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Analysis of patients undergoing colonoscopies and the importance of exam quality for colorectal cancer screening

Objective: To determine the impact of the quality of colonoscopy examination for colorectal cancer screening. Methods: Retrospective observational study ofmedical records from patients treated at the endoscopy and colonoscopy service of Hospital Universitário Evangélico Mackenzie (Curitiba, PR, Brazil...

Cáncer de vesícula biliar, una visión actual

Rev. colomb. cir; 37 (2), 2022
Introducción. El diagnóstico de cáncer de vesícula biliar se realiza generalmente de forma incidental durante el estudio de las piezas quirúrgicas o cuando la enfermedad está avanzada y se expresa por su diseminación. Muy pocas veces se diagnostica de forma preoperatoria. Corresponde a la neoplasi...

Atraso no diagnóstico do câncer: as razões podem começar na infância

A demora no diagnóstico do câncer atrasa o início do tratamento e tem impacto adverso no prognóstico do paciente. Embora o trauma infantil seja uma realidade comum na vida dos indivíduos, a ciência de sua ocorrência e consequências ainda são negligenciados em portadores de doenças crônicas. Es...

Morphological characteristics, classifications and difficulties in the use of diagnostic criteria for serrated lesions of the large intestine

Abstract: Introduction Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is the most common gastrointestinal neoplasm in the world, accounting for 15% of cancer-related deaths. This condition is related to different molecular pathways, among them the recently described serrated pathway, whose characteristic entities, serrated ...

Accuracy of Transvaginal Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Intrauterine Lesions

Abstract Objective To evaluate the accuracy of transvaginal ultrasound in the diagnosis of intrauterine lesions, using hysteroscopy as the gold standard. Methods This was a prospective observational study with 307 patients. All patients underwent hysteroscopy after a previous transvaginal ultrasound ...

Detección automática de pólipos colorrectales con técnicas de inteligencia artificial

Resumen El cáncer colorrectal (CCR) es uno de los tumores malignos con mayor prevalencia en Colombia y el mundo. Estas neoplasias se originan en lesiones adenomatosas o pólipos que deben resecarse para prevenir la enfermedad, lo cual se puede realizar con una colonoscopia. Se ha reportado que durante u...

Residual disease after operative hysteroscopy in patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer associated with polyps

Abstract Objective To evaluate the presence of residual disease in the uterine specimen after hysteroscopic polypectomy or polyp biopsy in patients with endometrioid endometrial cancer (EC). Methods We analyzed a series of 104 patients (92 cases from the Hospital AC Camargo and 12 from the Hospital d...

SMILE-like lesion in the anal canal

Autops. Case Rep; 11 (), 2021
Stratified mucin-producing intraepithelial lesion (SMILE) is an intraepithelial lesion with overlapping features of the high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) and adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS). Currently, it is well described in the cervix. We present a case showing similar SMILE-like lesions i...