Factors Predicting Outcomes After a Total Pancreatectomy and Islet Autotransplantation Lessons Learned From Over 500 Cases.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present trial was to ascertain whether laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LCC) can prevent recurrent attacks of idiopathic acute pancreatitis (IAP). SUMMARY:Up to 50% to 75% of IAP may be due to microlithiasis, which is undetectable by conventional imaging methods. METHODS:This randomized, prospec...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Räty S,Pulkkinen J,Nordback I,Sand J,Victorzon M,Grönroos J,Helminen H,Kuusanmäki P,Nordström P,Paajanen H

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one children from the ages of 4 to 12 years old were treated for esophageal hemorrhage by distal splenorenal shunt (DSS). In four patients, thrombosis of the shunt occurred within the first 24 hours after operation. In the other 17 children, long-term shunt patency was verified. Only one thrombosis has occurred...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Maksoud JG,Mies S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantitate disease-specific hospital-based medical costs in 34 patients with chronic pancreatitis before and after treatment by either duodenal-preserving pancreatic head resection (DPPHR) or pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy (PPPD). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Pancreatic head resection in selected p...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Howard TJ,Jones JW,Sherman S,Fogel E,Lehman GA

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:A prospective, manometric trial of anal fissure treated by subcutaneous lateral internal sphincterotomy (SLIS) was designed to elucidate the pathophysiology of this condition. Anorectal manometry with a closed, precalibrated, water-filled microballoon using the station pull-through technique was performed on 13 patien...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： McNamara MJ,Percy JP,Fielding IR

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 360 patients underwent preoperative cardiac risk assessment using 23 clinical parameters, seven multivariate clinical scoring systems, and quantitative dipyridamole-thallium imaging to predict postoperative and long-term myocardial infarction and cardiac death after noncardiac surgery. There were 30 postope...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lette J,Waters D,Bernier H,Champagne P,Lassonde J,Picard M,Cerino M,Nattel S,Boucher Y,Heyen F

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminished poststenotic pressure and flow accompanied experimental application of multiple subcritical arterial stenoses in series. Effects of additional stenoses, causing equivalent constrictions, were cumulative in a nonlinear fashion. Seven-hundred-twenty measurements were performed using 10 cm ileofemoral canine a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Flanigan DP,Tullis JP,Streeter VL,Whitehouse WM Jr,Fry WJ,Stanley JC

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The HepatAssist liver support system is an extracorporeal porcine hepatocyte-based bioartificial liver (BAL). The safety and efficacy of the BAL were evaluated in a prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter trial in patients with severe acute liver failure. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:In experimental anim...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Demetriou AA,Brown RS Jr,Busuttil RW,Fair J,McGuire BM,Rosenthal P,Am Esch JS 2nd,Lerut J,Nyberg SL,Salizzoni M,Fagan EA,de Hemptinne B,Broelsch CE,Muraca M,Salmeron JM,Rabkin JM,Metselaar HJ,Pratt D,De La Mata M,Mc

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many women who present with desmoid-type fibromatosis (DF) have had a recent pregnancy. Long-term data about disease behavior during and after pregnancy are lacking. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the possible relationship between DF and pregnancy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A cohort of women with DF and pregnancy was...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fiore M,Coppola S,Cannell AJ,Colombo C,Bertagnolli MM,George S,Le Cesne A,Gladdy RA,Casali PG,Swallow CJ,Gronchi A,Bonvalot S,Raut CP

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：:A history of caustic injury was obtained in 12 of 846 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus. The average age was 52.8 years; the interval from injury to development of carcinoma was 45.8 years. Nine of the 12 carcinomas were in the midthoracic segment. Resection was possible in nine patients, with two...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hopkins RA,Postlethwait RW

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients with vascular deformities of the lower extremity were studied and were classified into three groups based on their clinical and angiographic findings. 1) The Klippel or Venous Dysplasia Group (n = 8) demonstrated: cutaneous nevi of metameric distribution, congenital varices (many of which were anomal...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： O'Donnell TF Jr

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the scope and magnitude of practice variation associated with the diagnosis and treatment of appendicitis at freestanding children's hospitals. BACKGROUND:Variation in care has been associated with poor outcomes and is believed to be a key driver of excess health care spending. METHODS:Retro...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rice-Townsend S,Barnes JN,Hall M,Baxter JL,Rangel SJ

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in infancy is related to developmental factors, and there is a high incidence of associated conditions such as neurologic syndromes and esophageal atresia (60%). This is different from the situation in adults. Experience with 18 consecutive children with peptic esophageal ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： O'Neill JA Jr,Betts J,Ziegler MM,Schnaufer L,Bishop HC,Templeton JM

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of subtotal (SG) versus total (TG) gastrectomy on the oncologic outcome of patients with cancer of the distal stomach from 28 Italian institutions. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:There is controversy over whether SG and TG have a different impact on the 5-year survival probability of patients...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bozzetti F,Marubini E,Bonfanti G,Miceli R,Piano C,Gennari L

