Optimal dose of garlic to inhibit dimethylhydrazine-induced colon cancer.

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：PURPOSE:Management of anal fistula represents a balance between curing the condition and maintaining anal continence. Recent reports of the results of the porcine anal fistula plug have demonstrated excellent fistula healing rates without reporting significant complications. METHODS:The outcome of patients who underwe...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lawes DA,Efron JE,Abbas M,Heppell J,Young-Fadok TM

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematic model is created to determine the economic cost per year of anticipated prolongation of life that would result from a program of abdominal ultrasonographic (US) screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm. The protocol involves US screening at age 60, 67, and 74 years with additional annual follow-up US and e...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Bengtsson H,Bergqvist D,Jendteg S,Lindgren B,Persson U

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen patients with liver tumor malignancy and sixteen patients with malignant melanoma localized to one limb were studied regarding leukocyte activation with the release of polymorphonuclear neutrophilic (PMN) elastase and of neopterin and formation of cytokines (TNF-alpha and IL-6) during the surgical treatment. ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Arnestad JP,Bengtsson A,Bengtson JP,Hafström L,Redl H,Schlag G

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of thyroid cancer is increasing globally. This is mainly due to the increase in the detection of small papillary carcinomas, including papillary microcarcinomas (PMC) 1 cm or smaller. It was suggested recently that PMCs are overdiagnosed and overtreated. METHODS:In 1993, the author proposed a ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Miyauchi A

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced proctitis with hemorrhage is not a common complication of radiotherapy to the pelvis for carcinoma. In the most severe forms, massive hemorrhage may necessitate repeated transfusions and inpatient treatment. In severe cases medical treatment has not been proved effective. Surgery may lead to serious ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Roche B,Chautems R,Marti MC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastroesophageal reflux is the main risk factor for esophageal adenocarcinoma, but there is no strong support for a protective effect of antireflux surgery. We tested the hypothesis that esophageal adenocarcinoma that develops with long latency after antireflux surgery might be due to persistent postoperativ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lagergren J,Viklund P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lung is the most common site of extrahepatic metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the significance and long-term outcomes of pulmonary metastasectomy for HCC, especially in patients with multiple nodules or repeated pulmonary recurrence. METHODS:We retros...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Mizuguchi S,Nishiyama N,Izumi N,Tsukioka T,Komatsu H,Iwata T,Tanaka S,Takemura S,Kubo S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Unilateral adrenal hyperplasia (UAH) is a rare, surgically correctable cause of primary hyperaldosteronism (PH). We report 2 cases and review the literature for cases of PH secondary to UAH successfully treated via surgery. METHODS:Two cases of UAH treated at our institution were retrospectively reviewed....

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Goh BK,Tan YH,Chang KT,Eng PH,Yip SK,Cheng CW

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Stapled anopexia was introduced as a surgical method in 1993. Long-term data with special interest in functional results and relapse symptoms are rarely presented. Urinary discomfort and problems with fecal urge incontinence are addressed as severe side effects. We present our long-term results (using data f...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Schmidt J,Dogan N,Langenbach R,Zirngibl H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a proven relationship between obesity and several cancers including breast, endometrium, colorectal, and esophagus. With the increasing incidence of both obesity and thyroid cancer, we designed the present study to investigate a causal relationship between leptin, which is one of the well known adip...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Rehem RA,Elwafa WA,Elwafa RA,Abdel-Aziz TE

更新日期：2014-10-01 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：:The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for bacterial translocation and to determine the clinical significance of bacterial translocation in patients with colorectal cancer. Mesenteric lymph node sampling was performed to identify the presence of bacterial translocation in 75 patients with colorectal ca...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Takesue Y,Kakehashi M,Ohge H,Uemura K,Imamura Y,Murakami Y,Sasaki M,Morifuji M,Yokoyama Y,Kouyama M,Okii K,Sueda T

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although various complications after hepatectomy have been reported, there have been no large studies on postoperative portal vein thrombosis (PVT) as a complication. This study evaluated the incidence, risk factors, and clinical outcomes of PVT after hepatectomy. METHODS:The preoperative and postoperative ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Yoshiya S,Shirabe K,Nakagawara H,Soejima Y,Yoshizumi T,Ikegami T,Yamashita Y,Harimoto N,Nishie A,Yamanaka T,Maehara Y

