0. DOCID:23352 SCORE: 0.00279657850368443
DOCNO: 7579681
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Colectomy
DESCRIPTOR: Laparoscopy
QUALIFIER: surgery
QUALIFIER: surgery
QUALIFIER: surgery
AUTHOR: M Fodera M
AUTHOR: M J Pello MJ
AUTHOR: U Atabek U
AUTHOR: R K Spence RK
AUTHOR: J B Alexander JB
AUTHOR: R C Camishion RC
AFFILIATION: Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, Cooper Hospital/University Medical Center, USA.
PUBTYPE: Case Reports
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Journal of laparoendoscopic surgery.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Trocar site tumor recurrence after laparoscopic-assisted colectomy.
PUBDATE: 19950801
As a variety of procedures become technically feasible with laparoscopic techniques, it becomes increasingly important to appropriately select the patients who will benefit from the laparoscopic approach. We report the case of a patient with Dukes C2 colon cancer treated by laparoscopic-assisted sigmoid colectomy who subsequently developed an abdominal wall recurrence at a trocar site scar. The case raises some concerns about the use of the laparoscopic technique in the surgical management of colon cancer.

1. DOCID:23956 SCORE: 0.00273741426866858
DOCNO: 7658541
AUTHOR: J Baniel J
AUTHOR: R S Foster RS
AUTHOR: L H Einhorn LH
AUTHOR: J P Donohue JP
AFFILIATION: Department of Urology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis 46202-5250, USA.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: The Journal of urology.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Late relapse of clinical stage I testicular cancer.
PUBDATE: 19951001
PURPOSE: The clinical presentation and treatment of late recurrence (2 or more years after initial management) of testis cancer are defined. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective search was performed to identify patients treated for late relapse at our university from 1979 to 1992 who had initially presented with clinical stage 1 disease. RESULTS: We treated 35 patients with chemotherapy for late relapse. No patient has remained disease-free with chemotherapy alone. Subsequent surgery resulted in 43% of the patients being currently disease-free. CONCLUSIONS: The treatment of late relapse is surgical. Chemotherapy before late relapse for low volume disease does not uniformly prevent late recurrence.

2. DOCID:23714 SCORE: 0.00250435760320092
DOCNO: 9373592
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
AUTHOR: J D Evans JD
AUTHOR: D G Morton DG
AUTHOR: J P Neoptolemos JP
AFFILIATION: University Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Postgraduate medical journal.
COUNTRY: ENGLAND
TITLE: Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic carcinoma.
PUBDATE: 19970901
The differential diagnosis between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis is very important as the management and prognosis of these two diseases is different. In most patients with pancreatic disease, the diagnosis can be established but there is a subgroup of patients in whom it is difficult to differentiate between these conditions because the clinical presentation is often similar and currently available diagnostic tests may be unable to distinguish between an inflammatory or neoplastic pancreatic mass. This paper reviews the aetiology, pathology and clinical features of these diseases and discusses the limitations of conventional diagnostic methods and how newer techniques may be of value in the differential diagnosis.

3. DOCID:18182 SCORE: 0.00236257726839165
DOCNO: 1430885
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: prevention & control
QUALIFIER: methods
QUALIFIER: standards
AUTHOR: C J Baines CJ
AFFILIATION: Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Journal of gerontology.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Physical examination of the breasts in screening for breast cancer.
PUBDATE: 19921101
No currently available evidence from breast cancer screening studies provides strong justification for the implementation of screening in elderly females. Because it is an absence of evidence rather than negative evidence which pertains, it is concluded that if screening is introduced it should include both mammography and clinical examination of the breasts because the two complement one another. As well, stringent quality control procedures are required for both modalities. It is possible that clinical examination of the breasts performed by a nurse-examiner will enhance compliance with screening schedules.

4. DOCID:22524 SCORE: 0.00224259623589999
DOCNO: 9505220
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
AUTHOR: P Fracasso P
AUTHOR: R Caviglia R
AUTHOR: A Grassi A
AUTHOR: R Lapenta R
AUTHOR: V Stigliano V
AUTHOR: D Franco D
AUTHOR: V Casale V
AFFILIATION: Service of Digestive Endoscopy, Istituto Regina Elena, Rome, Italy.
PUBTYPE: Case Reports
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR.
COUNTRY: ITALY
TITLE: Turcot syndrome: case report and nosological aspects.
PUBDATE: 19971201
The Turcot syndrome has been defined as the simultaneous presence of multiple polyposis of the colon and a malignant brain tumor. This association is supposed to be genetically transmitted, even though we still do not exactly know whether this occurs in a dominant or recessive way. The case of a 47-year-old man submitted to a right hemicolectomy for cancer and polyposis, following a series of endoscopic polypectomies and, finally, removal of left temporal glioma is here presented.

