Appendiceal mucoceles:a report of 50 cases / 中华普通外科杂志

Objective To evaluate the diagnosis and surgical management of appandiceal mucoceles.Method The clinical data of 50 patients with appendiceal mucoceles surgically treated from January 2004 to January 2008 were reviewed retrospectively. Result The correct preoperative diagnosis rate was 8%.Eight patients were complicated with pseudomyxoma peritonei.The canceration rate was 4%.All the 50 patients recovered uneventfully after the surgery.There was no complications,no recurrence during the follow-up period,including the 2 patients with canceration. Conclusion It was difficult to make correct diagnosis of appendiceal mucoceles preoperatively.The diagnosis should always be in mind if the B-type ultrasonography indicated a cystoadenoma.Abdominal CT coupled with necessary digestive image examinations may improve the correct diagnosis rate.Some patients may be complicated with pseudomyxoma peritonei.Occasionally this abdominal mass was also associated with malignancy.Surgery is the management of choice,and the prognosis is good.

Conservative resection combined with adjuvant radiotherapy for extremity soft tissue sarcoma / 国际肿瘤学杂志

Adjuvant radiotherapy can reduce resection range,increase the possibility of organ reservation and maintain satisfactory living quality without affecting local control rate.Adjuvant radiotherapy in combination with conservative surgery has become the standard of care for extremity soft tissue sorcoma.The indications and technological aspects as well as the perspectives are overviewed in this article.