| | Case Reports Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava: Clinical experience with four cases Said Abisi, Gareth J Morris-Stiff, David Scott-Coombes, Ian M Williams, Anthony G Douglas-Jones, and Malcom C Puntis PMCID: PMC1343561 Single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) for breast cancer can be delivered as a second procedure under local anaesthetic Jayant S Vaidya, Lynn Walton, and John Dewar PMCID: PMC1368977 A case of bone metastasis of colon cancer that markedly responded to S-1/CPT-11 combination chemotherapy and became curable by resection Kazunari Mado, Yukimoto Ishii, Takero Mazaki, Masaya Ushio, Hideki Masuda, and Tadatoshi Takayama PMCID: PMC1395313 Sebaceous gland tumors and internal malignancy in the context of Muir-Torre syndrome. A case report and review of the literature K Tsalis, K Blouhos, K Vasiliadis, T Tsachalis, S Angelopoulos, and D Betsis PMCID: PMC1386670 Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver mimicking acute appendicitis. Case report and review of the literature Timothy Sakellaridis, Ioannis Panagiotou, Themistoclis Georgantas, George Micros, Dimitra Rontogianni, and Christos Antiochos PMCID: PMC1403776 Normocalcemic parathyroid carcinoma: an unusual clinical presentation Corrie L Messerer, Samuel P Bugis, Chris Baliski, and Sam M Wiseman PMCID: PMC1397832 An inguinal hernia sac tumor of extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma origin Naoyuki Yokoyama, Yoshio Shirai, Hidehiro Yamazaki, and Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama PMCID: PMC1450288 Breast metastasis of ilial carcinoid tumor: Case report and literature review Chakshu Gupta, Ashok K Malani, and Sandeep Rangineni PMCID: PMC1481627 Ten year survival after excision of squamous cell cancer in Zenker's diverticulum: report of a case Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Fausto Sessa, Francesca Rovera, Luigi Boni, Gianpaolo Carrafiello, and Renzo Dionigi PMCID: PMC1440864 Desmoid tumor in Gardner's Syndrome presented as acute abdomen Andreas Hatzimarkou, Dimitrios Filippou, Vasilios Papadopoulos, Georgios Filippou, Spiros Rizos, and Panagiotis Skandalakis PMCID: PMC1479346 Combined endoscopic and laparoscopic approach for palliative resection of metastatic melanoma of the stomach RS Date, EA Griffiths, SA Pritchard, and I McL Welch PMCID: PMC1440863 Solitary pulmonary metastasis from primary melanoma of the oesophagus 5 years after resection of the primary tumor Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Francesca Rovera, Luigi Boni, Andrea Imperatori, and Renzo Dionigi PMCID: PMC1458342 Primary mediastinal hemangiopericytoma A Chnaris, N Barbetakis, A Efstathiou, and I Fessatidis PMCID: PMC1459159 Thyroid papillary carcinoma arising in ectopic thyroid tissue within a neck branchial cyst Angela Fumarola, Pierpaolo Trimboli, Rossana Cavaliere, Iolanda Coletta, Alessandra Veltri, Agnese Di Fiore, Antonio Ciardi, and Francesca Piccirilli PMCID: PMC1468401 Splenic and portal vein thrombosis in pancreatic metastasis from Renal cell carcinoma Shailesh V Shrikhande, Peter Büchler, Irene Esposito, Martin Loos, Markus W Büchler, and Helmut Friess PMCID: PMC1482706 Mesenteric desmoid tumor of the interposed jejunal pouch after total gastrectomy Koichi Tamura, Masaji Tani, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, and Hiroki Yamaue PMCID: PMC1481628 Giant lipoma arising from deep lobe of the parotid gland Che-Wei Wu, Hung-Pin Chi, Feng-Yu Chiang, Ying-Che