Surgical margin status and prognosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor.

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：:In the original article, the units indicated on the y-axes of Fig. 3 are incorrectly labelled. The correct label is pg/mL. Following is the corrected Fig. 3. ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Bradley M,Dente C,Khatri V,Schobel S,Lisboa F,Shi A,Hensman H,Kirk A,Buchman TG,Elster E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inguinal hernia is thought to be common in rural Ghana, though no recent data exist on hernia prevalence in the country. This information is needed to guide policy and increase access to safe hernia repair in Ghana and other low-resource settings. METHODS:Adult men randomly selected from the Barekese sub-di...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ohene-Yeboah M,Beard JH,Frimpong-Twumasi B,Koranteng A,Mensah S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine if fat absorption is better after pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy (PPPD) or duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection (DPPHR) compared with that following pancreatoduodenectomy with gastrectomy (SPD), provided the patients have similar pancreatic exocrine function. F...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Miyakawa S,Hayakawa M,Horiguchi A,Mizuno K,Ishihara S,Niwamoto N,Miura K

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy (RLNP) is one of the most common complications after thyroidectomy. We aim to evaluate the role of intraoperative corticosteroids in preventing or treating postoperative RLNP. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We conducted a prospective study of 295 patients who underwent either total lo...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Wang LF,Lee KW,Kuo WR,Wu CW,Lu SP,Chiang FY

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portal azygos disconnection, using vein ligatures and a circumferential hemostatic suture of the gastric wall at the level of the upper pole, is a simple and a rapid technique that effectively controls bleeding from esophagogastric varices. Its low mortality rate in emergency cases or poor-risk patients can be of grea...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Romero-Torres R

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of sialyl-Lewisx (sLex) antigen was studied immunohistochemically in 110 resected human gastric carcinomas using an anti-sLex monoclonal antibody. Lymph node, liver, and peritoneal metastases were clearly more prevalent in tumors expressing high levels of sLex than in those with no or low-level sLex express...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ura H,Denno R,Hirata K,Yamaguchi K,Yasoshima T,Shishido T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past four decades, especially in recent years, various active adjuvant therapies combined with surgery have improved the outcome in cases of cancer of the esophagus. However, no optimum adjuvant therapy has been determined. From 1981 to 1992, 341 patients with regional and distant node metastasis who underw...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Nishihira T,Nakano T,Mori S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is an essential component of the first phase of anastomotic wound healing, and it is suppressed by corticosteroids. The anti-inflammatory effect of corticosteroids is largely responsible for the impairment of wound healing in bowel anastomosis. It has been reported that local application of granulocyte-ma...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Dinc S,Alagol H,Gulcelik MA,Ozbirecikli B,Kuru B,Renda N,Ustun H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate comparative outcomes of laparoscopic transcystic (TC) and transductal (TD) common bile duct (CBD) exploration. METHODS:We systematically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, CENTRAL, the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry, ClinicalTrials.gov, ISRCTN Register, and biblio...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Hajibandeh S,Hajibandeh S,Sarma DR,Balakrishnan S,Eltair M,Mankotia R,Budhoo M,Kumar Y

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute colonic diverticulitis is a common clinical condition. Severity of the disease is based on clinical, laboratory, and radiological investigations and dictates the need for medical or surgical intervention. Recent clinical trials have improved the understanding of the natural history of the disease resul...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Boermeester MA,Humes DJ,Velmahos GC,Søreide K

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Owing to an aging society, both the number of operations for patients aged >85 years and the average age of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are rapidly increasing. However, mortality is not an appropriate outcome measurement in patients aged >85 years; a more important outcome is home retu...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lee B,Na S,Park M,Ham S,Kim J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypervascular nature of carcinoid tumors and their metastases allows a more aggressive role by the radiologist in diagnosis and interventional management. Double-contrast gastrointestinal studies still best define the primary neoplasms. Appendiceal tumors, the most frequent site of carcinoids, frequently escape ra...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Wallace S,Ajani JA,Charnsangavej C,DuBrow R,Yang DJ,Chuang VP,Carrasco CH,Dodd GD Jr

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octenidine HCl is new topical antiseptic solution for wounds and abdominal washing that has been found to be highly effective for inactivating scolices in an in vitro study. However, the effects of octenidine HCl on the liver are not yet known. The aim of this study was to determine if there are any histopathologic ch...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Arikan Y,Akbulut G,Sahin DA,Dilek FH,Saykol V,Dilek ON

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique utilizing miniaturized (2 mm) instrumentation to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is introduced. The safety and efficacy of this mini-LC were assessed. Fifty consecutive mini-LCs were performed using one 10-mm port and three 2-mm ports (cumulative port size 16 mm). A 2-mm fiberoptic video-lapa...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Reardon PR,Kamelgard JI,Applebaum B,Rossman L,Brunicardi FC

