Gastrointestinal hemorrhage from adhesion-related mesenteric varices.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The results of proximal splenorenal shunts done in children with extrahepatic portal venous obstruction were evaluated. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Extrahepatic portal venous obstruction, a common cause of portal hypertension in children in India, is being treated increasingly by endoscopic sclerotherapy instead...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Prasad AS,Gupta S,Kohli V,Pande GK,Sahni P,Nundy S

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Comparative effectiveness research has mostly been focused on comparison of treatment techniques. The goal of the present study was to extend the research to physician specialty. BACKGROUND:Both surgeons and interventionalists (cardiologists and radiologists) are involved in endovascular repairs (EVAR) of ao...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： McCutcheon BA,Talamini MA,Chang DC,Rose JA,Bandyk DF,Wilson SE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nonfunctioning islet cell tumors of the pancreas, hormone production is not clinically evident. This type of tumor constituted 15% of all islet cell tumors seen at the Mayo Clinic from 1960 through 1978. Although identical to functioning islet cell tumors embryologically and histologically, the nonfunctioning tumor...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kent RB 3rd,van Heerden JA,Weiland LH

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the in vivo effects of hypertonic saline (HTS) resuscitation on the interactions of endothelial cells (ECs) and polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMNs) and vascular permeability after hemorrhagic shock. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The PMN has been implicated in the pathogenesis of EC damage and organ in...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Pascual JL,Ferri LE,Seely AJ,Campisi G,Chaudhury P,Giannias B,Evans DC,Razek T,Michel RP,Christou NV

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the potential of postischemic intravenous infusion of the endogenous antioxidant glutathione (GSH) to protect the liver from reperfusion injury following prolonged warm ischemia. BACKGROUND DATA:The release of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by activated Kupffer cells (KC) and leukocytes causes rep...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schauer RJ,Gerbes AL,Vonier D,Meissner H,Michl P,Leiderer R,Schildberg FW,Messmer K,Bilzer M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CLINICAL AND LABORATORY STUDIES OF AFP PRODUCING HEPATOMAS DEMONSTRATED THAT: 1) serum AFP levels correlated directly with tumor growth; 2) circulating AFP could be cleared by passive administration of an. excess of anti-AFP; and 3) highly specific anti-AFP functioned as a carrier to localize diagnostic and possibly t...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Parks LC,Baer AN,Pollack M,Williams GM

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of gastrectomy and vagotomy on pancreatic glucagon release were investigated clinically. The study included 20 men and eight women, who ranged in age from 28 to 69 years, and who were divided into the following four groups: 1) patients with gastroduodenal ulcers treated with partial gastrectomy, by the Bil...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sudo T,Kawamura M,Umemura H,Shiraha S,Kuyama T

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of jejunoileal bypass to gastric bypass was performed in 11 patients because of metabolic problems and physical discomforts, and in three patients because of insufficient weight loss. There was no mortality and little morbidity after operation. An additional mean weight loss of 6% occurred, and weight stabi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ackerman NB

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the feasibility and safety of Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) appendectomy, and to analyze separately the transvaginal appendectomy (TVAE) and the transgastric appendectomy (TGAE) procedures. BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic appendectomy has rare but relevant complications, namely i...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bulian DR,Kaehler G,Magdeburg R,Butters M,Burghardt J,Albrecht R,Bernhardt J,Heiss MM,Buhr HJ,Lehmann KS

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We compared the incidence of appendicitis or appendectomy across the world and evaluated temporal trends. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Population-based studies reported the incidence of appendicitis. METHODS:We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases for population-based studies reporting the incidence of appendic...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ferris M,Quan S,Kaplan BS,Molodecky N,Ball CG,Chernoff GW,Bhala N,Ghosh S,Dixon E,Ng S,Kaplan GG

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many factors may influence the choice of the operative incision, physiologic safety in terms of the degree of postoperative hypoxemia should be considered. No data currently exist to delineate in markedly obese patients the effect of the operative incision on the extent or duration of this hypoxemia. Fifty-f...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Vaughan RW,Wise L

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine outcome in diabetic pancreas transplant recipients according to risk factors and the surgical techniques and immunosuppressive protocols that evolved during a 33-year period at a single institution. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is associated with a high incidence o...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sutherland DE,Gruessner RW,Dunn DL,Matas AJ,Humar A,Kandaswamy R,Mauer SM,Kennedy WR,Goetz FC,Robertson RP,Gruessner AC,Najarian JS

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy is being performed with progressively lower operative mortality and morbidity. Three hundred thirty seven patients have had elective aneurysm repair since 1954. Factors affecting mortality and morbidity in the last 108 cases are analyzed. Seventy-four per cent of patients had pre-existi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Thompson JE,Hollier LH,Patman RD,Persson AV

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-year survival after resection of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer is 25%. Although resection palliates some patients who do not live that long, 50% of patients so treated are not helped at all. Until ignorance of a cancer's real stage is resolved by improved techniques, the evaluation and choice of thera...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wagner JS,Adson MA,Van Heerden JA,Adson MH,Ilstrup DM

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work was undertaken to study the effects of various doses of locally applied epidermal growth factor (EGF) on developing granulation tissue in rats. Cylindrical hollow sponge implants were used as an inductive matrix for the growth of granulation tissue. In the test groups, the implants were injected daily with a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Laato M,Niinikoski J,Lebel L,Gerdin B

