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Gaurav Agarwal
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General Surgery
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Commentary: Outcomes of Metaplastic Breast Cancer vs. Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
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Cost-Efficacy Analysis of Use of Frozen Section Histology for Margin Assessment During Breast Conservation Surgery in Breast Cancer Patients
Margin assessment is an essential component of breast conservation surgery (BCS). Re-excision of infiltrated margin(s) detected on paraffin section histology (PSH) needs reoperation, adding time, inconvenience...
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Predictive and Prognostic Role of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Patients with Advanced Breast Cancer Treated with Primary Systemic Therapy
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are gaining recognition as an important immunological biomarker with therapeutic potential in breast cancer. In this cohort study conducted on patients with advanced breas...
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Cardiac Changes and Their Reversal Following Curative Surgery in Pheochromocytoma: PheoCard Prospective Cohort Study
Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) are catecholamine producing tumors of chromaffin cell origin, known to cause varied cardiovascular manifestations from hypertension to myocardial infarction. This stud...
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Making the Cut: Parathyroidectomy Before or After Kidney Transplantation?
Hyperparathyroidism is common in patients with end-stage kidney disease and may persist after kidney transplantation (KT). Parathyroidectomy (PTx) is curative, but whether PTx should be performed before or aft...
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Clinical, Biochemical, Tumoural and Mutation Profile of VHL- and MEN2A-Associated Pheochromocytoma: A Comparative Study
To compare clinical, biochemical, tumoural and mutational characteristics of Von Hippel Lindau Syndrome (VHL)-associated pheochromocytoma (PCC) to multiple endocrine neoplasia 2A (MEN2A)-associated pheochromoc...
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Letter to the Editor: The Impact of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy on Margin Re-excision in Breast-Conserving Surgery
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Hereditary Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Genotype, Phenotype and Outcomes in a North Indian Cohort
Aggressiveness of hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma (hMTC) has been conventionally described to correlate with American Thyroid Association (ATA) risk groups based on RET mutations. Recent evidence increasin...
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Pediatric Primary Hyperparathyroidism: Experience in a Tertiary Care Referral Center in a Develo** Country Over Three Decades
There is limited experience in managing pediatric primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical presentation and outcome of surgery in children with PHPT managed at a te...
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Endoscopic versus Conventional Thyroid Surgery: A Comparison of Quality of Life, Cosmetic Outcomes and Overall Patient Satisfaction with Treatment
Our aim was to investigate whether the surgical approach, i.e. endoscopic (ET) versus conventional/open thyroidectomy (ConT), contributes towards the improvement in quality of life (QoL), cosmetic outcomes and...
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Low-cost Fluorescein as an Alternative to Radio-colloid for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy—a Prospective Validation Study in Early Breast Cancer
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) using radio-pharmaceutical (RP) and a blue dye is gold standard for axillary staging in clinically node-negative early breast cancer. High costs and limited availability of RP...
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Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma and poorly differentiated area in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: is there any difference?
Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma (PDTC) patients have worse outcomes than patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), but the implication of poorly differentiated areas (PDAs) noted in DTC is ...
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Changing Profile of Primary Hyperparathyroidism Over Two and Half Decades: A Study in Tertiary Referral Center of North India
Most of the cases of PHPT in develo** countries present in symptomatic stage, some even in very advanced stage but in recent years the trend seems to be changing. This has been corroborated from few recently...
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Prospective Randomized Trial of Use of In-House Prepared Low-Cost Radiopharmaceutical Versus Commercial Radiopharmaceutical for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Early Stage Invasive Breast Cancer
The current standard-of-care for surgical staging of the axilla in clinically node-negative (N0) early breast cancers is sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), which requires expensive radiopharmaceuticals for eff...
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Surgical Outcomes of Primary Versus Post-Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Breast Conservation Surgery: A Comparative Study from a Develo** Country
In India and other develo** countries, breast conservation surgery (BCS) rates in breast cancer patients are low due to advanced disease at presentation and misconceptions about BCS outcomes. Many patients p...
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Breast Conservative Therapy for Multifocal–Multicentric Breast Cancers
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A Comparative Validation of Primary Surgical Versus Post-neo-adjuvant Chemotherapy Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Stage III Breast Cancers
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard of care for staging N0 primary early breast cancers (EBC). Patients in develo** countries mostly present with large (LOBC) or locally advanced cancers (LABC)...
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Generalized Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (GMDR) Analysis of Drug-Metabolizing Enzyme-Encoding Gene Polymorphisms may Predict Treatment Outcomes in Indian Breast Cancer Patients
Prediction of response and toxicity of chemotherapy can help personalize the treatment and choose effective yet non-toxic treatment regimen for a breast cancer patient. Interplay of variations in various drug-...
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Outcomes of Triple-Negative Breast Cancers (TNBC) Compared with Non-TNBC: Does the Survival Vary for All Stages?
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is associated with aggressive tumor behavior and worse outcomes. In a study at a tertiary care breast unit in a develo** country, clinico-pathological attributes and outc...
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Genotype–Phenotype Correlation in Indian Patients with MEN2-Associated Pheochromocytoma and Comparison of Clinico-Pathological Attributes with Apparently Sporadic Adrenal Pheochromocytoma
Pheochromocytoma (PCC) manifests in up to 50 % of MEN2 patients. We correlated the clinico-pathological features of MEN2-associated PCC (MEN-PCC) with RET mutations and compared them with non-MEN adrenal-PCCs.
