Primary and secondary cardiac tumors: Clinical presentation, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and results

A Campisi, AP Ciarrocchi, N Asadi… - General Thoracic and …, 2022 - Springer
Cardiac tumours are some of the rarest primary tumours, while cardiac metastasis are more
common yet still relatively rare. Seventy five percent of primary cardiac tumours are benign …

Utility of nuclear grading system in epithelioid malignant pleural mesothelioma in biopsy-heavy setting: an external validation study of 563 cases

YZ Zhang, C Brambilla, PL Molyneaux… - The American journal …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Nuclear grading systems for epithelioid malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) have been
proposed but it remains uncertain if they could be applied in a biopsy-heavy setting. Using …

Recurrent primary cardiac osteosarcoma: a case report and literature review

A Dell'Amore, N Asadi, G Caroli, G Dolci, A Bini… - General thoracic and …, 2014 - Springer
Primary malignant cardiac tumors are very rare. Among malignant tumors, sarcomas occupy
first place. In particular, primary cardiac osteosarcoma is extremely rare. To the best of our …

Can topical application of tranexamic acid reduce blood loss in thoracic surgery? A prospective randomised double blind investigation

A Dell'Amore, G Caroli, A Nizar, N Cassanelli… - Heart, Lung and …, 2012 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: The systemic or topical use of antifibrinolytic agents is effective in reducing
postoperative bleeding and blood product transfusion in cardiac surgery. We sought to study …

[HTML][HTML] Prognostic value of the DNA integrity index in patients with malignant lung tumors

DY Chudasama, Z Aladag, MI Felicien, M Hall… - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods Plasma samples were collected from 48 patients, consisting of 29 lung cancer
patients and 19 non-cancer controls. Alu repeat ratio and confounders were measured …

Thoracoscopic resection of a giant mediastinal parathyroid cyst

A Dell'Amore, N Asadi, T Bartalena, A Bini… - General thoracic and …, 2014 - Springer
Parathyroid cysts are a rare situation, unusually in the mediastinum. The preoperative
diagnosis could be more difficult in some atypical topographies and imaging characteristics …

Three-dimensional surgical simulation-guided navigation in thoracic surgery: a new approach to improve results in chest wall resection and reconstruction for …

F Stella, G Dolci, A Dell'Amore, G Badiali… - … and thoracic surgery, 2014 - academic.oup.com
OBJECTIVES Oncological surgery of the chest wall should be performed to achieve free
margins of at least 2 cm for metastasis or 4 cm for primary tumours. When the lesion is not …

Presence of pleomorphic features but not growth patterns improves prognostic stratification of epithelioid malignant pleural mesothelioma by 2‐tier nuclear grade

YZ Zhang, C Brambilla, PL Molyneaux, A Rice… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Nuclear grade has been recently validated as a powerful prognostic tool in epithelioid
malignant pleural mesothelioma (E‐MPM). In other studies histological parameters including …

Accuracy of transthoracic ultrasound for the prediction of chest wall infiltration by lung cancer and of lung infiltration by chest wall tumours

G Caroli, A Dell'Amore, N Cassanelli, G Dolci… - Heart, Lung and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background We wanted to determine the accuracy of transthoracic ultrasound in the
prediction of chest wall infiltration by lung cancer or lung infiltration by chest wall tumours …

Circulating tumour cells and circulating cell-free DNA in patients with lung cancer: a comparison between thoracotomy and video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

P Katopodis, V Anikin, U Kishore… - BMJ Open …, 2021 - bmjopenrespres.bmj.com
Introduction The type of lung cancer surgery impacts on tumour manipulation during surgery
and may drive dissemination of cancer cells into the vasculature, thus facilitating metastatic …