Table of Contents

Dec 2017; Volume 17, Issue 4

• Articles

  • • From The Editor's Desk: A Focus on Cancer Services

      Ronald G. Amedee

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 303;

    • From the Guest Editor: The Rapidly Changing Field of Cancer Treatment

      Robert A. Ramirez

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 304;

    • Letter To The Editor: Ertapenem-Induced Acute Pancreatitis in a Cirrhotic Patient

      Erkin Oztas, Muhammet Yener Akpinar and Mustafa Kaplan

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 305;

    • Letter To The Editor: Reply to Polio Eradication in Pakistan: Call for Alliance

      Muhammad Anzar Ullah and Aisha Maryam Husseni

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 306;

    • Letter To The Editor: Management of Aortic Root Thrombosis After Implantation of a Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device: A Real Conundrum

      John Gulotta, Daniel P. Morin and Selim R. Krim

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 307-308;

    • Letter To The Editor: Catheter Track Metastasis With Indwelling Pleural Catheter

      Sara Zank, Elham Abboud, Wissam Jaber and Abdul Hamid Alraiyes

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 309-310;

    • Clinical Images: Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Reduction for Management of Recurrent Hepatic Encephalopathy

      Hafez Khalili, Daryl Goldman, Sarah Frischhertz and David Kirsch

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 311-316;

    • Bioethics In Practice: Understanding Understood Consent

      Robert J. Vasquez

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 317-318;

• Editorial

  • • Building a Phase 1 Cancer Research Program: Lessons Learned and Progress Made

      Marc R. Matrana and Julia Cook

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 319-321;

• Original Research

  • • Interval Colorectal Cancers at Ochsner Medical Center: Where Do We Stand?

      Felicia Humphrey, Mariella Gastañaduy, James Smith and Charles B. Whitlow

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 322-327;

    • Overall Survival Associated With Ileostomy Closure in Patients With Rectal Cancer Before and After Adjuvant Therapy

      Shaun R. Brown, Behram Khan, Heather J. Green and David E. Beck

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 328-330;

    • Outcomes of Patients With Late-Relapse Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Treated With Targeted Therapies: A Single Institution Experience

      John Kucharczyk, Kamal Mandalapu, Suma Satti and Marc R. Matrana

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 331-334;

    • Prognostic Factors in Typical and Atypical Pulmonary Carcinoids

      Robert A. Ramirez, David T. Beyer, Anne E. Diebold, Brianne A. Voros, Maria M. Chester, Yi-Zarn Wang, J. Philip Boudreaux, Eugene A. Woltering, Ann-Porter Uhlhorn, Pamela Ryan, Richard J. Campeau and Lowell B. Anthony

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 335-340;

    • A Potential Additional Variable to Consider in the Surgical Treatment of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ

      Katherine Chaisson, Amy Rivere, Ralph Corsetti, Tova Weiss and George M. Fuhrman

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 341-344;

• Reviews and Contemporary Updates

  • • The Relationship Between Regional Anesthesia and Cancer: A Metaanalysis

      Ravi K. Grandhi, Samuel Lee and Alaa Abd-Elsayed

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 345-361;

    • Leptomeningeal Disease and the Evolving Role of Molecular Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy

      Katharine Hall Thomas and Robert A. Ramirez

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 362-378;

    • The Role of Checkpoint Inhibition in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

      Jonathan Lu and Robert A. Ramirez

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 379-387;

    • Molecular Targets in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

      Ryan Griffin and Robert A. Ramirez

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 388-392;

    • Oncology and Palliative Medicine: Providing Comprehensive Care for Patients With Cancer

      Laura Finn, Alva Roche Green and Sonia Malhotra

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 393-397;

    • Older Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Treatment Challenges and Future Directions

      Laura Finn, Andrew Dalovisio and James Foran

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 398-404;

    • Endocrine Therapy for Early Breast Cancer: Updated Review

      Alexander Tremont, Jonathan Lu and John T. Cole

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 405-411;

    • Intraarterial Liver-Directed Therapies: The Role of Interventional Oncology

      Jenson Ma, Juan Martin Gimenez, Tyler Sandow, Daniel Devun, David Kirsch, Paul Gulotta, Patrick Gilbert and Dennis Kay

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 412-416;

• Case Reports and Clinical Observations

  • • Sigmoid Colonic Polyp as Initial Presentation of Metastatic Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma

      Andrew C. Berry, Rahman Nakshabendi, Ozdemir Kanar, Wayne Cai and Mohan Persaud

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 417-420;

    • Paraneoplastic Cardiac Involvement in Renal Cell Carcinoma With Dermatomyositis Sine Dermatitis

      Htoo Kyaw, Atif Z. Shaikh, Cesar Ayala-Rodriguez and Misra Deepika

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 421-425;

    • Periampullary Carcinoma: Unusual Sites of Metastasis

      Anju Bansal, Varsha Dalal, Manveen Kaur and Fouzia Siraj

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 426-429;

    • Body Art Confounding a Case of Breast Cancer

      Lena Gowharji, Dana Smetherman and Brett Roberts

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 430-433;

    • Primary Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma of the Penis

      Hyung Sun Yoo, Suma Satti and Marc Matrana

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 434-437;

    • Invasive Insular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as Nonparalytic Dysphonia

      Blake S. Raggio, Blair M. Barton, Maria C. Grant, Judith A. Fornadley and Jeffrey P. Marino

      • Ochsner Journal December 2017, 17 (4) 438-441;

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