Transplanting Marginal Organs in the Era of Modern Machine Perfusion and Advanced Organ Monitoring.

Organ transplantation is undergoing profound changes. Contraindications for donation have been revised in order to better meet the organ demand. The use of lower-quality organs and organs with greater preoperative damage, including those from donation after cardiac death (DCD), has become an established routine but increases the risk of graft malfunction.

Skin implant metastasis after percutaneous radio-frequency therapy of liver metastasis of a colorectal carcinoma.

Percutaneous radio-frequency ablation (RFA) of liver tumors has been reported to be an effective approach. Skin implant metastases have been described after RFA of hepatocellular carcinoma. A 56-year-old man underwent resection of the transverse colon for an adenocarcinoma (pT3N2M0) following by adjuvant chemotherapy.

Experience with 100 combined pancreatic renal transplantations in a single center.

Compared to the still increasing number of kidney, liver and heart transplants performed worldwide, pancreas transplantation remains a rare occurrence. At our center a pancreas transplant program was began in late 1979. Since then a total of 113 pancreas transplants were performed in 106 patients, 100 of them also received a kidney from the same donor.

Quantitative nuclear DNA content in fine needle aspirates of pancreatic cancer.

The quantitative nuclear DNA content of nuclei from fine needle aspirations from 70 patients with pancreatic cancer was measured using an image analyser system. Retrospective analysis of patients indicated that cases with tumour stemlines in the diploid region had the best chance for radical surgery (p less than 0.006) and the best probability of survival (p less than 0.