Multisource Evaluation of Surgeon Behavior Is Associated With Malpractice Claims.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed at: (1) documenting the evolution of surgical results of esophagectomy in a high-volume center, (2) identifying predictive factors of pulmonary complications and mortality, and (3) examining whether preoperative chemoradiation therapy would complicate postoperative recovery. SUMMARY BACKGROU...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Law S,Wong KH,Kwok KF,Chu KM,Wong J

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the English literature reveals a total of 1,337 patients with choledochal cysts. Improved diagnostic techniques to visualize the biliary system are demonstrating an increasing number of unsuspected choledochal cysts in adult patients. Either choledochal cysts remain clinically silent until adulthood or may...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Powell CS,Sawyers JL,Reynolds VH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After attaching appropriate monitoring devices enabling the measurement of the slope of the left ventricular function curve, left atrial pressure, mean aortic pressure, peak left ventricular pressure, and tension time index, three groups of ten dogs were subjected to varying periods of hemorrhagic shock until a slope ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Proctor HJ,Hsiao H,Fry J,Ebert C

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if phospholipase A2 (PLA2) type II and type IV mRNA expression and protein are altered in chronic pancreatitis. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:PLA2s have an important regulatory function in several signaling pathways, especially in inflammation. In this study, we examined the expression of three PLA2 i...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kashiwagi M,Friess H,Uhl W,Graber H,Duarte R,Zimmermann A,Büchler MW

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report on the results of a prospective longitudinal study of a new bowel-sparing procedure (side-to-side isoperistaltic strictureplasty [SSIS]) in patients with extensive Crohn's disease. METHODS:Between January 1992 and April 1999, the authors operated on 469 consecutive patients for Crohn's disease of t...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Michelassi F,Hurst RD,Melis M,Rubin M,Cohen R,Gasparitis A,Hanauer SB,Hart J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the potential benefit of cytology of the peritoneal lavage obtained during diagnostic laparoscopy for staging gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Peritoneal lavage is a simple procedure that can be performed during laparotomy for GI tumors. Tumor cells in the lavage fluid ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nieveen van Dijkum EJ,Sturm PD,de Wit LT,Offerhaus J,Obertop H,Gouma DJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Rochester, Department of Surgery, in response to an experimental community-wide limit on hospital budgets, studied high-cost general surgical patients as a potential source of leverage for containment of hospital costs. It was found that a small number of patients impact significantly on hospital cos...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Drucker WR,Gavett JW,Kirshner R,Messick WJ,Ingersoll G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association of the genetic variants in excision repair cross-complementation group 2 (ERCC2) R156R and ERCC4 rs3136038 with survival duration for patients with esophageal cancer. BACKGROUND:ERCC2 and ERCC4 are important molecules participating nucleotide excision repair system. The clinica...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lee JM,Yang PW,Yang SY,Chuang TH,Tung EC,Chen JS,Huang PM,Lee YC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of factors predisposing to infection in badly injured patients has disclosed: the dominant roles of two specific parameters: monocyte antigen presenting capacity, and opsonic capacity of diluted serum; the potential value of further assessment of: the predictive value of plots of activated T-cells/...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Polk HC Jr,George CD,Wellhausen SR,Cost K,Davidson PR,Regan MP,Borzotta AP

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop evidence-based recommendations for safe, effective, and appropriate thyroidectomy. BACKGROUND:Surgical management of thyroid disease has evolved considerably over several decades leading to variability in rendered care. Over 100,000 thyroid operations are performed annually in the US. METHODS:The...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Patel KN,Yip L,Lubitz CC,Grubbs EG,Miller BS,Shen W,Angelos P,Chen H,Doherty GM,Fahey TJ 3rd,Kebebew E,Livolsi VA,Perrier ND,Sipos JA,Sosa JA,Steward D,Tufano RP,McHenry CR,Carty SE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate that alvimopan (6 or 12 mg) accelerates recovery of gastrointestinal (GI) function in patients undergoing laparotomy for bowel resection or radical hysterectomy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Postoperative ileus (POI) following laparotomy may increase morbidity and extend hospitalization. Opioids ca...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wolff BG,Michelassi F,Gerkin TM,Techner L,Gabriel K,Du W,Wallin BA,Alvimopan Postoperative Ileus Study Group.

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There were 2 objectives: first, to investigate how many patients were excluded from surgery on the basis of the radiological extent of the peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) or the clinical examination; and second, to develop a score based primarily on serum tumor markers (STMs) that could predict short cancer-sp...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cashin PH,Graf W,Nygren P,Mahteme H

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the total burden of complications in the early postoperative period after liver transplantation (LT) between donation after circulatory death (DCD) and donation after brain death (DBD) grafts with the novel Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI). BACKGROUND:LT is complex surgery and the increasing us...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kalisvaart M,de Haan JE,Polak WG,Metselaar HJ,Wijnhoven BPL,IJzermans JNM,de Jonge J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From December 1985 to December 1989, 100 consecutive simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplants were performed at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. Bladder drainage technique was used for all grafts. One- and three-year patient survival was 93% and 90%; kidney survival, 90% and 85%; and pancreas su...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sollinger HW,Knechtle SJ,Reed A,D'Alessandro AM,Kalayoglu M,Belzer FO,Pirsch J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the outcome of technical variant liver transplant techniques relative to whole organ liver transplantation in pediatric liver transplant recipients. BACKGROUND:Technical variant liver transplant techniques comprising split, reduced, and live-donor liver transplantation evolved to address the need ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Diamond IR,Fecteau A,Millis JM,Losanoff JE,Ng V,Anand R,Song C,SPLIT Research Group.

