Ischemia-reperfusion injury of the liver with special reference to calcium-dependent mechanisms.

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of neoadjuvant therapy on long-term survival in patients with resectable and borderline resectable pancreatic cancer. A meta-analysis was conducted using the reported randomized, controlled trials and retrospective studies using an intention-to-treat analysis to compare ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Unno M,Hata T,Motoi F

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the role of interleukin-12 (IL-12) in Graves' disease, we measured the pre- and postoperative levels of serum IL-12 in patients undergoing surgery for Graves' disease. METHODS:The subjects of this study were 73 patients with Graves' disease, admitted for surgical treatment after taking antithyro...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Murakami S,Okubo K,Tsuji Y,Sakata H,Kikuchi M,Takahashi T,Kato T,Hirayama R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study was performed to investigate the effect of subcuticular sutures on the incidence of incisional surgical site infection (SSI) after closure of a diverting stoma. METHODS:The study was carried out as a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data from 51 patients who underwent closure of div...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kobayashi S,Ito M,Sugito M,Kobayashi A,Nishizawa Y,Saito N

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a questionnaire survey, we analyzed the relationship between the frequency of breast self-examination (BSE) and the clinical stage and course of breast cancer in Japanese patients. BSE had been performed monthly by only 5.4% of the patients (M group), occasionally by 35.4% (O group), and not at all by 59.2% (N g...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kurebayashi J,Shimozuma K,Sonoo H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tension-free hernia repair with a mesh plug shows a low recurrence rate, but in a very few cases it can result in new complications including mesh migration and violation of the peritoneum. This report describes the case of a 79-year-old man who had undergone an inguinal hernioplasty using a polypropylene mesh plug 2 ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Chen MJ,Tian YF

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalies of the internal jugular vein are uncommon and not frequently experienced. Either a fusiform or saccular dilatation of the veins has been termed phlebectasia by some investigators and venous aneurysm by others. In 1928 Harris was the first to describe this condition using the term "congenital venous cyst." Re...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Sugiyama S,Murakami A,Yokokawa M,Misaki T,Wakaki K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although lateral internal sphincterotomy is widely accepted as the treatment of choice for anal fissures, we report our experience of successfully treating 195 consecutive patients with posterior chronic anal fissures by performing fissurectomy with midline sphincterotomy and anoplasty (FPSA). The surgical technique i...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Di Castro A,Biancari F,D'Andrea V,Caviglia A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the rare case of a 56-year-old man who gradually developed congestive cardiac failure 6 months after undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting and was found to have a fistula between the internal mammary artery and the pulmonary artery of the upper lobe diagnosed by selective left internal mammary ar...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Imawaki S,Arioka I,Nakai M,Tsuruno Y,Takama T,Maeta H,Inagawa T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 54-year-old woman, who was severely malnourished and awaiting lung transplantation for chronic respiratory failure, was given nutritional support by home parenteral nutrition (HPN). The patient's emaciated state was further compromised by the fact that she had undergone a distal gastrectomy 4 years earlier. We decid...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Inoue Y,Minami M,Mizuta T,Kimura T,Hirabayashi H,Okumura M,Ohta M,Miyoshi S,Katoh K,Hayashi Y,Matsuda H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Suppressor of cytokine signaling-3 (SOCS3) is a negative feedback inhibitor of cytokine signaling with T-cell-mediated immunosuppressive effects on obliterative bronchiolitis (OB). In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of T-cell-specific overexpression of SOCS3 using a murine heterotopic tracheal tr...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Mesaki K,Yamane M,Sugimoto S,Fujisawa M,Yoshimura T,Kurosaki T,Otani S,Miyoshi S,Oto T,Matsukawa A,Toyooka S

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinic cell carcinoma (ACC) is a very rare primary tracheal carcinoma. We report a case of primary ACC of the trachea, which represents, to the best of our knowledge, only the fifth such case ever documented. Pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy was necessary for complete resection because the tumor invaded the trachea widely...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tsukayama S,Omura K,Kanehira E,Kawakami K,Oda M,Ohtake H,Nonomura A,Watanabe G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body composition was measured with bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) in 30 patients with protein malnutrition following biliopancreatic diversion. Determinations were carried out prior to, during, and at the completion of intravenous nutritional support when the nutritional parameters had completely reverted to nor...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Adami GF,Marinari G,Gandolfo P,Cocchi F,Friedman D,Scopinaro N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare, benign cardiac tumor that can cause multiple emboli. We report herein a case of papillary fibroelastoma developing from the chordae of the tricuspid valve which was detected by echocardiography and confirmed by surgical resection. To our knowledge, this is only the fifth documented c...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nishimura Y,Naito Y,Fujiwara K,Komai H,Noguchi Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the case of a 65-year-old female patient with a malignant glomus tumor of the stomach, with metastases to the kidney and brain. The clinical presentation and imaging results are discussed, and the literature on malignant glomus tumors is reviewed. ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Song SE,Lee CH,Kim KA,Lee HJ,Park CM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely rare case of a lymphoepithelial cyst (LEC) of the pancreas is described herein. A pancreatic cystic tumor was initially detected in a 50-year-old man at a medical checkup. On admission, his serum carbohydrate antigen (CA) 19-9 level was 8100 U/ml and a computed tomography scan revealed a well-circumscribe...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tsuchiya Y,Suzuki S,Sakaguchi T,Kojima Y,Okamoto K,Kurachi K,Konno H,Baba S,Nakamura S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Anastomotic leakage (AL) is a critical complication of colorectal cancer surgery. The transanal drainage tube (TDT) is designed to prevent AL caused by decompression and stasis at the anastomosis. We conducted this study to investigate the feasibility of using the TDT to prevent AL following double-stapling tec...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Matsuda M,Tsuruta M,Hasegawa H,Okabayashi K,Kondo T,Shimada T,Yahagi M,Yoshikawa Y,Kitagawa Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of gastrectomy on the subsequent development of esophageal cancer was investigated, focusing on its multicentric occurrence. We retrospectively evaluated 28 patients who underwent subtotal esophagectomy for intrathoracic esophageal cancer between 1985 and 1999. They were divided into two groups according to...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kitabayashi K,Nakano Y,Saito H,Ueno KI,Kita I,Takashima S,Kurose N,Nojima T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spleen is one of the organs most commonly injured by blunt abdominal trauma. It plays an important role in immune response to infections, especially those sustained by encapsulated bacteria. Nonoperative management (NOM), comprising clinical and radiological observation with or without angioembolization, is the tr...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Romeo L,Bagolini F,Ferro S,Chiozza M,Marino S,Resta G,Anania G

