Minimal invasive gastric surgery: A systematic review.

Background: As an alternate to open surgery, laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) is currently being performed in many centers, and has gained a wide clinical acceptance. The aim of this review article is to compare oncologic adequacy and safety of LG with open surgery for gastric adenocarcinomas with respect to lymphadenectomy, short-term outcomes (postoperative morbidity and mortality) and long-term outcome (5 years overall survival and disease-free survival).

Materials And Methods: PubMed was searched using query "LG" for literature published in English from January 2000 to April 2014.

A rare case of lacrimal adenoid cystic carcinoma with large hepatic and multiple pulmonary metastases with successful surgical treatment.

Introduction: Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) of the lacrimal gland is rare but with high recurrence rates and late metastases. They occasionally metastasise via haematogenous spread to lungs, brain and bone. Liver is a rare site of metastasis and is usually present with disseminated disease.

Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma Mediastinum - a case report.

Follicular dendritic cell tumor (FDCT) are extremely rare difficult to diagnose category tumors.There has been a considerable controversy in medical community regarding precise classification and optimal management of this tumor with some treating it as a form of non Hodgkins lymphoma and some as soft tissue sarcomas.The number of published cases are still low and documentation too heterogenous to give statistically ified therapeutic recommendation of these tumors.

A review of thymic tumors.

Thymic tumors represent 0.2-1.5 % of all malignancies with an incidence of 0.