Error tolerance: an evaluation of residents' repeated motor coordination errors.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of this study was to investigate whether the preoperative hematologic markers, the platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), or the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) ratio are significant prognostic indicators in resected pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. METHODS:A total of 84 patients undergoing pancr...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Bhatti I,Peacock O,Lloyd G,Larvin M,Hall RI

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hospital and office records of 86 patients who underwent proctectomy for cancer of inflammatory bowel disease with primary closure of the perineal wound were reviewed. Almost one fourth of all patients suffered a significant perineal wound complication, the majority of which were infections. The incidence of posto...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Manjoney DL,Koplewitz MJ,Abrams JS

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found clinical phlebitis in 57 of 88 patients with peripheral hyperalimentation (65%). To determine if this was a problem common to all intravenous fluid therapy at our hospital, we performed a point-prevalence study. The prevalence of phlebitis in nonhyperalimentation intravenous patients was 18% (84 of 456 patien...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Rypins EB,Johnson BH,Reder B,Sarfeh IJ,Shimoda K

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hemorrhagic shock (HS) often causes coagulopathy due, in part, to decreased coagulation proteins. This study assessed the efficacy of fresh frozen plasma (FFP) in preventing this coagulopathy following a canine model of HS designed to mimic bleeding with shock as seen in the emergency department followed by ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Lucas CE,Ledgerwood AM,Saxe JM,Dombi G,Lucas WF

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial visceral myopathy is a form of chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction in which fibrosis of the smooth muscle of the alimentary tract causes protean symptoms of disordered visceral motility. Based on our 8 year observation of six members of one family with familial visceral myopathy and review of the few well-do...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Shaw A,Shaffer HA,Anuras S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey was made of 112 cases of gallstone ileus reported in the Japanese literature, including 3 of our cases. The ratio of males to females was 1 to 1.1, the age range was 13 to 87 years, and biliary-enteric fistulas were demonstrated in 81 percent of the patients. Although cholecystoduodenal fistula was most commo...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Kasahara Y,Umemura H,Shiraha S,Kuyama T,Sakata K,Kubota H

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency center thoracotomy is a heroic technique of resuscitation and treatment which was revived in the 1960s to improve the survival of patients presenting with cardiac wounds. With excellent survival rates attained in such patients, the technique was extended to victims of trauma with other mechanisms and locatio...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Feliciano DV,Bitondo CG,Cruse PA,Mattox KL,Burch JM,Beall AC Jr,Jordan GL Jr

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports in the surgical literature are conflicting as to whether appendectomy "in passing" during laparotomy for trauma or for some other disease state does or does not significantly increase patient morbidity or mortality. A chart survey of all appendectomies (342 for acute appendicitis and 146 as incidental procedur...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Strom PR,Turkleson ML,Stone HH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of hepatic hemangioma is reported in which preoperative diagnosis, with the combined aid of serial selective hepatic arteriography and laparoscopy, was necessary. The patient underwent right hepatic lobectomy after extensive extrahepatic individual ligations with no severe postoperative complications. The combi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Kato M,Sugawara I,Okada A,Kuwata K,Satani M

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The laparoscopic approach to surgical diseases of the foregut is rapidly gaining acceptance. These new approaches, however, pit the unwary surgeon against potentially devastating complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Based on a retrospective review of 153 consecutive laparoscopic foregut surgeries performed a...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Swanström LL,Pennings JL

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study examined the impact of intraoperative myocardial acidosis and adverse postoperative outcomes on the cost of cardiac surgical care. METHODS:Myocardial tissue pH corrected to 37 degrees C (pH(37C)) was measured in 162 patients with cross-clamp (XC) duration of 119 minutes or longer. Perioperative d...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Healey CM,Kumbhani DJ,Healey NA,Crittenden MD,Gibson SF,Khuri SF

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Because of the increase in the geriatric population, an increasing number of elderly patients are being treated for colorectal cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate perioperative morbidity and mortality in this population. METHODS:A retrospective chart review was performed for patients 80 years ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ong ES,Alassas M,Dunn KB,Rajput A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of postoperative swallowing ability in thirty-eight patients having had partial laryngectomy indicates that there are marked differences in the degree of dysphagia among individuals with similar surgical defects. This variation in swallowing disability, however, appears to have definable limits. Rehabilitat...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Weaver AW,Fleming SM

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to characterize patients readmitted following inpatient general surgery procedures. We hypothesized that a decreased length of stay would increase risk for readmission. METHODS:We utilized our institutional National Surgical Quality Improvement Project database from 2006 to 2011. T...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Kohlnhofer BM,Tevis SE,Weber SM,Kennedy GD

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 48 patients with laryngeal or hypopharyngeal primary tumors with DNA flow cytometry. Twenty-four of the tumors were glottic, 18 were supraglottic, and 6 were from the pyriform sinus. Patients were followed for a minimum of 12 months, with a mean follow-up of 23 months. Twenty-three of the 48 primary tumors ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Goldsmith MM,Cresson DS,Postma DS,Askin FB,Pillsbury HC