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to systematically review the literature on the educational impact of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses and their effects on death rates of multiple trauma patients. METHODS:All Medline, Pubmed, and the Cochrane Library English articles on the educational impact of ATLS courses and their e...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Mohammad A,Branicki F,Abu-Zidan FM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) is a potentially powerful, non-invasive imaging tool in differentiating adrenal metastasis from benign disease, some adenomas also exhibit high FDG uptake, therefore mimicking metastasis (i.e., false...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lang BH,Cowling BJ,Li JY,Wong KP,Wan KY

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Existing data suggest a large burden of surgical conditions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, surgical care for children in LMICs remains poorly understood. Our goal was to define the hospital infrastructure, workforce, and delivery of surgical care for children across Somaliland and prov...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Concepcion TL,Smith ER,Mohamed M,Dahir S,Ismail EA,Leather AJM,Poenaru D,Rice HE,Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery.

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to analyze the prognostic factors associated with long-term outcome after liver resection for colorectal metastases. The retrospective analysis included 297 liver resections for colorectal metastases. METHODS:The variables considered included disease stage, differentiation grade, s...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Arru M,Aldrighetti L,Castoldi R,Di Palo S,Orsenigo E,Stella M,Pulitanò C,Gavazzi F,Ferla G,Di Carlo V,Staudacher C

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:In India, half of the annual 200,000 road traffic deaths occur in hospitals, but the exact in-hospital trauma mortality rate remains unknown. A research consortium of universities, with a mandate to reduce trauma mortality, measured the baseline 30-day in-hospital mortality rate. METHODS:Between September...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Roy N,Gerdin M,Ghosh S,Gupta A,Kumar V,Khajanchi M,Schneider EB,Gruen R,Tomson G,von Schreeb J

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of the work of host defense has been carried out in mixed patient populations. It is now clear that elective preoperative surgical patients have totally different host defense capabilities as compared to posttrauma patients or those suffering from peritonitis. Specific cell-mediated immune studies need to be repe...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Christou NV

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty is a customized marker of biological age that helps to gauge an individual's functional physiologic reserve and ability to react to stress and is associated with increased postoperative morbidity and mortality. In order to mitigate frailty preoperatively, the concept of prehabilitation has entered th...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Baimas-George M,Watson M,Elhage S,Parala-Metz A,Vrochides D,Davis BR

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent spontaneous pneumothorax is widely treated by video-assisted thoracoscopic (VATS) bullectomy and pleurodesis. Treatment of postoperative pain with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is controversial as many surgeons believe that it reduces the efficacy of pleurodesis and increases the pne...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Ben-Nun A,Golan N,Faibishenko I,Simansky D,Soudack M

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:In a prospective multicenter study, 186 patients with squamous cell esophageal carcinoma, who after evaluation were considered suitable for surgery, were randomized to 4 treatment groups: Group 1, surgery alone; Group 2, pre-operative chemotherapy (cisplatin and bleomycin) and surgery; Group 3, pre-operative irradiati...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Nygaard K,Hagen S,Hansen HS,Hatlevoll R,Hultborn R,Jakobsen A,Mäntyla M,Modig H,Munck-Wikland E,Rosengren B

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to prevent the sequelae of conventional gastrectomy, such as rapid gastric emptying, dumping syndrome, intestinal content reflux, indigestion, and poor absorption, we have devised the pylorus and pyloric vagus preserving gastrectomy (PPVPG). Experimenting on 48 dogs, we found theoretic grounds for using ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Lu Y,Hoa Y,Jia S,Gao C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pain syndromes of somatic and neuropathic origin are considered to be the main causes of chronic pain after open inguinal hernia repair. Nerve-identification during open hernia repair is suggested to be associated with less postoperative chronic pain. The aim of this study was to define clinically relevant s...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Wijsmuller AR,Lange JF,Kleinrensink GJ,van Geldere D,Simons MP,Huygen FJ,Jeekel J,Lange JF

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the recent literature is cited in support of the use of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in Crohn's disease. The principal indications for this use are described and some of the disadvantages are discussed. ...

journal_title：World journal of surgery

authors： Descos L,Vignal J

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00