Volume 18, Number 3 / December, 2011

Who Wants a Blind Breast Surgeon?

William C. Dooley MD
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Breast Oncology

Should Indications for Skin-Reducing Mastectomy be Expanded?

Livio Colizzi MD, Tommaso Agostini MD, Davide Lazzeri MD
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Comments on: Improving Breast Cancer Surgery: A Classification and Quadrant per Quadrant Atlas for Oncoplastic Surgery (Clough KB, Kaufman GJ, et al. ASO DOI 10.1245/s10434-009-0792-y)

F. Santanelli MD, G. Paolini MD, B. Longo MD
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Reply to Comments on: Improving Breast Cancer Surgery: A Classification and Quadrant per Quadrant Atlas for Oncoplastic Surgery

Krishna Clough MD, Gabriel Kaufman MD, Claude Nos MD, Ines Buccimazza MD, Isabelle Sarfati MD
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Anti-cytokeratin CAM5.2 (BD Biosciences) and CK8 Give No Remarkable Advantages to the Pancytokeratin Cocktail of Antibodies (AE1/AE3, CAM5.2, MNF116, CK8, and CK18) in Detecting Disseminated Tumor Cells in Biologic Subtypes of Stage I–III Breast Cancer Patients

Wea-Lung Lin DDS, MS, Fong-Lin Chen MD, PhD, Chih-Ping Han MD, PhD
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Anti-cytokeratin CAM5.2 (BD Sciences) and CK8 Give No Remarkable Advantages to the Pancytokeratin Cocktail of Antibodies (AE1/AE3, CAM5.2, MNF116, CK8, and CK18) in Detecting Disseminated Tumor Cells in Biologic Subtypes of Stage I–III Breast Cancer Patients

Savitri Krishnamurthy MD, Anthony Lucci MD
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Comparing Prediction Models: The Distinction Between Clinical and Statistical Significance

Anees B. Chagpar MD, MSc, MA, MPH, Kelly M. McMasters MD, PhD
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Expanding the Indications for Latissimus Dorsi Musculocutaneous Flap in Totally Autologous Breast Reconstruction: The Extended Variant

Mario Dini PhD, Fabio Quercioli MD, Andrea Mori MD, Tommaso Agostini MD
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DCIS: Application of USC/Van Nuys Prognostic Index to Assess Postmastectomy Recurrence: Many Hits and a Few Misses

Umashankar K. Ballehaninna MD, Ronald S. Chamberlain FACS
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Reply

Leah Kelley MD, Melvin Silverstein MD
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Re: Axillary Staging in the Neoadjuvant Setting

Oded Olsha MB, BS, Moshe Carmon MD
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Author Reply: Re: Axillary Staging in the Neoadjuvant Setting

Alice Chung MD, Armando Giuliano MD
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Further Expansion of the AJCC/UICC Breast Cancer Staging System to Encompass Unique Problems in the Developing World

Vijayashree Murthy MD, Ronald S. Chamberlain MD, MPA, FACS
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Moving Away From Axillary Lymph Node Dissection Indicates Practice-Changing Trials

Charalambos Batsis MD, Odysseas Zoras PhD
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Response to the Letter to the Editor: Multidisciplinary Considerations in the Implementation of the Findings from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) Z0011 Study: A Practice-Changing Trial

Abigail S. Caudle MD, Kelly K. Hunt MD, Elizabeth A. Mittendorf MD
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BRCA Testing Changes Decision on Breast Cancer Surgery but Evidence for Benefit Is Still Scarce

Christof Hottenrott MD
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Strategy for Nonresponder Breast Cancer Patients to Neoadjuvant Treatment

Charalambos Batsis MD
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Reply: Strategy for Nonresponder Breast Cancer Patients to Neoadjuvant Treatment

Abigail S. Caudle MD, Ana M. Gonzalez-Angulo MD, Funda Meric-Bernstam MD
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Axillary Recurrence Rate Following Negative Sentinel Node Biopsy for Invasive Breast Cancer: Long-Term Follow-Up

John V. Kiluk MD, Quan P. Ly MD, Tammi Meade BS, Daniel Ramos BS, Douglas S. Reintgen MD, Sophie Dessureault MD, PhD, Michelle Davis BS, Corinne Shamehdi BS, Charles E. Cox MD
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Colorectal Cancer

