Ethics of Codes and Codes of Ethics: When Is It Ethical to Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of the ultrasonic dissection (UC) compared with standard electrosurgery (ES) in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. BACKGROUND DATA:High-frequency ultrasound energy was introduced in laparoscopic surgery to improve dissection and coagulation. Very limited data have been publish...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Morino M,Rimonda R,Allaix ME,Giraudo G,Garrone C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the expression of the transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) in Barrett's epithelium and adenocarcinoma and the impact of NF-kappaB expression on tumor stage and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Progression of Barrett's esophagus ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Abdel-Latif MM,O'Riordan J,Windle HJ,Carton E,Ravi N,Kelleher D,Reynolds JV

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors evaluated the causal relationship between entrapment of the posterior tibial nerve and neuropathic pain and describe the results of nerve decompression in a selected group of patients with intractable pain. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Painful metabolic neuropathy has, until recently, been thought to ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wieman TJ,Patel VG

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to determine the prognostic impact of co-existence of APC and PIK3CA mutations in patients undergoing preoperative chemotherapy and resection for colorectal liver metastases (CLM). BACKGROUND:Co-occurring genetic events have been shown to drive carcinogenesis in multiple malignancies...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Yamashita S,Chun YS,Kopetz SE,Maru D,Conrad C,Aloia TA,Vauthey JN

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetus-in-fetu is an unusual cause of retroperitoneal abdominal mass in infants, which most likely arises from inclusion of a monozygotic, diamniotic twin. This entity is distinguished from teratoma by its embryological origin, its unusual location in the retroperitoneal space, its invariable benignity, and by the pres...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Grosfeld JL,Stepita DS,Nance WE,Palmer CG

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Factors that control pancreatic regenerating (reg I) gene expression are unknown, but it is believed that its expression may correspond with cellular differentiation. The authors recently demonstrated that reg I is expressed in AR42J, a rat acinar cell line whose state of differentiation can be...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Zenilman ME,Magnuson TH,Perfetti R,Chen J,Shuldiner AR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Using a prospective randomized study to assess postoperative morbidity and pancreatic function after pancreaticoduodenectomy with pancreaticojejunostomy and duct occlusion without pancreaticojejunostomy. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Postoperative complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy are largely due to leak...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Tran K,Van Eijck C,Di Carlo V,Hop WC,Zerbi A,Balzano G,Jeekel H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (PRRT) on somatostatin receptor (SSR)-transfected colon carcinoma cells in a rat liver metastases model. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Previously the authors have shown highly effective therapy with PRRT of SSR-positive tumors. This treatment is SSR-m...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Mearadji A,Breeman W,Hofland L,van Koetsveld P,Marquet R,Jeekel J,Krenning E,van Eijck C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors evaluated the morbidity, mortality, and quality of life after pancreatic debridement for necrosis and compared these values to those for quality of life after elective medical and surgical management for chronic pancreatitis. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Quality of life after pancreatic debridement fo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Broome AH,Eisen GM,Harland RC,Collins BH,Meyers WC,Pappas TN

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadaver kidneys remain a scarce resource, yet single pediatric donor kidneys are underutilized at some centers. Between 1967 and 1984, 133 single pediatric and 318 adult donor cadaver transplants were performed. Patient and graft survival, renal function, and complications in adult recipients grouped by donor age were...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wengerter K,Matas AJ,Tellis VA,Quinn T,Soberman R,Veith FJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 112 patients who underwent reoperation for primary hyperparathyroidism at the Massachusetts General Hospital between 1930 and 1975, all but 10 were treated successfully. Seventy-five initial explorations had been performed elsewhere, and 37 in our hospital. A total of 110 diseased parathyroids were unco...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wang CA

更新日期：1977-08-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To determine the rate and clinicopathologic factors predictive of sentinel lymph node (SLN) positivity, regional lymph node recurrence, and survival in a large series of patients with thin primary cutaneous melanoma who underwent SLN biopsy (SLNB). METHODS:Patients with thin (≤1 mm) melanomas who underwent ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Murali R,Haydu LE,Quinn MJ,Saw RP,Shannon K,Spillane AJ,Stretch JR,Thompson JF,Scolyer RA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of a laparoscopic approach on female fecundity in ileoanal pouch surgery. BACKGROUND:Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch anal anastomosis (IPAA) is associated with tubal factor infertility in female patients. Different studies showed less adhesion formation after laparoscopic co...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bartels SA,DʼHoore A,Cuesta MA,Bensdorp AJ,Lucas C,Bemelman WA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumors from approximately 50% of patients with breast cancer contained estrogen receptor (ER). ER appeared more often and at higher levels in the tumors of postmenopausal women. Eleven out of 12 patients who had multiple ER assays from various metastatic sites showed no significant discrepancies in ER values. ER l...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Singhakowinta A,Potter HG,Buroker TR,Samal B,Brooks SC,Vaitkevicius VK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study was to determine the long-term effect of the use of a hyaluronic acid-carboxymethylcellulose membrane (Seprafilm) on the incidence of adhesions and subsequent small-bowel obstruction and chronic abdominal complaints after colorectal surgery (Hartmann's procedure). BACKGROUND:Adhesi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： van der Wal JB,Iordens GI,Vrijland WW,van Veen RN,Lange J,Jeekel J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The primary objective was to compare overall survival (OS) in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) with nonresectable liver-only metastases treated by liver transplantation or chemotherapy. BACKGROUND:CRC is the third most common cancer worldwide. About 50% of patients will develop metastatic disease primar...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Dueland S,Guren TK,Hagness M,Glimelius B,Line PD,Pfeiffer P,Foss A,Tveit KM

