Disordered metabolic response with cancer and its management.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of digital defog technique in 3D laparoscopic surgery for right colon cancer. METHODS:Fifty patients with right colon cancer were divided into digital defogging group and control group. The intraoperative image clarity, the surgeon's anxiety, the time ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Gu L,Liu PL,Zhou H,Xu Q

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There are many reports about limited surgery for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas. However, there is no consensus on limited surgery for IPMNs. The primary objective of this study was to define the clinical indications for limited surgery for IPMNs. METHODS:The data of 98 pat...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kimura K,Amano R,Ymazoe S,Ohira G,Nishio K,Hirakawa K,Ohira M

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is characterized by a high rate of recurrence. In the present study, we aimed to compare the outcomes of patients managed either by conservative treatment or surgical operation for an episode of SBO. METHODS:The outcomes of all patients hospitalized at a single center for acute...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Meier RP,de Saussure WO,Orci LA,Gutzwiller EM,Morel P,Ris F,Schwenter F

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard of care for staging N0 primary early breast cancers (EBC). Patients in developing countries mostly present with large (LOBC) or locally advanced cancers (LABC) and are treated with neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). Accuracy of SLNB in staging stage III N0 a...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Agarwal G,Rajan S,Gambhir S,Lal P,Krishnani N,Kheruka S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative ileus is a common problem with significant clinical and economic consequences. We hypothesized that Gastrografin may have therapeutic utility by accelerating the recovery of postoperative ileus after colorectal surgery. The aim of this trial was to study the impact of oral Gastrografin administ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Biondo S,Miquel J,Espin-Basany E,Sanchez JL,Golda T,Ferrer-Artola AM,Codina-Cazador A,Frago R,Kreisler E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to elucidate the function of the sphincter of Oddi (SO) in patients with juxtapapillary duodenal diverticula (JDDs). The SO function was evaluated by intraoperative biliary manometry in three groups of patients. Group 1 consisted of nine patients with JDDs and a dilated common bile duct (...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Miyazaki S,Sakamoto T,Miyata M,Yamasaki Y,Yamasaki H,Kuwata K

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraoperative cerebral oxygen desaturation was reported to be associated with postoperative cognitive dysfunction in elderly patients. The effect of the anesthesia method on regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO(2)) is still a question under debate. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lee A,Kim SH,Hong JY,Hwang JH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical care is emerging as a crucial issue in global public health. Methodology is needed to assess the impact of surgical care from a public health perspective. METHODS:A consensus opinion of a group of surgeons, anesthesiologists, and public health experts was established regarding the methodology for e...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Bickler S,Ozgediz D,Gosselin R,Weiser T,Spiegel D,Hsia R,Dunbar P,McQueen K,Jamison D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) and computed tomography (CT) should be used as complementary methods for TNM staging of esophageal cancer. EUS is the most accurate modality for staging primary tumor and mediastinal lymph node metastases. CT should be used to detect infiltration of other mediastinal organs and distant...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Hölscher AH,Dittler HJ,Siewert JR

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of the liver on cell-mediated immunity in rats. Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into five groups: control group that did not have any procedure, a sham-operation group that underwent laparotomy, a lobectomy group that had left lateral lobectomy of the liver,...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Yu HC,Moon JI,Jin ZW,Lee DY,Kim CY,Song CH,Cho BH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evaluation of screening programs for cancer is considered. Initial evaluation has to be in terms of mortality, but increasing importance should be attached to measures which evaluate the interaction of early detection with the disease process. These include the degree to which diagnosis is advanced, both in time a...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Day NE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TraumAID is a computer-based decision aid that uses decision rules and logical deduction to generate management plans for the initial definitive management of injured patients; its use is currently confined to assessing penetrating thoracoabdominal injuries in nonpregnant adults. These management plans were compared t...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Clarke JR,Hayward CZ,Santora TA,Wagner DK,Webber BL

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study is designed to determine the feasibility and impact of the introduction of laparoscopic wedge resection as a surgical option for the treatment of suspected small/medium-sized (<7 cm) gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). METHODS:The study involved a retrospective review of 53 co...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Goh BK,Chow PK,Chok AY,Chan WH,Chung YF,Ong HS,Wong WK

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The present study was designed to evaluate the relationship between preoperative Toll-like receptor (TLR) expression in peripheral blood monocytes (PBMC) and the postoperative inflammatory cytokine secretion from PBMC, as well as the postoperative infectious complications in patients with gastrointestinal ca...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ono S,Tsujimoto H,Hiraki S,Kinoshita M,Hase K

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of 105 consecutive patients with venographically proved major acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were randomized in an open prospective study to evaluate the comparative efficacy and safety of a fixed dose of subcutaneous low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and warfarin for the prevention of recurrent venous thr...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Das SK,Cohen AT,Edmondson RA,Melissari E,Kakkar VV

