| | Case Reports Cervical mature teratoma 17 years after initial treatment of testicular teratocarcinoma: report of a late relapse Ramesh Omranipour and Mina Alavion PMCID: PMC1779787 Metastatic prostate cancer masquerading clinically and radiologically as a primary caecal carcinoma Muhammad A Kabeer, Edward Lloyd-Davies, Giles Maskell, Rolf Hohle, and Joseph Mathew PMCID: PMC1779271 Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenocarcinoma: report of two cases David Cantú de León, Delia Pérez-Montiel, José Chanona-Vilchis, Alfonso Dueñas-González, Verónica Villavicencio-Valencia, and Gladys Zavala-Casas PMCID: PMC1783654 "Pseudosarcoma" in a pregnant woman Amarjit Anand, Eva Maria Tsapakis, Ali A Narvani, Ali Alhakim, Steve R Cannon, and Eleftherios Tsiridis PMCID: PMC1794242 Resection in the popliteal fossa for metastatic melanoma Ugo Marone, Corrado Caracò, Maria Grazia Chiofalo, Gerardo Botti, and Nicola Mozzillo PMCID: PMC1784092 Successful reconstruction of large oropharyngeal defect with pectoralis major myocutaneous flap in a four-year-old boy with recurrent fibromatosis Sajid S Qureshi, Quazi G Ahmed, and Prabha S Yadav PMCID: PMC1790895 LaPlace's law revisited: Cecal perforation as an unusual presentation of pancreatic carcinoma Kristine D Slam, Sarah Calkins, and Frederick D Cason PMCID: PMC1802866 Multiple rectal carcinoids with diffuse ganglioneuromatosis Masashi Haraguchi, Hideki Kinoshita, Miho Koori, Noritsugu Tsuneoka, Taiichiro Kosaka, Yuji Ito, Junichiro Furui, and Takashi Kanematsu PMCID: PMC1805501 Gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the anal canal: an unusual presentation Giuseppe R Nigri, Mario Dente, Stefano Valabrega, Paolo Aurello, Francesco D'Angelo, Giuseppe Montrone, Giorgio Ercolani, and Giovanni Ramacciato PMCID: PMC1821025 Solitary neurofibroma in the male breast Deva S Jeyaretna, Adewunmi Oriolowo, Mark EF Smith, and Roger M Watkins PMCID: PMC1808458 Fibromatosis-like carcinoma-an unusual phenotype of a metaplastic breast tumor associated with a micropapilloma Bharat Rekhi, Tanuja M Shet, Rajan A Badwe, and Roshni F Chinoy PMCID: PMC1808459 Breast metastasis from a renal cell cancer Ahmed Alzaraa, Aleksandar Vodovnik, Hugh Montgomery, Mohammed Saeed, and Narinder Sharma PMCID: PMC1820595 Acute adrenal crisis after orthopedic surgery for pathologic fracture Norifumi Naka, Satoshi Takenaka, Katsuhiko Nanno, Yu Moriguchi, Bang-mi Chun, Shunji Sonoda, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Yoshitane Tsukamoto, and Nobuhito Araki PMCID: PMC1821329 Proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma – a rare, aggressive subtype of epithelioid sarcoma presenting as a recurrent perineal mass in a middle- aged male Bharat Rekhi, Biru D Gorad, and Roshni F Chinoy PMCID: PMC1820783 Pleomorphic adenocarcinoma of the lacrimal gland with multiple intracranial and spinal metastases Jung Yong Ahn, Jong Hee Chang, Se Hoon Kim, and Kyu Sung Lee PMCID: PMC1820784 Choroidal melanoma metastasizing to maxillofacial bones Manoj Pandey, Om Prakash, Anitha Mathews, Nileena Nayak, and Krishnankutty Ramachandran PMCID: PMC1848005 Granular cell tumors of the urinary bladder Farhat Abbas, Amanullah Memon, Tanya Siddiqui, Naila Kayani, and Nazim Ali Ahmad PMCID: PMC1828733 Interesting case of ovarian sarcoidosis: The value of multi disciplinary team working Rekha Wuntakal, Rasiah Bharathan, Andrea Rockall, and Arjun Jeyarajah PMCID: PMC1847820 Vacuum-assisted closure therapy in ureteroileal anastomotic leakage after surgical therapy of bladder cancer Stefan Denzinger, Lars Luebke, Maximilian Burger, Sigurd Kessler, Wolf F Wieland, and Wolfgang Otto PMCID: PMC1855326 Hepatoid carcinoma colliding with a liposarcoma of the left colon serosa