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients were studied before and two to three days after major, uncomplicated abdominal operation. Muscle tissue was obtained by needle biopsy from m. quadriceps femoris after eight hours overnight fast. Plasma free amino acids were analyzed in simultaneously obtained samples. In the homogenized muscle samples th...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Vinnars E,Bergstöm J,Fürst P

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the role of recombinant bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (rBPI21) in the attenuation of the sepsis syndrome and acute lung injury associated with lower limb ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Gut-derived endotoxin has been implicated in the conversion of the...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Harkin DW,Barros D'Sa AA,McCallion K,Hoper M,Halliday MI,Campbell FC

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To follow up in prospective fashion patients with coronary artery anastomoses completed endoscopically with robotic assistance. The robotic system was evaluated for safety and its effectiveness in completing microsurgical coronary anastomoses. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Recently there has been an interest in us...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Prasad SM,Ducko CT,Stephenson ER,Chambers CE,Damiano RJ Jr

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if visceral blood flow was altered by thermal injury, effective renal blood flow (ERBF) was measured by para-aminohippurate clearance in five control subjects and 13 nonbacteremic burn patients (mean burn size: 50% total body surface, range: 24.5-83.5) 6-25 days after burn injury. Splanchnic blood flow (S...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Aulick LH,Goodwin CW Jr,Becker RA,Wilmore DW

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：:Study A included 30 patients who received immediate postoperative enteral feeding with a nonelemental diet. The nonelemental diet was well tolerated. Study patients rapidly achieved nitrogen equilibrium and had a cumulative nitrogen balance of -11.1 g verus -46.7 g for the control group. In part B, 16 patients with va...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fairfull-Smith R,Abunassar R,Freeman JB,Maroun JA

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin exists in a soluble form in plasma and in an insoluble form in tissues. Plasma fibronectin can modulate phagocytic function as well as incorporate into the tissue matrix where it is believed to influence microvascular integrity and tissue repair. The temporal alterations in plasma and lung lymph fibronecti...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cohler LF,Saba TM,Lewis EP

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-year survival after resection of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer is 25%. Although resection palliates some patients who do not live that long, 50% of patients so treated are not helped at all. Until ignorance of a cancer's real stage is resolved by improved techniques, the evaluation and choice of thera...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wagner JS,Adson MA,Van Heerden JA,Adson MH,Ilstrup DM

更新日期：1984-05-01 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：:This study examines the influence of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) compared with 5% dextrose (D5) infusion on skeletal muscle and adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity in nutritionally depleted, injured and infected patients. The plasma concentrations of glucose, free fatty acid (FFA), triglyceride and i...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Robin AP,Greenwood MR,Askanazi J,Elwyn DH,Kinney JM

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) after neoadjuvant chemoradiation and esophagectomy is associated with improved overall survival for patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer, and to evaluate how pathologic disease response to neoadjuvant treatment impacts this effect. BACKGROUND:Neoadj...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Burt BM,Groth SS,Sada YH,Farjah F,Cornwell L,Sugarbaker DJ,Massarweh NN

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current performance and applicability of elective hepatic resection represents an impressive evolution. From removal of tumor-bearing, ill-defined portions of the liver, which is always threatened by the inability to control bleeding, surgery of the liver has progressed to hemostatically controlled dissection of a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schwartz SI

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasms (MCNs) provide a spectrum of neoplastic changes ranging from benign to malignant. The authors have correlated K-ras mutations and p53 overexpression with the evolution of these tumors. METHODS:Areas of mild, moderate, or severe dysplasia were microdissected from paraffin-...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Jimenez RE,Warshaw AL,Z'graggen K,Hartwig W,Taylor DZ,Compton CC,Fernández-del Castillo C

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00