Central pancreatectomy for the resection of benign or low malignant potential neoplasms.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Total mesorectal excision (TME) and preoperative chemoradiation therapy (PCRT) for rectal cancer are used sequentially in our center. The aim of this study was to evaluate survival of patients with stage II/III rectal cancer chronologically and to determine whether therapeutic advances associated with TME an...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lee JL,Yu CS,Kim CW,Yoon YS,Lim SB,Kim JC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication was performed 20 years ago. Surgical management of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) should be offered only to appropriately studied and selected patients, with the ultimate aim of improving the well-being of the individual, the "quality of life." The choice of fundopl...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Dallemagne B,Perretta S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The psychiatric population has been reported to be accompanied with a higher morbidity and mortality in several situations. However, little is known about the effect of co-morbid psychiatric disorders on surgical risk during major digestive surgery for malignancies. Our purpose in the present study, therefor...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Aoyanagi N,Iizuka I,Watanabe M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Video-assisted thyroidectomy, although an increasingly used method to treat benign thyroid nodules, is rarely used to treat thyroid cancer. We performed gasless video-assisted total thyroidectomy for the treatment of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. The patients were two men and five women with ages ranging from 29...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Chao TC,Lin JD,Chen MF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE:In resource-limited settings, identification of successful and sustainable task-shifting interventions is important for improving care. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the training of lay people to take vital signs as trauma clerks is an effective and sustainable method to increase availability of vital sign...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Haac BE,Gallaher JR,Mabedi C,Geyer AJ,Charles AG

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1978 to 1989, 164 patients underwent hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma at our institution. The carcinoma was resected completely in 149 patients. Sixteen patients were excluded from this study because it was not known whether they were recurrent or disease free, or because death occurred as a result ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Nakajima Y,Ohmura T,Kimura J,Shimamura T,Misawa K,Matsushita M,Sato N,Une Y,Uchino J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic reoperative anti-reflux surgery (ARS) has a significantly higher morbidity than laparoscopic primary ARS; however, it is not known whether the same pattern exists within the robotic approach. We aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of robotic reoperative ARS in comparison with primary robot...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Elmously A,Gray KD,Ullmann TM,Fahey TJ 3rd,Afaneh C,Zarnegar R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of various surgical modalities directed at the cavity of hydatid cysts in patients with occult intrabiliary rupture. In this respect, 324 patients with hydatid cyst of the liver operated on during 1983-2003 were analyzed; among them, 39 patients with occult intrabil...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Hamamci EO,Besim H,Sonisik M,Korkmaz A

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Efficient DNA damage repair by MutL-homolog DNA mismatch repair (MMR) enzymes, MLH1, MLH3, PMS1 and PMS2, are required to maintain thyrocyte genomic integrity. We hypothesized that persistent oxidative stress and consequent transcriptional dysregulation observed in thyroid follicles will lead to MMR deficien...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Javid M,Sasanakietkul T,Nicolson NG,Gibson CE,Callender GG,Korah R,Carling T

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical treatment of 30 cases of vascular thoracic outlet syndrome (TOS) in 25 patients is presented. Patients included 17 women and 8 men with average age of 26.1 years. The causes of compression were cervical rib ( n = 16), soft tissue anomalies ( n = 12), and scar tissue after clavicle fracture ( n = 2). Ten s...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Davidovic LB,Kostic DM,Jakovljevic NS,Kuzmanovic IL,Simic TM

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:When needle core biopsies (NCBs) of the breast reveal fibroepithelial lesions (FELs), excision is often performed to rule out a phyllodes tumor (PT), despite low malignancy rates. Consequently, the natural history of observed FELs is not well described. We analyzed the malignancy risk in excised FELs and the...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Limberg J,Barker K,Hoda S,Simmons R,Michaels A,Marti JL

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen consecutive patients receiving renal transplants underwent prospective evaluation of their calcium homeostasis for 1 year after transplantation to characterize indices of hyperparathyroidism (HPT) amelioration. All but one underwent dialysis, and six had vitamin D supplementation before grafting. The rapid fa...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Claesson K,Hellman P,Frödin L,Rastad J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiogenesis is essential for tumor growth and metastasis. An association between microvessel density, a measure of tumor angiogenesis, and conventional prognostic variables has been shown for many tumor entities. For Barrett's carcinoma, the results are controversial. Immature vessels formed in tumors are structurall...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Möbius C,Stein HJ,Becker I,Feith M,Theisen J,Gais P,Jütting U,Siewert JR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to describe the perioperative and long-term results of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients aged 60 or less and compare them to patients of more advanced age in a retrospective single-centre case-control study. METHODS:From January 1996 to December 2014, 5893 consecutive CEAs wer...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Dorigo W,Fargion A,Giacomelli E,Bassoli G,Pulli R,Pratesi G,Piffaretti G,Pratesi C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The appropriate surgical approach for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients of Child-Pugh class B is unclear. The aim of this study was to clarify the prognostic factors after hepatectomy in Child-Pugh class B patients and to delineate the selection criteria for hepatectomy. METHODS:One hundred fifty pati...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kuroda S,Tashiro H,Kobayashi T,Oshita A,Amano H,Ohdan H

