Transvaginal natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery cholecystectomy: early evolution of the technique.

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：:The object of this study was to compare the ultrastructure pulmonary effects of the infusion of homologous and heterologous serum albumin solution in the treatment of hemorrhagic shock in baboons. Adult baboons subjected to hemorrhagic shock were resuscitated with either baboon serum albumin, human serum albumin, or R...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Moss GS,Das Gupta TK,Brinkman R,Sehgal L,Newsom B

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify predictive factors associated with operative morbidity, mortality, and survival outcomes in patients with borderline resectable (BR) or locally advanced (LA) pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) undergoing total neoadjuvant therapy (TNT). BACKGROUND:The optimal preoperative treatment sequencin...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Truty MJ,Kendrick ML,Nagorney DM,Smoot RL,Cleary SP,Graham RP,Goenka AH,Hallemeier CL,Haddock MG,Harmsen WS,Mahipal A,McWilliams RR,Halfdanarson TR,Grothey AF

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the preoperative relationships of hypertension and diabetes mellitus in severe obesity and the effects of gastric bypass (GBP)-induced weight loss. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Severe obesity is associated with multiple comorbidities, particularly hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus, that may af...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sugerman HJ,Wolfe LG,Sica DA,Clore JN

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a model for the identification of individuals at risk for carotid stenosis (CS) that could be useful in a clinical setting when trying to decide whether screening is worthwhile. BACKGROUND:Evidence that aggressive medical therapy and life style changes reduce the risk of stroke in individuals with...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Greco G,Egorova NN,Moskowitz AJ,Gelijns AC,Kent KC,Manganaro AJ,Zwolak RM,Riles TS

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of patients showing a previously unrecognized type of sliding hiatus hernia is presented and analyzed. This type of hernia is characterized by reflux of the mucous membrane of the Hiss angle into the lumen of the esophagus. The occurrence of mucosal prolapse is a secondary phase of gastroesophageal reflux. Th...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Myllärniemi H,Saario I

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to elucidate the significance and limitations of serum amylase levels in the diagnosis of blunt injury to the pancreas. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Several recently published reports of analyses of patients with blunt abdominal trauma have indicated that determination of the serum...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Takishima T,Sugimoto K,Hirata M,Asari Y,Ohwada T,Kakita A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess outcome and prognostic factors for survival of adults with Ewing's sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET). BACKGROUND:Ewing's sarcoma/PNET is a disease of childhood rarely seen in adults. Accordingly, there is a relative paucity of published literature pertaining to outcome for adults with ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Baldini EH,Demetri GD,Fletcher CD,Foran J,Marcus KC,Singer S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of reperfusion following hemorrhagic shock on splanchnic prostanoid release was studied. Anesthetized male rats were bled to a mean arterial blood pressure of 30 mmHg for 30 minutes and either killed or treated with shed blood for 60 minutes and then killed. The superior mesenteric arterial bed was cannulat...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Myers SI,Taylor BJ,Stanislawska M

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current performance and applicability of elective hepatic resection represents an impressive evolution. From removal of tumor-bearing, ill-defined portions of the liver, which is always threatened by the inability to control bleeding, surgery of the liver has progressed to hemostatically controlled dissection of a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schwartz SI

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this prospective study was to determine incidence, duration, and risk factors for postoperative delirium (PD) in elderly patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The incidence and risk factors of PD after major abdominal surgery in elderly patients are not well document...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Brouquet A,Cudennec T,Benoist S,Moulias S,Beauchet A,Penna C,Teillet L,Nordlinger B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to emphasize the importance of a subclassification in the TNM staging system of rectal cancer. BACKGROUND:The clinical significance of the mesorectal extension of rectal cancer is unclear. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Data from 463 consecutive patients with stage IIa disease (T3N0) undergo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Shirouzu K,Akagi Y,Fujita S,Ueno H,Takii Y,Komori K,Ito M,Sugihara K,Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum (JSCCR) on Clinical Significance of the Mesorectal Extension of Rectal Cancer.

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that inpatient postoperative pain trajectories are associated with 30-day inpatient readmission and emergency department (ED) visits. BACKGROUND:Surgical readmissions have few known modifiable predictors. Pain experienced by patients may reflect surgical complications and/or inadequate or dif...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hernandez-Boussard T,Graham LA,Desai K,Wahl TS,Aucoin E,Richman JS,Morris MS,Itani KM,Telford GL,Hawn MT

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appendicitis is more common in developed than in developing societies and appendiceal fecaliths are thought to have an etiologic role in the disease. The geographic distribution of appendiceal fecaliths was investigated by systematic, intraoperative palpation of the appendix in patients in Toronto, Canada and Johannes...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Jones BA,Demetriades D,Segal I,Burkitt DP

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligation of the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa in children can be performed without limb loss, but the effect on subsequent limb growth is unknown. From 1969 to 1974, brachial artery ligation for insertion of a Scribner shunt was performed in 27 patients with a mean age of 8.4 years (range, 3 to 15 years). W...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lally KP,Foster CE 3rd,Chwals WJ,Brennan LP,Atkinson JB

