Is celiac axis resection justified for T4 pancreatic body cancer?

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hypothesis of this study was that differences exist among patients with private insurance compared with patients with Medicaid or no insurance, regarding access to the timely treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) and the outcomes of AAA repair. METHODS:The study comprised 5363 patients aged les...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Boxer LK,Dimick JB,Wainess RM,Cowan JA,Henke PK,Stanley JC,Upchurch GR Jr

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroglossal cysts are common developmental abnormalities of the thyroid gland. The malignant form of these cysts, however, is extremely rare, with fewer than 100 cases reported since 1915. Here we add 10 cases of malignant thyroglossal cysts, nine women and one man, encountered at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, based o...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Fernandez JF,Ordoñez NG,Schultz PN,Samaan NA,Hickey RC

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heparin binding to platelet factor 4 (PF4) generates a new antigenic epitope. In an unpredictable fashion, as many as approximately 17% of patients treated with unfractionated heparin (UFH) and approximately 8% treated with low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) subsequently develop the anti-heparin-PF4 antibod...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Baldwin ZK,Spitzer AL,Ng VL,Harken AH

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary peritonitis continues to carry a high mortality rate despite the aggressive use of imaging, drainage, and antibiotics. Although host factors and microbial burden contribute to the outcome of peritonitis, we propose a role for bacterial virulence as a determinant of outcome from peritonitis. Bacteri...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Babrowski T,Romanowski K,Fink D,Kim M,Gopalakrishnan V,Zaborina O,Alverdy JC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many postoperative concerns after common general operative procedures may be addressed over the phone, thereby saving time and resources for both the patient and surgeon. METHODS:Over a 6-month time period, patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy, appendectomy for uncomplicated appendicitis, and...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Wright GP,Wolf AM,Ambrosi G,Dull MB,Chung MH

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of tumor removal and body weight loss on insulin resistance. METHODS:Insulin sensitivity was examined in 12 patients with cancer and stable weight and five patients with cancer and weight loss before operation, six patients after complete tumor removal, and t...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Yoshikawa T,Noguchi Y,Matsumoto A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with primary mediastinal lymphomas frequently present with a residual mass after completion of first-line therapy. Although a positron emission tomography scan is usually recommended, it fails to distinguish between persistent lymphoma and inflammation. Although percutaneous biopsy may have a high d...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kane L,Savas H,DeCamp MM,Bharat A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Approximately 10% of patients taking lithium for manic-depressive disorders become hypercalcemic. It remains unclear whether lithium initiates disease or promotes underlying hyperparathyroidism. We have previously demonstrated that at therapeutic concentrations lithium stimulates in vitro incorporation of bo...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Saxe A,Gibson G,Silveira E

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The benefit of adding external beam radiation to adjuvant chemotherapy in patients that have undergone a margin positive resection for early stage, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has not been determined definitively. METHODS:The National Cancer Data Base was queried to evaluate the utility of adjuvant rad...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Suss NR,Talamonti MS,Bryan DS,Wang CH,Kuchta KM,Stocker SJ,Bentrem DJ,Roggin KK,Winchester DJ,Marsh R,Prinz RA,Murad FM,Baker MS

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extrinsic denervation of the transplanted small bowel could play a substantial role in motor dysfunction of the transplanted gut. We attempted to determine the effect of chronic extrinsic denervation on intestinal contractility. METHODS:Jejunal longitudinal muscle strips were obtained from rats 1 week and 8...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Balsiger BM,Ohtani N,Anding WJ,Duenes JA,Sarr MG

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unexpected finding of hyperamylasemia in a patient with isolated head injury prompted a study of amylase levels in patients with various degrees of cranial trauma. None of seven patients with isolated maxillofacial trauma had hyperamylasemia. This group was studied to discount injury to salivary glands as a source...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Bouwman DL,Altshuler J,Weaver DW

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extrahepatic diversion of essential splanchnic hepatotrophic factors may cause the liver atrophy and insufficiency that follows portacaval shunting. To investigate this, control dogs with end-to-side portacaval shunts (control-PCS, n = 6) were compared with dogs shunted 1 month after intraportal pancreatic islet a...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Callery MP,Ricordi C,Scharp DW,Kamei T,Swanson CJ,Lacy PE,Flye MW

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of surgical trauma on the regulation of lipolysis was studied in isolated fat cells obtained before and 24 hours after elective cholecystectomy in 12 patients who were not obese and who were healthy otherwise. Surgery was accompanied by a twofold increase of the basal rate of lipolysis and by a significant ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Jörgen N,Björn N,Tomas S,Wahrenberg H,Peter A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 337 limbs (208 patients) with primary varicose veins, Doppler ultrasound was used to detect reverse flow in the saphenous veins caused by manual compression of the calf. According to the extent of reverse flow in the saphenous trunks, varicosities of the long saphenous vein were classified into five types and the s...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Koyano K,Sakaguchi S

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hydrogen gas clearance technique was evaluated to estimate regional hepatic blood flow. Initially, the H2 gas method was compared to the indocyanine green clearance in mini pigs. The blood flow measured by the H2 gas method (0.49 +/- 0.03 ml/min/gm) was only 39% of the calculated blood flow by the indocyanine gree...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Gouma DJ,Coelho JC,Schlegel J,Fisher JD,Li YF,Moody FG

