The value of routine intensive care unit (ICU) admission after minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) has been questioned. This study aimed to investigate Dutch hospital variation regarding length of direct postoperative ICU stay, and the impact of this hospital variation on short-term surgical outcomes. Patients registered in the Dutch Upper Gastr...
We evaluated the significance of lymph node dissection for gastric neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) by calculating the therapeutic value index for each station. This study included 2164 advanced gastric cancer patients (common-type [Common-GC], n = 2125; and gastric NEC [NEC-GC], n = 39). Clinicopathological data were collected, and survival, type of...
The efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for advanced gastric cancer (GC) has recently been revealed. The use of tumor regression grade (TRG) has also been reported, where TRG has been positively correlated with prognosis. However, previous studies included several types of GC and treatments. The prognostic value of TRG in a specific populati...
On October 15th, 2020, the first Surgical National Consensus Conference on neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) was promoted by the Italian Association of Breast Surgeons (ANISC). The Consensus Conference was entirely held online due to anti-Covid-19 restrictions and after an introductory four lectures held by national and international experts in the f...
Whether the extent of residual disease in the sentinel lymph node (SLN) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) influences the prognosis in clinically node-positive breast cancer (BC) patients remains to be ascertained. One hundred and thirty-four consecutive cN+/BC-patients received NAC followed by SLN biopsy and axillary lymph node dissection. Cumul...
To assess the impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on postoperative pathology for stage IB2 and IIA2 cervical squamous cell carcinoma. Postoperative pathology was compared between patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by radical hysterectomy (NACT group) and patients who received upfront radical hysterectomy (URH group). Then, patie...
Achieving negative margins for melanoma in situ, lentigo maligna type can be challenging, particularly on cosmetically sensitive areas. To assess the utility of intraoperative frozen section margin assessment using a teledermatopathology system in the treatment of head and neck lentigo maligna. Over a 6 year period, 96 patients with lentigo maligna...
To evaluate the performances of systematic posttreatment pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (PPMRI) in predicting prognosis of patients treated with chemoradiation therapy (CRT) for locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC). Multi-institutional data from 216 patients presenting FIGO IB2-IIB cervical cancer for which PPMRI was performed following CRT w...
