British Journal of Cancer - Reply: Identification of isolated tumour cells by detection of CEA and CK mRNA in peritoneal lavage fluid of gastric cancer patients ...

4198 [Background] Peritoneal lavage cytology (CY) has been integrated in the Japanese classification of gastric cancer (JCGC) due to similar prognostic impact of CY and peritoneal metastases. CY is ...

They also obtained the cell membrane capacitances of gastric cancer cells and peritoneal lavage cells. These digital data can be used as a bio-marker, as part of cellular information.

Ninety-four patients who were underwent surgery with gastric cancer were intraoperatively measured for tumor markers, CEA, CA125 and CA72–4 in peritoneal lavage using a chemiluminescent enzyme ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage (EIPL) failed to improve survival in patients with resectable gastric cancer, results of a large Japanese study showed.

More recently, laparoscopic peritoneal lavage has become an attractive option because, for many patients, it avoids an initial colostomy.

When the analysis was restricted to chemo-naive patients who had concurrent peritoneal lavage performed, 95 of 419 patients (23%) had positive laparoscopy.

PERITONEAL lavage was performed in animals nearly a century ago and for human renal failure nearly half a century ago. Nevertheless, it has gained general acceptance only in the last decade. The su ...

Abdominal lavage is used in laboratory rodents for a variety of applications but carries an inherent risk of abdominal organ laceration; therefore, personnel carrying out this procedure must have ...

Long-term severe complications were similar with laparoscopic lavage and primary resection in perforated purulent diverticulitis patients, researchers reported, although recurrence was more ...

Controlled peritoneal hypothermia can be established rapidly in STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI though at the expense of longer door-to-balloon times, according to pilot study published online ...