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Tailor made blanks for the aerospace industry
The concept of Tailor Welded Blanks is well known in the automotive industry. This concept is used for aluminium parts in the aerospace industry, although for machined parts and parts using other joining metho...
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Open AccessOptimal treatment strategy in extremely elderly patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
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Central Pancreatectomy
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Exercise Capacity in Young Patients After Total Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot
Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease. Measurement of physical activity is usually performed as a routine part of the patient's cardiac evaluation. The aim of this s...
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Intermediate results of extended pancreaticoduodenectomy. Verona experience
Background. Extended pancreaticoduodenectomy (EPD) with retroperitoneal lymphatic, neural, and connective clearance has been proposed to improve survival in patients with carcinomas of the head of the pancreas. ...
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Molecular pathogenesis of sporadic duodenal cancer
Whether duodenal adenocarcinoma should be considered as a gastrointestinal or as a peripancreatic cancer is a matter of debate, as is the opportunity and type of treatment. We investigated 12 such cancers for ...
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Papillary cystic neoplasm of the pancreas: Radiological findings
We report a series of 10 papillary cystic neoplasms of the pancreas evaluated in our institution. The lesions are analyzed in retrospect to define the existence of eventual specific imaging patterns as well as...
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Staging of pancreatic cancer: Suggestions for a simplified, reliable modification of the TNM classification system
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Genetic Alterations in Different Countries
Ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas is one of the most malignant neoplastic diesease in humans. Large variations in its incidence are found among different Countries [1]. In Italy, regional variations rangin...
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Surgical Treatment
It was only some 15 years ago that we first had an organic histological characterization of pancreatic cystic tumours with a more accurate definition of the relationships between morphology and clinical course...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pathology
Cystic tumors of the pancreas have been considered rare lesions, representing 1% of all malignant neoplasms of the pancreas [19] and 10% of all pancreatic cysts [19, 54]. The increasing number of these lesions...
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Expression of progesterone receptors in solid-cystic tumour of the pancreas
A role for sex hormones in the pathogenesis of solid-cystic tumour (SCT) of the pancreas is suggested by its predilection for young fertile women. Controversial data have been provided for the presence of prog...