Current Issue March 2012, Vol. 24, No. 1

Issue Highlights

Evaluation of c-kit expression in classic Kaposi’s sarcoma in a cohort of Egyptian patients
March 2012(Vol. 24 | No. 1 | Pages 1-6)
Tarek M. Hussein, Bassma M. El-Sabaa, Nesrine F. Hanafy

Prognostic significance of ploidy and S-phase fraction in primary intraoral squamous cell carcinoma and their corresponding metastatic lymph nodes
March 2012(Vol. 24 | No. 1 | Pages 7-14)
M.F. El-Deftar, S.M. El Gerzawi, A.A. Abdel-Azim, S.M. Tohamy

Metronomic chemotherapy in metastatic breast cancer: Impact on VEGF
March 2012(Vol. 24 | No. 1 | Pages 15-22)
Lobna R. Ezz El-Arab, Menha Swellam, Manal M. El Mahdy

Prevalence of androgen receptors in invasive breast carcinoma and its relation with estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and Her2/neu expression
17 May 2012
Hanan AlSaeid Alshenawy
Abstract: Background and aims: Although Breast carcinoma had many targeted biomarkers for its treatment, however, it is a heterogeneous disease with different outcomes and need new markers especially ...
Retrosternal goiter: The need for thoracic approach based on CT findings: Surgeon’s view
14 May 2012
Mostafa A. Sakkary, Abdelrahman M. Abdelrahman, Ahmed M. Mostafa, Ahmed A. Abbas, Mohamed H. Zedan
Abstract: Background and purpose: The incidence of retrosternal goiter (RSG) varies from 2% to 26% of all thyroidectomies, depending on the defining criteria. There are no clear guidelines to identify...
Nucleophosmin (NPM1) gene variants in Egyptian patients with acute myeloid leukemia
09 April 2012
Gehan H. Ibrahim
To the editor – Kassem et al. described a novel mutational deletion [del 1178 (A)] in the 3′ untranslated region of NPM1 gene detected in a heterozygous form in seven de novo acute myeloid leukemia (...
One stage reconstruction of the floor of the mouth with a subcutaneous pedicled nasolabial flap
09 April 2012
Hamdy H. El-Marakby, Fouad A. Fouad, Ahmed H. Ali
Abstract: Background: Nasolabial flaps have been recognised as versatile flaps for a variety of defects in the face, nose, lip and the oral cavity. Random pattern inferiorly based nasolabial flaps (NL...
Corrigendum to “Novel mutations of the nucleophosmin (NPM-1) gene in Egyptian patients with acute myeloid leukemia: A pilot study” [Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute 23 (2011) 73–78]
30 March 2012
Neemat Kassem, Alaa Abel Hamid, Tarek Atia, Sherif Baathallah, Somaya Mahmoud, Eman Moemen, Ezzat Safwat, Mohamed Khalaf, Olfat Shaker
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