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the current concepts in the mediastinal staging of nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC), evaluating traditional and modern staging modalities. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Staging of NSCLC includes the assessment of mediastinal lymph nodes. Traditionally, computed tomography (CT) and mediastinoscopy are us...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kramer H,Groen HJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Length of postoperative stay (LOS) has gained increasing attention as a potential indicator of surgical efficiency. Our objective was to examine the feasibility of assessing LOS at 182 hospitals to identify institutions with outlying performance. METHODS:Patients were identified who underwent colorectal sur...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cohen ME,Bilimoria KY,Ko CY,Richards K,Hall BL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the founding of the American Medical Association's Section on Surgery in 1859 and how it represented, on a national basis, the beginnings of organized surgery and the formal start of the professionalization and specialization of surgery in the United States. BACKGROUND:The broad social process of ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rutkow I

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:Many advances have occurred in recent years in the diagnosis, localization, and treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism. Several different operative choices for primary hyperparathyroidism also have been proposed--a unilateral approach versus the standard bilateral parathyroid exploration. The unilateral approach is ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kaplan EL,Yashiro T,Salti G

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this prospective, nonrandomized study was to evaluate the immediate and long-term results of first-line chemotherapy and possible surgery in locally advanced, presumably T4 squamous cell esophageal cancer. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Locally advanced esophageal cancer is rarely operable and has ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ancona E,Ruol A,Castoro C,Chiarion-Sileni V,Merigliano S,Santi S,Bonavina L,Peracchia A

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if addition of the S-nitrosylating agent ethyl nitrite (ENO) to the preservation solution can improve perfusion parameters in pumped human kidneys. BACKGROUND:A significant percentage of actively stored kidneys experience elevations in resistance and decreases in flow rate during the ex vivo sto...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Zhu L,Qureshi A,Awad M,Hausladen A,Perez-Protto S,Latifi SQ,Lebovitz DJ,Chavin K,Stamler JS,Reynolds JD

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the efficacy of isolated pelvic perfusion (IPP) with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and melphalan in patients with locally advanced cancers in the pelvic and groin area requiring mutilating surgery. METHODS:A total of 27 patients were enrolled (carcinoma, n = 17; sarcoma/melanoma, n = 4; and endocrine...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bonvalot S,de Baere T,Mendiboure J,Paci A,Farace F,Drouard-Troalen L,Bonnet L,Hakime A,Bonniaud G,Raynard B,Israel P,Le Cesne A,Eggermont AM,Laplanche A,Muret J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the efficacy of adjunctive IPC to standard prophylaxis of postoperative VTE in patients at extremely high-risk. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:The standard prophylaxis for postoperative VTE is insufficient in extremely high-risk patients. It is unclear whether an adjunctive use of IPC would result in a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lobastov K,Sautina E,Alencheva E,Bargandzhiya A,Schastlivtsev I,Barinov V,Laberko L,Rodoman G,Boyarintsev V

更新日期：2020-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Comparison of minimal access retroperitoneal pancreatic necrosectomy (MARPN) versus open necrosectomy in the treatment of infected or nonresolving pancreatic necrosis. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Infected pancreatic necrosis may lead to progressive organ failure and death. Minimal access techniques have been ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Raraty MG,Halloran CM,Dodd S,Ghaneh P,Connor S,Evans J,Sutton R,Neoptolemos JP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the clinicopathologic features and clonal relationship of multifocal intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas. BACKGROUND:Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms are increasingly diagnosed cystic precursor lesions of pancreatic cancer. Intraductal papillary mucinous neopla...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Matthaei H,Norris AL,Tsiatis AC,Olino K,Hong SM,dal Molin M,Goggins MG,Canto M,Horton KM,Jackson KD,Capelli P,Zamboni G,Bortesi L,Furukawa T,Egawa S,Ishida M,Ottomo S,Unno M,Motoi F,Wolfgang CL,Edil BH,Cameron J

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Arginine transport was characterized and studied in human liver. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Plasma arginine uptake may regulate hepatocyte intracellular availability and the subsequent biosynthesis of nitric oxide (NO), but little is known about arginine transport across the human hepatocyte plasma membrane. M...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Inoue Y,Bode BP,Beck DJ,Li AP,Bland KI,Souba WW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy is being performed with progressively lower operative mortality and morbidity. Three hundred thirty seven patients have had elective aneurysm repair since 1954. Factors affecting mortality and morbidity in the last 108 cases are analyzed. Seventy-four per cent of patients had pre-existi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Thompson JE,Hollier LH,Patman RD,Persson AV

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 1972 through December 1974, at Saint Louis University Medical Center (SLU), 345 patients similar to those of the VA Cooperative Coronary Artery Study received CABG. Operative mortality was SLU 2.3%, VA 5.6% (p < 0.05). Perioperative myocardial infarction rate was SLU 8.4%, VA 18% (p < 0.005). One year gra...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kaiser GC,Barner HB,Tyras DH,Codd JE,Mudd JG,Willman VL

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess existing measures of pathologic response to neoadjuvant therapy in esophageal and junctional cancer, and to recommend an optimum classification. BACKGROUND:Multimodal therapy is increasingly the standard of care for locally advanced esophageal cancer. Numerous measures of pathologic response have b...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Donohoe CL,O'Farrell NJ,Grant T,King S,Clarke L,Muldoon C,Reynolds JV

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00