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Uterine leiomyosarcomas carry a dismail prognosis. Diagnosis is often an unexpected pathology discovery after hysterectomy for fibroma. Prognosis depends on the degree of locoregional extension and thus on early diagnosis. Extended surgery in case of relapse is sometimes the only possible approach for symptoms control and improvement of quality of life. A case of massive involvement of the abdomen by a relapsed uterine leiomyosarcoma treated by extreme surgery is here presented.

Educational objectives at the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to identify the different criteria that lead to the surgical approach rather than to the medical treatment (radiation therapy -RT--and/or chemotherapy--CT). Introduction. When we have to deal with medium or big recurrence of an oral or oropharingeal cancer is very difficult to make the right choice between the surgical or medical therapy: what we have to ask to ourselves is whether is legitimate to reoperate considering the sequences due to surgery and the results expected. Methods. From January 1997 to December 2002 we have treated by surgery 135 patients (mean age, 54) with oral and/or oropharingeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The percentage of local recurrence was 30% (41/135 patients) and nodal recurrence was 6% (8/135 pt). Twenty-two/53 patients underwent to a salvage surgery; the others 31 patients to a RT and/or CT therapy. Conclusion. The overall survival was 29% in surgical patients after 3 years and 14% after 5; in the other patients the survival was 11% after 3 and 3% after 5 years. The comparison between the results in case of recurrent cancer of this distrect shows that the best approach is the surgery, where is possible; the choice is conditioned by the following parameters: the extension of the tumor, primary and recurrent; the presence of lymph node or distant metastases; time of recurrence; grading and histological characteristics of the tumor and performance status of patients.

The authors try to explain the importance of day surgery today. They report their 5 years experience in treatment of face and neck skin neoplasms by injections of a sclerosant product as hydropolyethoxydodecan, in case of a difficult good esthetic result with surgery or other therapies because of patients general conditions, such as diabetic ones, or because of their viral nature. Then they affirm to have treated 350 benign and malign tumors with this method. All subjects presented a complete resolution of disease in few weeks and none between them controlled has actually complications or recruitment of neoplasm. They conclude by saying that this result is probably due to local ischemic reaction caused by the substance used.

From 1990 to 2003 have been admitted 105 patients with pelvic recurrence from rectal cancer. Fifty-nine patients have been selected and 25 patients underwent surgery. We evaluate the prognostic factors and the 3 years disease-free survival. The 60% of the patients after R0 resection and the 20% of the patients who underwent R1-R2 resection are alive. The evaluation of the prognostic factors allows early diagnosis of recurrence with a better long time survival.

The authors, in a group of 190 patients treated with curative surgery for colorectal cancer, have studied the correlation between lymph nodes positive of primary tumor and rising of liver metastases. Even if the B2 stage nodes were negative, liver metastases were found in 6.25% of the patients probably due to an understaging; in C1 + C2 stage the rate of liver metastases was 28.1%, however in this group has not been demonstrated a statistical correlation with the number of positive nodes as a predictive negative prognostic factor.

Usually head and neck cancer is treated with combined therapy, applying surgery, if possible, and then radiotherapy and chemotherapy in a sequential or concomitant way. Sequential approach seems to be preferred, because of the high toxicity rate of concomitant therapy. Platinum compounds and 5-fluorouracil are the standard drugs, but new drugs are entering therapeutic arena: gemcitabine and taxanes are the most promising ones. The efficacy of these drugs, especially in association with radiotherapy, must be assessed; moreover it is essential to ascertain how to associate these drugs to radiotherapy and to evaluate drug toxicity when combined with the latter. End point of the study here presented is a preliminar assessment of toxicity and feasibility of concurrent radio-chemoterapy with docetaxel and cisplatinum in patients with head and neck cancer. The number of enrolled patients and the relatively short time of follow up do not allow to evaluate treatment efficacy.

Patient motivation and desire are the main indications for restoring the breast. Breast reconstruction can alleviate the sense of deformity that may develop after mastectomy or conservative treatment.

Objective: We evaluated if interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP) under ultrasound (US) guidance of intraparenchymal small HCC (<2 cm) in cirrhosis can be safely and effectively performed without any anesthesia.

Patients and methods: Twelve cirrhotic patients with 14 nodules of HCC (diameter 1.2-2.0 cm; mean: 1.7) underwent ILP. All procedures were performed without local or general anesthesia. Necrosis of the nodules was evaluated with triphasic contrast-enhanced CT.

Results: Post-treatment CT showed complete necrosis in all cases. Pain occurred in 5 patients during the treatment was treated with iv pain-killer and only in 1 case the procedure was stopped before the scheduled time. No major complication occurred.

Conclusions: ILP under US guidance is feasible without any anesthesia in patients with small intraparenchymal HCC.

Liver surgery for colorectal metastasis has moved toward a parenchymal sparing strategy in order to reduce postoperative liver failure, to resect an higher number of metastases and to allow a future re-resection. Patients undergone hepatectomy in our Department before and after 1999 were retrospectively compared. In the recent years surgery became more aggressive: a higher number of patients with multiple and bilateral lesions were treated. Short-term results improved in the recent series. After 1999, the rate of wedge resections was significantly increased with the same oncological radicality and with improved long-term results. Moreover, parenchymal sparing strategy allowed a higher re-resection rate in patients with liver recurrence.