A meta-analysis of serum cancer antigen 125 array for diagnosis of ovarian cancer in Chinese.

Objective: To further evaluation the diagnosis accuracy of serum cancer antigen 125 (CA125) in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer in Chinese patients.

Materials And Methods: The PubMed, Wanfang and CNKI databases were electric searched and relevant diagnosis trials were reviewed and finally included in this meta-analysis. The diagnosis sensitivity, specificity, positive likely hood ratio (+LR), negative likely hood ratio (-LR), diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) and receiver operating characteristic curve were pooled by Meta DiSc 1.

Izalpinin from fruits of Alpinia oxyphylla with antagonistic activity against the rat bladder contractility.

Background: Alpinia oxyphylla (Zingiberaceae), an herbaceous perennial plant, its capsular fruit is commonly used in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of different urinary incontinence symptoms including frequency, urgency and nocturia. These symptoms are similar to the overactive bladder syndrome. In our lab, we found that the 95% ethanol extract of the capsular fruits exhibited significant anti-muscarinic activity.

[Surgical results of T4 lung cancer invading left atrium and great vessels].

Objective: To analyzed the indication and prognostic factors of surgical treatment of lung cancer invading left atrium and great vessels (T4).

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the database of 136 T4 lung cancer (tumors invading left atrium and great vessels) patients who received surgical treatment in Cancer Hospital of Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS) from September 1981 to January 2007. There are 114 men and 22 women, the median age was 58 years (range 28 - 76).

[Surgical therapeutic strategy for non-small cell lung cancer with (N2) mediastinal lymph node metastasis].

Objective: To evaluate the surgical therapeutic strategy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with (N2) mediastinal lymph node metastasis.

Methods: The clinical data of 325 patients with N2 NSCLC treated surgically between 1961 and 1995 were analysed.

Results: The over-all 5-year survival rate was 19.

[Comparison of clinical and surgico-pathological TNM stage of 2007 lung cancer patients].

Objective: An accurate clinical TNM staging of lung cancer is essential for the precise determination of the extent of the disease in order that an optimal therapeutic strategy can be planned. This is especially true in patients with marginally resectable tumors. Clinical over-staging of the disease may deny a patient the benefit of surgery, whereas under-staging may oblige a patient to accept a fruitless or even harmful surgery.

[Clinical analysis of surgical treatment of primary tracheal tumors].

Objective: To summarize the clinical experiences in treating primary tracheal tumors by surgery.

Methods: The clinical data concerning 70 surgically treated patients between 1968 and 2001 were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: There were 39 sleeve tracheal resections, 13 carinal resections, 10 lateral tracheal wall resections, 5 local enucleations, and 1 pneumonectomy.