Preoperative chemotherapy for advanced esophageal cancer and relation with histological effect.

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study is to evaluate the association between the participation of board-certified surgeons in gastroenterological surgery (BCS-Gs) and the surgical outcomes of gastroenterological surgery. METHODS:Data from the National Clinical Database on patients who underwent eight major gastroenterological...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Konno H,Kamiya K,Kikuchi H,Miyata H,Hirahara N,Gotoh M,Wakabayashi G,Ohta T,Kokudo N,Mori M,Seto Y

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the results of wide rhomboid excision with Limberg transposition flap reconstruction to treat pilonidal sinus. METHODS:We analyzed the well-documented records of 238 patients with sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus who underwent wide excision with a Limberg transposition flap and were followed up fo...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Mentes BB,Leventoglu S,Cihan A,Tatlicioglu E,Akin M,Oguz M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the surgical outcomes after transumbilical laparoscopic-assisted appendectomy (TULAA) and open appendectomy (OA) at a single institution. METHODS:We compared the surgical outcomes for 94 consecutive patients who underwent TULAA between April 2010 and March 2014 to those for 91 consecutive patients w...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Koizumi N,Kobayashi H,Nakase Y,Takagi T,Fukumoto K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of fibrin glue on the prevention of postoperative peritoneal adhesion to prosthetic materials used in ventral hernia repair. METHODS:Ten pigs were included in this study. The abdomens of the animals were opened by means of a median subumbilical laparotomy to...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Martín-Cartes JA,Morales-Conde S,Suárez-Grau JM,Bustos-Jiménez M,Cadet-Dussort JM,López-Bernal F,Morcillo-Azcárate J,Tutosaus-Gómez JD,Morales-Méndez S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The precise role of downstaging or bridge therapy for cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) beyond or within the Milan criteria (MC) before living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) remains undefined. METHODS:We conducted a single-center, retrospective cohort study of 40 cirrhotic patients wit...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Inomata K,Yagi H,Hibi T,Shinoda M,Matsubara K,Abe Y,Kitago M,Obara H,Itano O,Kawachi S,Tanabe M,Wakabayashi G,Shimazu M,Kitagawa Y

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute mediastinal hemorrhage is rarely caused by a rupture of mediastinal neoplasms. We herein report a 70-year-old man who presented with mediastinal parathyroid adenoma manifested by the sudden onset of mediastinal bleeding. Preoperatively, he showed no symptoms or complications associated with hypercalcemia. No par...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nakajima J,Takamoto S,Tanaka M,Takeuchi E,Murakawa T,Kitagawa H,Fukayama M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cholecystectomy, which is one of the most common surgical procedures, is also performed in the emergency setting. A number of risk scores have been introduced in recent studies; moreover, over the last few years literature has focused on surgical patients with frailty syndrome. The aim of the present study is t...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Lorenzon L,Costa G,Massa G,Frezza B,Stella F,Balducci G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 50-year-old man with a double aortic arch who underwent esophagectomy for cancer in the middle thoracic esophagus at clinical Stage IIA (T3N0M0), based on the TNM classification (UICC 2002). The patient underwent esophagectomy with three-field lymphadenectomy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy....

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Matono S,Fujita H,Tanaka T,Tanaka Y,Nagano T,Nishimura K,Murata K,Sueyoshi S,Shirouzu K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Surgical site infections (SSI) in an abdominoperineal resection (APR) occur more frequently than in other types of operations for patients with colorectal cancer. Perineal wounds are the most vulnerable sites, and they may be caused by stool contamination. Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence imaging, by which ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kitai T,Kawashima M,Fujii H,Mashima S,Shimahara Y