presenting as an abdominal mass Michele Orditura, Eva Lieto, Francesca Ferraraccio, Giuseppe De Cataldis, Teresa Troiani, Paolo Castellano, Giuseppe Catalano, Fortunato Ciardiello, Gennaro Galizia, and Ferdinando De Vita PMCID: PMC1866233 Retroperitoneal Castleman's tumor and paraneoplastic pemphigus: report of a case and review of the literature Charalambos Menenakos, Chris Braumann, Jens Hartmann, and Christoph A Jacobi PMCID: PMC1866232 Xanthogranulomatous osteomyelitis of ulna mimicking neoplasm Mahesha Vankalakunti, Uma N Saikia, Manoj Mathew, and Mandeep Kang PMCID: PMC1865539 Primary isolated extramedullary plasmacytoma of colon Vishal Gupta, Brindaban Nahak, Puja Sakhuja, Anil K Agarwal, Nirmal Kumar, and Pramod K Mishra PMCID: PMC1871591 Gastrointestinal stromal tumour in Meckel's diverticulum K Chandramohan, Mudit Agarwal, Gopal Gurjar, Rohan C Gatti, Mahesh H Patel, Preeti Trivedi, and Kiran C Kothari PMCID: PMC1876459 Isolated colostomy site recurrence in rectal cancer-two cases with review of literature Chintamani, Vinay Singhal, Anju Bansal, Dinesh Bhatnagar, and Sunita Saxena PMCID: PMC1876234 How do we manage the gastrectomy for gastric cancer after coronary artery bypass grafting using the right gastroepiploic artery? Report of two cases and a review of the literature Yukiko Konishi, Koichi Suzuki, Hidetoshi Wada, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ogura, Yuno Sugamori, Abul Hasan Muhammad Bashar, Katsushi Yamashita, Toshihiko Kobayashi, and Teruhisa Kazui PMCID: PMC1884156 Nasal septal teratoma in a child Titus S Ibekwe, Daniel D Kokong, Bethrand A Ngwu, Oluwole A Akinyemi, Onyekwere G Nwaorgu, and Effiong E Akang PMCID: PMC1891297 A rare case of concomitant huge exophytic gastrointestinal stromal tumor of the stomach and Kasabach-Merritt phenomenon Taiji Watanabe, Kohei Segami, Takahiro Sasaki, Hatsuya Kawashima, Takeharu Enomoto, Yuji Jinnouchi, Satoshi Koizumi, Naotaka Tobe, Joh Sakurai, Tsukasa Shimamura, Tadashi Suda, Takeshi Asakura, Hiroshi Nakano, Tanaka Ichiroh, and Takehito Otsubo PMCID: PMC1892781 Bilateral male breast cancer with male potential hypogonadism Yukiko Hirose, Mitsunori Sasa, Yoshimi Bando, Toshiyuki Hirose, Tadaoki Morimoto, Yasushi Kurokawa, Taeko Nagao, and Akira Tangoku PMCID: PMC1892556 Local recurrence and distant metastases 18 years after resection of the greater omentum hemangiopericytoma Maciej Slupski, Ilona Piotrowiak, and Zbigniew Wlodarczyk PMCID: PMC1906779 Primary omental Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) Takeshi Todoroki, Takaaki Sano, Shinji Sakurai, Atsuki Segawa, Tamotsu Saitoh, Koichi Fujikawa, Shuji Yamada, Nobutsune Hirahara, Yoshito Tsushima, Ryuji Motojima, and Teiji Motojima PMCID: PMC1924523 Cavernous lymphangioma of the breast Gabriel O Ogun, O Oyetunde, and EffiongE Akang PMCID: PMC1906778 A polycystic variant of a primary intracranial leptomeningeal astrocytoma: case report and literature review Antonio De Tommasi, Giuseppe Occhiogrosso, Claudio De Tommasi, Sabino Luzzi, Antonella Cimmino, and Pasqualino Ciappetta PMCID: PMC1934909 Retroperitoneal liposarcoma associated with small plaque parapsoriasis Francesco Tartaglia, Sara Blasi, Monica Sgueglia, Paolo Polichetti, Luciana Tromba, and Alberto Berni PMCID: PMC1936423 Neuroendocrine carcinoma arising in soft tissue: three case reports and literature review Steve L Hyer, Jonathan McAleese, and Clive L Harmer PMCID: PMC1971059 An unusual presentation of a Gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) Solomon KP John, Sanjoy Basu, Richard J Lawrance, and Nick Davies PMCID: PMC1971264 Successful paclitaxel-based chemotherapy for an alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer patient with multiple liver