Impact on liver cancer treatment of a first erroneous diagnosis of hemangioma.

Background: Most liver hemangioma (HA) diagnoses are presumptive and based on radiological features and growth trend. The goal of this study was to analyze the impact of a false diagnosis of hemangioma upon the overall therapeutic course and upon the prognosis of a liver malignancy.

Methods: Twenty-eight patients with liver cancer who were observed in the period 2001-2007 after an initial erroneous diagnosis of HA were retrospectively evaluated.

Sequential multidisciplinary treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: the role of surgery as rescue therapy for failure of percutaneous ablation therapies.

Background And Objectives: The recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after percutaneous ablation is poorly evaluated.

Methods: Thirty-six cases of recurrence after percutaneous ablation (PA) (Group 1) are compared to those after surgery, treated with re-resection (26 patients, Group 2) and PA (31 patients, Group 3).

Results: Recurrence was usually local after PA and distant after resection.

[Mucinous cystic tumour of the pancreas. A case report].

Although cystic neoplasms and lesions of the pancreas are rare (5% of exocrine tumours), they have attracted a great deal of attention because of their potential curability. In contrast to serous cystic neoplasms, which are generally benign, the mucinous variant is known to have considerable malignant potential. Most authorities agree that no imaging technique (US, CT, MRI) is sufficiently accurate to differentiate between the multiple benign, premalignant and malignant lesions that can be visualised.

[Laparoscopic adrenalectomy: an initial experience].

Our aim was to evaluate the short-term results of a series of 65 consecutive laparoscopic adrenalectomies performed on 63 patients with benign or metastatic tumours measuring < or = 7 cm. The surgical indication was primary hyperaldosteronism in 32 cases, pheochromocytoma in 7, Cushing syndrome and disease in 5 and 2 cases, respectively, incidentaloma in 11 and metastasis in 8 cases. The mean tumour size was 3.

Relationship between time interval from primary surgery to the start of taxane- plus platinum-based chemotherapy and clinical outcome of patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: results of a multicenter retrospective Italian study.

Purpose: To assess whether the interval from primary surgery to the start of taxane- plus platinum-based chemotherapy has any impact on the clinical outcome of advanced ovarian cancer patients.

Patients And Methods: The study was conducted on 313 patients who underwent surgery followed by taxane- plus platinum-based chemotherapy. The median follow-up of survivors was 30.