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of sufficient suitable human donor lungs for the many patients requiring pulmonary transplantation as life-saving therapy for end-stage lung diseases has generated extensive interest in cross-species lung transplantation. Ethical concerns and those of animal rights advocates have prompted studies of nonprimat...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kamholz SL,Brewer RJ,Grijalva G,Burack J,Del Rio MJ,Vaynblatt M,Lawson N,Squinto S,Fodor WL,Norin AJ

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vibrio vulnificus infection can progress rapidly in skin or soft tissue, and it is potentially life-threatening. The purpose of the present study was to explore the predictors of mortality in patients with V. vulnificus infections of skin or soft tissue. METHODS:The medical records of 119 consecutive patien...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kuo Chou TN,Chao WN,Yang C,Wong RH,Ueng KC,Chen SC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the validity and responsiveness of a new quality of life instrument, the Patient Generated Index (PGI), in patients with rectal cancer. Thirty-three patients with rectal cancer were administered the PGI, the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Qu...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Camilleri-Brennan J,Ruta DA,Steele RJ

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since the human genome has been sequenced many mysteries of cell biology have been unravelled, thereby clarifying the pathogenesis of several diseases, particularly cancer. In members of kindreds with certain hereditary diseases, it is now possible early in life to predict with great certainty whether or not...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： You YN,Lakhani VT,Wells SA Jr

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The skin is closed in open appendectomy traditionally with few interrupted nonabsorbable sutures. The use of this old method is based on a suggestion that this technique decreases wound infections. In pediatric surgery, skin closure with running intradermal absorbable sutures has been found to be as safe as ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kotaluoto S,Pauniaho SL,Helminen M,Kuokkanen H,Rantanen T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In some patients, bile ducts of segments 2 and 3 (B2 and B3) run caudally to the umbilical portion of the left portal vein (UP)--an infraportal course. We aimed to evaluate the frequency and clinical implications of this variation. Between January 1992 and October 2000, 108 patients underwent resection for hilar chola...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ozden I,Kamiya J,Nagino M,Uesaka K,Sano T,Nimura Y

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The fields of surgery and trauma care have largely been neglected in the global health discussion. As a result the idea that surgery is not safe or cost effective in resource-limited settings has gone unchallenged. The SIGN Online Surgical Database (SOSD) is now one of the largest databases on trauma surgery...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Young S,Lie SA,Hallan G,Zirkle LG,Engesæter LB,Havelin LI

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study was instituted to assess whether the use of the on-pump method or the off-pump method affects changes in health-related quality of life (QOL) as evaluated a year after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Data including preoperative risk factors and postoperative morbidity up to discharg...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Järvinen O,Saarinen T,Julkunen J,Laurikka J,Huhtala H,Tarkka MR

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Obesity and rapid weight loss after bariatric surgery are risk factors for gallstone disease. OBJECTIVES:The present study sought to evaluate the feasibility of selective concomitant cholecystectomy only in patients with symptomatic disease and study risk factors for the development of symptomatic gallstone...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Morais M,Faria G,Preto J,Costa-Maia J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cases of H-type tracheoesophageal fistula are reported. The patients all had chronic aspiration from the esophagus. Although serious symptoms were present in all, definitive diagnoses were not made until the patients had reached 1, 6, 12, and 50 years of age, because ordinary radiologic methods failed to establis...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lam CR

更新日期：1979-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of 10 % sucralfate ointment in the reduction of acute postoperative pain after open hemorrhoidectomy. METHODS:A total of 48 patients (24 men and 24 women) between 20 and 70 years of age who underwent open hemorrhoidectomy were included in this prospe...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ala S,Saeedi M,Eshghi F,Rafati M,Hejazi V,Hadianamrei R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intraoperative identification of the difficult-to-spot parathyroid gland is critical during surgery for thyroid and parathyroid disease. Recently, intrinsic fluorescence of the parathyroid gland was identified, and a new method was developed for intraoperative detection of the parathyroid with an original fl...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Shinden Y,Nakajo A,Arima H,Tanoue K,Hirata M,Kijima Y,Maemura K,Natsugoe S

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axillary clearance in node-negative breast cancer patients is performed only for staging and prognostic purposes. The sentinel node concept may provide an alternative conservative approach for these patients. This paper reports on the learning experience with lymphatic mapping involving the use of patent blue dye for ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Cserni G,Boross G,Baltás B

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The use of outcomes to evaluate surgical quality implies the need for detailed risk adjustment. The physiological and operative severity score for the enumeration of mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) is a generally applicable risk adjustment model suitable for pancreatic surgery. A pancreaticoduodenectomy (...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ansorge C,Lindström P,Strömmer L,Blomberg J,Lundell L,Andrén-Sandberg A,Del Chiaro M,Segersvärd R

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed (1) to develop a simple scoring system incorporating ultrasound (US) examination and clinical or laboratory predictors for increasing diagnostic accuracy in acute appendicitis (AA), and (2) to evaluate the performance of the scoring system as compared to that of previous models. Fifteen variables incl...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Tzanakis NE,Efstathiou SP,Danulidis K,Rallis GE,Tsioulos DI,Chatzivasiliou A,Peros G,Nikiteas NI

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00