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 531 patients admitted to the Duke Coronary Care Unit with unstable angina (UA) from June 1981 to September 1982, 100 had persistent angina despite optimal medical therapy of nitrates, propranolol, and nifedipine. At catheterization, 70% of the refractory patients had left main (LM) or three-vessel disease (TVD), 68...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rankin JS,Newton JR Jr,Califf RM,Jones RH,Wechsler AS,Oldham HN Jr,Wolfe WG,Lowe JE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We tested the hypothesis that the avoidance of preoperative fasting by hypocaloric nutrition attenuates protein catabolism after surgery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Prolonged fasting before major abdominal procedures has been demonstrated to accentuate the catabolic response to surgery. METHODS:Twenty-two pati...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schricker T,Meterissian S,Lattermann R,Adegoke OA,Marliss EB,Mazza L,Eberhart L,Carli F,Nitschman E,Wykes L

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of surgical simulation compared with other methods of surgical training. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Surgical simulation (with or without computers) is attractive because it avoids the use of patients for skills practice and provides relevant technical training for trainees before t...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sutherland LM,Middleton PF,Anthony A,Hamdorf J,Cregan P,Scott D,Maddern GJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define and test "Textbook Outcome" (TO)-a composite measure for healthcare quality-among Medicare patients undergoing hepatopancreatic resections. Hospital variation in TO and Medicare payments were analyzed. BACKGROUND:Composite measures of quality may be superior to individual measures for the analysis ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Merath K,Chen Q,Bagante F,Beal E,Akgul O,Dillhoff M,Cloyd JM,Pawlik TM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of wound healing at high altitude, subcutaneously implanted PTFE tubes were used to stimulate and measure accumulation of wound hydroxyproline (an index of collagen) in 26 patients who had appendectomy and in 38 patients who had cholecystectomy. Patient age, length of surgery, and postoperative recovery see...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Goodson WH 3rd,Lopez-Sarmiento A,Jensen JA,West J,Granja-Mena L,Chavez-Estrella J

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report is concerned with the factors influencing survival in 920 consecutive patients submitted to operation for infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm during the past 25 years. Rupture had occurred in 60 patients (6.5%) and survival was 77%, which did not vary during the period of study. Of the 860 patients (93.5%...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Crawford ES,Saleh SA,Babb JW 3rd,Glaeser DH,Vaccaro PS,Silvers A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the existence of a pathway between intraluminal products and the muscularis leukocytic infiltrate. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Mild intestinal manipulation or lipopolysaccharide initiates an intense inflammatory response within the intestinal muscularis, resulting in paralytic ileus. A major poten...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schwarz NT,Beer-Stolz D,Simmons RL,Bauer AJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in particular, living donor liver transplant (LDLT) improves access to transplant. We report our results in 36 patients with HCC who underwent LDLT with a median follow-up >1 year. METHODS Underlying diagnoses included: hepatitis C (24), hepatitis B (9), cry...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gondolesi GE,Roayaie S,Muñoz L,Kim-Schluger L,Schiano T,Fishbein TM,Emre S,Miller CM,Schwartz ME

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circular, full-thickness dermal burn- and freeze-produced wounds were produced in rats to compare the difference in healing between the two types of thermal injuries. Contraction did not occur in wounds (n = 30) caused by freezing, while burn wounds (n = 30) contracted to less than one-third of original size by 21 day...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Li AK,Ehrlich HP,Trelstad RL,Koroly MJ,Schattenkerk ME,Malt RA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetus-in-fetu is an unusual cause of retroperitoneal abdominal mass in infants, which most likely arises from inclusion of a monozygotic, diamniotic twin. This entity is distinguished from teratoma by its embryological origin, its unusual location in the retroperitoneal space, its invariable benignity, and by the pres...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Grosfeld JL,Stepita DS,Nance WE,Palmer CG

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile colitis (CDC) in a subset of patients admitted specifically to a surgical service. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:CDC is an increasingly prevalent nosocomial infection that can prolong hospitalization and adversely affect patient outcome. Although this disease h...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kent KC,Rubin MS,Wroblewski L,Hanff PA,Silen W

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the pattern of nodal metastasis, morbidity, recurrence rates of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), and parathyroid hormone (PTH) responses following neck dissection (ND) plus total thyroidectomy (TT). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:While hypoparathyroidism develops after TT plus ND, little is known o...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Roh JL,Park JY,Park CI

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of a prospective randomized study of patients treated conservatively or with thymectomy, a computer-assisted retrospective matches study was devised. Of 563 patients treated for myasthenia gravis without thymoma up to 1965, 104 had thymectomy. With computer assistance, each surgical patient was matched ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Buckingham JM,Howard FM Jr,Bernatz PE,Payne WS,Harrison EG Jr,O'Brien PC,Weiland LH

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether individualized deliberate practice on a virtual reality (VR) simulator results in improved technical performance in the operating room. BACKGROUND:Training on VR simulators has been shown to improve technical performance in the operating room (OR). Current...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Palter VN,Grantcharov TP

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve children underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis during a 10-month period in one institution. The operative technique that has been described for adults was modified because of the smaller dimensions of pediatric patients. These modifications are discussed in this report, ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Davidoff AM,Branum GD,Murray EA,Chong WK,Ware RE,Kinney TR,Pappas TN,Meyers WC

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00