background: gastric cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in iran. treatment for gastric adenocarcinoma varies worldwide. the aim of this study is to evaluate char- acteristics and survival rate of gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma in yazd, iran. methods: this study was conducted on 53 patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcioma who referred to sha...

BACKGROUND The total number of harvested lymph nodes has been demonstrated to be of prognostic significance for colon cancer. Differences can occur in the total number of harvested lymph nodes between different specialists (surgeons and pathologists). OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyse if, in our centre, the number of analysed lymph nodes in patients with colon cancer that are cla...

Involvement of lymph nodes in various pathologies of the head and neck is frequent not only in malignant diseases but also in inflammatory conditions. As size criteria are not sufficient to define a lymph node as malignant, other criteria such as shape, central necrosis and extracapsular spread are other helpful signs. However, micrometastases are still an unresolved problem although new imagin...