This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Fibrous adhesions remain a major sequela of abdominal surgery. The proinflammatory peptide substance P (SP), known to participate in ...

Angiogenesis has been associated with aggressive disease in human colorectal cancer (Takahashi et al, 1995, 1998). Although the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor-ligand system has ...

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...

In peritoneal cancer, cancer cells grow within the serous membrane, a component of the peritoneal cavity. There are two main types of peritoneal cancer: primary and secondary. Primary peritoneal ...

Doctors stage peritoneal cancer depending on the size and position of the cancer, where it has spread from, and how fast it can spread. There are two stages of primary peritoneal cancer and five ...

Microsatellite instability assessment of FFPE tumor samples through targeted next-generation sequencing. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...

Peritoneal cancer is a rare cancer that forms in the thin layer of epithelial cells that line the inside wall of the abdomen. This lining is called the peritoneum. The peritoneum protects and covers ...