The Importance of Preoperative Staging with Chest CT Scan in Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Raghava S. Pavoor MD, Parul J. Shukla MS, FRCS, Jeffrey W. Milsom MD
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In Reply: The Importance of Preoperative Staging with Chest CT Scan in Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Irene Grossmann MD, Johannes Avenarius MD, PhD, Walter Mastboom MD, PhD, Joost Klaase MD, PhD
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Ex Vivo Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Pathological Staging of Node-Negative Colorectal Carcinoma

Nadia Peparini MD, PhD, Piero Chirletti MD
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Reply to “Ex Vivo Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Pathological Staging of Node-Negative Colorectal Carcinoma,” by Peparini and Chirletti

Bruno Märkl MD, Therese Gannon Kerwel MD
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A Tale of Two Provinces: Regionalization of Pancreatic Surgery in Ontario and Quebec

Marko Simunovic MD, Nancy Baxter MD
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Preanalytical Interferences Compromise the Clinical Validity of Matrix Metalloproteinase 1 as Marker of Colorectal Cancer

Klaus Jung
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Reply: Preanalytical Interferences Compromise the Clinical Validity of Matrix Metalloproteinase 1 as Marker of Colorectal Cancer

Masaaki Iwatsuki MD, PhD, Koshi Mimori MD, PhD, Koichiro Tahara MD, PhD, Hideo Baba MD, PhD, FACS, Masaki Mori MD, PhD, FACS
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Prognostic Impact of Inferior Mesenteric Artery Lymph Node Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer

Panagiotis Taflampas MD, Manousos Christodoulakis MD, Eelco DeBree
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Reply about “Prognostic Impact of Inferior Mesenteric Artery Lymph Node Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer”

Jeonghyun Kang MD, Kang Young Lee MD, PhD
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Combined Resection of the Iliac Vessels for Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection can be Safely Performed Through Laparoscopic Approach

Tsuyoshi Konishi MD, Hiroya Kuroyanagi MD, Toshiaki Watanabe MD
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Technical Feasibility of Laparoscopic Lateral Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Patients with Low Rectal Cancer after Concurrent Chemoradiation Therapy: In Response

Jin-Tung Liang MD, PhD
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Dual Role of Autophagy in Colon Cancer Cell Survival

Shi Yu Yang BSc, MSc, PhD, Marc C. Winslet MBBS, MS, FRCS, MEWI
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High Ligation of Inferior Mesenteric Artery: A Standard Procedure for Colorectal Cancer?

Theodore Liakakos MD
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Reply to “High Ligation of Inferior Mesenteric Artery: A Standard Procedure for Colorectal Cancer?”

Jeonghyun Kang MD, Kang Young Lee MD, PhD
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Endocrine Tumors

In Reply: Surgeon-Performed Ultrasound and Prediction of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Azad A. Jabiev MD, John I. Lew MD, FACS
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Letter to Editor in Response to the Article Entitled “Prospective Randomized Trial of Ligasure versus Harmonic Hemostasis Technique in Thyroidectomy” by Rahbari R, et al in Ann Surg Oncol DOI 10.1245/s10434-010-1161-6 [Online November 12, 2010)

Mayilvaganan Sabaretnam MS, Anjali Mishra MS, PDC
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Authors’ Reply

Reza Rahbari MD, Electron Kebebew MD
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F18-FDG PET/CT and Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: A Critical and Still Debated Issue

Francesco Bertagna MD, Raffaele Giubbini MD
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Incidental Papillary Microcarcinoma of the Thyroid—Further Evidence of a Very Low Malignant Potential: A Retrospective Clinicopathologic Study with up to 30 Years of Follow-up

Sudhi Agarwal, Amit Agarwal, Gyan Chand
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Papillary Microcarcinomas of the Thyroid: Letter Reply

Nikolaus Neuhold MD
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Comment on “Surveillance and Intervention after Thyroid Lobectomy”

P. V. Pradeep MCh, Vijayabhaskar Gouru MBBS
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Reply to Comment on “Surveillance and Intervention after Thyroid Lobectomy”

Philip M. Spanheimer MD, Ronald J. Weigel MD, PhD
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Erratum

Erratum to: What is the Significance of the In Transit or Interval Sentinel Node in Melanoma?

