Predictive factors of stenosis after stapled colorectal anastomosis: Prospective analysis of 179 consecutive patients

The incidence, risk factors, and clinical relevance of stenosis of stapled colorectal anastomosis (CRA) were studied prospectively. Anastomotic stricture was defined as the inability of traversing the anastomosis with the rigid proctoscope. The population studied consisted of 179 patients (94 males) with an average age of 59.3 years (range: 20 to 91 years). The main indication for surgery was colorectal cancer in 59% of the cases, followed by diverticular disease in 23%. The first endoscopic control was performed before 4 months in 25% of the patients, between 5 and 10 months in 50%, and during the following 10 months in 25%. Stenosis was verified with the rigid instrument in 21.1% of the cases and with the flexible colonoscope in 4.4%. The barium enema performed in 12 cases confirmed a punctiform stenosis in 5 patients, 4 of whom had been asymptomatic. An endoscopic dilatation was performed on 5 of the 8 symptomatic patients, with one relapse that required an additional dilatation. I

PORCENTAJE DE COMPROMISO DE LESION CERVICAL DE ALTO GRADO Y PERSISTENCIA DE ENFERMEDAD RESIDUAL POSTCONO

El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar la relación entre el porcentaje de cuello comprometido por neoplasia intraepitelial de alto grado en pacientes conizadas por asa leep y la persistencia de lesión residual en la pieza de histerectomía. Se presentan 78 casos de pacientes conizadas por asa leep y que posteriormente fueron sometidas a histerectomía entre junio de 1994 y diciembre del 2000 por enfermedad residual u otra patología ginecológica concomitante. Una vez obtenida la pieza de conización esta fue analizada en anatomía patológica evaluando el porcentaje de muestras comprometidas por nie de alto grado y se comparo con la persistencia de enfermedad en la pieza de histerectomía. Encontramos un valor significativamente estadístico entre el porcentaje de muestras comprometidas y la persistencia de enfermedad.The objetive of this research was to compare the percentage of persistence of residual lesion on hysterectomy specimen after a cone biopsy done with leep (loop electroexcision procedure) in patients with "high grade SIL" (squamous intraepithelial lesion). We present 78 patients that a cone biopsy with leep was done and subsequently had a histerectomy, between June 1994 and December 2000, for residual disease or other gynecological conditions. The pathology reports were statistically significant in between the percentage of compromised cervical biopsies and the persistence of disease in the uteru

Hierarchical clustering analysis to detect associations between clinical and pathological features of gastric tumors and hypermethylation of suppressor genes Identificación de asociaciones clínico-patológicas e hipermetilación de genes supresores de tumor

Background: Methylation is an inactivation mechanism for tumor suppressor genes, that can have important clinical implications. Aim: To analyze the methylation status of 11 tumor suppressor genes in pathological samples of diffuse gastric cancer. Material and methods: Eighty three patients with diffuse gastric cancer with information about survival and infection with Epstein Barr virus, were studied. DNA was extracted from pathological slides and the methylation status of genes p14, p15, p16, APC, p73, FHIT, E-caderin, SEMA3B, BRCA-1, MINT-2 y MGMT, was studied using sodium bisulphite modification and polymerase chain reaction. Results were grouped according to the methylation index or Hierarchical clustering (TIGR MultiExperiment Viewer). Results: Three genes had a high frequency of methylation (FHIT, BRCA1, APC), four had an intermediate frequency (p15, MGMT, p14, MINT2) and four had a low frequency (p16, p73, E-cadherin, SEMA3B). The methylation index had no association with clinic