Impact of pancreatic head resection on direct medical costs in patients with chronic pancreatitis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between metformin and survival of gastric cancer (GC) patients. BACKGROUND:Metformin has recently received attention as a potential anticancer treatment. However, no study has shown the survival benefit of metformin for GC patients. METHODS:A total of 19...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lee CK,Jung M,Jung I,Heo SJ,Jeong YH,An JY,Kim HI,Cheong JH,Hyung WJ,Noh SH,Kim HS,Rha SY,Chung HC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the potential additive effects of blood transfusion and sepsis on colon cancer disease-specific survival, cardiovascular disease-specific survival, and overall survival after colon cancer surgery. BACKGROUND:Perioperative blood transfusions are associated with infectious complications and incr...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Aquina CT,Blumberg N,Becerra AZ,Boscoe FP,Schymura MJ,Noyes K,Monson JRT,Fleming FJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study evaluates the effects of mechanical bowel preparation (MBP) on anastomosis below the peritoneal verge and questions the influence of MBP on anastomotic leakage in combination with a diverting ileostomy in lower colorectal surgery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:In a previous large multicenter randomized ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Van't Sant HP,Weidema WF,Hop WC,Oostvogel HJ,Contant CM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From December 1985 to December 1989, 100 consecutive simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplants were performed at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Bladder drainage technique was used for all grafts. One- and three-year patient survival was 93% and 90%; kidney survival, 90% and 85%; and pancreas su...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sollinger HW,Knechtle SJ,Reed A,D'Alessandro AM,Kalayoglu M,Belzer FO,Pirsch J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the DNA replication error (RER) status in young patients with colorectal cancer (CRC), and to compare the clinical and pathologic characteristics of RER-positive and RER-negative cases. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Recent studies suggest that patients with RER-positive CRC have an improved prognosis....

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lukish JR,Muro K,DeNobile J,Katz R,Williams J,Cruess DF,Drucker W,Kirsch I,Hamilton SR

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the experience of three general surgeons performing 304 laparoscopic cholecystectomies in three private hospitals between October 1989 and November 1990. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy boasts two major advantages over the conventional procedure: the remarkable reduction in postoperative pain and econo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Graves HA Jr,Ballinger JF,Anderson WJ

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A right axillary to left brachial arterial bypass (saphenous vein) was used in the treatment of a left subclavian artery obstruction secondary to radical mastectomy and irradiation 28 years previously. The axillary bypass was chosen over other surgical approaches because of its simplicity and efficacy. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Jacobson JH 2nd,Baron MG

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure plasma levels of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) early after trauma and to determine their clinical significance. BACKGROUND:Angiopoietins and VEGF play a central role in the physiology and pathophysiology of endothelial cells. Ang-2 ha...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ganter MT,Cohen MJ,Brohi K,Chesebro BB,Staudenmayer KL,Rahn P,Christiaans SC,Bir ND,Pittet JF

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1963 through 1983, 327 patients underwent resection for gastric adenocarcinoma at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Fifteen lesions (4.6%) were early gastric carcinoma (limited to the mucosa or submucosa regardless of nodal metastases). These lesions were in eight men and seven women (14 blacks and 1 white), with ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bringaze WL 3rd,Chappuis CW,Correa P,Cohn I Jr

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of surgeons to accelerate wound healing through pharmacologic intervention is limited. The effects of locally applied, biosynthetic human epidermal growth factor (EGF) and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) on tensile strength of experimental incisions were investigated. A single dose of EGF in sal...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Brown GL,Curtsinger LJ,White M,Mitchell RO,Pietsch J,Nordquist R,von Fraunhofer A,Schultz GS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1975 through 1988, 257 patients with carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus have been treated in our department. Operability was 90% (232/257); overall resectability, 77% (198/257), and for the operated group, 85% (198/232). Hospital mortality rate was 9.6% but decreased to 3% over the period 1986 to 1988. There wer...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lerut T,De Leyn P,Coosemans W,Van Raemdonck D,Scheys I,LeSaffre E

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of improved surgical management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) on the survival of patients with screened HCC. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:It is unclear whether the advent of new treatment modalities such as liver transplantation and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in recent years have imp...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Chan AC,Poon RT,Ng KK,Lo CM,Fan ST,Wong J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the safety and efficacy of transversus abdominis muscle release (TAR) with retrorectus synthetic mesh reinforcement in a large series of complex hernia patients. BACKGROUND:Posterior component separation via TAR during abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR) continues to gain popularity. Although our...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Novitsky YW,Fayezizadeh M,Majumder A,Neupane R,Elliott HL,Orenstein SB

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the feasibility and outcomes of video-based peer feedback through social networking to facilitate robotic surgical skill acquisition. BACKGROUND:The acquisition of surgical skills may be challenging for novel techniques and/or those with prolonged learning curves. METHODS:Randomized controlled tr...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Carter SC,Chiang A,Shah G,Kwan L,Montgomery JS,Karam A,Tarnay C,Guru KA,Hu JC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the proportion of registered trials published in the surgical literature, to compare, in registered trials, the primary outcomes registered with those published and to determine whether outcome-reporting bias favored significant primary outcomes. BACKGROUND:Trial protocol registration before pat...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Killeen S,Sourallous P,Hunter IA,Hartley JE,Grady HL