metastases Hiromitsu Takeyama, Hirozumi Sawai, Takehiro Wakasugi, Hiroki Takahashi, Yoichi Matsuo, Nobuo Ochi, Akira Yasuda, Mikinori Sato, Yuji Okada, Hitoshi Funahashi, Yoshimi Akamo, and Tadao Manabe PMCID: PMC1939849 Prostatic sarcoma after treatment of rectal cancer Salah M Abbas and Andrew G Hill PMCID: PMC1950882 Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the sphenoid sinus presenting as isolated oculomotor nerve palsy Young Mok Park, Jun Hyung Cho, Jae Yong Cho, Ji Soon Huh, and Jung Yong Ahn PMCID: PMC1950883 Paraganglioma of the greater omentum: Case report and review of the literature Fotios Archontovasilis, Haridimos Markogiannakis, Christina Dikoglou, Panagiotis Drimousis, Konstantinos G Toutouzas, Dimitrios Theodorou, and Stilianos Katsaragakis PMCID: PMC1976114 Metastasis to the gluteus maximus muscle from renal cell carcinoma with special emphasis on MRI features Akio Sakamoto, Tatsuya Yoshida, Suguru Matsuura, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Shuichi Matsuda, Yoshinao Oda, Yoshifumi Hori, Akira Yokomizo, and Yukihide Iwamoto PMCID: PMC1976113 Effectiveness of interferon-beta and temozolomide combination therapy against temozolomide-refractory recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma Takamitsu Fujimaki, Hisato Ishii, Akira Matsuno, Hajime Arai, and Tadayoshi Nakagomi PMCID: PMC1976115 An unexpected supraclavicular swelling Nishith NB Patel, Parin R Shah, Eliie Wilson, and Puthcode N Haray PMCID: PMC1971265 A rare case of repeated anastomotic recurrence due to tumor implantation after curative surgery for sigmoid colon cancer Kimihiko Funahashi, Junichi Koike, Naoyasu Saito, Hiroyuki Shiokawa, Kentaro Shirasaka, and Tatsuo Teramoto PMCID: PMC1994957 Carpal tunnel syndrome due to an atypical deep soft tissue leiomyoma: The risk of misdiagnosis and mismanagement Byron E Chalidis and Christos G Dimitriou PMCID: PMC1971266 Coexistence of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and colorectal adenocarcinoma: A case report Papalambros Efstathios, Petrou Athanasios, Ioannis Papaconstantinou, Papalambros Alexandros, Sigala Frangisca, Georgopoulos Sotirios, Felekouras Evangelos, and Giannopoulos Athanasios PMCID: PMC2034569 Mucin-hypersecreting bile duct neoplasm characterized by clinicopathological resemblance to intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) of the pancreas Yo-ichi Yamashita, Kengo Fukuzawa, Akinobu Taketomi, Shinichi Aishima, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Hideaki Uchiyama, Eiji Tsujita, Norifumi Harimoto, Noboru Harada, Kenzo Wakasugi, and Yoshihiko Maehara PMCID: PMC2000466 Perianal eccrine adenocarcinoma Tsz-Ho Leung, Henry Hsin-Chung Lee, and Shih-Chang Chang PMCID: PMC2034570 Bilateral synchronous breast carcinomas followed by a metastasis to the gallbladder: a case report Flora Zagouri, Theodoros N Sergentanis, Dimitra Koulocheri, Afroditi Nonni, Aggeliki Bousiotou, Philip Domeyer, Nikolaos V Michalopoulos, Dimitrios Dardamanis, Manousos M Konstadoulakis, and George C Zografos PMCID: PMC2075501 A diagnostic dilemma following risk-reducing surgery for BRCA1 mutation – a case report of primary papillary serous carcinoma presenting as sigmoid cancer Manish Chand, Patrick J Moore, Andrew D Clarke, Guy F Nash, and Tamas Hickisk PMCID: PMC2075500 Combined endocrine and exocrine tumours of the pancreas Ahmed Alzaraa, Valeri Udom, Husam Mousa, Abdulhalem Alzein, Abduljalil Benhamida, and Neha Dalal PMCID: PMC2034388 Surgical resection for persistent seroma, following modified radical mastectomy Marek Stanczyk, Bartlomiej Grala, Tomasz Zwierowicz, and Marek Maruszynski PMCID: PMC2082032 Mucinous adenocarcinoma presenting as an isolated sternal metastasis Elizabeth Ball, Gareth