El-Esawy, Basem Hassan Abd El Hafez, Amal Abdelaziz, Amany Mamdouh
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
Mucinous appendiceal tumors (MATs) constitute 0.2-0.3% of appendectomies. This retrospective chart review study determines the incidence of MATs among appendectomies at King Abdul-Aziz Specialist Hospital, Taif City, Saudi Arabia, from January 2009 to December 2014. The clinicopathological features, histopathological criteria, management, outcomes ...
Najafi, Zoya Sharifi, Mohammadreza Javadi, Gholamreza
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
Dysregulation of microRNAs (miRNAs) has been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis and progression of many malignancies. Human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide and the third cause of cancer-related deaths. Recent data suggest that microRNA-23b (miR-23b) is significantly high in different types of cancer,...
Nazemalhosseini-Mojarad, Ehsan Kishani Farahani, Roya Mehrizi, Maryam Baghaei, Kaveh Yaghoob Taleghani, Mohammad Golmohammadi, Mina Peyravian, Noshad Ashtari, Sara Pourhoseingholi, Mohmad Amin Asadzadeh Aghdaei, Hamid
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
To evaluate the prognostic role of BRAF and KRAS mutations after adjustment for microsatellite instability (MSI) in Iranian colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. BRAF and KRAS mutations and MSI status were assessed in 258 Iranian subjects with CRC. Two hundred fifty-eight consecutive stages I-IV CRC patients, who underwent surgical resection of adenoca...
González-Colunga, Karla J Lino-Silva, Leonardo S Salcedo-Hernández, Rosa A Ruiz-García, Erika B Zepeda-Najar, César
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
BRAF evaluation is currently limited to molecular techniques, which are expensive and not widely available to practicing pathologists. Our objective was to determine the diagnostic performance of immunohistochemistry (IHC) against BRAF V600E for BRAF mutation and the secondary objective was determining histopathological characteristics of colon car...
Mafeld, Sebastian Littler, Peter Hayhurst, Hannah Manas, Derek Jackson, Ralph Moir, John French, Jeremy
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
Selective internal radiotherapy (SIRT) with yttrium-90 (Y-90) is an intra-arterial therapy for hepatic malignancy in patients who are unsuitable for surgical resection. This treatment is considered palliative, although some patients can demonstrate a response that is adequate to facilitate surgical resection with curative intent. All patients who u...
Goto, Atsushi Nishikawa, Jun Ito, Shunsuke Hideura, Eizaburou Shirasawa, Tomohiro Hamabe, Koichi Hashimoto, Shinichi Okamoto, Takeshi Sakaida, Isao
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
Moradzadeh, Rahmatollah Anoushirvani, Ali Arash
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
There are remarkable differences between the incidence and mortality of gastric cancer in different places of the world. This study, for the first time, estimated the information around the incidence rates and trends of gastric cancer in the central area of Iran, Arak metropolitan. In this study, all cases with gastric cancer in Arak from 2009 to 2...
Shukla, Sanjeev Kumar Pant, Prabhat Singh, Govind Bhuvan, Shahi, K S
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
Gall stones are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality all over the world and common health problems throughout in developing countries. Cholecystectomy is one of the most common surgical practices and postoperative analysis of cholecystectomy specimen has a great value since histopathological reports may document some entities with sig...
Gal, Oren Feldman, Dan Mari, Amir Baker, Fadi Abu Hebron, Dan Kopelman, Yael
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
Rectal cancer represents a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Staging defines the local and distant extent of the disease, guides management, and predicts prognosis. Different modalities are available for staging including TRUS (transrectal ultrasound), CT (computed tomography), and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). The objective of this study w...
Pandit, Narendra Yadav, Tek Narayan Lacoul, Robal Awale, Laligen
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Journal of gastrointestinal cancer
