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Clinical and pathologic factors predicting reclassification in active surveillance cohorts

Int. braz. j. urol; 44 (3), 2018
ABSTRACT The incidence of small, lower risk well-differentiated prostate cancer is increasing and almost half of the patients with this diagnosis are candidates for initial conservative management in an attempt to avoid overtreatment and morbidity associated with surgery or radiation. A proportion of pat...

Hemangioma cavernomatoso hepático gigante, presentación infrecuente de una lesión común

Los hemangiomas hepáticos, también denominados hemangiomas cavernomatosos, son los tumores hepáticos más comunes. Se caracterizan por ser lesiones solitarias, pequeñas y benignas que se diagnostican frecuentemente de forma incidental. Suelen ser lesiones asintomáticas, si bien los síntomas se pres...

Outcomes after surgical resection of primary non-myxoma cardiac tumors

Abstract Objective: Primary cardiac tumors are rare lesions with different histological type. We reviewed our 17 years of experience in the surgical treatment and clinical results of primary non-myxoma cardiac tumors. Methods: Between July 2000 and February 2017, 21 patients with primary cardiac tumor ...

Utilidad pronóstica del PET/CT en cáncer de páncreas

Rev. méd. Chile; 146 (4), 2018
Background: Pancreatic cancer is the tenth most prevalent cancer in world, and represents the fourth cause of cancer death. It has a five year-survival of 5%. Aim: To assess the prognostic value of PET/CT in pancreatic cancer. Material and Methods: Sixty-nine patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who...

Lipoblastoma retroperitoneal gigante: Caso dínico

Arch. argent. pediatr; 116 (1), 2018
El lipoblastoma forma parte de los tumores derivados del tejido adiposo. Es una neoplasia benigna que se puede presentar de forma localizada o difusa, que afecta a niños en la primera infancia y que, generalmente, se localiza en el tronco y las extremidades. Estos tumores son poco frecuentes en la edad ...

Individualized threshold for tumor segmentation in 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging: The key for response evaluation of neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy in patients with rectal cancer?

Summary Introduction: The standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer (RC) consists of neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by radical surgery. Regardless the extensive use of SUVmax in 18F-FDG PET tumor uptake as representation of tumor glycolytic consumption, there is a trend to apply metabol...

Validation of classic and expanded criteria for endoscopic submucosal dissection of early gastric cancer: 7 years of experience in a Western tertiary cancer center

Clinics; 73 (supl.1), 2018
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to evaluate the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society criteria for endoscopic submucosal resection of early gastric cancer (EGC) based on the experience in a Brazilian cancer center. METHODS: We included all patients who underwent endoscopic submucosal resection for gastric ...

Nuclear metallothionein in oral squamous cell carcinoma: clinicopathological parameters and patient survival

Abstract The aim of this study was to identify the immunoexpression of methallothionein in oral squamous cell carcinoma as well as to address the correlation with clinical features, histological grade and patient survival. Samples were collected from 93 patients with tongue squamous cell carcinoma who pr...

Fibroadenoma gigante juvenil de mama: presentación de un caso clínico

Arch. argent. pediatr; 115 (6), 2017
El fibroadenoma gigante juvenil es un tumor de mama benigno y una variante rara de los fibroadenomas. La presentación clínica suele ser una masa tumoral indolora en la mama, aislada y unilateral. Representa entre el 0, 5% y el 2% de todos los fibroadenomas y se desconoce su etiología precisa. Sin emba...

Nephrometry scores and perioperative outcomes following robotic partial nephrectomy

Int. braz. j. urol; 43 (6), 2017
ABSTRACT Objectives: Based on imaging features, nephrometry scoring systems have been conceived to create a standardized and reproducible way to characterize renal tumor anatomy. However, less is known about which of these individual measures are important with regard to clinically relevant perioperativ...