Capsular Contracture Rate in Augmentation Mammoplasty With Motiva Breast Implant Insertion: A Single-Center Experience in Korea.

Background: Capsular contracture is the most common complication following breast implant surgery, and the implant shell characteristics are important in preventing this complication.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the capsular contracture rate for SmoothSilk Motiva implants (Establishment Labs Holdings Inc., New York, NY) in females who underwent primary and revisional breast augmentation over a 3-year period.

Expression of estrogen receptors in gastric cancer and their clinical significance.

Backgrounds And Objectives: The male predominance of gastric cancer suggests that female sex hormones may have a protective effect against gastric cancer. We evaluated the expression of estrogen receptors in gastric cancer tissue and cells and the clinical significance of ER-β expression in gastric cancer.

Method: ER-α, ER-β proteins extracted from normal stomach, gastric cancer tissues, and cultured gastric cancer cells (KATO-III, mkn28, mkn45, and mkn74) were assessed by Western blot analysis.

Laparoscopic resection of a hepatocellular carcinoma arising from an ectopic liver.

Ectopic livers are rarely seen intra-abdominal lesions. Ectopic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) can be defined as an HCC arising from hepatic parenchyma located in an extrahepatic organ or tissue. The authors report a case of a primary, well-differentiated HCC arising from ectopic liver tissue in the left subphrenic space at the upper portion of the gastrorenal ligament that was successfully treated by laparoscopic resection.

Laparoscopic treatment of a huge cystic lymphangioma: partial aspiration technique with a spinal needle.

A cystic lymphangioma is a rare intra-abdominal lesion. Treatment is a complete excision of the cyst because of complications and a rare chance of malignancy. In this paper we report on 2 patients with a huge cystic lymphangioma who were treated by laparoscopic surgery successfully.

Prognostic factors for advanced gastric cancer: stage-stratified analysis of patients who underwent curative resection.

Purpose: Advanced gastric cancer patients have a poorer prognosis as compared to the patients with early gastric cancer. This study was conducted to define the prognostic factors for advanced gastric cancer.

Materials And Methods: 606 patients with advanced gastric cancer who underwent curative gastric resection at our hospital were retrospectively examined.