Histopathologic Excision Margin Affects Local Recurrence Rate

P-211: Recurrence Rate of Ovarian Endometriomas after A Laparoscopic Excision

Background: Endometrioma is a common cause of gynecologic morbidity and the most common benign ovarian cysts are found at surgery. One of the most troubling aspects of treating endometrioma with laparoscopic excision is disease recurrence after surgery. Present study was conducted to evaluate risk factors for the recurrence of endometrioma after first laparoscopic excision. Materials and Method...

Local recurrence in lumpectomy patients after imprint cytology margin evaluation.

BACKGROUND This is a follow-up study to our previously reported data on local recurrence rates in patients whose lumpectomy margins were evaluated by intraoperative imprint cytology (IIC(M)). The purpose of this study was to compare local recurrence rates for patients whose lumpectomy margins were evaluated with IIC(M) with local recurrence rates of those not evaluated by IIC(M). METHODS A to...

Epidemiology and recurrence rate of pterygium post excision in Ghanaians.

OBJECTIVES To determine the epidemiology and recurrence rate of pterygium after excision using bare sclera technique. DESIGN Prospective non-comparative study. SETTING Ophthalmology unit, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. METHODS The study involved 60 consecutive patients with primary apterygial from July 1998 to December 2000 who had bare sclera excision after informed consent. T...

Laparoscopic Excision of Local Recurrence of Renal Cell Carcinoma

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To report a single center's experience with laparoscopic excision of local recurrence of renal cell carcinoma. METHODS Between January and August 2011, 5 patients who underwent laparoscopic excision of local recurrence were identified from the institutional laparoscopic surgery database. RESULTS Four radical nephrectomies and 1 partial nephrectomy were performed for...

Recurrence of pterygium after excision.