Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is one of the most frequently performed procedures for the diagnosis and treatment of biliary-pancreatic diseases. ERCP-related complications total around 2.5% to 8%, with a mortality rate ranging from 0.5% to 1%. An exceptional ERCP complication is subcapsular hepatic hematoma, and few cases are reported worldwide. We present the case of a ...

background: although the cox proportional hazard regression is the most popular model for analyzing the prognostic factors on survival of cancer patients, under certain circumstances, parametric models estimate the parameter more efficiently than the cox model.  the aim of this study was to compare the cox regression model  with parametric models in patients with gastric cancer who registered a...

pleuropulmonary blastoma [ppb] is a very rare, highly aggressive and malignant tumor that originates from either the lungs or pleura. it occurs mainly in children aged less than five or six years. it has poor prognosis with three different subtypes: cystic [type i], combined cystic and solid [type ii] and solid [type iii]. ppb is treated with aggressive multimodal therapies including surgery an...

abstract:   introduction: colorectal cancer (crc) is one of the most common cancers in the world. during the past decades, survival of colorectal cancer patients has improved worldwide, however, it is not clear what factors have contributed to this development. this study was designed to evaluate the prognostic impact of a wide spectrum of pathologic parameters on survival rate in patients with...