Adhesional small bowel obstruction in the absence of previous operations: management and outcomes.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society guidelines integrate evidence-based practices into multimodal care pathways that have improved outcomes in multiple adult surgical specialties. There are currently no pediatric ERAS® Society guidelines. We created an ERAS® guideline designed to enhance quality ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Brindle ME,McDiarmid C,Short K,Miller K,MacRobie A,Lam JYK,Brockel M,Raval MV,Howlett A,Lee KS,Offringa M,Wong K,de Beer D,Wester T,Skarsgard ED,Wales PW,Fecteau A,Haliburton B,Goobie SM,Nelson G

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted retrospectively to examine the efficacy of Traverso reconstruction compared with Billroth I reconstruction after pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy, in the prevention of several complications. Pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy is an aggressive surgery, and insufficiency of the...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Tani M,Kawai M,Terasawa H,Ueno M,Hama T,Hirono S,Ina S,Uchiyama K,Yamaue H

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The splintering of general surgery into subspecialties in the past decade has brought into question the relevance of a continued emphasis on traditional general surgical training. With the majority of trainees now expressing a preference to subspecialise early, this study sought to identify if the requiremen...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Fleming CA,Khan Z,Andrews EJ,Fulton GJ,Redmond HP,Corrigan MA

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent renal hyperparathyroidism (HPT) is a serious problem after parathyroidectomy (PTx). We evaluated the frequency of graft-dependent recurrent HPT and the clinical outcomes after removal of the autograft. METHODS:Between March 1980 and January 2009, 2660 patients underwent total PTx with forearm auto...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Tominaga Y,Matsuoka S,Uno N,Tsuzuki T,Hiramitsu T,Goto N,Nagasaka T,Watarai Y,Uchida K

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal infections are treated by resuscitation, abdominal drainage, control of the source of infection, and antimicrobial agents. Ideally, antimicrobial therapy is active against expected pathogens, safe and effective in clinical trials, inexpensive, and unlikely to promote drug resistance. Numerous single-agent an...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Bohnen JM

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is now generally believed that regulatory T cells (Tregs) play an important role in peripheral tolerance, and a defect in Tregs is considered one of the most important factors in the induction of various kinds of autoimmune disease including ulcerative colitis (UC). Here, we examined the change in frequen...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Furihata M,Sawada T,Okada T,Ishizuka M,Horie T,Takagi K,Nagata H,Kubota K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Critical illness disproportionately affects people in low-income countries (LICs). Efforts to improve critical care in LICs must account for differences in demographics and infrastructure compared to high-income settings. Part of this effort includes the development and validation of intensive care unit (ICU...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Prin M,Pan S,Kadyaudzu C,Li G,Charles A

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of lymphatic involvement in patients with colorectal cancer is important in surgery and in the postoperative decision-making process. Fifty-eight patients with recurrent colorectal cancer underwent operation with the RIGS/(Radioimmunoguided Surgery) technology. Preoperatively, patients were injected with 1 m...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Schneebaum S,Troitsa A,Haddad R,Avital S,Kashtan H,Baratz M,Brazovsky E,Papo J,Skornick Y

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the results of surgical treatment for Graves' disease in our hospital and examined the relationship between the values of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor antibodies and postoperative thyroid function. From 1983 to 1988, subtotal thyroidectomy was performed in 313 patients with Graves' di...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Mori Y,Matoba N,Miura S,Sakai N,Taira Y

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anal manometry is a useful tool for testing the effectiveness of surgical treatment. However, most techniques for anal pressure measurement are not easily available because of high cost. The aim of the present study was to introduce an easy and reproducible method for measuring anal pressures in testing the ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Günal O,Gürleyik E,Arikan Y,Pehlivan M

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seroma formation is a frequent postoperative complication following open ventral hernia repair (OVHR), especially in cases requiring wide subcutaneous dissection (WSD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a new low-thrombin fibrin sealant for seroma prevention. METHODS:A total of 60 c...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Köhler G,Koch OO,Antoniou SA,Lechner M,Mayer F,Emmanuel K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hypocalcemia is a well-known complication after total thyroidectomy. Studies have indicated that the presence of low postoperative parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels can predict hypocalcemia. However, definitive study designs are lacking. The aim of this study was to determine whether postoperative PTH alone...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Sahli Z,Najafian A,Kahan S,Schneider EB,Zeiger MA,Mathur A

