Sacral chordoma: management of a rare disease in a tertiary hospital.

Introduction: Chordoma is a rare malignant bone tumor. The outcome depends on the adequate surgical treatment with complete excision of the tumor with microscopic clear margins.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 13 cases of chordomas operated in our center between 1988 and 2009.

Portal vein arterialization in liver transplantation: an option to restore arterial flow: a case report.

We report a 66-year-old woman who underwent emergency orthotopic liver transplantation due to acute liver failure. The donor's liver graft displayed extensive arteriosclerosis, involving the celiac trunk and hepatic artery. Arterial revascularization of the graft could not be achieved, requiring an arterioportal shunt between the gastroduodenal artery and the portal vein of the recipient.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors: actin expression, a new prognostic factor?

The aim of this study is to analyze the clinical outcome of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) and to determine new prognostic factors. We perform a retrospective study of all the patients diagnosed with GIST in any location and operated on between 2000 and 2008 at our institution. We analyzed 35 patients, 16 males (45.