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Comment on: "Safety of Small Circular Staplers in Double Stapling Technique Anastomosis for Sigmoid Colon and Rectal Surgery"
A preserved stratified pattern of the bowel wall 1 year after major surgery does not influence the surgical recurrence of Crohn’s disease
OC. 12.4 PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: ANALYSIS OF INTESTINAL OUTCOME AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
Prognosis of follicular lymphoma: a predictive model based on a retrospective analysis of 987 cases
Patients (n-987) with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of follicular lymphoma were studied with the aim of developing a prognostic model specifically devised for this type of lymphoma. We collected information on age, sex, Ann Arbor stage, number of extranodal disease sites, bone marrow (BM) involvement, bulky disease, B symptom criteria (fever, night sweats, and weight loss), performance status (PS), serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level, serum albumin level, hemoglobin level, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). In the training sample of 429 patients with complete data, multivariate analysis showed that age, sex, number of extranodal sites, B symptoms, serum LDH level, and ESR were factors predictive for overall survival. Using these 6 variables, a prognostic model was devised to identify 3 groups at different risk. The 5- and 10-year survival rate was 90% and 65% for patients at low risk, respectively; 75% and 54% for patients at intermediate risk; and 38% and 11% for those at high risk (log-rank test, 86.62; P < .0001). The model was also predictive (P = .0001) in the validation sample of 265 patients with complete data only for the 6 variables used in the development of the model and even in the group of 210 patients from the validation sample uniformly treated with doxorubicin-containing regimens (P = .0001). The prognostic model appears to be very useful in identifying patients with follicular lymphoma at low, intermediate, or high risk
Expression of CD40 and its ligand, CD40L, in intestinalExpression of CD40 and its ligand, CD40L, in intestinal lesions of Crohn's disease.
HAIRY-CELL LEUKEMIA - THE ITALIAN-COOPERATIVE-GROUP EXPERIENCE
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Duplication of Ph and of 9q+ Chromosomes during the blastic transformation of a CML case
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