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Total and superior sternal clefts in newborns: A simple technique for surgical correction
(1999)
The authors discuss six cases of superior and total sternal clefts treated in their department in the last 34 years and discuss the problems of this congenital malformation. The inferior sternal clefts including Cantrell's ...
High-dose epirubicin as a single agent in the treatment of patients with advanced breast cancer. A Hellenic Co-operative Oncology Group study
(1991)
Fifty-two women with advanced breast cancer were treated with 6 cycles of epirubicin. Even though the study was started with a dose schedule of 110 mg/m2 every 3 weeks, the average treatment interval was 26 days and the ...
Continuous extracorporeal stool-transport system: A new and economical procedure for transitory short-bowel syndrome in prematures and newborns
(1996)
Between May 1994 and June 1995, nine newborns underwent surgery due to mechanical ileus or intrauterine perforation of the small bowel. Three were very-low-birthweight infants weighing between 520 and 1,200 g. Surgery was ...
Extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma. Presentation of two cases and review of the literature
(1991)
We present here two cases extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma, the first in a 50-year-old female and the second in a 25-year-old male. We discuss the clinical picture, histopathology and therapeutic management. The literature ...
Proteus syndrome associated with a sacrococcygeal teratoma; a rare combination
(1996)
We report on an 5-year-old boy with a Proteus syndrome known since his second year of life. Hidden in a lipomatous tumor we excised a sacrococcygeal teratoma which must have been present since birth. This is the first case, ...
Cutaneous lymphocytic vasculopathy in lymphoproliferative disorders-a paraneoplastic lymphocytic vasculitis of the skin
(1995)
In this report the histopathology and the natural history of cutaneous lymphocytic vasculopathy (lymphocytic vasculitis) in patients with lymphoproliferative diseases, is described. Between January 1986 and June 1992,116 ...
Subcutaneous low doses of interleukin-2 and recombinant interferon alpha with carboplatin and vinblastine in patients with advanced melanoma
(1998)
Twenty-three patients with advanced melanoma were treated with a combination of subcutaneous recombinant human interleukin-2 (IL-2), and recombinant interferon alpha-2a (IFN-alpha) with chemotherapy consisting of four ...
Ileitis hyperplastica follicularis Golden: Surgical or conservative treatment?
(1994)
The authors report on four cases of Golden's syndrome, a rare disease with unknown etiology and controversial therapy. The first two 7-year-old boys had gastrointestinal bleeding; their hemoglobin levels were 7.0 g% and ...
Amnion as a prosthetic material in congenital defects: An experimental study in rats
(1996)
In pediatric surgery, amniotic membranes taken from autologous placenta are occasionally used as an implant in cases of large ventral abdominal clefts. The questions arise, which part of this organ should be used and how ...