This study reports a case of a SFT of the peritoneum in a 44-year-old white man that recurred 3 years after the initial surgical removal of the tumour. The patient recurred diffusely, developing a pattern of sarcomatosis and hepatic metastasis and was treated by surgical cytoreduction followed by intraoperative peritoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHC). Subsequently, he developed pulmonary metastases and was treated with palliative chemotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare development of thyroid cancer with a no negligible mortality rate. Our aim was to determine factors that predict outcome in patients with MTC.
Methods: We reviewed the records of all patients with MTC (n=56) who underwent treatment at our institution between January 1990 and December 2000.
Introduction: Breast cancer with metastatic sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) may have clinico-pathologic factors associated with the presence of positive non-sentinel axillary nodes (NSLN). The aim of the present study was to determine factors that predict involvement of NSLN in breast cancer patients with positive SLN.
Material And Methods: A prospective database search identified 80 patients who underwent SLN biopsy for invasive breast cancer between January 1999 and August 2002.
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