Hsu, Leong-Perng Chan, and Wen-Rei Kuo PMCID: PMC1481629 Xanthogranulomatous prostatitis: a mimic of carcinoma of prostate Muhammad Rafique and Nausheen Yaqoob PMCID: PMC1557506 A level III sentinel lymph node in breast cancer Kim Bowers, Yiyan Liu, Nasrin Ghesani, and Steve H Kim PMCID: PMC1557507 Management of a patient with multiple recurrences of fibromatosis (desmoid tumor) of the breast involving the chest wall musculature Stephen P Povoski, William L Marsh, Jr, Dimitrios G Spigos, Abbas E Abbas, and Brentley A Buchele PMCID: PMC1524961 The tip of the iceberg: a giant pelvic atypical lipoma presenting as a sciatic hernia Richard JE Skipworth, Graeme HM Smith, Ken J Stewart, and David N Anderson PMCID: PMC1526433 Prevention of disease progression in a patient with a gastric cancer-re-recurrence. Outcome after intravenous treatment with the novel antineoplastic agent taurolidine. Report of a case Chris Braumann, Goetz Winkler, Patrick Rogalla, Charalambos Menenakos, and Christoph A Jacobi PMCID: PMC1544327 Diagnostic dilemma in a case of malignant mixed mullerian tumor of the cervix Amita Maheshwari, Sudeep Gupta, Tanuja Shet, Rekha Wuntkal, and Hemant B Tongaonkar PMCID: PMC1526432 Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma with leukocytosis and elevation of serum G-CSF. A case report Akio Sakamoto, Hidetaka Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Shuichi Matsuda, Katsumi Harimaya, Yoshinao Oda, Masazumi Tsuneyoshi, and Yukihide Iwamoto PMCID: PMC1526734 Tactile-like corpuscles in gastric mucosa: a case report Sadia Salim, Beiqing Liu, Mandana Mahmoodi, Haider Asad, and Steve J Hou PMCID: PMC1543630 Isolated metachronous splenic metastasis from synchronous colon cancer Rasim Gencosmanoglu, Fugen Aker, Gozde Kir, and Nurdan Tozun PMCID: PMC1526733 Intra-thoracic desmoid tumour in a patient with a previous aortocoronary bypass Giuseppe Borzellino, Anna Maria Minicozzi, Francesco Giovinazzo, Giuseppe Faggian, Paolo Iuzzolino, and Claudio Cordiano PMCID: PMC1543629 Clear cell sarcoma of the scapula. A case report and review of the literature Constantinos J Kazakos, Vasilios G Galanis, Alexandra Giatromanolaki, Dennis-Alexander J Verettas, and Efthimios Sivridis PMCID: PMC1555585 Mammary Paget's disease occurring after mastectomy Monica Giovannini, Carmelo D'Atri, Quirino Piubello, and Annamaria Molino PMCID: PMC1557508 Numb Chin Syndrome – a reflection of systemic malignancy Ramesh Kapa Baskaran, Krishnamoorthy, and Mark Smith PMCID: PMC1557855 Oncocytic carcinoma of parotid gland: a case report with clinical, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features Giovanna Giordano, Marzio Gabrielli, Letizia Gnetti, and Teore Ferri PMCID: PMC1564019 A huge posteromedial mediastinal cyst complicated with vertebral dislodgment Ilias A Kouerinis, George C Zografos, Dimitrios N Exarchos, Nikolaos T silimingas, Michalis E Argiriou, Jordan T Manoussaridis, Evangelos P Misiakos, Constantine I Fotiadis, and Ion P Bellenis PMCID: PMC1563467 Fibromatosis (desmoid tumor) of the breast mimicking a case of ipsilateral metachronous breast cancer Stephen P Povoski and Rafael E Jimenez PMCID: PMC1563468 Giant hepatic adenoma with bone marrow metaplasia not associated with oral contraceptive intake Giovanni Ramacciato, Giuseppe R Nigri, Paolo Aurello, Francesco D'Angelo, Francesca Pezzoli, Simone Rossi, Emanuela Pilozzi, Giorgio Ercolani, and Matteo Ravaioli PMCID: PMC1560135 Colonic carcinoma with multiple small bowel perforations