Gerald Duff
University Hospital Limerick
5 Papers
14 Citations
Gerald Duff is an academic researcher from University Hospital Limerick. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Lymphovascular invasion: a comprehensive appraisal in colon and rectal adenocarcinoma.
John Hogan,Kah Hoong Chang,Gerald Duff,Georges Samaha,N.P. Kelly,Michael Burton,Emily Burton,John Calvin Coffey +7 more
TL;DR: Lymphovascular invasion positivity was associated with different patterns of disease recurrence in colon and rectal cancer and was a poor prognostic indicator in rectal adenocarcinoma only.
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Preoperative staging CT thorax in patients with colorectal cancer: its clinical importance.
John Hogan,Colin O’Rourke,Gerald Duff,Michael Burton,N.P. Kelly,John M. Burke,John Calvin Coffey +6 more
TL;DR: Pulmonary metastasis is relatively rare in colorectal cancer, and staging CT of the thorax may not be mandated in low-risk patients, and the factors associated with pulmonary metastasis and indeterminate lesions were evaluated.
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Neoadjuvant therapy does not affect lymph node ratio in rectal cancer.
TL;DR: LNR ratio remains unaltered despite reduced lymph node retrieval after neoadjuvant therapy in rectal cancer, suggesting LNR may be a more reliable prognostic indicator in this subgroup of patients.
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Coexistent widespread small intestinal and colonic diverticular disease
TL;DR: A 73-year-old woman with a history of multiple abdominal surgery and sigmoid diverticulosis presented with severe constipation refractory to conservative management, she had developed food aversion and cachexia and opted for laparotomy and defunctioning ileostomy to improve quality of life.
An appraisal of lymph node ratio in colon and rectal cancer: not one size fits all
Mekki Medani,N.P. Kelly,Georges Samaha,Gerald Duff,Vourneen Healy,Elizabeth Mulcahy,Eoghan Condon,David Waldron,Jean Saunders,Jean Saunders,J. Calvin Coffey,J. Calvin Coffey +11 more
TL;DR: The paper demonstrates the merits of utilising a data-driven approach to determining lymph node ratios from specific patient cohorts and enabled the generation of those LNRs that were most associated with particular survival trends in relation to overall and disease-free survival.