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Surgical Technique and Indications for Radical Dissection: Axilla
The main purpose of lymphadenectomy in patients affected by lymph node metastases from melanoma is to provide locoregional control of disease. It is indicated for patients with histo- and/or cytologically prov...
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Surgical Technique and Indications for Radical Dissection: Head and Neck
The main purpose of lymphadenectomy in melanoma patients is to provide locoregional control of disease. It also plays an important role as a staging procedure. Lymph node involvement is diagnosed in different ...
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Management of Other Recurrent Retroperitoneal Sarcomas
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Electrical Resistance of Tumor Tissue during Electroporation: An Ex-Vivo Study on Human Lipomatous Tumors
Electrical properties of human soft tissue lipomatous tumors during electrochemotherapy have been evaluated and the resistance values have been correlated to the histopathological features.
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Peritoneal Carcinomatosis from Colorectal Cancer
In 2012, 447,000 new cases of colorectal cancer (CRC) were reported in Europe [1]. In two large population-based studies, peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) was present in 4.8–8.3 % of all CRC patients [2, 3]. Inc...
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Locoregional Therapies and Surgical Oncology
The natural history of solid neoplasms starts as a confined disease in a specific anatomical area. This period varies greatly in length and involves carcinoma in situ as well as the stage I–II of the disease. ...
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Principles of Gene Microarray Data Analysis
The development of several gene expression profiling methods, such as comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), differential display, serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE), and gene microarray, together wit...
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Multimodal Treatment for Peritoneal Carcinomatosis of Digestive Origin
Peritoneal digestive carcinomatosis (PDC) is considered a short-term fatal condition refractory to standard treatment. Nevertheless, some authors have attempted reappraisal of the concept of incurable disease,...