A Regressive Model to Study the Hospitalization for Laparoscopic Appendectomy: A Multicenter Study.

Appendicitis is a most common abdominal condition worldwide, and appendectomy especially laparoscopic appendectomy is among the most commonly performed general surgeries. In this study, data were collected from patients who underwent laparoscopic appendectomy surgery at the Evangelical Hospital "Betania" in Naples, Italy. Linear multiple regression was used to obtain a simple predictor that can also assess which of the independent variables considered to be a risk factor.

Inflammatory and nutritional status is a predictor of long-term outcome in patients undergoing surgery for gastric cancer. Validation of the Naples prognostic score.

Purpose: Oncological outcome depends not only on tumor behaviour but also on nutritional and immune-inflammatory host status. Data in gastric cancer are limited. The main aim of this study was to prospectively assess Naples prognostic score (NPS) in gastric cancer patients.

Indocyanine Green Fluorescence Imaging-Guided Surgery in Primary and Metastatic Liver Tumors.

Background: After surgery for liver tumors, recurrence rates remain high because of residual positive margins or undiagnosed lesions. It has been suggested that detection of hepatic tumors can be obtained with near-infrared fluorescence imaging (FI). Indocyanine green (ICG) has been used with contrasting results.

Fluorescence-Guided Surgery in the Combined Treatment of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis from Colorectal Cancer: Preliminary Results and Considerations.

Background: Indocyanine green (ICG) is a near-infrared fluorescent contrast agent, which preferentially accumulates in cancer tissue. The aim of our study was to investigate the role of fluorescence imaging (FI) with ICG (ICG-FI) for detecting peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) from colorectal cancer (CRC).

Methods: Four CRC patients with PC scheduled for cytoreductive surgery + hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy were enrolled in this prospective study.

Preoperative Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio and Lymphocyte to Monocyte Ratio are Prognostic Factors in Gastric Cancers Undergoing Surgery.

Background: Cancer outcome is considered to result from the interplay of several factors, among which host inflammatory and immune status are deemed to play a significant role. The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio (LMR) have been profitably used as surrogate markers of host immunoinflammatory status and have also been shown to correlate with outcome in several human tumors. However, only a few studies on these biomarkers have been performed in gastric cancer patients, yielding conflicting results.