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and validate a preoperative frailty index (pFI) for use in population-based health administrative (HA) data. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Frailty is a robust predictor of adverse postoperative outcomes. Population-level frailty measures used in surgical studies have significant methodological limitatio...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： McIsaac DI,Wong CA,Huang A,Moloo H,van Walraven C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of effective, non-toxic (local and systemic) methods for the rapid chemical (enzymatic and non-enzymatic) debridement of third degree burns would dramatically reduce the morbidity and mortality of severely burned patients. Sepsis is still the major cause of death of patients with extensive deep burns. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Levenson SM,Kan D,Gruber C,Crowley LV,Lent R,Watford A,Seifter E

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare duodenal-jejunal bypass (DJB) with standard medical care in nonobese patients with type 2 diabetes and evaluate surgically induced endocrine and metabolic changes. METHODS:Eighteen patients submitted to a DJB procedure met the following criteria: overweight, diabetes diagnosis less than 15 years, ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Geloneze B,Geloneze SR,Chaim E,Hirsch FF,Felici AC,Lambert G,Tambascia MA,Pareja JC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this study were to define appropriate criteria for assessing the presence of lymphedema, and to report the prevalence and risk factors for development of upper limb lymphedema after level I-III axillary dissection for melanoma. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The lack of a consistent and reliable ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Starritt EC,Joseph D,McKinnon JG,Lo SK,de Wilt JH,Thompson JF

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with extremity soft tissue tumors were prospectively evaluated with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) scans with subsequent anatomic correlation of surgical findings. MRI and CT had a similar percentage of accuracy in assessing tumor relationship with major neurovascular (80...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Chang AE,Matory YL,Dwyer AJ,Hill SC,Girton ME,Steinberg SM,Knop RH,Frank JA,Hyams D,Doppman JL

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of inhalation of aerosolized opsonized dead Escherichia coli on inflammatory pulmonary neutrophil (PMN) apoptosis, lung injury, and survival in a PMN-mediated lung injury model in vivo. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Neutrophils that have transmigrated into an inflammatory focus display incre...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sookhai S,Wang JJ,McCourt M,Kirwan W,Bouchier-Hayes D,Redmond P

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：:One hundred patients with intraabdominal infections were assigned randomly in double-blind fashion to receive either the combination of tobramycin plus clindamycin (TM/C) or moxalactam (MOX) alone. Fifty patients comprised each group, but one patient in each group died of infection before 48 hours treatment. In the re...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schentag JJ,Wels PB,Reitberg DP,Walczak P,Van Tyle JH,Lascola RJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult dogs were previously prepared by cholecystectomy, ligation of the lesser pancreatic duct, and insertion of cannulae into the duodenum and stomach. After a 2-week period of postoperative recovery and an overnight fast, bile ducts were cannulated, gastric cannulae placed to open drainage and sodium taurocholate 50...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kortz WJ,Nashold JR,Delong E,Meyers WC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new system for long-term, 24-hour, ambulatory dual gastroduodenal pH monitoring is described. Eighteen patients with active duodenal ulcers and ten healthy subjects were studied. Simultaneous gastric and duodenal bulb pH were measured during fasting, the ingestion of a solid meal, and for the remainder of the 24-hou...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Eriksen CA,Sadek SA,Cuschieri A

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed at: (1) documenting the evolution of surgical results of esophagectomy in a high-volume center, (2) identifying predictive factors of pulmonary complications and mortality, and (3) examining whether preoperative chemoradiation therapy would complicate postoperative recovery. SUMMARY BACKGROU...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Law S,Wong KH,Kwok KF,Chu KM,Wong J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the significance of the extent of mesorectal tumor invasion as a prognostic factor for T3 rectal cancer patients. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:There is controversy as to which primary lesion characteristics, other than regional lymph node involvement, in T3 rectal cancer are reliable prognostic facto...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Miyoshi M,Ueno H,Hashiguchi Y,Mochizuki H,Talbot IC

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the utility of quick intraoperative parathyroid hormone (PTH) measurement in the surgical management of primary hyperparathyroidism. BACKGROUND DATA:The use of intraoperative PTH monitoring is well established in the surgery of primary hyperparathyroidism. However, some false-negative predictions ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Mozzon M,Mortier PE,Jacob PM,Soudan B,Boersma AA,Proye CA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of subspecialty practice and experience on the relationship between annual volume and inpatient mortality after hepatic resection. BACKGROUND:The impact of annual surgical volume on postoperative outcomes has been extensively examined. However, the impact of cumulative surgeon exper...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hashimoto DA,Bababekov YJ,Mehtsun WT,Stapleton SM,Warshaw AL,Lillemoe KD,Chang DC,Vagefi PA

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine treatment trends in invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) over the last 15 years and, in particular, to compare rates of recurrence and disease-free survival associated with breast conservation therapy compared with mastectomy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The biologic characteristics of ILC make it difficu...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Singletary SE,Patel-Parekh L,Bland KI

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00