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a 2 year period, 60 consecutive feeding enterostomies were placed in malnourished patients. The major complication rate was 1.6 percent. Total complications were 8 percent. Thirty day mortality was 13 percent. Nearly all patients were given isosmotic nonelemental diets. The incidence of diarrhea was 2 percent with ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hinsdale JG,Lipkowitz GS,Pollock TW,Hoover EL,Jaffe BM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 60% of patients who die from melanoma have gastrointestinal (GI) metastases at autopsy, yet antemortem diagnosis is uncommon. A retrospective review was completed on 32 patients who underwent an operation at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center between 1977 and 1987 for complications of melanoma metast...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ihde JK,Coit DG

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The biofragmentable anastomosis ring (BAR) was introduced by Hardy in 1985 as a simple alternative to sutured or stapled intestinal anastomosis. METHODS:The aim of this study was to analyze complications related to the use of the BAR in elective intraperitoneal intestinal anastomosis to identify technical a...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Forde KA,Goodell KH,DellaBadia M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appendicitis in preschool children is not uncommon. A duration of greater than 40 hours usually implied perforation. The most common findings were abdominal pain, tenderness, temperature elevation and vomiting. In the presence of perforation or abscess formation, appendectomy followed by copious wound irrigation, absc...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Graham JM,Pokorny WJ,Harberg FJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several recent reviews have suggested that aggressive surgical intervention can reduce morbidity and mortality associated with intra-abdominal crises in AIDS patients. We reviewed our experience with 57 AIDS patients with 63 emergent laparotomies performed at 4 hospitals affiliated with the University of California in...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Whitney TM,Brunel W,Russell TR,Bossart KJ,Schecter WP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As discussed by Urschel [13], 50 to 70 percent of patients with symptoms of thoracic outlet syndrome may be treated conservatively by nonsurgical methods. Patients who still have symptoms after years of such therapy are referred to us for surgical treatment. Failure to obtain symptomatic relief after scalenotomy alone...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Murphy TO,Piper CA,Kanar EA,McAlexander RA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Two decades since the advent of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the rate of bile duct injuries still remains higher than in the open cholecystectomy era. METHODS:The rate and complexity of bile duct injuries was evaluated in 83,449 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy between 1995 and 2008 in t...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Chuang KI,Corley D,Postlethwaite DA,Merchant M,Harris HW

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study utilizes the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database to better understand the impact of obesity on perioperative surgical morbidity in abdominal wall reconstruction (AWR). METHODS:We reviewed the 2005 to 2010 American College of Surgeons National Surgic...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Nelson JA,Fischer JP,Cleveland EC,Wink JD,Serletti JM,Kovach SJ 3rd

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have evaluated the role of computed tomography-guided percutaneous drainage (PD) in the management of gastrointestinal (GI) anastomotic leaks. METHODS:Ten-year review of an interventional radiology database identified patients with symptomatic GI anastomotic leaks. Clinical, laboratory, radiogra...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Felder SI,Barmparas G,Murrell Z,Fleshner P

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine contralateral groin exploration in infants and children with a clinically detected inguinal hernia is the subject of much debate. The detection of a patent processus vaginalis by transinguinal laparoscopy has proven advantageous. However, controversy remains regarding the true incidence of a contrala...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Geisler DP,Jegathesan S,Parmley MC,McGee JM,Nolen MG,Broughan TA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred seven patients with pseudocyst managed during the past decade were reviewed. The mortality rate of 11.2 percent compares favorably with the rates in other recent series. Twenty-two percent of the patients were managed conservatively, and 76 underwent exploration. None of the nonoperative patients died from...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Sandy JT,Taylor RH,Christensen RM,Scudamore C,Leckie P

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to determine if the distance from the skin to the seroma cavity, as measured with ultrasound (US) before catheter placement, correlated with the distance from skin to MammoSite balloon catheter as measured on computerized axial tomography (CAT) after catheter placement. METHODS:...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Wilkinson JB,Boyle T,Song J,Kilbride K,Miltenburg D

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examples of the use of endoscopic pancreatography in the preoperative evaluation and postoperative follow-up study of patients with pancreatic disease are presented and discussed. Six cases selected from a total experience of forty-eight patients have been summarized. The direct role of pancreatography in the manageme...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Cooperman AM,Sivak MV,Sullivan BH Jr,Hermann RE

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonoscopic examination of the entire colon was performed on 146 patients for radiographically suspected benign polypoid disease. Of thirty-six patients who did not have a neoplastic lesion at the suspected site, seven (19 per cent) had unsuspected small benign polypoid adenomas elsewhere in the colon. Of the remaini...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Coller JA,Corman ML,Veidenheimer MC

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nipple discharge occurs in 2% to 5% of women. We evaluated the effectiveness of a previously proposed treatment algorithm for these patients. METHODS:Patients with pathologic nipple discharge and a negative mammogram and subareolar ultrasound were offered follow-up from 2005 to 2011 according to the algorit...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ashfaq A,Senior D,Pockaj BA,Wasif N,Pizzitola VJ,Giurescu ME,Gray RJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00