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From July 1983 through December 1987, 300 consecutive patients with penetrating gunshot wounds of the abdomen causing visceral or vascular injuries were treated. Resuscitative thoracotomy was required in 20 patients (6.6%), and only two survived. The most commonly injured organs were the small bowel (60%), colon (41.6...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Feliciano DV,Burch JM,Spjut-Patrinely V,Mattox KL,Jordan GL Jr

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small intestinal morphologic and biochemical changes were studied following jejuno-ileal bypass for obesity after body weight stabilization had occurred. Four patients underwent biopsy of in-continuity and bypassed jejunal and ileal segments of the small intestine 11 to 22 months after the bypass operation. Microscopi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Dudrick SJ,Daly JM,Castro G,Akhtar M

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of varying approaches to congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) repair timing on survival and need for ECMO when controlled for anatomic and physiologic disease severity in a large consecutive series of patients with CDH. BACKGROUND:Our publication of 60 consecutive patients with CDH in ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kays DW,Islam S,Larson SD,Perkins J,Talbert JL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thin melanomas can metastasize and be lethal. The purpose of this review was to identify negative risk factors in patients with melanomas less than 0.76 mm thick. Six hundred and eighty-one (681) such patients are reviewed in this study. Of those referred without metastatic disease (583 patients), metastases developed...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Slingluff CL Jr,Vollmer RT,Reintgen DS,Seigler HF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine patients undergoing elective or emergent gastric surgery have been included in this study. Gastric needle aspiration was performed at the time of surgery in each case, followed by qualitative aerobic and anaerobic bacteriologic analysis. In 18 patients undergoing elective operation for chronic nonobstructin...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nichols RL,Smith JW

更新日期：1975-11-01 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：:Although the clinical results of Brooke ileostomy are good, patients are permanently incontinent of stool and gas. Alternative operations designed to restore enteric continence, such as ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, must not only be as safe and effective as Brooke ileostomy, but should provide an improved quality of l...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Pemberton JH,Phillips SF,Ready RR,Zinsmeister AR,Beahrs OH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A simulator to enable safe practice and assessment of ALND has been designed, and face, content and construct validity has been investigated. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND DATA:The reduction in the number of ALNDs conducted has led to decreased resident exposure and confidence. METHODS:A cross-sectional multicente...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Muthuswamy K,Fisher R,Mavroveli S,Petrou F,Khawar S,Amlani A,Hanna GB,Hadjiminas DJ,Thiruchelvam PTR,Leff DR

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Between June 1977 and November 1981, 26 children and adults with ulcerative colitis have undergone a total colectomy, an endorectal dissection of the rectal mucosa, and an ileoanostomy. A combined abdominoperineal approach was used to perform the operation, and the mucosal-submucosal rectal tube was dissected out inta...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Coran AG,Sarahan TM,Dent TL,Fiddian-Green R,Wesley JR,Jordan FT

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to minimize juxta-anastomotic neointimal hyperplasia (JNIH) following the use of polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) conduits. PTFE anastomoses to canine carotid arteries (noncuff grafts) were compared with grafts with vein cuffs interposed proximally and distally between the graft and native artery. This ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Suggs WD,Henriques HF,DePalma RG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ileosigmoid fistula complicating Crohn's disease of the small bowel has been considered a perplexing entity, but in practice does not pose a serious operative problem. The presence of such a fistula does not signify that the sigmoid colon is a primary site of Crohn's disease. The operative treatment of this entity ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Block GE,Schraut WH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the course of 186 patients with external gastrointestinal fistulas treated at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco from 1968 to 1977. There were 82 patients in the earlier group (1968-1971) and 104 patients in the later group (1972-1977). The groups differed in that 35% of patients in...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Reber HA,Roberts C,Way LW,Dunphy JE

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To summarize the current world position on laparoscopic liver surgery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Multiple series have reported on the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic liver surgery. Small and medium sized procedures have become commonplace in many centers, while major laparoscopic liver resections have been...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Buell JF,Cherqui D,Geller DA,O'Rourke N,Iannitti D,Dagher I,Koffron AJ,Thomas M,Gayet B,Han HS,Wakabayashi G,Belli G,Kaneko H,Ker CG,Scatton O,Laurent A,Abdalla EK,Chaudhury P,Dutson E,Gamblin C,D'Angelica M,Nag

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five dogs prepared with Heidenhain pouches received infusions of saline, GIP and VIP before and after a standard meat meal. Blood samples were obtained under basal conditions and at subsequent intervals for measurement of gastrin, insulin, GIP and VIP by radioimmunoassay. GIP and VIP infusions had no effect on basal l...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Villar HV,Fender HR,Rayford PL,Bloom SR,Ramus NI,Thompson JC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The treatment of pancreatic necrosis at a tertiary referral center was reviewed to effect better patient outcome. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Pancreatic necrosis is a devastating disease that leads to death in 10% to 50% of cases. Infected necrosis is particularly deadly because 80% of deaths from necrosis are d...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Branum G,Galloway J,Hirchowitz W,Fendley M,Hunter J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00