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abstract：:Serious complications of local venous hypertension occur rarely in the upper extremity. These are most frequently the result of a dysfunctional arteriovenous fistula and may produce changes indistinguishable from those of chronic lower-extremity venous insufficiency. A combination of arterial and venous contrast imagi...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Davis RP,Lipsig LJ,Connolly MM,Flinn WR

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term follow-up of heart, liver, and lung transplantation has led to an increased recognition of secondary end-stage renal failure (ESRF) in transplant recipients. This study examines our center's experience with renal transplantation following previous solid organ transplantation. METHODS:From January ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Coopersmith CM,Brennan DC,Miller B,Wang C,Hmiel P,Shenoy S,Ramachandran V,Jendrisak MD,Ceriotti CS,Mohanakumar T,Lowell JA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognostic role of lymph node metastases in well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma remains controversial. We investigated impact of lymph node involvement on survival in patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer. METHODS:We queried the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry for patie...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Zaydfudim V,Feurer ID,Griffin MR,Phay JE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The experience at Loyola University Chicago was retrospectively reviewed to evaluate survival and functional outcome after single lung transplantation (SLT) and bilateral lung transplantation (BLT). METHODS:Ninety patients underwent lung transplantation at Loyola University Chicago between April 1990 and De...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Montoya A,Mawulawde K,Houck J,Sullivan H,Lonchyna V,Blakeman B,Hinkamp T,Garrity E,Pifarre R

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A follow-up study was conducted to evaluate the late results of the operation that we have performed for ulcerative colitis and polyposis during the past 25 years. METHODS:Sixty-seven consecutive patients less than 21 years of age who underwent a standard operation for ulcerative colitis or polyposis perfor...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Martin LW,Warner BW,Brockmeier M

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vocal cord paralysis is associated with extrathyroidal invasive malignancy. This study was performed to analyze the presentation of patients with invasive thyroid malignancy and to determine the preoperative symptomatic and radiographic correlates of vocal cord paralysis. METHODS:In a group of 365 consecuti...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Randolph GW,Kamani D

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) and its associated abnormalities in mineral metabolism increase the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and death in chronic renal failure (CRF). The effect of parathyroidectomy (PTX) on the incidence of major cardiovascular events in CRF patients with SHPT is unknown. We te...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Costa-Hong V,Jorgetti V,Gowdak LH,Moyses RM,Krieger EM,De Lima JJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sudden massive release of serotonin, histamine, kallikrein, and bradykinin is postulated to cause an intraoperative carcinoid crisis. The exact roles of each of these possible agents, however, remain unknown. Optimal treatment will require an improved understanding of the pathophysiology of the carcinoid cri...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Condron ME,Jameson NE,Limbach KE,Bingham AE,Sera VA,Anderson RB,Schenning KJ,Yockelson S,Harukuni I,Kahl EA,Dewey E,Pommier SJ,Pommier RF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With increasing pressure to optimize the utilization of hospital resources, it is important to identify patients who may have prolonged hospital length of stay (LOS). The purpose of this report was to identify the preoperative variables that are predictive of prolonged postoperative hospital LOS for patients...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kalman PG,Johnston KW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy is a valid therapeutic option for pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms. The aim of this study was to describe an initial experience with the use of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy as a neoadjuvant agent for resectable or potentially resectable pancreatic neuroendocr...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Partelli S,Bertani E,Bartolomei M,Perali C,Muffatti F,Grana CM,Schiavo Lena M,Doglioni C,Crippa S,Fazio N,Zamboni G,Falconi M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local low-dose streptokinase infusion (5000 to 6000 IU/hr) as compared to systemic streptokinase infusion (loading dose 250,000 IU/hr, maintenance dose 100,000 IU/hr) successfully relieved a total thrombotic abdominal aortic occlusion. No complications of bleeding or distal embolization occurred during streptokinase t...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Cunningham MW,May S,Tucker WY,Gerlock AJ Jr

