Over 400 cases of neuroendocrine (Merkel cell) carcinoma of the skin (NCS) have been
reported. This tumor continues to pose problems in diagnosis and effective treatment for …

In the critically ill surgical patient a variety of therapeutic maneuvers is required to maintain a"
healthy gut." Provision of adequate amounts of glutamine to the gastrointestinal mucosa …

BACKGROUND Protein calorie malnutrition remains endemic in hospitalized patients with
both acute and chronic inflammation secondary to either cancer, chronic infectious processes, …

… Copeland III, who envisioned and published the first edition of The Breast over 30 years
ago. They have carefully shepherded it through many editions improving and expanding its …

Background. Chemoresistance may involve the anti-apoptotic transcriptional regulator,
nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB). The purpose of this study was to determine whether chemotherapy …

• The healing effects of glutamine given orally for 8 days as a single amino acid nutrient
after treatment with whole abdominal radiation (10 Gy) were studied. Rats received …

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is one of several proinflammatory cytokines produced during infection,
sepsis, and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) that serves to initiate the …

BACKGROUND: My colleagues and I have been using intraoperative frozen-section analysis
(FSA) to evaluate lumpectomy margins in an attempt to reduce the number of additional …

Background Retroperitoneal sarcomas are rare mesenchymal neoplasms. Analysis of their
characteristics and their impact upon a particular patient population is of significant …

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis, also known as idiopathic granulomatous lobular mastitis,
is a benign breast lesion that represents both a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. We …