更新日期：2018-07-01 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：:Cyclophilins are originally identified as cellular binding proteins for the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporin A. Many cyclophilins, including CypA, CypB, CypC, CypD, and Cyp40, have been discovered and shown to be ubiquitously distributed in many types of cells and organ systems. Recent investigations have uncovered ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Yao Q,Li M,Yang H,Chai H,Fisher W,Chen C

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the time of laparotomy, peritoneal washings were collected from 155 gastric cancer patients and the levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) determined. The CEA levels in peritoneal washings were statistically independent of those in sera and could more reliably predict the presence of peritoneal metastasis than a ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Nishiyama M,Takashima I,Tanaka T,Yoshida K,Toge T,Nagata N,Iwamori S,Tamura Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The post-Soviet calamities of East European cardiac surgery highlight the spectrum of marked differences in overall operative capacities among individual post-Communist countries. A comparison with the level of cardiac surgery in Western Europe reveals the importance of continuing relief, comprising both educational a...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Borst HG

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A minority of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is at high-risk of developing recurrent disease and death. Risk group stratification as defined by age, metastases to distant site, extrathyroidal invasion, and tumor size (AMES) criteria is frequently employed to identify high-risk patients for aggressive ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lo CY,Chan WF,Lam KY,Wan KY

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire-Cancer (QLQ-C30) and the site-specific module for gastric cancer (QLQ-STO22) have seldom been used to measure the postoperative health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Japanese gastric cancer patients. The ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Kobayashi D,Kodera Y,Fujiwara M,Koike M,Nakayama G,Nakao A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dukes' classification is a useful staging system in patients with colorectal cancer. The aim of this study was to present clinicopathologic characteristics and survival of patients with gastric cancer based on Dukes' classification. A total of 273 patients with gastric cancer curatively treated by radical gastrectomy ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Adachi Y,Suematsu T,Yasuda K,Shiromizu A,Shiraishi N,Kitano S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surgical management of pancreatic islet cell carcinomas poses a complicated set of questions resulting from their rare occurrence and the difficulty in establishing a diagnosis in early cases or, conversely, the problems inherent in dealing with metastatic disease. However, because their biologic behavior is rathe...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Grant CS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Team familiarity has been shown to be important for operative efficiency and number of complications, but it is unclear for which types of operations and for which team members familiarity matters the most. The objective of this study is to further our understanding of familiarity in the OR by quantifying th...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Parker SH,Lei X,Fitzgibbons S,Metzger T,Safford S,Kaplan S

更新日期：2020-11-01 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：:This study was designed to investigate the optimal dose of garlic during long-term feeding and its preventive and therapeutic effects on colon cancer in rats induced by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH). A total of 240 male Sprague-Dawley rats were grouped and fed with either a basal or a garlic diet of different concentrat...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Cheng JY,Meng CL,Tzeng CC,Lin JC

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pheochromocytoma with synchronous ipsilateral adrenal cortical adenoma (PSCA) may present with mixed clinical, biochemical, and radiological features characteristic to each neoplasm subtype. METHODS:All patients with a pathological diagnosis of pheochromocytoma were evaluated for an ipsilateral cortical ade...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Hasassri ME,Pandian TK,Bobr AA,Bancos I,Young WF Jr,Richards ML,Farley DR,Thompson GB,McKenzie TJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the surgical outcome of completion thyroidectomy in patients with presumed unilateral well-differentiated thyroid cancer (WDTC). The medical records of all patients having had unilateral thyroid lobectomy for WDTC, who subsequently underwent completion thyroidectomy, were revi...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Pasieka JL,Thompson NW,McLeod MK,Burney RE,Macha M

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and feasibility of performing robot-assisted pediatric surgery using the da Vinci Surgical System in a variety of surgical procedures. METHODS:A retrospective review of 144 robot-assisted pediatric surgical procedures performed in our institution between Ju...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Alqahtani A,Albassam A,Zamakhshary M,Shoukri M,Altokhais T,Aljazairi A,Alzahim A,Mallik M,Alshehri A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00