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the influence of potassium ion concentration in an organ preservation solution on lung preservation, four types of solutions were produced. These preservation solutions consisted of sodium and potassium ions on the cation and phosphate ions on the anion with glucose. Contents of solutions were: (1) 155 mmo...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ono K,Sone Y,Irie T,Ohnuki T,Nitta S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of capillary hemangioma of the liver in an adult. The patient was a 55-year-old man, admitted for investigation of a hepatic tumor. The tumor was seen as a hypoechoic mass with a peripheral hypoechoic ring on ultrasonography. Computed tomography (CT) showed an enhancement pattern different from t...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Noda T,Sasaki Y,Yamada T,Eguchi H,Takachi K,Noura S,Miyashiro I,Murata K,Doki Y,Ohigashi H,Ishikawa O,Imaoka S,Mitani H,Ishiguro S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the risk factors related to intraperitoneal septic complications occurring after hepatectomy (IPSCH) as well as the effect of various perioperative variables on the outcome of IPSCH between 1985 and 1990 were analyzed. Twenty-one of 211 patients (10.0%) developed IPSCH. The findings in the patients with...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Matsumata T,Yanaga K,Shimada M,Shirabe K,Taketomi A,Sugimachi K

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four patients with tracheal lesions were managed by various procedures, including primary anastomosis in 16, tracheoplasty in 2, and a terminal tracheostomy in 6. The patients undergoing anastomosis included 4 with primary tumors, 7 with secondary tumors, and 5 with benign stricture. Except for 2 patients, ther...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tsubota N,Yoshimura M,Miyamoto Y,Nakamura H,Minami H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) should be surgically resected, even those smaller than 5 cm in size, which is the threshold of clinical malignancy for submucosal tumors (SMTs) in the gastrointestinal tract. This study reviewed the use of laparoscopic surgery for gastric partial resection of GISTs or SMT...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kakeji Y,Nakanoko T,Yoshida R,Eto K,Kumashiro R,Ikeda K,Egashira A,Saeki H,Oki E,Morita M,Ikeda T,Maehara Y

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of changing the calcium content of a continuous warm hyperkalemic crystalloid cardioplegia (CWCP) were investigated in an isolated rat heart preparation. The hearts were divided into eight groups of six each. A control group consisted of fresh nonarrested hearts and the remaining seven groups consisted of ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nakamura Y,Takemoto N,Kuroda H,Ohgi S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hyperfibrinogenemia is associated with poor prognosis in various cancers; however, its clinical relevance in gastric cancer has not been well analyzed. We conducted this study to assess the clinicopathological significance and prognostic value of hyperfibrinogenemia in patients with gastric cancer. METHODS:Pla...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Suzuki T,Shimada H,Nanami T,Oshima Y,Yajima S,Ito M,Washizawa N,Kaneko H

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the possible factors that could contribute to the impairment of polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) bactericidal activities in patients with esophageal cancer, based on the discovery that a depression of the intracellular killing (KI) activity, with an elevation of the superoxide anion-producing capacity (S...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Shigemitsu Y,Saito T,Kinoshita T,Katsuta T,Shimoda K,Kobayashi M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Body mass index (BMI) has been suggested to provide clinicopathological information in tumor development and progression in patients with gastric carcinoma. METHODS:The correlation of BMI with clinicopathological features and operation-related factors was analyzed in 308 patients with gastric carcinoma who ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nozoe T,Kohno M,Iguchi T,Mori E,Maeda T,Matsukuma A,Ezaki T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to compare the outcomes of surgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for elderly clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. METHODS:Patients ≥80 years of age with clinical stage I NSCLC between August 2008 and December 2014 were treated either surgery or SBR...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Miyazaki T,Yamazaki T,Nakamura D,Sato S,Yamasaki N,Tsuchiya T,Matsumoto K,Kamohara R,Hatachi G,Nagayasu T

