Feasibility of radical gastrointestinal tumor resection with simultaneous off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery for patients with severe heart problems: A retrospective cohort study from a single institutional database.

Purpose: Clinical treatment of gastrointestinal neoplasms in patients with severe coronary stenosis is difficult, and it remains controversial to perform staged or simultaneous surgeries. The purpose of this study was to retrospectively analyze the feasibility and indications for simultaneous gastrointestinal tumor resection and off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) graft surgery.

Methods: Data collected from a total of five patients, including three patients with gastric cancer and two patients with colorectal cancer, who underwent simultaneous radical cancer resection and OPCAB between September 2010 and October 2019, were retrospectively analyzed.

A Recurrence Predictive Model for Thymic Tumors and Its Implication for Postoperative Management: a Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas Database Study.

Objective: Our aim was to investigate appropriate postoperative management based on the risk of disease recurrence in thymic epithelial tumors after complete resection.

Methods: The Chinese Alliance for Research in Thymomas retrospective database was reviewed. Patients having stage I to IIIa tumors without pretreatment and with complete resection were included.

Long-Term Survival After Surgical Treatment of Thymic Carcinoma: A Retrospective Analysis from the Chinese Alliance for Research of Thymoma Database.

Background: Thymic carcinoma is a type of rare and highly malignant tumor that originates from the thymic epithelium. Treatment and prognosis of thymic carcinoma remain controversial. We retrospectively analyzed survival data from a large-sample multicenter database in China.

Tumour length is an independent prognostic factor of esophageal squamous cell carcinomas.

Background: The latest version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) TNM staging system has not comprehensively evaluated the impact of tumour length on survival in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Our study explored the relationship between tumour length and clinicopathological characteristics as well as long-term survival.

Methods: All 202 cases of esophageal resections done from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2008 in Huashan Hospital, Fudan University were reviewed and followed up.

The significance of MAGED4 expression in non-small cell lung cancer as analyzed by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR.

The aim of this study was to detect differences in the expression levels of melanoma-associated antigen D4 (MAGED4) mRNA between non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tissues and normal tissues, and to compare differences in the expression levels of MAGED4 in tumor patients. Patients were grouped according to age, gender, smoking history, tumor size, pathological classification, degree of lung cancer cell differentiation and presence of lymph node metastasis. The expression levels of MAGED4 were detected using real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR.

Application of the titanium plate fixation system in sternum transverse incisions.

The purpose of this study was to review the application of the titanium plate fixation system in sternum transverse incisions and assess its advantages over the conventional methods of steel wire fixation. Sternal healing of 249 patients who underwent a thymectomy and/or excision of the thymoma with a transverse sternal incision was compared between patients who underwent titanium plate fixation or steel wire fixation. Short-term results: The stability of the sternum was significantly superior in the titanium plate group compared with the steel wire group (P < 0.

Deployment of self-expanding metallic stents under fluoroscopic guidance in patients with malignant esophagorespiratory fistula.

Background/aims: Stent deployment for the treatment of ERFs is typically performed under endoscopic guidance. Our aim was to evaluate self-expanding metallic stent placement under fluoroscopic guidance.

Methodology: The records of six patients who underwent self-expanding metallic stent placement under fluoroscopic guidance for the treatment of ERFs were reviewed.