Morris-Stiff, Mari Coxon, and Michael H Lewis PMCID: PMC2048510 Inflammatory pseudotumor of the Kidney David R Selvan, Joe Philip, Ramaswamy Manikandan, Timothy R Helliwell, Gabriel HR Lamb, and Anthony D Desmond PMCID: PMC2034571 Faecal incontinence as presentation of an ependymomas of the spinal cord Santhini Jeyarajah, Andrew King, and Savvas Papagrigoriadis PMCID: PMC2034572 A patient with bilateral pheochromocytoma as part of a Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome type 2C Jennifer MJ Schreinemakers, Bernard A Zonnenberg, Jo WM Höppener, Frederik J Hes, Inne HM Borel Rinkes, and Cornelis JM Lips PMCID: PMC2169240 A rare case of a retroperitoneal enterogenous cyst with in-situ adenocarcinoma Jeffrey T Lordan, Robin L Jones, Nariman D Karanjia, Stefano de Sanctis, James G Woodland, Gary Middleton, and Neville Menezes PMCID: PMC2092434 Complications after oesophagectomy with possible contribution of neoadjuvant therapy including an EGFR-antibody to a fatal outcome Michael Knauer, Anton Haid, Karlheinz Ammann, Alois Lang, Felix Offner, Martina Türtscher, Peter Cerkl, and Etienne Wenzl PMCID: PMC2147013 Primary presacral neuroendocrine tumor associated with imperforate anus Tad Kim, Stephen R Grobmyer, Chen Liu, and Steven N Hochwald PMCID: PMC2092435 Neuroendocrine (Merkel cell) carcinoma of the retroperitoneum with no identifiable primary site Van Boghossian, Ira D Owen, Balakrishna Nuli, and Philip Q Xiao PMCID: PMC2117014 Collision tumor of the colon – colonic adenocarcinoma and ovarian granulosa cell tumor Mayur Brahmania, Chandra S Kanthan, and Rani Kanthan PMCID: PMC2164962 Primary gastric Hodgkin's lymphoma Fahad S Hossain, Yashwant Koak, and Farrukh H Khan PMCID: PMC2117016 Primary right atrium angiosarcoma mimicking pericarditis Marina Kontogiorgi, Demetrios Exarchos, Christos Charitos, Ioannis Floros, Demetra Rontogianni, Charis Roussos, and Christina Routsi PMCID: PMC2174942 A gastrointestinal stromal tumor with mesenteric and retroperitoneal invasion Gulgun Engin, Oktar Asoglu, Yersu Kapran, and Gulsen Mert PMCID: PMC2164961 Extramedullary plasmacytoma (EMP): Report of a case manifested as a mediastinal mass and multiple pulmonary nodules and review of literature Shi-Ping Luh, Yih-Shyong Lai, Chung-Hong Tsai, and Thomas Chang-Yao Tsao PMCID: PMC2186338 Multiple early gastric cancer with duodenal invasion Akihisa Matsuda, Shunji Kato, Masaichi Furuya, Yasuhito Shimizu, Tetsuya Okino, Junpei Sasaki, and Takashi Tajiri PMCID: PMC2173897 The implications of an incidental chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in a resection specimen for colorectal adenocarcinoma Robert J Dennis and Justin C Alberts PMCID: PMC2169241 Primary non Hodgkin's lymphoma of the lacrimal sac Ramachandran Venkitaraman and Mathew K George PMCID: PMC2186337 Angioleiomyoma of the small intestine – a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding Umar Sadat, NS Theivacumar, Joe Vat, and Asif Jah PMCID: PMC2174482 The correlation between clinical, nuclear and histologic findings in a patient with Von Recklinghausen's disease Justus-Martijn Brinkman, Johannes L Bron, Paul IJM Wuisman, Paul J van Diest, Emile FI Comans, and Carla FM Molthoff PMCID: PMC2186339 Dedifferentiated liposarcoma with leukocytosis. A case report of G-CSF-producing soft-tissue tumors, possible association with undifferentiated liposarcoma lineage Akio Sakamoto, Hiroshi Matono, Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Shuichi Matsuda, Yoshinao Oda, and Yukihide Iwamoto PMCID: PMC2203997 Optimization of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer using an operative gamma camera Carole Mathelin, Samuel Salvador, Sabrina Croce, Norosoa Andriamisandratsoa, Daniel Huss, and