{"title":"Intraluminal irradiation in the treatment of malignant airway obstruction.","authors":"P H Kohek, B Pakisch, H Glanzer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A group of 79 patients with non-resectable lung carcinomas (T1, 1; T2, 13; T3, 34; T4, 19; recurrence, 12) underwent endobronchial iridium-192 high-dose rate afterloading therapy (5 Gy/session total dose: 5-25 Gy, mean 11.6 Gy). In 39 cases the fair general condition and absence of metastases allowed external-beam irradiation (EBR) to be administered (50-70 Gy total dose; 2gy/day), starting 1 week after the brachytherapy session. In nine cases with superior vena cava syndrome, EBR (30 Gy total dose; 3 Gy/day) was administered concomitantly. Improvement in symptoms of respiratory obstruction was noted in 87% of our patients. The mean duration of palliation was 17.1 weeks in the group without and 34.7 weeks in that with additional EBR. The median survival time was 6 months without and 13 months with additional EBR. In T4 cases EBR had no impact on the 1-year survival (30.8% vs 24.4%, P > 0.05). The rate of severe complications was 7%, without significant differences between cases with or without EBR.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"674-80"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18989144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De-epithelialized latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flap to reconstruct major chest wall resection after breast carcinoma.","authors":"P Rouanet, P L Giacalone, H Pujol","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two cases of chest wall reconstruction after major resection due to breast carcinoma were reported. De-epithelialized latissimus dorsi musculocutaneous flaps were inserted in the skeletal defect in order to protect the underlying tissue and stabilize the thorax. The de-epidermized skin was anchored to the ribs and the sternum. The interest of this autologous procedure was discussed in relation to prosthetic reconstruction. Ease of use, flexibility and resistance to infection were underlined.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"687-91"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18989147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid presenting as an intratracheal tumour.","authors":"N Paksoy, H Oztürk, A Demircan, M Artvinli","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A case of occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid presenting as an intratracheal tumor in a 64-year-old woman is reported. No lymph node metastases were observed. The patient had an 11-year history of hoarseness, dyspnea and productive cough, and was found at bronchoscopy to have a large intratracheal tumor occupying half of the lumen. It was histologically a papillary carcinoma with immunoreactivity of thyroglobulin. No primary tumor was found in the thyroid gland. By reviewing the English literature, no similar case was encountered.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"694-5"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18989149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pilomatrix carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature.","authors":"G Martelli, R Giardini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pilomatrix carcinomas are malignant uncommon tumors of hair matrix origin. The clinicopathologic features of a case of pilomatrix carcinoma are described and compared with those of the previously reported cases. Because these tumors behave similarly to a basal cell carcinoma, a complete excision is necessary in order to minimize the likelihood of relapse.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"703-4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18993885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basic principles of radiotherapy for surgical oncologists. 6--Patient selection.","authors":"T S Maughan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"705-10"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18534643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How I do it--breast cancer. The psychological management of the patient with early breast cancer.","authors":"S J Leinster","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"711-4"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18993886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of the biomedicus pump in resection of renal carcinoma invading the vena cava.","authors":"A Derom, J De Gols, F Vermassen, F Derom","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors report a 7-year old boy suffering from a renal carcinoma with a tumoral thrombus invading the vena cava. The kidney and the tumoral thrombus were removed with the help of a Biomedicus pump. This paper shows how to avoid a cardiopulmonary bypass procedure in order to perform safely a tumoral thrombectomy with this relatively new technique.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"686-7"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18989146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Stragier, H Van Poppel, V Mertens, K Geboes, L Baert
{"title":"Adenocarcinoma of the rectum with a solitary metastasis to the urethra in a female.","authors":"J Stragier, H Van Poppel, V Mertens, K Geboes, L Baert","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adenocarcinoma of the urethra is extremely rare, constituting 10 to 20% of all primary urethral malignancies in women. As in men, the squamous carcinoma accounts for 70% of all urethral tumours. Adenocarcinomas are mostly primary lesions, originating from the paraurethral glands. A case is reported about a female patient, presenting with a mucinous urethral adenocarcinoma, presumably secondary to a primary rectal adenocarcinoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"696-7"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18989150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Malignant solid tumours in childhood.","authors":"D A Lloyd","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"715-8"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18993887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is the binding of mistletoe lectins I and III a useful prognostic indicator in colorectal carcinoma?","authors":"A Dixon, U Schumacher, U Pfüller, I Taylor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A retrospective study on 127 patients with colorectal carcinoma was performed to evaluate the use of mistletoe lectins I and III as possible prognostic indicators. Tissue sections were stained by a histochemical technique using these lectins and the staining results correlated with survival. No correlation between survival and the presence of lectin binding or non-binding was found. A lectin with the same monosaccharide specificity as ML-III, Helix pomatia agglutinin, which was of prognostic significance in the same patient cohort in another study showed on Western blot analysis a slightly different lectin binding pattern towards glycoproteins than the MLs. The results of this study indicate that even subtle differences in the carbohydrate composition of glycoconjugates which can be differentiated by lectins are of biological significance in terms of the metastatic spread of tumours.</p>","PeriodicalId":519500,"journal":{"name":"European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology","volume":"20 6","pages":"648-52"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18990502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}