RESULTS:The overall 5-year survival rates for patients received surgery,postoperative external radiotherapy and postoperative interstitial brachytherapy were 55.6%,85.3% and 92.4%,and the 10-year survival rates were 51.2%,80.7% and 86.7%,respectively.
METHODS: A retrospective research was performed on clinical data of 214 cases of SCC of the tongue treated with surgery from 1991 to 1997. Distribution of cervical lymph node metastasis of cN0 pN+(pathologically node positive) and cN+(clinically node positive) pN+cases were analyzed;
The 5 and 10 year disease specific survival rates for the patients treated with surgery (53 cases) and surgery +radiotherapy (35 cases) were 73.14%, 67.40%and 66.58%,46.60%,respectively.
The hemostatic effect and the healing effect of the modified sponge on the nasal mucosa after nasal surgery were studied.
Liver surgery and transplantation in China: Progress and Challenges
From the limited but available information, we traced the history of developments of liver surgery and transplantation in China.
Liver surgery first started in the late 1950s in China, and it soon flourished mainly because of the great demand in liver surgery and the emergence of a number of giants in liver surgery.
From 1979 to 2005, 274 cirrhosis patients with portal hypertension who underwent the new treatment strategy were followed up to observe different clinical indexes, which were then compared with those of the traditional surgery treatment.