Jean-Louis Guyonnet PMCID: PMC2203998 Primary breast lymphoma in the right breast during treatment for left breast cancer Shigeyuki Nagata, Ataru Nishimura, Yukio Iwashita, Tadahiko Kinoshita, Kengo Fukuzawa, Hideya Tashiro, and Kenzo Wakasugi PMCID: PMC2213664 Locally advanced leiomyosarcoma of the spleen. A case report and review of the literature Paolo Piovanello, Vincenzo Viola, Giampaolo Costa, Massimiliano Carletti, Andrea Cecera, Fabrizio Turchetta, Roberto Iudicone, Giuseppe Catalano, Antonello Santucci, Franco Recchia, Loredana Fiorillo, Maria Antonella Menichella, and Giovanni Baiano PMCID: PMC2221972 A rare case of primary mesenteric gastrointestinal stromal tumor with metastasis to the cervix uteri Nupur Gupta, Suneeta Mittal, Neena Lal, Renu Misra, Lalit Kumar, and Sunita Bhalla PMCID: PMC2219959 Multicentric myxoid liposarcoma: report of two cases M Jesus Fernández-Aceñero, Pilar López-Criado, Mariano López-Franco, Telma Meizoso, and Carolina Calvo PMCID: PMC2221973 Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for melanoma metastatic to the gallbladder: is it an adequate surgical procedure? Report of a case and review of the literature Ugo Marone, Corrado Caracò, Simona Losito, Antonio Daponte, Maria Grazia Chiofalo, Stefano Mori, Rocco Cerra, Luciano Pezzullo, and Nicola Mozzillo PMCID: PMC2233626 Thyroid metastasis in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma: case report and review of literature Hung-Hua Liang, Chih-Hsiung Wu, Ka-Wai Tam, Chiah-Yang Chai, Sey-En Lin, and Soul-Chin Chen PMCID: PMC2246133 Late aortic lymphocele and residual ovary syndrome after gynecological surgery Maria Pastore, Natalina Manci, Claudia Marchetti, Francesca Esposito, Marialetizia Iuliano, Lucia Manganaro, and Pierluigi Benedetti Panici PMCID: PMC2263053 Correspondence Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the breast: case report Kajal Kiran Dhingra, Shramana Mandal, Somak Roy, and Nita Khurana PMCID: PMC2246134 Reviews Clear cell carcinoid tumor of the distal common bile duct Takeshi Todoroki, Takaaki Sano, Shuji Yamada, Nobutsune Hirahara, Naotaka Toda, Katsuhiko Tsukada, Ryuji Motojima, and Teiji Motojima PMCID: PMC1785380 Tamoxifen-associated vasculitis in a breast cancer patient Myrna Candelaria, Rafael Hurtado-Monroy, Pablo Vargas-Viveros, Silvia Carrillo-Muñnoz, and Alfonso Duenas-Gonzalez PMCID: PMC1783853 Contraindications of sentinel lymph node biopsy: Áre there any really? George M Filippakis and George Zografos PMCID: PMC1797176 Solid serous microcystic adenoma of the pancreas Jordan R Stern, Wendy L Frankel, E Christopher Ellison, and Mark Bloomston PMCID: PMC1821026 Precursors and preinvasive lesions of the breast: the role of molecular prognostic markers in the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma Flora Zagouri, Theodoros N Sergentanis, and George C Zografos PMCID: PMC1894800 Mammary tuberculosis – importance of recognition and differentiation from that of a breast malignancy: report of three cases and review of the literature Müfide Nuran Akçay, Leyla Sağlam, Pınar Polat, Fazlı Erdoğan, Yavuz Albayrak, and Stephen P Povoskı PMCID: PMC1910599 Dysgerminoma in three patients with Swyer syndrome Nadereh Behtash and Mojgan Karimi Zarchi PMCID: PMC1934908 Breast cancer metastasis to the stomach may mimic primary gastric cancer: report of two cases and review of literature Gregory E Jones, Dirk C Strauss, Matthew J Forshaw, Harriet Deere, Ula Mahedeva, and Robert C Mason PMCID: PMC1937002 Dermoid cyst of the pancreas: presentation and management Gianfranco Tucci, Marco Gallinella Muzi, Casimiro Nigro, Federica Cadeddu, Dalia Amabile, Francesca Servadei, and Attilio M Farinon PMCID: PMC1952065 Helicobacter species are associated