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Thoracic esophageal cancers frequently metastasize to the right recurrent nerve nodes (RRNNs). In fact, huge RRNNs invading the trachea sometimes remain after definitive chemoradiation therapy (CRT), despite complete remission of the primary lesion. We performed salvage lymphadenectomy of a large RRNN combined with pa...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Doki Y,Yasuda T,Miyata H,Fujiwara Y,Takiguchi S,Yamasaki M,Makari Y,Matsuyama J,Masuoka T,Monden M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe herein the unusual case of a 76-year-old woman who was diagnosed as having sigmoid colon cancer after presenting with complete rectal prolapse. The rectal prolapse was considered to have been caused by constipation accelerated by the colon cancer. The relationship between colorectal cancer and rectal prola...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Yamazaki T,Sakai Y,Sekine Y,Nihei K,Hatakeyama K

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to examine the characteristics of esophageal cancers with primary synchronous or metachronous cancer in another organ. We retrospectively evaluated 744 patients who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancers between 1985 and 1998. The patients were divided into two groups according to whet...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kumagai Y,Kawano T,Nakajima Y,Nagai K,Inoue H,Nara S,Iwai T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 78-year-old man was admitted to Kumamoto Rosai Hospital with right lower abdominal pain. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed penetration of the cecum by a foreign body, which looked like a fish bone, as well as thickening of the right lower abdominal wall. We made an initial diagnosis of penetration of the col...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Okuma T,Nagamoto N,Tanaka E,Yoshida Y,Inoue K,Baba H

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:We report herein the case of a 20-year-old woman in whom an enormous aneurysmal portahepatic venous fistula was found. The portal aneurysm developed in the anterior inferior segment of the right hepatic lobe, and communicated with the right portal vein and the right hepatic vein. Due to the enormous size of the shunt,...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Miyauchi A,Okada S,Hashimoto T,Wakabayashi H,Maeba T,Tanaka S,Hayashi H

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of recurrent thrombocytopenia associated with symptomatic enlargement of an accessory spleen, 2 years after splenectomy, in a 36-year-old man with posthepatitic liver cirrhosis. The patient suffered three episodes of variceal bleeding, but the esophageal varices were not eradicated by two sessions of ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Mishin I,Ghidirim G

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Although laparoscopic liver resection has been widely adopted, performing a pure laparoscopic right hepatectomy remains a challenging procedure. The aim of this report is to evaluate the efficiency of a pure laparoscopic right hepatectomy (PLRH) in the semi-prone position using the intrahepatic Glissonian appro...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ikeda T,Yonemura Y,Ueda N,Kabashima A,Shirabe K,Taketomi A,Yoshizumi T,Uchiyama H,Harada N,Ijichi H,Kakeji Y,Morita M,Tsujitani S,Maehara Y

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of the study was to conduct a psychometric evaluation of the fecal incontinence quality of life scale (FIQL) in the Japanese language using rigorous methodologies. METHODS:The FIQL was translated into Japanese. After being linguistically validated, the Japanese version of the FIQL was administered to a...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tsunoda A,Yamada K,Kano N,Takano M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double common bile duct (DCBD) is a rare congenital anomaly of the biliary system, often associated with biliary lithiasis, choledochal cyst, pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM), and upper gastrointestinal tract malignancies. We report a case of type I DCBD with choledochal cyst and cholelithiasis in a 52-year-old Ch...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Chen G,Wang H,Zhang L,Li Z,Bie P

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The usefulness of spinal motor evoked potential by transcranial stimulation of the motor cortex (MEPT) in detecting spinal ischemia and predicting postoperative neurological dysfunction was evaluated using a model of spinal ischemia. Group 1 was comprised of 11 dogs used for measuring the basic wave form of spinal MEP...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Shokoku S,Uchida H,Teramoto S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 25-year-old woman who had a successful pregnancy after the repair of a double outlet right ventricle using the Fontan procedure. Although the number of reported patients is small, women who have good hemodynamic results after the operation can apparently tolerate both pregnancy and delivery. ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ito M,Takagi N,Sugimoto S,Oosawa H,Abe T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00