Cost-effectiveness analysis in surgery.

abstract：UNLABELLED:In patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) for pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC), conversion to total pancreatectomy (TP) may be necessary to achieve R0 resection. HYPOTHESIS:We sought to examine the oncologic benefit of conversion of PD to TP to achieve an R0 resection in patients with an isolated po...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Schmidt CM,Glant J,Winter JM,Kennard J,Dixon J,Zhao Q,Howard TJ,Madura JA,Nakeeb A,Pitt HA,Cameron JL,Yeo CJ,Lillemoe KD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two granular cell tumors of the biliary tree are described, one in a 37-year-old black woman with obstructive jaundice and the other in a 26-year-old white woman with abdominal pain. These are rare soft tissue tumors that have an excellent prognosis when surgically excised. Almost all reported cases have been in young...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Butterly LF,Schapiro RH,LaMuraglia GM,Warshaw AL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer is currently being evaluated in humans. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of laparoscopy on intraperitoneal tumor growth and distant metastases in an animal model. We also examined the effect of combining laparotomy with laparoscopy and on inf...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Dorrance HR,Oien K,O'Dwyer PJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biologic mesh choice in ventral hernia repair is challenging due to lack of prospective data. This study examines long-term, single-center biologic mesh outcomes. METHODS:Prospective operative outcomes data was queried for open ventral hernia repair with biologic mesh. Univariate and multivariate analysis w...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Huntington CR,Cox TC,Blair LJ,Schell S,Randolph D,Prasad T,Lincourt A,Heniford BT,Augenstein VA

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our objective was to evaluate the long-term benefit of R2/3 lymph node dissection compared with that of R1, even in node-negative cases. METHODS:We analyzed clinicopathologic data on 373 surgically treated patients with early gastric cancer and without microscopic nodal involvement. RESULTS:Five- and 10-ye...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Baba H,Maehara Y,Takeuchi H,Inutsuka S,Okuyama T,Adachi Y,Akazawa K,Sugimachi K

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emergency medical services are important to the functioning of health systems, but these services tend to be neglected in low- and middle-income countries, such as India. In recent years, several models of pre-hospital emergency medical services have emerged in India. Research on these models holds important...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sriram VM,Gururaj G,Hyder AA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of hepatic artery reconstruction in the success of liver transplantation in the rat has been studied. Rat liver grafts were performed with or without reanastomosis of the hepatic artery, both in rejector and nonrejector donor/recipient combinations. No significant improvement in recipient survival was f...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kamada N,Sumimoto R,Kaneda K

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hilar resection, especially in combination with liver resection, results in substantial morbidity and mortality, which clearly influences the overall outcome. In the present study, patients who underwent resection of a proximal bile duct tumor were analyzed with the aim of identifying risk factors for morbid...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Gerhards MF,van Gulik TM,de Wit LT,Obertop H,Gouma DJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many breast cancer patients and survivors experience clinically significant distress, which poses a danger to both their psychologic and clinical well-being. Improved understanding of the types of distress that patients experience at the time of breast cancer diagnosis may reveal areas for intervention to im...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Ludwigson A,Huynh V,Bronsert M,Sloan K,Murphy C,Christian N,Jaiswal K,Ahrendt G,Tevis SE

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 2411 consecutive arterial reconstructions performed with synthetic prosthetic material in Denmark during a 4-year period, 62 patients (2.6%) developed graft infection. Graft infection occurred only when the groin had been incised. The incidence of infection and the spread of infection along the graft did not rel...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Lorentzen JE,Nielsen OM,Arendrup H,Kimose HH,Bille S,Andersen J,Jensen CH,Jacobsen F,Røder OC

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complex anal fistulas are unsuitable for fistulotomy because of the risk of fecal incontinence. The anal fistula plug (AFP) has demonstrated fistula healing without sphincter division. This study aims to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the AFP compared to the endoanal advancement flap (EAAF) as an alterna...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Adamina M,Hoch JS,Burnstein MJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five patients with varying biliary pathology were injected with one gram of intramuscular cefazolin sodium prior to surgery. Serum, gallbladder bile, and common duct bile levels were measured. The type of biliary disease did not influence serum levels (mean, 29 mug per milliliter) which reached a peak one hour a...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： McLeish AR,Strachan CJ,Powis SJ,Wise R,Bevan PG

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if pretreatment of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) vascular grafts with fibronectin (FN) increased platelet adherence to them and adversely affected their patency, we labeled autologous canine platelets with indium III-oxine and interposed a FN-coated, experimental, 4 mm inner diameter, 10 cm long PTFE pro...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kempczinski RF,Ramalanjaona GR,Douville C,Silberstein EB

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metastasis of malignant breast cells is in part mediated through degradation of the extra-cellular matrix by proteolysis, enabling malignant cells to migrate through the surrounding stroma. Heparanase-1 (HPR1) is an endoglycosidase that specifically degrades the heparan sulfate (HS) moiety of proteoglycans, ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Maxhimer JB,Quiros RM,Stewart R,Dowlatshahi K,Gattuso P,Fan M,Prinz RA,Xu X

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the effect of reverse electrical pacing on intestinal absorption and transit time in an enterostomy model. Twenty-five male Sprague-Dawley rats (148 to 208 gm) underwent division and anastomosis of the proximal jejunum to eliminate the proximal gastroduodenal pacemaker. A 30.0 cm loop ileostomy wa...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sawchuk A,Nogami W,Goto S,Yount J,Grosfeld JA,Lohmuller J,Grosfeld MD,Grosfeld JL

