Radioactive seed localization and wire guided localization in breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: Classically, wire-guided localization (WGL) is used for the localization of non palpable breast lesions. On the other hand, many studies report a newer technique called radioactive seed localization (RSL). The purpose of our study was a systematic review and meta analysis of the two techniques regarding the rate of positive margins and the quantity of excised tissue.

Association Between BRCA Status and P53 Status in Breast Cancer: A Meta-Analysis.

BACKGROUND Research on BRCA mutation has meaningful clinical implications, such as identifying risk of second primary cancers and risk of hereditary cancers. This study seeks to summarize available data to investigate the association between BRCA status and P53 status by meta-analysis. MATERIAL AND METHODS We searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane library databases for relevant studies.

Pregnancy after liver transplantation: four-year follow-up of the first case in mainland China.

The safety and feasibility of pregnancy following liver transplantation (LT) have been accredited in a series of LT center. The first case in mainland China is reported. The follow-up data of a 22-year-old pregnant patient with end-stage liver disease undergone orthotopic liver transplantation were analyzed retrospectively.

[Construction of recombinant adenovirus vector carrying human TIMP-1 cDNA and its expression in vitro].

The full-length cDNA of hTIMP-1 was obtained from a surgical patient with HCC by the method of RT-PCR. Then it was cloned into the adenoviral shuttle plasmid pAdTrack-CMV, and subsequently cotransformed into competent BJ5183 cells with the adenoviral backbone plasmid pAdEasy-1. Thereupon, a recombinant adenoviral plasmid containing full-length cDNA of hTIMP-1 was generated by homologous recombination in E.

Clinicopathological characteristics of 15 patients with combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma.

Background: Combined hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC-CC) is a rare subtype of primary liver cancer, and clinicopathological features of cHCC-CC have seldom been reported in detail. This study was undertaken to explore the diagnosis and clinicopathological characteristics of cHCC-CC in comparison with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CC), respectively.

Methods: The clinical data from 15 patients with cHCC-CC, 132 patients with HCC and 44 patients with CC who had undergone hepatic resection were analyzed retrospectively.

Caudate lobectomy by the third porta hepatis anatomical method: a study of 16 cases.

Background: The treatment for primary tumor in the caudate lobe of the liver is difficult because of its unique anatomical location. This study was undertaken to improve operative techniques and results by a new anatomical method of caudate lobectomy.

Methods: Clinical data of 16 patients who had had caudate lobectomy for the liver from January 1996 to November 2004 were retrospectively analyzed.