Surgical Margins
Clinical implications of determination of safe surgical margins by using a combination of CT and 18FDG positron emission tomography in soft tissue sarcoma
... The study involved 7 patients with subcutaneous soft tissue sarcoma who underwent treatment in our depart- ment between 2008 and 2009 and in whom evaluation by FDG-PET/CT was possible. They included 3 males and 4 females ...
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The impact of biopsy sampling errors and the quality of surgical margins on local recurrence and survival in chondrosarcoma
... curettage. Surgical margins were assessed in the remaining 53 patients and included 21 wide ...the surgical margin and the presence of a biopsy sampling error did not affect either LRFS or ...
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The tissue shrinkage phenomenon on surgical margins in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
... on surgical margins of resection in oral SCC is a tangible ...affording surgical resection, while his/her actuation must be based on tumor site and stage in order to provide adequate definitive tumor ...
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Positive surgical margins in nephron sparing surgery: risk factors and therapeutic consequences
... tumor-free surgical margins in predict- ing the risk of local relapse, metachronous metastases, and tumor-specific survival; only one nonsystematic re- view has been published thus far ...
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Surgical Margins in Breast Cancer: Finally Defined?
... wider surgical margins did not improve LR rates in this subgroup of ...with margins ≤ 2 mm was 4.7% and 3.7% for those with margins > 2 mm (P = ...
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Mastectomy Scar Boost Results in Low Risk of Locoregional Recurrence in the Setting of Close or Involved Surgical Margins
... involved surgical margins were not included as high-risk in these protocols, but have been associated with increased risk of local failure; however, the impact of a boost dose following chestwall ...
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The use of Lugol's iodine in achieving surgical margins free from dysplasia and invasive carcinoma in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity
... clear surgical margins with 5 year survival by Nason et al noted significantly improved 5 year survival rates as the distance of normal tissue ...involved margins upto 5 mm tumour free margins ...
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Expression profiles of selected genes in tumors and matched surgical margins in oral cavity cancer: Do we have to pay attention to the molecular analysis of the surgical margins?
... opment is the result of the accumulation of genetic and epigenetic alterations. Because changes in certain genes occur in the very early stages of tumorigenesis, the detec- tion of preneoplastic alterations in the ...
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Original Article Relationship of different surgical margins with recurrence-free survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
... early period, tumor invasion and metastasis is poor, the appropriate expansion of margin could increase radical and improve prognosis; while in the later period of HCC, there might be occult in microvessels or invasion ...
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Expressions of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), dentin sialophosphoprotein (DSPP), and osteopontin (OPN) at histologically negative surgical margins may predict recurrence of oral squamous cell carcinoma
... negative surgical resection margins predictive of the recurrence of OSCC at primary sites, their utility is hampered by their limited practical clinical ...at surgical resection margins of ...
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Positive surgical margins at radical prostatectomy: Population based averages within PSA and Gleason strata
... in surgical technique over time or may represent a change in surgical approach with the increasing utilization of robot assisted ...on surgical approach is not available in the SEER ...
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Intra operative spectroscopic assessment of surgical margins during breast conserving surgery
... An alternative approach to reduce analysis time is selective-sampling Raman spectroscopy, which uses spatial information from the sample to guide Raman measure- ments [36–39]. This approach has the advantage that no ...
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The role of surgical margins in atypical Lipomatous Tumours of the extremities
... In addition, the English literature of the last 30 years in- cluding series with more than 10 cases was reviewed in detail. The results are summarized in Table 1. In total, 1143 patients are described in the papers ...
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High-risk prostate cancer: factors predicting biochemical recurrence after radical prostatectomy
... A few limitations may undermine our results. Our sample size (199 patients for a preoperative factors analysis, and 122 for a postoperative one) is quite small, and differences that we have found insignificant may turn ...
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Neoadjuvant hormone therapy following treatment with robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy achieved favorable in high-risk prostate cancer
... positive surgical margins and biochemical failure following radical prostatectomy and adjuvant hormone ...prolonged surgical procedures were assessed using multiple logistic ...
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The pattern of prognostic and risk indicators among women with breast cancer undergoing modified radical mastectomy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
... In Tanzania, studies on prognostic indicators of pa- tients with breast cancer including late presentation, histological grade, axillary lymph node status, surgical margins and base status, presence of ...
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Transurethral marking incision of the bladder neck: a helpful technique in robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy involving post-transurethral resection of the prostate and cancers protruding into the bladder neck
... negative surgical margins and safely preserve the ureteral orifices during bladder neck transection, we propose the use of the transurethral resectoscope for making the incision in the bladder neck before ...
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Effects of robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy on surgical pathology specimens
... tive surgical margins in RALP specimens, we compared the tumor stage, tumor volume, Gleason score and pros- tate weight between the patients with positive and nega- tive surgical margins, and ...
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Performance of 5-aminolevulinic-acid-based photodynamic diagnosis for radical prostatectomy
... red-fluorescence surgical mar- gin of the excised whole prostate and a histologically con- firmed positive surgical margin of Gleason score ...positive surgical margin have a crucial influence on ...
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Pretreatment predictors of adjuvant chemoradiation in patients receiving transoral robotic surgery for squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx: a case control study
... dissection, surgical margins, ECE, patho- logic tumor size, pathologic lymph node size, and receipt of adjuvant therapy were ...patient. Surgical margins and the presence of ECE were all ...
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