5. DOCID:18949 SCORE: 0.00204597329344711
DOCNO: 1507439
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Methicillin Resistance
QUALIFIER: microbiology
QUALIFIER: microbiology
QUALIFIER: drug effects
AUTHOR: R Sugita R
AFFILIATION: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Juntendo Urayasu Hospital, Juntendo University School of Medicine.
PUBTYPE: Case Reports
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Nippon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine.
COUNTRY: JAPAN
TITLE: [MRSA infections in otorhinolaryngology]
PUBDATE: 19920501
Infections caused by MRSA in otorhinolaryngology were evaluated in this study. From October 1990 to the end of September 1991, MRSA was detected in one hospitalized patient and 14 outpatients of the otorhinolaryngology department. MRSA was detected in the tonsils of five patients other patients--including four with cancer and other underlying diseases. In two of the four patients with chronic otitis media, otorrhea was stopped by disinfecting external ear toxin. Osteomyelitis of the upper jaw in neonates and infants must be treated in consideration of MRSA, as it is a hospital infection caused by cephem-resistant Staphylococcus.

6. DOCID:23393 SCORE: 0.00194246646083289
DOCNO: 9330407
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: therapeutic use
QUALIFIER: drug therapy
QUALIFIER: drug therapy
AUTHOR: N Murray N
AFFILIATION: University of British Columbia, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Oncology (Williston Park, N.Y.)
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: New drugs for small-cell lung cancer.
PUBDATE: 19970901
Better efficacy of chemotherapy for small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) has not been convincingly demonstrated despite many investigations examining increased drug delivery and enhancement of drug diversity. Improvements in the median- and long-term survival of patients with limited SCLC have been shown, but this change is more closely associated with better integration of chemoradiation than with more effective chemotherapy or radiotherapy components. Recently, a number of new active drugs have been identified for treating patients with SCLC. These drugs include the taxanes, the camptothecins, and gemcitabine. Determining the role of each new agent will require carefully designed and conducted trials like those now in progress.

7. DOCID:18355 SCORE: 0.00193127931104582
DOCNO: 2039954
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Catheters, Indwelling
DESCRIPTOR: Stents
QUALIFIER: instrumentation
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: therapy
AUTHOR: R Gray R
AUTHOR: M Rooney M
AUTHOR: H Grosman H
AFFILIATION: Department of Radiology, Wellesley Hospital, Toronto, Ont.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Canadian Association of Radiologists journal = Journal l'Association canadienne des radiologistes.
COUNTRY: CANADA
TITLE: Indwelling angiographic catheters to facilitate placement of ureteric stents.
PUBDATE: 19910401
In 16 of 191 patients the initial attempt to place a double-pigtail internal ureteric stent by conventional methods was unsuccessful. These patients had cancers of the rectum (nine patients), bladder (two patients), vagina (one patient), cervix (one patient) or spermatic cord (one patient) or radiation strictures (two patients). When a guide wire could be advanced beyond the stricture, placement of a small angiographic catheter for 7 to 10 days allowed delayed placement of the stent in all but one case.

8. DOCID:21557 SCORE: 0.00182305604040849
DOCNO: 8773506
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: therapy
AUTHOR: P Lillis P
AUTHOR: I M Thompson IM
AFFILIATION: Department of Radiology, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, USA.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Hematology/oncology clinics of North America.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Should asymptomatic progression following definitive local treatment for prostate cancer be treated?
PUBDATE: 19960601
Asymptomatic progression following definitive therapy for prostate cancer can take the form of a detectable prostate-specific antigen (PSA) or local recurrence following radical prostatectomy or a rising PSA or palpable recurrence following radiotherapy. Options for treatment include hormonal therapy, radiotherapy, salvage surgery, and experimental therapies. Although such forms of treatment have known effects on intermediate endpoints, such as reduction of PSA, the overall effect on survival and quality of life is uncertain.

9. DOCID:21960 SCORE: 0.00182210786920574
DOCNO: 7709895
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: pathology
QUALIFIER: secondary
AUTHOR: P R Cohen PR
AFFILIATION: University of Texas Medical School at Houston, USA.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: American family physician.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Skin clues to primary and metastatic malignancy.
PUBDATE: 19950401
A new or unusual skin lesion may be the first sign of an internal malignancy, a primary skin cancer or a cutaneous metastasis of carcinoma in another site. Patients with carcinoma that has metastasized to the skin commonly present with lesions in the area overlying the neoplasm, but the morphology, pattern and distribution of cutaneous metastases may vary. Patients with sarcoma, leukemia or lymphoma may also initially present with cutaneous lesions, or lesions may develop later in the course of the disease. Biopsies of suspicious lesions should always be performed.

