Background: Controversy exists over the extent of surgical treatment of papillary thyroid cancer.Reoperations may carry a significant risk of surgical complications. The aim of this study is to investigate the complic...
Background: Radical lymph node dissection (RLND) is the treatment of choice in stage III melanoma patients. Over half of the observed complications were related to post-operative serum collection affecting wound heali...
Aims: The treatment of gastric cancer has changed in the western countries during the last decade. This includes multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, perioperative chemotherapy, extended lymph node dissection, and l...
Background: Preoperative identification of patients with extensive lymph node metastasis (LNM) is important for safe omission of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in sentinel node (SN)-positive (SN+) breast cancer...
Background: We compared cutting and coagulation of a novel ferromagnetic tool (FMwand) with modalities currently used in the clinical setting. Methods: 24 F344 rats with 9L gliosarcoma flank tumours were randomized in...
Introduction: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the predominant neoplastic tumor that occurs in the oral cavity. SCC arising from the maxillary gingiva, hard palate and maxillary alveolus is relatively rare. Since soft...
The field of endoscopy has progressed markedly and become widespread in recent years, and the role of minimally invasive endoscopic treatment has become increasingly more important with the increase in the number of p...
Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the safety and efficacy of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer based on approximately 10 years’ experience. Methods: Endoscopic submucosal dissect...
Gastric cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and it is often diagnosed in an advanced stage. In countries where screening endoscopy is performed widely, early detection is possible. In fact, early gastric cancer...
Objectives: Elective neck treatment of clinically N0 patients in patients with head and neck carcinomas is widely accepted as a standard approach. However, the issue whether elective neck treatment should routinely be...