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) with distant metastases at presentation is uncommon; the prognosis of patients with this condition is more favorable than for other cancers. Demographic, clinical, and pathologic characteristics are described at a population level; factors associated with long-term disease...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Goffredo P,Sosa JA,Roman SA

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was designed to establish the current demographic and treatment patterns of mandibular fractures in two urban centers (Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, and National Hospital, Abuja) in Nigeria. METHODS:All cases of mandibular fractures diagnosed and treated at the Department of Oral and...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Adeyemo WL,Iwegbu IO,Bello SA,Okoturo E,Olaitan AA,Ladeinde AL,Ogunlewe MO,Adepoju AA,Taiwo OA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment results of mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis in 69 patients between 1990 and 1993 are reviewed. All patients underwent surgical procedures consisting of total excision or selective nodal dissection for lymphadenopathies and curettage for fluctuant cases, followed by antituberculous chemotherapy applie...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kanlikama M,Gökalp A

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC) is standard therapy for patients with locally advanced breast cancer and is increasingly used for early-stage operable disease. Clinical and pathological responses are important prognostic parameters for NC, which aims to achieve a pathological complete response or tumor reducti...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Shien T,Akashi-Tanaka S,Miyakawa K,Hojo T,Shimizu C,Seki K,Ando M,Kohno T,Taira N,Doihara H,Katsumata N,Fujiwara Y,Kinoshita T

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:Pepsinogen C is a proteolytic enzyme involved in the digestion of proteins in the stomach; it is also synthesized by a significant percentage of female breast carcinomas. In addition, it has been demonstrated that pepsinogen C is one of the few proteins induced by androgens in breast carcinoma cells. Here we evaluate ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Serra Díaz C,Vizoso F,Rodríguez JC,Merino AM,González LO,Baltasar A,Pérez-Vázquez MT,Medrano J

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred years ago, Edoardo Bassini said: "L'ernia é una malattia meccanica." Before that, Ambroise Paré (1598) and Joseph-Pierre Desault (1798) asserted the mechanical nature of strangulation. Beside strangulation, the most serious of all complications even today, I have studied huge hernias, which are natural com...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Stoppa RE

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The new global epidemic, overweight and obesity, has a significant role in the etiology of liver tumors. However, the impact of body weight on the outcome after liver resection is unknown. METHODS:We carried out a prospective study of 684 patients who underwent liver resections. Patients were stratified acc...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Balzan S,Nagarajan G,Farges O,Galleano CZ,Dokmak S,Paugam C,Belghiti J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outside Japan portosystemic shunts have been favored as the surgical procedure of choice for the management of portal hypertension of noncirrhotic etiology. Devascularization procedures have resulted in high rebleed rates probably owing to a limited extent of devascularization. We performed this study to assess the ef...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Mathur SK,Shah SR,Nagral SS,Soonawala ZF

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatectomy with concomitant resection of the inferior vena cava (IVC) has become common for hepatic malignancies involving the IVC. However, diagnosing IVC invasion and the procedure of choice have yet to be standardized. Medical records of nine patients with liver cancer (five metastatic tumors from colorectal cance...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Okada Y,Nagino M,Kamiya J,Yamamoto H,Hayakawa N,Nimura Y

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Traditional chemotherapy agents adversely affect wound healing and need to be held prior to or after surgery. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and targeted agents are now standard of care for the several treatment cancers. We hypothesize that ICI and targeted therapy do not have similar adverse effects on...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Sun J,Kirichenko DA,Chung JL,Carr MJ,Eroglu Z,Khushalani NI,Markowitz J,Messina JL,Sondak VK,Zager JS,Patel SY

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few guidelines exist for the initial management of wounds in disaster settings. As wounds sustained are often contaminated, there is a high risk of further complications from infection, both local and systemic. Healthcare workers with little to no surgical training often provide early wound care, and where r...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Wuthisuthimethawee P,Lindquist SJ,Sandler N,Clavisi O,Korin S,Watters D,Gruen RL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With limited resources and the current concerns about using animals for research purposes, the needs must be clear when setting up trauma and sepsis experiments for pharmacologic interventions. Such interventions are performed typically for four reasons: (1) to study the pathophysiologic role of certain mediators (whi...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Redl H,Schlag G,Bahrami S,Yao YM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subfascial elimination of incompetent perforating veins is the most effective therapeutic principle in the treatment of trophic skin disorders associated with varicosis. A recently developed endoscopic technique allows accurate sectioning of perforating veins with direct observation of the veins and minor trauma. From...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Jugenheimer M,Junginger T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced breast cancer improves disease control, but the complications of treatment are not well established. The aim of this study was to assess the operative morbidity in 20 consecutive patients with locally advanced, noninflammatory breast cancer treated with preoperative chemotherap...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Sauter ER,Eisenberg BL,Hoffman JP,Ottery FD,Boraas MC,Goldstein LJ,Solin LJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00