with possible increase in risk of biliary lithiasis and benign biliary diseases Manoj Pandey PMCID: PMC2000467 Predicting the response of localised oesophageal cancer to neo-adjuvant chemoradiation Charles M Gillham, John Reynolds, and Donal Hollywood PMCID: PMC1999497 Castleman's disease in the head of the pancreas: report of a rare clinical entity and current perspective on diagnosis, treatment, and outcome Hongbei Wang, Rosemary L Wieczorek, Michael E Zenilman, Fidelina Desoto-Lapaix, Bimal C Ghosh, and Wilbur B Bowne PMCID: PMC2206042 Technical Innovations Cryospray ablation (CSA) in the palliative treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus Brooks D Cash, Lavonne R Johnston, and Mark H Johnston PMCID: PMC1845148 Unexpected response to systemic chemotherapy in case of primarily nonresectable advanced disseminated intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma Maciej W Slupski, Cezary Szczylik, and Milosz K Jasinski PMCID: PMC1839091 Endoscopically assisted resection of a scapular osteochondroma causing snapping scapula syndrome Satoru Fukunaga, Hiroyuki Futani, and Shinichi Yoshiya PMCID: PMC1839090 Stereotaxic gamma knife surgery in treatment of critically located pilocytic astrocytoma: preliminary result Raef FA Hafez PMCID: PMC1852107 A multimodality localization technique for radio-guided surgery Seza A Gulec, Erica Hoenie, and Kristan Rheinheimer PMCID: PMC1868731 11C-choline vs. 18F-FDG PET/CT in assessing bone involvement in patients with multiple myeloma Cristina Nanni, Elena Zamagni, Michele Cavo, Domenico Rubello, Paola Tacchetti, Cinzia Pettinato, Mohsen Farsad, Paolo Castellucci, Valentina Ambrosini, Gian Carlo Montini, Adil Al-Nahhas, Roberto Franchi, and Stefano Fanti PMCID: PMC1913918 Doppler ultrasound scoring to predict chemotherapeutic response in advanced breast cancer Anand Kumar, Seema Singh, Satyajit Pradhan, Ram C Shukla, Mumtaz A Ansari, Tej B Singh, Rohit Shyam, and Saroj Gupta PMCID: PMC2008196 Leiomyosarcoma of the Adrenal vein: a novel approach to surgical resection Tracy S Wang, Idris Tolgay Ocal, Ronald R Salem, John Elefteriades, and Julie A Sosa PMCID: PMC2117013 Elastic intramedullary nailing and DBM-Bone marrow injection for the treatment of simple bone cysts Anastasios D Kanellopoulos, Andreas F Mavrogenis, Panayiotis J Papagelopoulos, and Panayotis N Soucacos PMCID: PMC2117015 Unusual presentation of metastatic adenocarcinoma Izhar N Bagwan, Gary Cook, Satvinder Mudan, and Andrew Wotherspoon PMCID: PMC2100056 The utilization of an ultrasound-guided 8-gauge vacuum-assisted breast biopsy system as an innovative approach to accomplishing complete eradication of multiple bilateral breast fibroadenomas Stephen P Povoski PMCID: PMC2147012 Cooperative learning in the first year of undergraduate medical education Rani Kanthan and Sheryl Mills PMCID: PMC2217551 Combined approach of perioperative 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging and intraoperative 18F-FDG handheld gamma probe detection for tumor localization and verification of complete tumor resection in breast cancer Nathan C Hall, Stephen P Povoski, Douglas A Murrey, Michael V Knopp, and Edward W Martin, Jr PMCID: PMC2235860 Research A single institution experience of combined modality management of extra skeletal Ewings sarcoma Ramachandran Venkitaraman, Mathew K George, S Ganapathy Ramanan, and TG Sagar PMCID: PMC1781071 Urine carcinoembryonic antigen levels are more useful than serum levels for early detection of Bilharzial and non-Bilharzial urinary bladder carcinoma: Observations of 43 Egyptian cases Gamal M Saied, Wafaa H El-Metenawy, Mohamed S Elwan, and Nazar R Dessouki PMCID: PMC1781943 Patterns of mandibular invasion in oral squamous cell