Publications by authors named "Idunn Nesvik"
The number of lymph nodes retrieved from the specimen may be a surrogate measure of the adequacy of extensive colon cancer surgery, but many variables may influence the total lymph node yield of any specimen. We examined which variables would be influential both for negative and positive node sampling.The combined results from 428 patients from three hospitals A to C treated in 2007-2009 with single colon cancers having R0 segmental resections were analysed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The number of lymph nodes retrieved and examined from a resected colon cancer specimen may be crucial for correct staging. We examined if efforts to increase the lymph node harvest to more than 12 lymph nodes per specimen would upstage some patients from TNM stage II to III.
Methods: Three hospitals compared results from 2000 with those of 2007 in 421 resected patients with stage II and III colon cancer.
Background: A national surveillance program of colon cancer treatment was introduced in 2007. We examined prognostic factors for colon cancer operated in 2000 with an aim of improving survival in the new program and a special focus on the merit of lymph node yield.
Methods: A cohort of 269 patients, 152 women (56.
Objective: To find out whether failure of primary wound healing after excision and primary suture for chronic pilonidal sinus predicts recurrence.
Design: Follow-up of one prospective study and one subsequent randomised, multicentre study.
Setting: Three teaching hospitals in WesternNorway.