Pancreas preserving surgery for duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor removal.

Background: We reported our experience with high-risk, non-metastatic second portion duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)s in patients who underwent 1-month neoadjuvant cycles with imatinib therapy followed by pancreas-preserving surgery and 12-month of adjuvant chemotherapic regimen including imatinib. This study was conducted to evaluate the short and long-term results.

Methods: The study was conducted between January 2010 and May 2015.

Epidermal inclusion cyst of the breast: A literature review.

An epidermal inclusion cyst (EIC) of the breast is a rare, benign condition that may potentially be malignant. The present study conducted a systematic review of the literature in order to identify pathological hypotheses, clinical characteristics, and diagnostic and treatment options. A search for relevant studies was conducted through the Scopus, Embase and Medline databases during September 2014.

Peliosis hepatis: Personal experience and literature review.

Peliosis hepatis (PH) is a disease characterized by multiple and small, blood-filled cysts within the parenchymatous organs. PH is a very rare disease, more common in adults, and when it affects the liver, it comes to the surgeon's attention only in an extremely urgent situation after the lesion's rupture with the resulting hemoperitoneum. This report describes the case of a 29-year-old woman affected by recurring abdominal pain.

Surgery for symptomatic colon lipoma: a systematic review of the literature.

Aim: Isolated colon lipomas are rare benign tumors. We herein conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify clinical characteristic, diagnostic and treatment options.

Materials And Methods: A search for relevant studies was conducted in Scopus, Embase and Medline databases until the end of May 2014.

Surgical considerations for removal of giant tumor of the right adrenal.

Background/aim: Complete surgical removal is the only potentially curative approach for adrenal tumors. Our series of patients affected with giant right adrenal tumors, as well as the open surgical modalities used to obtain a complete tumor resection with safe vascular control were analyzed.

Materials And Methods: Nine patients (mean age=57 years) affected with a giant right adrenal tumor who underwent open surgical removal of the mass form the basis of the present analysis.

Surgical treatment of pheochromocytoma in MEN 2.

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) is a rare autosomal dominant cancer syndrome. Forty to fifty percent of patients with MEN 2A develops pheochromocytoma. Surgeons treating these patients with pheochromocytoma have always been faced with question of whether to perform mono-or bilateral adrenalectomy and the timing of surgical intervention.

A rare case of malignant epithelioid angiomyolipoma in multiple locations: multifocal disease or metastases?

Background: Perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas), make up a family of extremely rare mesenchymal neoplasms, with characteristic morphological, immunohistochemical and molecular findings. Malignant PEComas and gastrointestinal epithelioid angiomyolipoma (E-AML) are especially rare. To the best of our knowledge E-AML have not been found in the breast.

Usefulness of harmonic focus during axillary lymph node dissection: a prospective study.

Background: Axillary node dissection (ALND) is affected by various complications, (hematoma, seroma, lymphocele, infections). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Harmonic Focus (HF) in reducing these complications.

Materials And Methods: 92 patients requiring ALND, were divided into two group: Group A (HF) (33 women, 14 men), and Group B (control) (28 women, 17 men).