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 10-year period, 94 surgical resections for adenocarcinoma of the cardia (75 "curative" and 19 palliative) were performed using three primary approaches: Group I (46 curative, 14 palliative), esophagogastrectomy performed through a left thoracotomy or left thoraco-abdominal incision; Group II (17 curative, 4 p...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Molina JE,Lawton BR,Myers WO,Humphrey EW

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore challenges and opportunities for surgery departments' academic missions as they become increasingly affiliated with expanding health systems. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Academic medicine is in the midst of unprecedented change. In addition to facing intense competition, narrower margins, and decrease...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Chhabra KR,Diaz A,Byrnes MA,Rajkumar A,Yang P,Dimick JB,Nathan H

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors review current definition, classification, scoring, microbiology, inflammatory response, and goals of management of secondary peritonitis. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Despite improved diagnostic modalities, potent antibiotics, modern intensive care, and aggressive surgical treatment, up to one third ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wittmann DH,Schein M,Condon RE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of enteral and parenteral feeding in supporting a satisfactory nutritional status and/or reversing protein-energy malnutrition was evaluated in 28 children, ages 1-19 (14 female) with advanced malignant disease (21 solid tumors, 7 leukemia-lymphoma). At the onset of treatment, 21 patients received in...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rickard KA,Grosfeld JL,Kirksey A,Ballantine TV,Baehner RL

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From 1966 to 1975, 38 patients underwent 42 procedures for renovascular hypertension; 35 operations were aortorenal bypasses and 7 were nephrectomies. Forty-five per cent of the patients were cured, 43% were improved and 12% were unimproved. There were no operative deaths and only three late deaths. Two grafts occlude...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： McCombs PR,Berkowitz HD,Roberts B

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine patients with chronic ulcerative colitis refractory to medical therapy and four with multiple polyposis have undergone total colectomy, mucosal protectomy, and endorectal ileal pull-through with ileoanal anastomosis at the UCLA Medical Center during the past 12 years (mean age, 19.4 years). Thirty-eight pat...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fonkalsrud EW

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients with chronic alcohol-induced pancreatitis with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography evidence of common bile duct stenosis were studied to determine the clinical spectrum and natural history of this complication, as well as the indications for biliary bypass. In 17% of patients, common bile duc...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kalvaria I,Bornman PC,Marks IN,Girdwood AH,Bank L,Kottler RE

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe hospital-level variation in roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) in Michigan. BACKGROUND:Bariatric surgery is an increasingly prevalent elective surgical procedure that will likely be considered for future bundled payment programs, both public and private. Past research in ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kelsall AC,Cassidy R,Ghaferi AA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to determine the results of liver resection for patients with bilateral hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer. We aimed to assess the evolution of the technical approach over time and correlations with morbidity, mortality, and oncologic outcome. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Although...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gold JS,Are C,Kornprat P,Jarnagin WR,Gönen M,Fong Y,DeMatteo RP,Blumgart LH,D'Angelica M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article describes a preliminary work on virtual reality applied to liver surgery and discusses the repercussions of assisted surgical strategy and surgical simulation on tomorrow's surgery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Liver surgery is considered difficult because of the complexity and variability of the org...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Marescaux J,Clément JM,Tassetti V,Koehl C,Cotin S,Russier Y,Mutter D,Delingette H,Ayache N

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to define the best available option for video capture of surgical procedures for educational and archival purposes, with a view to identifying methods of capturing high-quality footage and identifying common pitfalls. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Several options exist for those who wish ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cosman PH,Shearer CJ,Hugh TJ,Biankin AV,Merrett ND

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical management of incidental Meckel's diverticulum(MD) is a highly debated controversial issue that has never been discussed from the oncological standpoint. OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology and risk of Meckel's diverticulum cancer (MDC) and compare it with other ileal malignancies. METHODS:Data...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Thirunavukarasu P,Sathaiah M,Sukumar S,Bartels CJ,Zeh H 3rd,Lee KK,Bartlett DL

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of the 80-hour resident workweek restrictions on surgical residents and attending surgeons. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The ACGME mandated resident duty hour restrictions have required a major workforce restructuring. The impact of these changes needs to be critically evaluated for both the ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hutter MM,Kellogg KC,Ferguson CM,Abbott WM,Warshaw AL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We examined management strategies, overall survival (OS), and progression-free survival (PFS) among patients with PMNSGCTs undergoing resection and multidisciplinary management at a high-volume institution. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Outcomes after resection of PMNSGCTs are not well-characterized, with limit...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Caso R,Jones GD,Bains MS,Hsu M,Tan KS,Feldman DR,Funt SA,Reuter VE,Bosl GJ,McHugh D,Huang J,Molena D,Amar D,Fischer G,Rusch VW,Jones DR

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors analyzed the frequency and character of postoperative complications after splenectomy in patients with hematologic malignancies, and correlated these findings with preoperative conditions that could have predicted their outcome. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Splenectomy is performed for hematologic mal...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Horowitz J,Smith JL,Weber TK,Rodriguez-Bigas MA,Petrelli NJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00