carcinoma of the mandibular region Manoj Pandey, Latha P Rao, Shaima R Das, Anitha Mathews, Elizabeth M Chacko, and BR Naik PMCID: PMC1803788 Role of image-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy in the management of patients with splenic metastasis Luigi Cavanna, Antonio Lazzaro, Daniele Vallisa, Giuseppe Civardi, and Fabrizio Artioli PMCID: PMC1800304 Elastofibroma dorsi – differential diagnosis in chest wall tumours Adrien Daigeler, Peter Maria Vogt, Kay Busch, Werner Pennekamp, Dirk Weyhe, Marcus Lehnhardt, Lars Steinstraesser, Hans-Ulrich Steinau, and Cornelius Kuhnen PMCID: PMC1797045 Sporadic renal cell carcinoma in young and elderly patients: are there different clinicopathological features and disease specific survival rates? Stefan Denzinger, Wolfgang Otto, Maximilian Burger, Christine Hammerschmied, Kerstin Junker, Arndt Hartmann, Wolf F Wieland, and Bernhard Walter PMCID: PMC1797177 Prognostic implications of immunohistochemically detected YKL-40 expression in breast cancer Steve H Kim, Kasturi Das, Shahla Noreen, Frederick Coffman, and Meera Hameed PMCID: PMC1802867 Re-emphasizing the concept of adequacy of intraoperative assessment of the axillary sentinel lymph nodes for identifying nodal positivity during breast cancer surgery Stephen P Povoski, Donn C Young, Michael J Walker, William E Carson, Lisa D Yee, Doreen M Agnese, and William B Farrar PMCID: PMC1797807 Aberrant nuclear localization of β-catenin without genetic alterations in β-catenin or Axin genes in esophageal cancer Junzo Kudo, Tadashi Nishiwaki, Nobuhiro Haruki, Hideyuki Ishiguro, Yasuyuki Shibata, Yukio Terashita, Hironori Sugiura, Noriyuki Shinoda, Masahiro Kimura, Yoshiyuki Kuwabara, and Yoshitaka Fujii PMCID: PMC1808060 Lung cancer in patients with tuberculosis Saulius Cicėnas and Vladislavas Vencevičius PMCID: PMC1805441 The role of MUC1 and MUC3 in the biology and prognosis of colorectal cancer Timothy J Duncan, Nicholas FS Watson, Ahmad H Al-Attar, John H Scholefield, and Lindy G Durrant PMCID: PMC1828734 Factors influencing change of preoperative treatment intent in a gastrointestinal cancer practice Roderich E Schwarz PMCID: PMC1838912 Outcomes of resection for rectal cancer in India: The impact of the double stapling technique Shailesh V Shrikhande, Rajesh R Saoji, Savio G Barreto, Anagha C Kakade, Stephen D Waterford, Sanjay B Ahire, Fahim M Goliwale, and Parul J Shukla PMCID: PMC1839092 Imprint cytology on microcalcifications excised by Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy: A rapid preliminary diagnosis Maria Fotou, Vassiliki Oikonomou, Flora Zagouri, Theodoros N Sergentanis, Afroditi Nonni, Pauline Athanassiadou, Theodora Drouveli, Efstratios atsouris, Evagelia Kotzia, and George C Zografos PMCID: PMC1876235 Resection of the mesopancreas (RMP): a new surgical classification of a known anatomical space Ines Gockel, Mario Domeyer, Tanja Wolloscheck, Moritz A Konerding, and Theodor Junginger PMCID: PMC1865381 Tumours and tumour-like lesions of the lower face at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana – an eight year study Grace EA Parkins, George Armah, and Patrick Ampofo PMCID: PMC1885260 Comparison of short-term outcomes between laparoscopically-assisted vs. transverse-incision open right hemicolectomy for right-sided colon cancer: a retrospective study Varut Lohsiriwat, Darin Lohsiriwat, Vitoon Chinswangwatanakul, Thawatchai Akaraviputh, and Narong Lert-akyamanee PMCID: PMC1876233 Helicobacter pylori in colorectal neoplasms: is there an aetiological relationship? Mary Jones, Peter Helliwell, Colin Pritchard, Joseph Tharakan, and Joseph Mathew PMCID: PMC1885433 Is zero underestimation feasible? 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