Jonathan S. Zager MD, Christopher A. Puleo PA-C, Vernon K. Sondak MD
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Erratum to: Incomplete Sentinel Node Biopsy Is Not Clearly Related to Survival or Regional Recurrence in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients

Nicholas C. Lee MBBS, Andrew J. Spillane MD, Tony C. Y. Pang MBBS, MBiostat, Lauren E. Haydu BSCHE, MIPH, Roger F. Uren PhD
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Erratum to: Overexpression of Renal Tumor Antigen Is Associated with Tumor Invasion and Poor Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hyung Jin Cha BS, Jongmin Kim PhD, Sun Mi Hong BS, Seok Joo Hong PhD, Jun Ho Park BS, Eung-Sam Kim MS, Hee-Jung Wang MD, Yoon Jung Choi MD, In-Gu Do MD, Jae Won Joh MD, Dae Shick Kim MD, PhD, Kwan Yong Choi PhD
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Erratum to: Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Multicentric Breast Cancer: Five-Year Results in a Large Series from a Single Institution

Oreste Gentilini MD, Paolo Veronesi MD, Edoardo Botteri MSc, Fiammetta Soggiu MD, Giuseppe Trifirò MD, Germana Lissidini MD, Viviana Galimberti MD, Simona Musmeci MSc, Paola Rafaniello Raviele MD, Antonio Toesca MD, Silvia Ratini MD, Andres Del Castillo MD, Marco Colleoni MD, Nina Talakhadze MD, Nicole Rotmensz MSc, Giuseppe Viale MD, Umberto Veronesi MD, Alberto Luini MD
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Erratum to: Phase II Study of Gemcitabine and Erlotinib as Adjuvant Therapy for Patients with Resected Pancreatic Cancer

Philip Q. Bao MD, Ramesh K. Ramanathan MD, Alyssa Krasinkas MD, Nathan Bahary MD, Barry C. Lembersky MD, David L. Bartlett MD, Steven J. Hughes MD, Kenneth K. Lee MD, A. James Moser MD, Herbert J. Zeh III MD
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Erratum to: Laparoscopic Pancreatectomy for Solid Pseudo-Papillary Tumors of the Pancreas is a Suitable Technique; Our Experience with Long-Term Follow-up and Review of the Literature

Alvise Cavallini MD, Giovanni Butturini MD, Despoina Daskalaki MD, Roberto Salvia MD, Gianluigi Melotti MD, Micaela Piccoli MD, Claudio Bassi MD, Paolo Pederzoli MD
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Erratum: Cytoreductive Surgery with Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy for Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Mitomycin Versus Cisplatin

Aaron U. Blackham MD, Perry Shen MD, John H. Stewart MD, Gregory B. Russell MS, Edward A. Levine MD
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Erratum to: Peritoneal Sarcomatosis: Is There a Subset of Patients Who May Benefit from Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy?

Dario Baratti MD, Elisabetta Pennacchioli MD, Shigeki Kusamura PhD, Marco Fiore MD, Maria Rosaria Balestra MD, Chiara Colombo MD, Elvira Mingrone MD, Alessandro Gronchi MD, Marcello Deraco MD
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Erratum to: Five Reasons Why Cytoreductive Surgery Plus Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Must be Regarded as the New Standard of Care for Diffuse Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma

Paul H. Sugarbaker MD, FACS, FRCS
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Erratum to: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation of Noninflammatory Breast Cancer with Skin Involvement After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Jeon-Hor Chen MD, Rita S. Mehta MD, O. Nalcioglu PhD, M.-Y. Su PhD
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Erratum to: Characteristics and Outcomes of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Surgical-Site Infections in Patients with Cancer: a Case–Control Study

Roy F. Chemaly MD, MPH, Ray Y. Hachem MD, Rola N. Husni MD, Boulos Bahna MD, Georges Abou Rjaili MD, Alain Waked MD, Linda Graviss MT, CIC, B. Nebiyou Bekele PhD, Jharna N. Shah MD, Issam I. Raad MD
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Erratum to: S-100B Concentrations Predict Disease-Free Survival in Stage III Melanoma Patients

S. Kruijff MD, E. Bastiaannet MSc, A. C. Muller Kobold MSc, PhD, R. J. van Ginkel MD, PhD, A. J. H. Suurmeijer MD, PhD, H. J. Hoekstra MD, PhD
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Erratum to: Controversies in the Management of Hepatic Colorectal Metastases

Michael A. Choti MD, MBA, FACS
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Erratum to: Immediate Repair of Major Abdominal Wall Defect After Extensive Tumor Excision in Patients With Abdominal Wall Neoplasm: A Retrospective Review of 27 Cases