mimicking intestinal obstruction Satyendra K Tiwary, Manish K Singh, Rahul Khanna, and Ajay K Khanna PMCID: PMC1574321 Port-site tumour recurrence of oral squamous carcinoma following percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: a lesson to be aware of Ian R Daniels PMCID: PMC1584238 Collision tumor of the thyroid: follicular variant of papillary carcinoma and squamous carcinoma Rohan R Walvekar, Subhadra V Kane, and Anil K D'Cruz PMCID: PMC1622750 Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland metastasising to the liver: report of a case Bashar A Zeidan, Mohammed Abu Hilal, Mohammed Al-Gholmy, Hanan El-Mahallawi, Neil W Pearce, and John N Primrose PMCID: PMC1592487 Post-radiation sarcoma of the neck treated with re-irradiation followed by wide excision Alex Tan, Samuel YK Ngan, and Peter FM Choong PMCID: PMC1592488 Malignant potential of intrahepatic biliary papillomatosis: a case report and review of the literature Ioannis Vassiliou, Evi Kairi-Vassilatou, Athanasios Marinis, Theodosios Theodosopoulos, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, and Vassilios Smyrniotis PMCID: PMC1618388 Abdominal wall implantation of hepatocellular carcinoma Ali Aldahham, Shurooq Boodai, Adel Alfuderi, Ahmad Almosawi, and Sami Asfer PMCID: PMC1617093 Peritoneal carcinomatosis from a small bowel carcinoid tumour Gonzalo Gutierrez, Ian R Daniels, Ana Garcia, and Jose M Ramia PMCID: PMC1635417 Emergency laparotomy for misdiagnosed biliary cystadenoma originating from caudate lobe Giovanni Ramacciato, Giuseppe R Nigri, Francesco D'Angelo, Paolo Aurello, Riccardo Bellagamba, Cristina Colarossi, Emanuela Pilozzi, and Massimo Del Gaudio PMCID: PMC1635700 Mesenteric gastrointestinal stromal tumour presenting as intracranial space occupying lesion Tarun Puri, Gowthaman Gunabushanam, Monica Malik, Shikha Goyal, Anup K Das, Pramod K Julka, and Goura K Rath PMCID: PMC1654154 Giant solitary fibrous tumour of the liver Türkan Terkivatan, Mike Kliffen, Johannes HW de Wilt, Albertus N van Geel, Alexander MM Eggermont, and Cornelis Verhoef PMCID: PMC1661593 Duodenoportal fistula caused by peptic ulcer after extended right hepatectomy for hilar cholangiocarcinoma Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Katsunari Takifuji, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Masaji Tani, Kazuhisa Uchiyama, and Hiroki Yamaue PMCID: PMC1676009 Cerebral edema in a patient following cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraoperative intraperitoneal chemoperfusion Rajalakshmi L Nair, Jonathan Tobias, Grant Stemmerman, and Andrew M Lowy PMCID: PMC1697813 Malignant colo-duodenal fistula; case report and review of the literature Ruth Soulsby, Edmund Leung, and Nigel Williams PMCID: PMC1698919 Secretory breast carcinoma with metastatic sentinel lymph node Salvatore Vieni, Daniela Cabibi, Calogero Cipolla, Salvatore Fricano, Giuseppa Graceffa, and Mario Adelfio Latteri PMCID: PMC1764883 Primary osteogenic sarcoma of the breast Temidayo O Ogundiran, Samuel A Ademola, Odunayo M Oluwatosin, Effiong E Akang, and Clement A Adebamowo PMCID: PMC1702348 Clear cell odontogenic carcinoma: a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma Singh Avninder, Dinesh Rakheja, and Amar Bhatnagar PMCID: PMC1705808 Metachronic malignant transformation of small bowel and rectal endometriosis in the same patient Joaquin Marchena-Gomez, Alicia Conde-Martel, Marion Hemmersbach-Miller, and Ana Alonso-Fernandez PMCID: PMC1712233 Metastatic