• 1.Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081, Heilongjiang Province, China;;
  • 2.Department of Anes-thesiology, Graduate School, Guilin Medical College, Guilin 514000, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China;
QU Hongyan, Email: quhongyan69@163.com
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Objective  To investigate the safe distance of upper gastric cancer by pokemon protein.
Methods  In 60 cases of upper gastric cancer, specimens were get from tumors’ tissue and every 0.5 cm from the proximal of tumor margin beginning at the 1.0 cm to distal. Western blot method was used to test the expression of pokemon protein.
Results  There were 38 cases (63.3%) positively expressed pokemon protein. Compared with the center of tumor, the positive expression rates of pokemon protein at every sites of 2.5-5.0 cm from margin were lower (P<0.003), but didn’t signi-
ficantly differed at every sites of 1.0-2.0 cm from margin (P≥0.003). When the incisal margin distance of more than 3.5 cm of both sides, the positive expression rate of pokemon protein were 0. There were no significant difference between the corresponding sites of the upper resection margin and lower resection margin (P>0.05).
Conclusions  The results show that 3.5 cm may be the molecular margin basing on the positive expression of pokemon protein in the surgical margin of upper gastric cancer, which may have guiding significance to the surgical margin.

Citation: YANG Wei,CAI Xinxin,QU Hongyan,LI Yanfeng,ZHANG Yongle. Expression of Pokemon Protein Predicts The Surgical Molecular Margin in Upper Gastric Cancer. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2013, 20(12): 1386-1390. doi: Copy