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bax-alpha, a splice variant of bax which promotes apoptosis, is expressed in many kinds of untransformed cell lines and breast tissue, whereas only weak or no expression could be detected in breast cancer cell lines and malignant breast tissue. Human breast cancer MCF-7 cells, which have a weak bax gene expression, we...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Sakakura C,Sweeney EA,Shirahama T,Igarashi Y,Hakomori S,Tsujimoto H,Imanishi T,Ohgaki M,Yamazaki J,Hagiwara A,Sawai K,Yamaguchi T,Takahashi T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report a rare case of cardiac and abdominal aortic inflammatory pseudotumors (IPTs). A 64-year-old male presented with a loss of appetite, abdominal distension and general fatigue. A cardiac tumor was suspected on the basis of computed tomography scans. A needle biopsy was performed, but it did not lead to a...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Wada T,Anai H,Morita M,Shuto T,Miyamoto S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report the case of a 69-year old woman presenting with an abdominal mass, who was found to have a mixed mesodermal tumor (MMT) of the cecum. Imaging studies and endoscopic investigations were consistent with the diagnosis of a nonepithelial malignant tumor of the cecum. On laparotomy, a knuckle-sized firm ma...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Shimizu A,Ohno K,Masuda Y,Endou F,Masuda Y,Ogata A,Nagai M,Obata G,Asano K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass screening for breast cancer using physical examination alone has been carried out since 1983 in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Over a 7-year period, breast cancer was detected in 11 of a total 8,271 examinees, the detection rate being high at 0.13%. The detected cases included a few early-staged breast cance...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Morimoto T,Komaki K,Mori T,Sasa M,Ooshimo K,Miki H,Monden Y,Inui K,Saoyama N,Yoshida H

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present herein the case of a pyogenic liver abscess developing from hepatic ischemia caused by resection of the right hepatic artery when a left hemihepatectomy with caudate lobectomy and extrahepatic bile duct resection was performed for cholangiocellular carcinoma. Postoperative cholangiography revealed communica...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tanaka K,Nishimura A,Hombo K,Furoi A,Ikoma A,Yamauchi T,Taira A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old boy was diagnosed as having a chromosomal abnormality with trisomy 3p associated with a secundum atrial septal defect and a cleft of the anterior mitral leaflet. His craniofacial features showed microcephaly, micrognathia, ocular hypertelorism associated with epicanthus, and low-set ears. Moderate mental ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Suzuki M,Ishikawa S,Ohtaki A,Sakata K,Kawashima O,Otani Y,Morishita Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Acute diffuse peritonitis (ADP) is an important surgical complication associated with high morbidity and mortality; however, the risk factors associated with a poor outcome have remained controversial. This study aimed in collecting integrated data using a web-based national database system to build a risk mode...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nakagoe T,Miyata H,Gotoh M,Anazawa T,Baba H,Kimura W,Tomita N,Shimada M,Kitagawa Y,Sugihara K,Mori M

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:As the number of elderly people has increased, the number of elderly patients who need emergency operations has also increased. Although there are many models to evaluate the risk of surgery in elderly patients, they all are associated with limitations. We herein evaluated the prognostic factors for surgical mo...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Park SY,Chung JS,Kim SH,Kim YW,Ryu H,Kim DH

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Esophageal achalasia can be roughly divided into non-sigmoid and sigmoid types. Laparoscopic surgery has been reported to be less than optimally effective for sigmoid type. The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the esophageal flexion level on the clinical condition and surgical outcomes of patients...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tsuboi K,Omura N,Yano F,Hoshino M,Yamamoto SR,Akimoto S,Masuda T,Kashiwagi H,Yanaga K

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this retrospective study was to examine the influence of cigarette smoking on the recurrence of Crohn's disease after resection. Between 1975 and 1990, 141 patients underwent primary ileocolonic resection for ileocecal Crohn's disease, 79 of whom were nonsmokers and 62 of whom were smokers at the time o...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Yamamoto T,Keighley MR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous authors have suggested that a diverticulum of the vermiform appendix has a higher risk of perforation than acute appendicitis. Therefore, this study compared appendiceal diverticulitis with acute appendicitis to explain the characteristics of appendiceal diverticulitis. METHODS:Data for this study cam...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Yamana I,Kawamoto S,Inada K,Nagao S,Yoshida T,Yamashita Y

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00