adenocarcinoma of the colon presenting as a monarthritis of the hip in a young patient Neil Ruparelia, Hootan Ahmadi, and Carlos Cobiella PMCID: PMC1716166 Gardner's syndrome in a 40-year-old woman: successful treatment of locally aggressive desmoid tumors with cytotoxic chemotherapy Prabhat K Bhama, Rashmi Chugh, Laurence H Baker, and Gerard M Doherty PMCID: PMC1716167 Serum calcitonin negative Medullary thyroid carcinoma Michael Sand, Marcos Gelos, Daniel Sand, Falk G Bechara, Gerd Bonhag, Ellen Welsing, and Benno Mann PMCID: PMC1769382 Correspondence Unexpected death after headache due to a colloid cyst of the third ventricle Sameer S Shaktawat, Walid D Salman, Zuhair Twaij, and Abdul Al-Dawoud PMCID: PMC1550234 Rituximab induced hypoglycemia in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Badrudeen M Hussain, N Geetha, V Lali, and Manoj Pandey PMCID: PMC1764014 Reviews Merkel cell carcinoma Virve Koljonen PMCID: PMC1382229 Current trends in the management of extra-abdominal desmoid tumours Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos, Andreas F Mavrogenis, Evanthia A Mitsiokapa, Kleo Th Papaparaskeva, Evanthia C Galanis, and Panayotis N Soucacos PMCID: PMC1456964 Liver metastases of neuroendocrine tumours; early reduction of tumour load to improve life expectancy Liesbeth M Veenendaal, Inne HM Borel Rinkes, Cornelis JM Lips, and Richard van Hillegersberg PMCID: PMC1524962 Six year disease free survival after liver transplantation in a patient with T3 gallbladder carcinoma: case presentation and review of the literature Jorge Ortiz, David Reich, Hoon Bae Joon, Oscar Martinez, and Cosme Manzarbeitia PMCID: PMC1540419 Aggressive treatment of metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the rectum to the liver: a case report and a brief review of the literature Theodosios K Theodosopoulos, Athanasios D Marinis, Nikolaos A Dafnios, John G Vassiliou, Lazaros D Samanides, Eleni E Carvounis, and Vassilios E Smyrniotis PMCID: PMC1555584 Pseudomyxoma peritonei – a revisit: report of 2 cases and literature review Chunyanca Li, Rani Kanthan, and SC Kanthan PMCID: PMC1574320 Tumour risk associated with use of cellular telephones or cordless desktop telephones Lennart Hardell, Kjell Hansson Mild, Michael Carlberg, and Fredrik Söderqvist PMCID: PMC1621063 Radiation-sparing managements for cervical cancer: a developing countries perspective Myrna Candelaria, Lucely Cetina, Alicia Garcia-Arias, Carlos Lopez-Graniel, Jaime de la Garza, Elizabeth Robles, and Alfonso Duenas-Gonzalez PMCID: PMC1660541 Emerging aspects of oesophageal and gastro-oesophageal junction cancer histopathology – an update for the surgical oncologist Ewen A Griffiths, Susan A Pritchard, Nicholas P Mapstone, and Ian M Welch PMCID: PMC1664566 Technical Innovation Thoracoscopic enucleation of a large esophageal leiomyoma using a three thoracic ports technique Thawatchai Akaraviputh, Vitoon Chinswangwatanakul, Jirawat Swangsri, and Varut Lohsiriwat PMCID: PMC1599730 Research Weekly induction intraperitoneal chemotherapy after primary surgical cytoreduction in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer Rong Yu Zang, Zi Ting Li, Jie Tang, Xiao Huang, and Shu Mo Cai PMCID: PMC1373630 Cyclin D1 and Rb protein expression and their correlation with prognosis in patients with colon cancer Gregory Kouraklis, Stamos Theocharis, Panayiotis Vamvakas, Costas Vagianos, Andromahi Glinavou, Costas Giaginis, and Crysoula Sioka PMCID: PMC1360071 Female urogenital dysfunction