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation documented the effect of protamine sulfate pretreatment on the adverse hemodynamic and hematologic sequela of rapid intravenous protamine administration in heparinized dogs having undergone prior implantation of aortic prostheses. Fourteen dogs underwent infrarenal aortic replacement with 6 mm inner...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Wakefield TW,Lindblad B,Whitehouse WM Jr,Hantler CB,Stanley JC

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1978 and 1985, 88 patients underwent insertion of the Greenfield vena cava filter. In 21 of the 88 patients (23.9%) the filter was inserted prophylactically. Sixteen of the 21 prophylactic insertions were performed before total joint replacement in patients with a history of venous thromboembolism. Operative m...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Golueke PJ,Garrett WV,Thompson JE,Smith BL,Talkington CM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Operative resection is the only curative treatment for patients with pheochromocytomas, paragangliomas, and other catecholamine-producing neoplasms. Activation of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK3beta) is thought to promote tumor growth and neuroendocrine (NE) peptide secretion in NE neoplasms. Thus, we h...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kappes A,Vaccaro A,Kunnimalaiyaan M,Chen H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Totally implantable venous access devices (ports) are widely used, especially for cancer chemotherapy. Although their use has been associated with upper extremity deep venous thrombosis, the risk factors of upper extremity deep venous thrombosis in patients with a port are not studied adequately. METHODS:Th...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Tabatabaie O,Kasumova GG,Kent TS,Eskander MF,Fadayomi AB,Ng SC,Critchlow JF,Tawa NE,Tseng JF

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty patients with recurrent ulcers after vagotomy were treated by partial gastrectomy without revagotomy. One patient died after surgery. Seven others died of unrelated causes and one patient was lost to follow-up before 5 years, without rerecurrence having been diagnosed. Of the remaining 51 patients, one underwent...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Hoffmann J,Shokouh-Amiri MH,Klarskov P,Madsen OG,Jensen HE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported on a patient with isolated metachronous renal artery emboli. The second embolus was treated successfully surgically 12 hours after the onset of symptoms. A review of the literature shows that emboli to the renal arteries occur more frequently than realized and that late embolectomy often is successful...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Patel HD,Harris J

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since there appears to be an association between depressed lymphocyte function and liver disease, the effect of bile salts on lymphocyte function was determined in vitro. Peripheral lymphocytes from normal volunteers were incubated with varying concentrations of three bile salts (chenodeoxycholate, deoxycholate, or ur...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Keane RM,Gadacz TR,Munster AM,Birmingham W,Winchurch RA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small intestinal submucosa (SIS) represents a novel bio-scaffolding material that may be used to repair hollow-organ defects. However, it is unclear whether neurophysiologic responses return to SIS-grafted areas in the gut. We evaluated the functional recovery of a stomach defect grafted with the porcine-der...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Ueno T,de la Fuente SG,Abdel-Wahab OI,Takahashi T,Gottfried M,Harris MB,Tatewaki M,Uemura K,Lawson DC,Mantyh CR,Pappas TN

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our previous work classified a taxonomy of suturing gestures during a vesicourethral anastomosis of robotic radical prostatectomy in association with tissue tears and patient outcomes. Herein, we train deep learning-based computer vision to automate the identification and classification of suturing gestures ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Luongo F,Hakim R,Nguyen JH,Anandkumar A,Hung AJ

更新日期：2020-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The effect of the time interval between colorectal and liver resection for metastatic lesions on the patient's survival remains controversial. Pretreatment classification for predicting the prognosis of this disease has not yet been reported. METHODS:Nine clinical factors revealed by preoperative examinatio...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sugawara Y,Yamamoto J,Yamasaki S,Shimada K,Kosuge T,Makuuchi M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minority-serving hospitals have greater readmission rates after operative procedures including colectomy; however, little is known about the contribution of hospital factors to readmission risk and mortality in this setting. This study evaluated the impact of hospital factors on readmissions and inpatient mo...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Hechenbleikner EM,Zheng C,Lawrence S,Hong Y,Shara NM,Johnson LB,Al-Refaie WB

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma peptide YY (PYY) levels rise after a meal and have recently been shown to increase small bowel-absorption. The purpose of this study was to determine whether immunoneutralization of PYY would block postprandial absorption in vivo. METHODS:Exteriorized, neurovascularly intact jejunal and ileal segment...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Bilchik AJ,Hines OJ,Ashley SW,Adrian TE,Walsh J,Wong H,Liu CD,Zinner MJ,McFadden DW

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:We hypothesized that most contralateral breast cancers (CBCs) develop ≥5 years after the primary breast cancer (PBC) and that CBCs have more favorable tumor characteristics. METHODS:This is a single-institution retrospective review of 323 patients who were diagnosed with CBC from 1990 to 2014. CBCs were d...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Liederbach E,Piro R,Hughes K,Watkin R,Wang CH,Yao K

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study compares the effects of carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum versus laparotomy on cellular-mediated immune response in a murine model. METHODS:Sixty-eight female C3H/He mice were sensitized to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) and to a mouse mammary carcinoma cell line (MC2) before surgery. Animals were...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Gitzelmann CA,Mendoza-Sagaon M,Talamini MA,Ahmad SA,Pegoli W Jr,Paidas CN

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serologic and anthropometric measures are commonly used as surrogate markers of nutritional status in clinical practice. In 2012, leading dietetic organizations published a standard definition of malnutrition based on clinical characteristics. We hypothesize that surrogate markers underrecognize clinical mal...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Portuondo JI,Probstfeld L,Massarweh NN,Le L,Wei Q,Chai CY,Taylor J,Awad SS,Tran Cao HS

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00