When surgery leaves more than just scars: The curious case of gossypiboma— A case report and literature review by Syed Muhammad Ali, MBBS, Affan Faisal, MBBS, Talha Ashraf Zia, MBBS, Fatima Shahid, MBBS, Muhammad Nabeel Saddique, MBBS, Anurag Jha, MBBS, Atif Hussain Sarwar, MD, Javed Iqbal, RN, PhD

“…The initial clinical presentation pointed to possible malignancies but subsequently revealed a 16 × 4 × 6 cm gossypiboma near the ileocecal junction. …”
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Nephrogenic Adenoma of the Urinary Bladder after Kidney Transplantation: Long-Term Follow-Up by Iftikhar Khan, Mahmoud Obeid, Nasreen Hasan, Fayyad Jaradat, Bodhisatwa Sengupta, Mahmoud Tabbal, Abdullah Alsaif, Mansour Tawfeeq, Mohammad Al Qahtani

“…The long-term outcome and potential to convert into malignancy are not established, and therefore, there are no recommendations on how to follow up these patients. …”
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The Youngest Korean Case of Urachal Carcinoma by Seung Ryeol Lee, Haeyoun Kang, Moon Hyung Kang, Young Dong Yu, Chang Il Choi, Kyung Hwa Choi, Dong Soo Park, Young Kwon Hong

“…Age at the diagnosis of urachal carcinoma is important to understand pathogenetic transition from benign to malignancy. A 26-year-old man visited our clinic with gross hematuria starting a few months before. …”
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Long Noncoding RNA LOC100129940-N Is Upregulated in Papillary Thyroid Cancer and Promotes the Invasion and Progression by Manting Choy, Yan Guo, Hai Li, Guohong Wei, Runyi Ye, Weiwei Liang, Haipeng Xiao, Yanbing Li, Hongyu Guan

“…Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy, and its incidence has increased rapidly in recent decades worldwide. …”
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DKK1 and Its Receptors in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A Promising Molecular Target by Markos Despotidis, Orestis Lyros, Tatiana S. Driva, Panagiotis Sarantis, Emmanouil I. Kapetanakis, Adam Mylonakis, Andreas Mamilos, Stratigoula Sakellariou, Dimitrios Schizas

“…Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is an aggressive gastrointestinal (GI) malignancy with increasing incidence. Despite the recent progress in targeted therapies and surgical approaches, the survival rates of esophageal adenocarcinoma patients remain poor. …”
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Hepatitis C Virus Clearance after Discontinuation of Pegylated Interferon Alpha-2a Monotherapy in a Child by Takeshi Endo, Koichi Ito, Tokio Sugiura, Kenji Goto

“…The pretreatment liver biopsy revealed no fibrosis or malignancy and mild chronic hepatitis; his Knodell's histological activity (HAI) score was 4. …”
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Genetic polymorphism of xenobiotic biotransformation genes, TNF-α and IL-4 in obstructive jaundice by A. A. Natalsky, S. V. Tarasenko, A. A. Nikiforov, O. V. Zaytsev, O. D. Peskov

“…Overall 54 patients were divided into three comparison groups: those with obstructive jaundice of benign etiology, with cholestasis due to malignancy and uncomplicated gallstone disease. Genomic DNA of patients obtained from blood leukocytes analysed with application of «DNK-ekspresskrov» reagent utilizing «SNP-ekspress-RV» device of LLC Research and production company «Litekh» (Moscow).Results. …”
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Impact of ABO gene polymorphism and von Willebrand factor on genetic susceptibility to acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Egyptian pediatric patients by Elsayed I. Salim, Ahmed N. Shaaban, Amal K. Seleem, Zeinab I. Attia

“…Abstract Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common malignancy affecting children. The ABO blood group system and von Willebrand factor (VWF) have been associated with altering cancer risk, but few studies have examined their relationship with pediatric ALL. …”
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Prognostic Significance of DNA Cytometry in Carcinoma of the Uterine Cervix FIGO Stage IB and II by Hans Jürgen Grote, Nicolaus Friedrichs, Natalia Pomjanski, Helen Friderike Guhde, Olaf Reich, Alfred Böcking

“…DNA stemline ploidy, DNA stemline aneuploidy, 5c exceeding rate, 9c exceeding rate, 2c deviation index, and DNA malignancy grade were computed. DNA‐variables as well as various clinical and histological variables were related to survival rates. …”
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Plexin C1 Marks Liver Cancer Cells with Epithelial Phenotype and Is Overexpressed in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Gorkem Odabas, Metin Cetin, Serdar Turhal, Huseyin Baloglu, A. Emre Sayan, Tamer Yagci