Rui Tang MD, PhD, Yan Gu MD, PhD, Ding-Quan Gong MD, Yun-Liang Qian MD
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Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in the Management of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies of Colonic Origin: A Consensus Statement

J. Esquivel, R. Sticca, P. Sugarbaker, E. Levine, T. D. Yan, R. Alexander, D. Baratti, D. Bartlett, R. Barone, P. Barrios, S. Bieligk, P. Bretcha-Boix, C. K. Chang, F. Chu, Q. Chu, S. Daniel, E. deBree, M. Deraco, L. Dominguez-Parra, D. Elias, R. Flynn, J. Foster, A. Garofalo, F. N. Gilly, O. Glehen, A. Gomez-Portilla, L. Gonzalez-Bayon, S. Gonzalez-Moreno, M. Goodman, V. Gushchin, N. Hanna, J. Ha
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Resecting Lymph Nodes in Colon Cancer: More than a Staging Operation?

Steven L. Chen MD, MBA, Anton J. Bilchik MD, PhD, FACS
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Gastrointestinal Oncology

Neoadjuvant Intraperitoneal and Systemic Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer Patients with Peritoneal Dissemination

Yoshiyuki Fujiwara MD
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Re: Neoadjuvant Intraperitoneal and Systemic Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer Patients with Peritoneal Dissemination

Jung Ho Shim MD, Cho Hyun Park MD, PhD, Kyo Young Song MD, PhD
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HER2-Positive Gastric Cancer

Haralabos Demetriades MD
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Preventive and Therapeutic Implications of Positive CDH1 Testing in Diffuse Gastric Cancer

Christof Hottenrott MD
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Re: Aggressive Surgical Approach for Patients with T4 Gastric Carcinoma: Promise or Myth?

Jung Ho Shim MD, Seong Il O MD, Kyo Young Song MD, PhD
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Letter to the Editor Reply to “Re: Aggressive Surgical Approach for Patients with T4 Gastric Carcinoma: Promise or Myth?”

Ta-Sen Yeh MD, PhD
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Oral Vitamin B12 Therapy

Emmanuel Andrès MD, Mustapha Mecili MD
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Oral Vitamin B12 Therapy after Total Gastrectomy

Hyoung-Il Kim MD, Woo Jin Hyung MD, PhD
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Slow Progress in Predicting and Preventing Fatal Gastric Cancer Peritoneal Recurrence

John Spiliotis MD, Eugenia Halkia MD
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Peritoneal Carcinomatosis from Gastric Cancer: Current Considerations for Systematic Management and Future Tendencies for Identification of Valid Predictors

Zhe Sun MD, Hui-Mian Xu MD
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Evidence Expands Total Gastrectomy Decision for Asymptomatic Patients with CDH1 Inherited Mutations

T. Liakakos MD
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Total Gastrectomy and Identified CDH1 Mutations: In Response

Jeffrey A. Norton MD, Yijun Chen MD
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The Impact of Calculation Procedure on the Hazard Ratio of N Classifications

Cunjun Yu MM, Zhu Ying MM, Wenping Chen MD
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Gastrectomy for Patients with Positive Peritoneal Cytology: Comments on the Article “Positive Peritoneal Cytology in Patients with Gastric Cancer: Natural History and Outcome of 291 Patients”

Hiroshi Okabe, Yoshiharu Sakai
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Positive Peritoneal Cytology in Gastric Cancer

James J. Mezhir MD, Manish A. Shah MD, Murray F. Brennan MD, Daniel G. Coit MD, Vivian E. Strong MD
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Common Deficiencies in Clinical Researches of N Classifications for Gastric Cancer

Cunjun Yu MM, Wenting He MM, Ping Liu MD
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Relationship Between the Prognostic Accuracy of Metastatic Lymph Node Ratio and the Number of Retrieved Nodes

C. J. Yu MM, W. T. He MM, P. Liu MD
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The American Society of Peritoneal Surface Malignancies (ASPSM)

Jesus Esquivel MD, FACS, Alexander Stojadinovic MD, FACS, Edward A. Levine MD
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Surgical Management and Emerging Therapies to Prolong Survival in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Cancer

Skye C. Mayo MD, MPH, Mechteld C. de Jong MD, Timothy M. Pawlik MD, MPH, FACS
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Surgical Management and Emerging Therapies to Prolong Survival in Metastatic Neuroendocrine Cancer

Akshat Saxena BMedSc, Terence C. Chua BScMed (Hons), MBBS, David L. Morris MD, PhD, FRCS, FRACS
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TNM: It is Time to Consider Further Expanding Both the M Stage as well as the R Stage

Parul J. Shukla MD, FRCS, FACRSI(Hon), Jeffrey W. Milsom MD
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Gynecologic Oncology

Pretherapeutic Laparoscopic Paraaortic Staging in Advanced Cervical Cancer—Which Patients Should Be Considered?