following total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer Ian R Daniels, Sheena Woodward, Fiona GM Taylor, Ashraf Raja, and Paul Toomey PMCID: PMC1373629 Knowledge, attitude and practice of Nigerian women towards breast cancer: A cross-sectional study Michael N Okobia, Clareann H Bunker, Friday E Okonofua, and Usifo Osime PMCID: PMC1397833 Accuracy of intraoperative frozen section in the diagnosis of ovarian neoplasms: Experience at a tertiary oncology center Amita Maheshwari, Sudeep Gupta, Shubhada Kane, Yogesh Kulkarni, Lt Col Bhupesh Kumar Goyal, and Hemant B Tongaonkar PMCID: PMC1397834 Local excision as a treatment for tumors of ampulla of Vater Haralampos Demetriades, Emmanouil Zacharakis, Ioanna Kirou, Manousos-Georgios Pramateftakis, Nikolaos Sapidis, Ioannis Kanellos, and Dimitrios Betsis PMCID: PMC1421403 Prognostic significance of new onset ascites in patients with pancreatic cancer Emmanuel E Zervos, Dana Osborne, Brian A Boe, German Luzardo, Steven B Goldin, and Alexander S Rosemurgy PMCID: PMC1513572 Perforated gastric carcinoma: a report of 10 cases and review of the literature Franco Roviello, Simone Rossi, Daniele Marrelli, Giovanni De Manzoni, Corrado Pedrazzani, Paolo Morgagni, Giovanni Corso, and Enrico Pinto PMCID: PMC1524767 Frozen section is superior to imprint cytology for the intra-operative assessment of sentinel lymph node metastasis in Stage I Breast cancer patients Miki Mori, Keiichiro Tada, Motoko Ikenaga, Yumi Miyagi, Seiichiro Nishimura, Kaoru Takahashi, Masujiro Makita, Takuji Iwase, Fujio Kasumi, and Mituru Koizumi PMCID: PMC1481626 Lymph node retrieval in abdominoperineal surgical specimen is radiation time-dependent Alain Sermier, Pascal Gervaz, Jean F Egger, My Dao, Abdelkarim S Allal, Marta Bonet, and Philippe Morel PMCID: PMC1524768 Endoscopic palliation of malignant dysphagia: a challenging task in inoperable oesophageal cancer IE Katsoulis, A Karoon, S Mylvaganam, and JI Livingstone PMCID: PMC1540418 "Resurrection of clinical efficacy" after resistance to endocrine therapy in metastatic breast cancer Amit Agrawal, John FR Robertson, and KL Cheung PMCID: PMC1538598 Topoisomerase II trapping agent teniposide induces apoptosis and G2/M or S phase arrest of oral squamous cell carcinoma Jinzhong Li, Wantao Chen, Ping Zhang, and Ningyi Li PMCID: PMC1543631 Efficacy and tolerability of high dose "ethinylestradiol" in post-menopausal advanced breast cancer patients heavily pre-treated with endocrine agents Amit Agrawal, John FR Robertson, and KL Cheung PMCID: PMC1533829 Combining partial liver resection and local ablation of liver tumours: a preliminary Dutch experience Bram Fioole, Maarten C Jansen, Frederieke H van Duijnhoven, Richard van Hillegersberg, Thomas M van Gulik, and Inne HM Borel Rinkes PMCID: PMC1553444 Low grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma of uterine corpus, a clinico-pathological and survey study in 14 cases Tahereh Ashraf-Ganjoei, Nadereh Behtash, Mamak Shariat, and Asamosadat Mosavi PMCID: PMC1560376 Time-related improvement of survival in resectable gastric cancer: the role of Japanese-style gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy and adjuvant chemotherapy Juan J Grau, Ramon Palmero, Maribel Marmol, Jose Domingo-Domenech, Mariano Monzo, Jose Fuster, Oscar Vidal, Constantino Fondevila, and Juan C Garcia-Valdecasas PMCID: PMC1564020 Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) – Clinicopathological study and treatment outcome of