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although palpable axillary lymphadenopathy is most often related to benign disorders, it may be a harbinger of an underlying advanced malignancy. Fewer than 1% of patients diagnosed with breast cancer initially present with axillary metastases as their only clinical manifestation. This study represents the Mayo Clinic...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Blanchard DK,Farley DR

更新日期：2004-06-01 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：:The role of liver transplantation in malignancy has been discussed, but controversially, over the past two decades. This is particularly true for hepatic metastases from neuroendocrine tumors, which have a wide variety of primary tumor localizations, morphologic types, functional activities, and clinical presentations...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ringe B,Lorf T,Döpkens K,Canelo R

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign esophageal obstruction is virtually always responsive to dilation therapy. Dilation therapy should, therefore, be the initial approach. The introduction of the Savary-type dilating equipment and of balloon dilation systems are, or will become, standard practice. These systems will increasingly be preferred over...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Tytgat GN

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether for hepatic trauma or transplantation, a surgeon's knowledge of hepatic anatomy commonly determines a patient's outcome. The first medically relevant anatomic studies of the liver emerged with the endeavors of Herophilus and Erasistratus between 310 and 280 bc. Yet it was not until after the development of ane...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： McClusky DA 3rd,Skandalakis LJ,Colborn GL,Skandalakis JE

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past decade has seen a maturation of the art and science of perioperative nutritional support. We now have sufficient data to make informed and reasonable judgments regarding when we should and should not provide perioperative TPN. These judgments can be considered medically sound and fiscally responsible. The fol...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Buzby GP

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The extent to which obesity and genetics determine postoperative complications is incompletely understood. METHODS:We performed a retrospective study using two population cohorts with electronic health record (EHR) data. The first included 736,726 adults with body mass index (BMI) recorded between 1990 and ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Robinson JR,Carroll RJ,Bastarache L,Chen Q,Mou Z,Wei WQ,Connolly JJ,Mentch F,Sleiman P,Crane PK,Hebbring SJ,Stanaway IB,Crosslin DR,Gordon AS,Rosenthal EA,Carrell D,Hayes MG,Wei W,Petukhova L,Namjou B,Zhang G,Sa

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a consensus on the indication of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) for early gastric cancer that needs D1 + alpha or D1 + beta lymph node dissection. However, many gastrointestinal surgeons consider D2 lymph node dissection in LADG to be difficult, therefore, only a few medical institut...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kawamura H,Homma S,Yokota R,Yokota K,Watarai H,Hagiwara M,Sato M,Noguchi K,Ueki S,Kondo Y

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this work was to study the impact of anemia on surgical outcomes and the impact of instituting appropriate workup and treatment of anemia on surgical outcomes. METHODS:We conducted a case-control retrospective chart review of all hernia repair, hydrocele repair, and hysterectomy cases at the SEAR...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lagoo J,Wilkinson J,Thacker J,Deshmukh M,Khorgade S,Bang R

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the collagen matrix in recurrent inguinal hernias. Total ribonucleic acid (RNA) was extracted from skin fibroblasts of three groups (control group I = healthy skin; control group II = plain skin scar; recurrent inguinal hernia group = skin of recurrent inguinal hernias; each n ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Zheng H,Si Z,Kasperk R,Bhardwaj RS,Schumpelick V,Klinge U,Klosterhalfen B

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncontrolled bleeding from the cystic artery and its branches is a serious problem that may increase the risk of intraoperative lesions to vital vascular and biliary structures. On laparoscopic visualization anatomic relations are seen differently than during conventional surgery, so proper knowledge of the hepatobili...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Balija M,Huis M,Nikolic V,Stulhofer M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty patients reoperated for failed Nissen fundoplication are presented; 29 patients (group 2) were operated between 1983 and 1988 while 21 patients (group 1) were operated before 1983. In group 1, the "slipped Nissen" had been the most frequent cause of reoperation (48%). In group 2, the most frequent causes for the...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Siewert JR,Isolauri J,Feussner H

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most reconstructive surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa is provided by numerous noncoordinated individuals and organizations, in multiple short trips, or "surgical blitzes." Because many such groups do not train local surgeons, these communities have become dependent on unsustainable systems. By providing much-nee...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Nthumba PM

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate presurgical assessment is important to anticipate postoperative complications, especially in the growing proportion of elderly cancer patients. We designed a study to define which comorbid conditions at the time of diagnosis predict complications after surgery for colorectal cancer. PATIENTS:A rand...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lemmens VE,Janssen-Heijnen ML,Houterman S,Verheij KD,Martijn H,van de Poll-Franse L,Coebergh JW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00