Colorectal cancer prognosis twenty years later.

Aim: To evaluate changes in colorectal cancer (CRC) survival over the last 20 years.

Methods: We compared two groups of consecutive CRC patients that were prospectively recruited: Group I included 1990 patients diagnosed between 1980 and 1994. Group II included 871 patients diagnosed in 2001.

[Clinicopathological characteristics and survival outcome of esophageal cancer. Results from a series of 200 patients].

Background And Objective: The esophageal cancer (EC) is a slightly frequent but serious disease. Our aim is to describe the characteristics of the patients with EC in our Hospital.

Patients And Method: We included 200 patients consecutively diagnosed and/or treated for CE between between January, 2003 and December, 2007.

Littoral-cell angioma of the spleen: a case report.

Littoral-cell angioma (LCA) is a primary splenic vascular tumor that arises from the normal littoral cells lining the sinus channels of the splenic red pulp. We report a case of LCA of the spleen, which has been infrequently communicated in the literature. A 76-year-old man with a 2-wk history of weight loss, abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits was admitted to our hospital.