“…Hepatocellular carcinoma is an aggressive malignancy of the liver and is ranked as the sixth most common cancer worldwide. …”
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Enhancing oral cancer treatment via photodynamic therapy: Gold nanoparticle-based delivery system for 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) by Romesa Soomro, Mohamed Abdelmonem, Bachren Azra Saputra, Che Azurahanim Che Abdullah

“…Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is a significant global health concern, responsible for approximately 300,000 new cases and 145,000 deaths annually, making it the sixth most common malignancy worldwide. Traditional treatments, including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, often lead to severe side effects such as physical disfigurement, functional loss, and systemic toxicity. …”
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LIMD1-AS1 promotes the progression of prostate cancer and affects the function of prostate cancer cells by down-regulating miR-29c-3p by Yongsheng Yu, Nan He, Zhaolu Song, Chang Wang, Jinhuang Xu

“…Abstract Purpose Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent and lethal malignancy affecting males, with a considerable proportion of patients experiencing poor survival outcomes. …”
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Not All Acute Abdomen Cases in Early Pregnancy Are Ectopic; Expect the Unexpected: Renal Angiomyolipoma Causing Massive Retroperitoneal Haemorrhage by Muhammad Asim Rana, Ahmed F. Mady, Nagesh Jakaraddi, Shahzad A. Mumtaz, Habib Ahmad, Kamal Naser

“…It is a rare clinical entity with variable aetiology including anticoagulation, ruptured aortic aneurysm, acute pancreatitis, malignancy, and bleeding from renal aneurysm. Diagnosis of retroperitoneal bleed is sometimes missed or delayed as presentation is often nonspecific. …”
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Clinical profile, treatment, and outcomes of testicular cancer in a resource-limited setting: a study from Sudan by Eltahir Ahmed Eltahir, Sami Mahjoub Taha Awad, Yassin Mohammed Osman, Mohammed El Imam Mohammed Ahmed, Moawia Mohammed Ali Elhassan

“…Abstract Background Testicular cancer is a rare malignancy, with limited data on its clinical characteristics and outcomes in Africa. …”
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Clostridium Difficile and COVID-19: Novel Risk Factors for Acute Portal Vein Thrombosis by Venkata Ram Pradeep Rokkam, Gurusaravanan Kutti Sridharan, Rathnamitreyee Vegunta, Radhakrishna Vegunta, Umesha Boregowda, Babu P. Mohan

“…We report a case of an elderly female with a recent diagnosis of COVID-19 and no prior history of cirrhosis or malignancy who presented with diarrhea due to clostridium difficile infection. …”
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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding as a Debut Form of Groove Pancreatitis: A Diagnostic Challenge by Belén Matías-García, Camilo José Castellón-Pavón, Gustavo Díaz-García, Belén Manso-Abajo, Daniel Hernández-Aceituno, Antonio Hermosín-Peña, Luis Mejías-Sosa, Manuel Durán-Poveda

“…Biopsies were taken, and histopathological analysis did not show malignancy. A cephalic pancreaticoduodenectomy was performed, and the postoperative period was uneventful. …”
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PPIH is a novel diagnostic biomarker associated with immune infiltration in cholangiocarcinoma by Jun Ye, Zhitao Chen, Chuan Zhang, Rui Xie, Haini Chen, Peng Ren

“…Abstract Background Cholangiocarcinoma (CHOL) is the second most common primary liver malignancy, characterized by high aggressiveness and heterogeneity. …”
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Norcantharidin induces G2/M arrest and apoptosis via activation of ERK and JNK, but not p38 signaling in human renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells by Huang Shuaishuai, Tuergong Gulimire, Zhu Hangjie, Wang Xue, Weng Guobin, Ren Yu

“…Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is generally acknowledged as the most resistant primary malignancy unresponsive to conventional radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments. …”
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Metabolic reprogramming of glucose: the metabolic basis for the occurrence and development of hepatocellular carcinoma by Kai Wang, Xiaodan Li, Shuwei Guo, Junsheng Chen, Yandong Lv, Zhiqiang Guo, Hongzhou Liu

“…Primary liver cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive system, with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) being the most prevalent type. …”
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Mid-urethral sling with proper sling tension is an effective treatment for stress urinary incontinence in women after pelvic radiotherapy: a pilot study of case series by Xing Guan, Fei Wang, Di Zhang, Peng Qiao, Yan Qin, Biao Wang

“…All the patients who suffered from SUI had a history of gynaecological malignancies and received pelvic radiotherapy. 21 patients (80.77%, 95% CI: 0.621–0.915) were considered to have successfully improved after surgery, the ICI-Q-SF scores were lower than the pre-operative at 2 weeks, 6 months and 1 year postoperatively (P < 0.01). …”
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