...Gregoire Longchamp; Jeremy Meyer; Ziad Abbassi; Marwan Sleiman; Christian Toso; Frederic Ris; Nicolas Christian Buchs Background: Despite new medical and surgical strategies, 5-year local recurrence of rectal adenocarcinoma was reported in up to 25% of cases. Therefore, we aimed to review surgical...

...Wenxing Zhou; Yiyang Zhang; Fei He; Shaohua Lv; Xiaodong Zhang; Chunming Fei Background: We aimed to investigate the prognostic value of M2 macrophages to predict the recurrence of early gastric cancer (EGC). Methods: A retrospective analysis was carried out among EGC patients (95 non-recurrence...

... Gastrointestinal symptoms Gastrointestinal tract Metastasis Recurrence With only 0.1–3% of all gastrointestinal neoplasms, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are a rare tumor entity. Nonetheless they represent the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract and are even found...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Crohn’s disease CT-enterography Endoscopy Inflammatory bowel disease Prognosis Recurrence Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, involving the mucosa and the whole wall of digestive tract, from...

... during the hepatobiliary phase of gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced MRI have been reported to be associated with intrahepatic distant recurrence (IDR) after hepatectomy or radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). IDR is categorized...

... safety profile. This will likely allow prevention of hepatitis C recurrence in most cases. Meanwhile, management of hepatitis C virus infection still relies on the combination of interferon, ribavirin and the first-generation protease inhibitors telaprevir and boceprevir. Fig. 1 Proposed algorithm...

... that budesonide may offer an alternative for noncirrhotic AIH patients with lower steroid side effects. With an early diagnosis and effective therapy, only 4% of transplant candidates are transplanted for AIH. After liver transplantation there is a considerable risk for graft loss because of recurrent AIH...

..., there is a considerable risk for graft loss because of recurrent AIH, and lifelong vigilance and therapeutic attention is important. Recent data revealed that up to 30% of adult patients had histological features of cirrhosis at diagnosis. In 17% of patients with periportal hepatitis, cirrhosis developed within 5 years...

... of them died from complications of the diverticular disease [ 7 ]. Our recent study on patients having two episodes of acute diverticulitis has revealed that 35% of them had a recurrence occurring at a different location than the first episode [ 8 ]. Though not yet proven, we do think...

... imaging studies, 74 patients met the MC and 62 did not. Results: Overall patient survival rate at 5 years was 70%. Patients who exceeded MC but presented with ≤10 tumors and all ≤5 cm in diameter (n = 33) displayed similar 5-year recurrence rate to those within MC (7 vs. 10%). Based on the results...