twenty-four cases Madhabananda Kar, SV Suryanarayana Deo, Nootan Kumar Shukla, Ajay Malik, Sidharth DattaGupta, Bidhu Kumar Mohanti, and Sanjay Thulkar PMCID: PMC1560134 Association between biliary complications and technique of hilar division (extrahepatic vs. intrahepatic) in major liver resections Vassileios Smyrniotis, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos, Kassiani Theodoraki, Dionysios Voros, Ioannis Vassiliou, Andreas Polydorou, Nikolaos Dafnios, Evangelos Gamaletsos, Kyriaki Daniilidou, and Dimitrios Kannas PMCID: PMC1564396 Neuroendocrine differentiation and neuroendocrine morphology as two different patterns in large-cell bronchial carcinomas: outcome after complete resection Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, Gian Kayser, Bernward Passlick, and Stephan Eggeling PMCID: PMC1570460 Cyclin D1 and p16 expression in recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma Ho-Sheng Lin, Gerald J Berry, Zijie Sun, and Willard E Fee, Jr PMCID: PMC1569377 Seeding of epithelial cells into circulation during surgery for breast cancer: the fate of malignant and benign mobilized cells Oumar Camara, Andreas Kavallaris, Helmut Nöschel, Matthias Rengsberger, Cornelia Jörke, and Katharina Pachmann PMCID: PMC1599731 Distress, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy Manoj Pandey, Gangadharan P Sarita, Nandkumar Devi, Bejoy C Thomas, Badridien M Hussain, and Rita Krishnan PMCID: PMC1592486 Prognostic factors affecting survival after surgical resection of gastrointestinal stromal tumours: a two-unit experience over 10 years Antonio Chiappa, Andrew P Zbar, Michael Innis, Stuart Garriques, Emilio Bertani, Roberto Biffi, Giancarlo Pruneri, Felipe Luzzato, Paolo Della Vigna, Cristina Trovato, and Bruno Andreoni PMCID: PMC1613247 Multifocality and multicentricity are not contraindications for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer surgery Alberta Ferrari, Paolo Dionigi, Francesca Rovera, Luigi Boni, Giorgio Limonta, Silvana Garancini, Diego De Palma, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Cristiana Vanoli, Mario Diurni, Giulio Carcano, and Renzo Dionigi PMCID: PMC1665453 Postoperative infections after oesophageal resections: the role of blood transfusions Francesca Rovera, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Luigi Boni, Andrea Imperatori, Alessandra Tabacchi, Giulio Carcano, Mario Diurni, and Renzo Dionigi PMCID: PMC1664565 Preliminary results of phase I trial of oral uracil/tegafur (UFT), leucovorin plus irinotecan and radiation therapy for patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer Masayoshi Yasui, Masataka Ikeda, Mitsugu Sekimoto, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Ichiro Takemasa, Takafumi Ueda, Junzo Shimizu, Mutsumi Fukunaga, Osamu Suzuki, Takehiro Inoue, and Morito Monden PMCID: PMC1664567 Photodynamic therapy and tumor imaging of hypericin-treated squamous cell carcinoma Christian S Head, Quang Luu, Joel Sercarz, and Romaine Saxton PMCID: PMC1762016 Is EGFR expression altered following postoperative chemotherapy for colorectal adenocarcinoma? Mahmoud A Khalifa, Corwyn H Rowsell, Rebecca Gladdy, Yoo-Joung Ko, Sherif Hanna, Andy Smith, and Calvin Law PMCID: PMC1705809 Relationship of hypoxia-inducible factor 1α and p21WAF1/CIP1 expression to cell apoptosis and clinical outcome in patients with gastric cancer Ken Mizokami, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Shinya Oda, and Yoshihiko Maehara PMCID: PMC1716165 |
