Robert Meguid

Combining Commercial Cancer Protein Biomarkers and Benign Fungal Antibodies Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Pulmonary Nodules.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether adding cancer and histoplasma biomarkers to existing clinical prediction models improves diagnostic accuracy for malignancy in indeterminate pulmonary nodules (IPNs). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: IPNs remain a diagnostic challenge, particularly in regio...

P1.170. Circulating Biomarkers of Angiogenesis in Esophageal Cancer Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Gastric Ischemic Preconditioning: A Pilot Study

Abstract Topic Esophageal Cancer: Surgical Treatment of Esophageal Cancer Background Laparoscopic gastric ischemic preconditioning (LGIP = ligation of the left gastric and short gastric vessels) aims to promote gastric conduit neovascularization and reduce anastomotic leak, a maj...