A comprehensive staging laparotomy consists of a total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingooophorectomy, infracolic omentectomy, random sampling of multiple peritoneal sites (including pelvic side walls, paracolic gutters, cul-de-sac, and surface of bladder, rectum, and diaphragm), and pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy.
Our purpose was to determine the prevalence and sites of occult metastasis in epithelial ovarian cancer grossly confined to the ovary and examine the significance of routine omentectomy and peritoneal biopsies as part of a comprehensive staging procedure.
We have described results of a comprehensive, staged molecular analysis of unexplained encephalitis and meningitis conducted by using CFS samples obtained over a 3-year period in a major referral hospital in Taiwan.
Moreover, we have shown that high preoperative serum SAA levels in USPC patients clinically diagnosed with early-stage disease are predictive of more advanced stage disease at the time of comprehensive surgical staging.
Thus, although most of our patients were considered to have clinical stage I disease before surgery, they were later up-staged at the time of comprehensive surgical staging laparotomy.
This question will be addressed in a more comprehensive study of stage migration in colorectal cancer at this registry.
Obtaining this information could be highly informative as it would provide a comprehensive view of stage-specific gene expression activities over the entire course of development and would constitute an important component of a gene expression map.
Based on a review of the published literature, we recommend the future conduct of a two-stage comprehensive prospective study of low-moderate iAs drinking water exposure and spontaneous pregnancy loss.
This hampered a comprehensive analysis of each stage of colonization and infection at one particular time point.
In ARDS (Pink-protocol), a more comprehensive analysis includes four stages of investigation (anterior, lateral, posterior, apical).
The transfer of the senior stage of comprehensive school to the profile training significantly expands opportunities for the research activity of pupils that is one of productive ways of their research competence formation.
