kelly Dabbs MD, MSc, FRCSC, John F. Thompson MD, FRACS, FACS
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Pancreatic Tumors

Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Definitions and the Importance of Multimodality Therapy

Douglas B. Evans MD, Beth A. Erickson MD, Paul Ritch MD
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Defining Venous Involvement in Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer

Yun Shin Chun MD, Barton N. Milestone MD, James C. Watson MD, Steven J. Cohen MD, Barbara Burtness MD, Paul F. Engstrom MD, Oleh Haluszka MD, Jeffrey L. Tokar MD, Michael J. Hall MD, Crystal S. Denlinger MD, Igor Astsaturov MD, PhD, John P. Hoffman MD
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Radiation Oncology

Radiosurgery of Liver Tumors: Value of Robotic Radiosurgical Device to Treat Liver Tumors

Sebastian Stintzing MD, Ralf-Thorsten Hoffmann MD, PhD, Volker Heinemann MD, PhD, Markus Kufeld MD, Markus Rentsch MD, PhD, Alexander Muacevic MD, PhD
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Reconstructive Oncology

Immediate Microvascular Breast Reconstruction After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Complication Rates and Effect on Start of Adjuvant Treatment

Mirjam Zweifel-Schlatter MD, Nagham Darhouse MBBS, MRCS (Eng), MSc, Paul Roblin MD, David Ross MD, Martin Zweifel MD PhD, Jian Farhadi MD
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Thoracic Oncology

New Predictors of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Survival for Invasive Thymoma: a Retrospective Analysis

Tommaso Claudio Mineo MD, Davide Mineo MD, Ilaria Onorati MD, Maria Elena Cufari MD, Vincenzo Ambrogi MD
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Translational Research and Biomarkers

Abnormal Expression of PFDN4 in Colorectal Cancer: A Novel Marker for Prognosis

Norikatsu Miyoshi MD, Hideshi Ishii MD, Koshi Mimori MD, Naohiro Nishida MD, Masayoshi Tokuoka MD, Hirofumi Akita MD, Mitsugu Sekimoto MD, Yuichiro Doki MD, PhD, Masaki Mori MD, PhD, FACS
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Clinical Significance of Human Kallikrein7 Gene Expression in Colorectal Cancer

Yasuhiro Inoue MD, Takehiko Yokobori MD, Takeshi Yokoe MD, Yuji Toiyama MD, Chikao Miki MD, Koshi Mimori MD, Masaki Mori MD, Masato Kusunoki MD
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Osteopontin Expression is an Independent Adverse Prognostic Factor in Resectable Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor and its Interaction with CD44 Promotes Tumor Proliferation

Kai-Hsi Hsu MD, MSc, Hung-Wen Tsai MD, Pin-Wen Lin MD, Yun-Shang Hsu BSc, Yan-Shen Shan MD, PhD, Pei-Jung Lu PhD
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Prognostic Significance of E-cadherin Expression and Peripheral Blood Micrometastasis in Gastric Carcinoma Patients

Abeer A. Saad MD, Nahla M. Awed MD, Nashwa N. A. Abd Elkerim MD, Dina EL-Shennawy MD, Marian A. Alfons MD, Mohamed E. Elserafy MD, Yaser W. Darwish MD, Eman M. F. Barakat MD, Sahar S. Ezz-Elarab MD
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Role of MMP-3 and MMP-9 and Their Haplotypes in Risk of Bladder Cancer in North Indian Cohort

Priyanka Srivastava MSc, Anil Mandhani MCh, Rakesh Kapoor MCh, Rama D. Mittal PhD
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