10. DOCID:23548 SCORE: 0.00182153331925499
DOCNO: 8740564
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: ADP Ribose Transferases
DESCRIPTOR: Virulence Factors
QUALIFIER: therapeutic use
AUTHOR: D Fitzgerald D
AFFILIATION: Laboratory of Molecular Biology, DBS, NCI, Bethesda, MD 20892-4255, USA.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
PUBTYPE: Review
JOURNALTITLE: Seminars in cancer biology.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Why toxins!
PUBDATE: 19960401
Toxins are potent cytotoxic proteins which gain access to the interior of mammalian cells by receptor-mediated endocytosis. However, the trafficking pathways within mammalian cells are complex and toxins must be processed to active forms while avoiding degradation by the lysosomal system. Once delivered to an appropriate intracellular location, the active toxin fragment translocates to the cell cytosol and inhibits protein synthesis. Chimeric toxins are constructed by removing the toxins natural binding domain and replacing it with an antibody or cell-binding ligand that redirects cell killing activity to cancer cells. Gaining an understanding of how toxins manoeuvre within cells is vital for improving the effectiveness of chimeric toxins.

11. DOCID:23481 SCORE: 0.00181942602838027
DOCNO: 9273210
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
QUALIFIER: diagnosis
AUTHOR: C Brzozowski C
AUTHOR: T Krzeski T
AUTHOR: A Borówka A
AFFILIATION: Katedry i Kliniki Urologii Instytutu AM w Warszawie.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Polski merkuriusz lekarski : organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Lekarskiego.
COUNTRY: POLAND
TITLE: [Analysis of clinical symptoms of renal clear cell carcinoma]
PUBDATE: 19961101
An analysis of the clinical symptoms has been carried out in the group of 110 patients who underwent nephrectomy for a clear-cell carcinoma. Total hematuria (47.3% of patients) has been a predominant symptom of the tumour. Pain felt in the back has been noted in 39.1% of patients. Palpable tumour has been noted in 34.5% of patients. Such symptoms have been present simultaneously (Israel's triad) in 12.3% of patients. Tumour has been diagnosed accidentally, mainly with USG, in 37.3% of patients. It has been found that classic clinical symptoms of this cancer are nowadays less frequent than before introducing ultrasound examination.

12. DOCID:23390 SCORE: 0.00181942581278642
DOCNO: 7603429
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
QUALIFIER: mortality
QUALIFIER: mortality
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report.
COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
TITLE: Pneumonia and influenza death rates--United States, 1979-1994.
PUBDATE: 19950701
The combined cause-of-death category pneumonia and influenza (P&I) (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, codes 480-487) ranks as the sixth leading cause of death in the United States following heart disease, cancer, stroke, unintentional injuries, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Changes in the epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other recognized respiratory pathogens, the increasing occurrence of drug-resistant microorganisms, and the detection of new respiratory pathogens have heightened awareness of the public health importance of severe respiratory infections. To characterize the epidemiology of P&I deaths in the United States, CDC further analyzed underlying and multiple cause-of-death mortality files for 1979-1994. This report summarizes the results of this analysis.

13. DOCID:18397 SCORE: 0.0017104050501229
DOCNO: 8377720
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Parenteral Nutrition, Home
QUALIFIER: therapy
AUTHOR: P Schauder P
AUTHOR: D Sailer D
AUTHOR: J M Müller JM
AFFILIATION: Abteilung für Gastroenterologie und Endokrinoloige der Medizinischen Universitätsklinik Göttingen.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983)
COUNTRY: GERMANY
TITLE: [Total parenteral nutrition in the home of 498 patients with tumor diseases]
PUBDATE: 19930701
Results of home parenteral nutrition in cancer patients were evaluated by analyzing files from 498 individuals. The predominant malignancies were cancer of the stomach (44% in men, 29% in women), the colon or the ovaries, respectively. Most patients (71%) admitted to home parenteral nutrition were severely malnourished, based on a Broca-Index of 0.8 or less. The majority (78%) of these subjects gained weight while on home parenteral nutrition. The remainder 22% continued to loose weight. Median survival was 64 (one to 720) days.

14. DOCID:19448 SCORE: 0.00170574230514539
DOCNO: 1851904
OWNER: NLM
STATUS: MEDLINE
DESCRIPTOR: Aging
QUALIFIER: adverse effects
QUALIFIER: drug effects
QUALIFIER: drug therapy
QUALIFIER: adverse effects
QUALIFIER: drug therapy
QUALIFIER: chemically induced
AUTHOR: F Oshita F
AUTHOR: T Shinkai T
AUTHOR: T Miya T
AUTHOR: A Kojima A
AUTHOR: Y Ohe Y
AUTHOR: T Tamura T
AUTHOR: Y Sasaki Y
AUTHOR: K Eguchi K
AUTHOR: N Saijo N
AFFILIATION: Department of Internal Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo.
PUBTYPE: Journal Article
JOURNALTITLE: Nihon Ky¿bu Shikkan Gakkai zasshi.
COUNTRY: JAPAN
TITLE: [The relation between myelotoxicity and performance status or aging in chemotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer]
PUBDATE: 19910201
One hundred eighty six patients of non-small cell lung cancer treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy were analyzed. Significant incidence of anemia was observed in PS 2-3 patients as compared to PS 0-1 cases. Incidence of thrombocytopenia was significant in cases 70 or more years old as compared those less than 50 years old. No correlation was detected between myelotoxicity and aging.