Michael Eichbaum MD, Christof Sohn MD
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Reply to “Pretherapeutic Laparoscopic Paraaortic Staging in Advanced Cervical Cancer—Which Patients Should Be Considered?”

Silvia Cabrera MD, Antonio Gil-Moreno MD, PhD
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Let’s Think Twice Before Abandoning Fibrillar Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose

Giorgia Perniola, Morena Antonilli, Maria Luisa Gasparri
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Reply to “Let’s Think Twice Before Abandoning Fibrillar Oxidized Regenerated Cellulose”

Anna Fagotti MD, Barbara Costantini MD, Giovanni Scambia MD
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Head and Neck Oncology

Does Pleomorphic Adenoma Really Require Total Parotidectomy?

Poramate Pitak-Arnnop DDS, MSc, DSc, Kittipong Dhanuthai DDS, MSc, Alexander Hemprich MD, DMD, PhD, Niels Christian Pausch MD, DMD, PhD
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Central Compartment Reoperation for Recurrent/Persistent Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Ritesh Agrawal MS, Anjali Mishra MS, PDCC, Saroj Kanta Mishra MS, FACS
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New Approaches in Thyroid Surgery: Is There an Increased Risk of Nerve Injury?

Gianlorenzo Dionigi MD, FACS, Manuel Duran-Poveda MD
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Healthcare Policy and Outcomes

Interpretation of the C-Statistic in the Context of ACS-NSQIP Models

Ryan P. Merkow MD, Karl Y. Bilimoria MD, MS, Bruce L. Hall MD, PhD, MBA
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Assessment of ACS NSQIP’s Predictive Ability for Adverse Events After Major Cancer Surgery

Daniel Borja-Cacho MD, William G. Henderson MPH, PhD, Waddah B. Al-Refaie MD, FACS
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Reply to Letter of Shukla and Milsom

Stephen B. Edge MD, Carolyn Compton MD, PhD
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Hepatobiliary Tumors

Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome Impairs Long-Term Outcome of Colorectal Liver Metastases Treated with Resection after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Masato Narita MD, PhD, Elie Oussoultzoglou MD, Daniel Jaeck MD, PhD, FRCS
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Melanomas

Lymphoedema in the Observation and Biopsy Arms of MSLT-1

J. Meirion Thomas FRCS
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Reply to Letter to the Editor “Lymphoedema in the Observation and Biopsy Arms of MSLT-1” by Thomas, J Meirion (ASO-2011-04-0666)

Mark B. Faries, Donald L. Morton, Alistair J. Cochran, John F. Thompson
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Pancreatic Tumors

Distal Pancreatectomy Combined with Celiac Axis Resection in Treatment of Carcinoma of the Body/Tail of the Pancreas: Proceed with Caution

Sun Hu Yang, Ke Feng Dou
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Distal Pancreatectomy Combined with Celiac Axis Resection: An Alternative Approach for Some Advanced Diatal Pancreatic Cancer

Xubo Wu, Ran Tao, Peng Chongpeng
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Erlotinib and Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Uncertainty and Hope

Odysseas Zoras MD, Charalambos Batsis MD
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Reconstructive Oncology

Authors Reply to “Should Indications for Skin-Reducing Mastectomy be Expanded?”

Amit Nair MS, MRCS, Pilar Matey FRCS
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Reply to “Letter to the Editor: Expanding the Indications for Latissimus Dorsi Musculocutaneous Flap in Totally Autologous Breast Reconstruction”

Gedge D. Rosson MD
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Thoracic Oncology

Anterior Minithoracotomy: Is It Useful To Use Prosthetic Materials in Routine Surgery?

Paolo Scanagatta MD, Sava Durkovic MD, Ugo Pastorino MD
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Translational Research and Biomarkers

Don’t Worry, We Have a New Weapon Against Cancer!

Mesut Tez MD, Selda Tez MD, Mahmut Koç MD
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