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct measurement of the femoral artery pressure before operation has been used to predict the postoperative change in ankle and toe pressure in 102 limbs (83 patients) that underwent aortoiliac surgery for the treatment of atherosclerotic occlusion or stenosis affecting both the aortoiliac and femoral artery segment...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Faris I,Tønnesen KH,Agerskov K,Noer I,Sager P

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred forty-one patients who were operated on for primary hyperparathyroidism were observed for up to 22 years. Mortality was significantly higher than expected during the first postoperative years, for both men and women. This was predominantly due to a higher than expected incidence of diseases of the circula...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Palmér M,Adami HO,Bergström R,Akerström G,Ljunghall S

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical enteral access prior to multimodality treatment for esophageal cancer is controversial as dysphagia is often used for feeding tube referral. We hypothesized that enteral access before neoadjuvant chemoradiation for esophageal cancer provides no benefit compared to that placed during definitive esoph...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Jenkins TK,Lopez AN,Sarosi GA,Ben-David K,Thomas RM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) and its associated abnormalities in mineral metabolism increase the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and death in chronic renal failure (CRF). The effect of parathyroidectomy (PTX) on the incidence of major cardiovascular events in CRF patients with SHPT is unknown. We te...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Costa-Hong V,Jorgetti V,Gowdak LH,Moyses RM,Krieger EM,De Lima JJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized that intraoperative parathyroid hormone monitoring (IOPTH) reliably would detect double parathyroid adenomas. METHODS:This was a retrospective study of 20 patients undergoing conventional parathyroidectomy with resection of exactly 2 abnormal glands. Full exploration was performed regardless...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Gauger PG,Agarwal G,England BG,Delbridge LW,Matz KA,Wilkinson M,Robinson BG,Thompson NW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Central gastrectomy (CG) for gastric cancer was developed to preserve pyloric function and maintain a large gastric volume. Whether this procedure is feasible for limited cases of gastric cancer is unclear. METHODS:On the basis of Union Internationale Contre le Cancer TNM classification, pathologic characte...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Iseki J,Takagi M,Touyama K,Sano K,Nakagami K,Ori T,Ooba N,Kin H,Kojima H,Kojima K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dr McCarthy is a fellow in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Washington. During his general surgery training at Northwestern University, he completed a research fellowship in surgical innovation and obtained masters' degrees with a focus on health enterprise management, entrepreneurship, and innovation. ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： McCarthy DP

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glucagon-like peptide-2 induces small intestine mucosal epithelial cell proliferation and may have benefit for patients who suffer from short bowel syndrome. However, glucagon-like peptide-2 is inactivated rapidly in vivo by dipeptidyl peptidase IV. Therefore, we hypothesized that selectively inhibiting dipe...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Okawada M,Holst JJ,Teitelbaum DH

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary neuroendocrine tumors of the ampulla of Vater are rare. These tumors, like those of the respiratory tract and remainder of the gastrointestinal tract, appear along a histologic spectrum of increasing malignancy from low-grade carcinoid tumors to high-grade small cell undifferentiated cancers. We herein describ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Emory RE Jr,Emory TS,Goellner JR,Grant CS,Nagorney DM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognosis of neuroblastoma patients remains unsatisfactory. Therefore, developing an effective treatment strategy is important. Resveratrol, a natural polyphenol, possesses chemopreventive and antitumor effects. We investigated the effects of resveratrol on the proliferation, apoptosis, and cell cycle al...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Chen Y,Tseng SH,Lai HS,Chen WJ

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with primary hyperparathyroidism often lack classic symptoms but can have reductions in bone mineral density and increased fracture risk. We sought to determine bone mineral density improvement after successful surgery and associated factors. METHODS:A review of patients with osteopenia or osteopor...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Dy BM,Grant CS,Wermers RA,Kearns AE,Huebner M,Harmsen WS,Thompson GB,Farley DR,Richards ML

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Discrimination of malignant proximal bile duct (PBD) stricture from a benign lesion is difficult with nonsurgical methods; indeed, 8% to 13% of PBD strictures prove to be benign after histologic examination of the surgically resected specimen. METHODS:In a 7-year period 178 patients with PBD stricture were ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Nakayama A,Imamura H,Shimada R,Miyagawa S,Makuuchi M,Kawasaki S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine (Ado) is a potent coronary vasodilator. Recent studies suggest that Ado may also have an important effect on myocardial carbohydrate metabolism. To determine whether Ado has a direct effect on myocardial glucose uptake, a recirculating, constant-flow, isolated rat-heart preparation was used. The hearts were ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Mainwaring R,Lasley R,Rubio R,Wyatt DA,Mentzer RM Jr

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid tumors constantly require a vascular supply for their progression and metastasis. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is known to gain its hypervascularity during the process of dedifferentiation and progression. Various angiogenic growth factors and inhibitors regulate this angiogenic switch of HCC. The known endoth...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sugimachi K,Tanaka S,Terashi T,Taguchi K,Rikimaru T,Sugimachi K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thermal ablation by radiofrequency or laser is used increasingly for the treatment of colorectal liver metastases. Recurrence after thermal ablation is common and occurs both locally and at distant sites. One possible cause of this recurrence may be a result of growth stimulation of micrometastases in the re...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Nikfarjam M,Muralidharan V,Christophi C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00