This content is machine translated Extensive liver metastases in colorectal cancer. Chances for treatment? Removal of colorectal liver metastases is prognostic. Oncologic and surgical technical criteria are used to assess resectability.
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Neurosurgery Brain tumor: When should surgery be performed and how? Not all brain tumors are the same. The spectrum is broad. The goals of neurosurgery are to enable definitive histopathologic diagnosis by tissue sampling, symptom improvement by relieving the mass,…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Developments in pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer – still particularly aggressive and deadly Pancreatic cancer is the seventh most common cancer diagnosis in Switzerland. However, it ranks fourth in terms of mortality, which illustrates the aggressiveness of the tumor. Various studies, especially in…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated System therapy in gastric carcinoma Goals of drug treatment Surgery is the first choice for localized gastric carcinoma. Systems therapy peri- or postoperatively can improve cure rates. Palliative, it prolongs survival and improves quality of life. Recognize languageAfrikaansAlbanianArabicArmenianAzerbaijaniBasqueBengaliBosnianBulgarianBurmeseCebuanoChichewaChinese (ver)Chinese…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Hepatocellular carcinoma Modern therapy options Curative therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma include surgical resection, ablation, and liver transplantation. Internationally valid recommendations for liver transplantation in HCC were formulated at the 2010 Zurich Consensus Conference.
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Therapy for gastrointestinal stromal tumors Surgical and oncological aspects Before initiating therapy, GIST patients should be discussed at an interdisciplinary tumor board. For intermediate to high risk of relapse, adjuvant imatinib therapy should be considered after resection. Patients with…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Gastrointestinal tumors State of the art of endoscopic resection Malignant or premalignant mucosal changes of the gastrointestinal tract can usually be curatively removed endoscopically. Endoscopic resections are based on many technical innovations; the resections are safe and allow a…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Treatment of brain metastases Surgery, radiosurgery, or conventional radiotherapy? Brain metastases are a local problem that can often be addressed well with local therapy. Because of the risk of intraoperative tumor seeding, surgical resection must be supplemented with conventional…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Symptomatic vertebral body hemangioma with neurological complaints Minimally invasive interventional therapy Case Report: In a 30-year-old female patient with lower extremity sensory disturbances, an MRI examination revealed multiple, vascular, tumor-like vertebral body lesions in the upper thoracic spine that corresponded to…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Curative treatment approach for peritoneal carcinomatosis. In certain tumor types and in malignancies with limited peritoneal carcinomatosis, it is possible to pursue a curative approach even at this stage of the disease by combining cytoreductive surgery…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Surgical therapy of pancreatic carcinoma Extended resections – vessels, neighboring organs, recurrences The only chance of long-term survival in pancreatic cancer is radical resection (R0) with adjuvant chemotherapy. To achieve radical resection, extended surgery with resection of the venous porto-mesenteric vessels as…