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to clarify whether the types of portal vein (PV) occlusion during hepatectomy affect the long-term outcome in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:Eighty-six patients who had undergone curative hepatic resection for HCC were divided on the basis of the type of PV o...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Makino I,Chijiiwa K,Kondo K,Ohuchida J,Kai M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Routine, whole-body computed tomography imaging (PAN-SCAN) has been shown to identify unexpected injuries and alter the management of patients presenting with blunt trauma. We sought to characterize the changes in practice over time and the utility of PAN-SCAN imaging in elderly patients who fall and requi...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Dwyer CR,Scifres AM,Stahlfeld KR,Corcos AC,Ziembicki JA,Summers JI,Peitzman AB,Billiar TR,Sperry JL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients undergoing ventral hernia repair (VHR) are at risk of an inadvertent enterotomy during surgery. Inadvertent enterotomies potentially contaminate the surgical field presenting a management dilemma for the surgeon. The aim of our study was to define the incidence and risk factors for a recognized inad...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Krpata DM,Prabhu AS,Tastaldi L,Huang LC,Rosen MJ,Poulose BK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activated factor X (FXa) is involved in hemostasis, thrombogenesis, inflammation, and cellular immune response. Tissue factor (TF) is an initiator of blood coagulation. We investigated whether FXa induces TF expression in human peripheral monocytes and whether treatment with FXa inhibitor reduces TF expressi...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Akahane K,Okamoto K,Kikuchi M,Todoroki H,Higure A,Ohuchida T,Kitahara K,Takeda S,Itoh H,Ohsato K

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autophagy is a conserved response to stress that facilitates cell survival in some contexts and promotes cell death in others. We sought to characterize autophagy in papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), and to determine the effects of autophagy inhibition on chemosensitivity and radiosensitivity. METHODS:The hum...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Lin CI,Whang EE,Abramson MA,Jiang X,Price BD,Donner DB,Moore FD Jr,Ruan DT

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measuring patient work of breathing (WOBpt) has been suggested to provide safe, aggressive weaning from mechanical ventilation. We compared WOBpt and pressure-time-product (PTP) to routine weaning parameters [breath rate (f), tidal volume (VT), frequency/tidal volume ratio (f/VT)] at different levels of pres...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Johannigman JA,Davis K Jr,Campbell RS,Branson RD,Luchette FA,Hurst JM

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung injury is a life-threatening complication in patients with liver dysfunction. We recently provided an experimental lung injury model in mouse with common bile duct ligation. In this study, we aimed to characterize the pathologic and biochemical features of lung tissues in common bile duct ligation mice ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sakaue T,Shikata F,Utsunomiya K,Fukae S,Kurata M,Nakaoka H,Okazaki M,Kawanishi Y,Kojima A,Higashiyama S,Izutani H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that the timing of surgical removal of an estrogen-receptor-bearing mammary adenocarcinoma within the estrous cycle of the female C3HeB/FeJ mouse profoundly influences the frequency of subsequent tumor cell metastasis. In order to investigate the role of the immune response in this phenomenon,...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Gruber SA,Hoffman RA,Sothern RB,Lakatua D,Carlson A,Simmons RL,Hrushesky WJ

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:T cells that receive T-cell antigen receptor signals but do not undergo mitosis become unresponsive to subsequent antigenic stimulation. This can be achieved by antigen presentation to T cells in the absence of critical costimulatory signals from antigen-presenting cells (APC) or in the presence of the antip...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Granger DK,Matas AJ,Jenkins MK,Moss AA,Chen SC,Almond PS

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid intraoperative parathyroid hormone (RI-PTH) assay is used to guide adequacy of resection during operation for hyperparathyroidism. We compared the RI-PTH assay (15 minutes) with a standard PTH assay, determined whether the PTH half-life varied between patients, and constructed a kinetic analysis of the...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Libutti SK,Alexander HR,Bartlett DL,Sampson ML,Ruddel ME,Skarulis M,Marx SJ,Spiegel AM,Simmonds W,Remaley AT

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to establish the clinical and pathologic aspects of 3 atypical lipomatous lesions in the region of the adrenal gland. METHODS:Three young Chinese patients (ages 18, 18, and 37 years) were seen for nonspecific back pain. Radiologic examination revealed a lipomatous lesion in the reg...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Lam KY,Lo CY

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Lombardy region suffered severely during the acute phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak in Italy (Mar-Apr 2020) with 16,000 diagnosed coronavirus disease 2019-related deaths (49% of the total coronavirus disease 2019-related deaths in Italy). In the area surrounding Pavia during the critical st...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Bozzani A,Arici V,Tavazzi G,Franciscone MM,Danesino V,Rota M,Rossini R,Sterpetti AV,Ticozzelli G,Rumi E,Mojoli F,Bruno R,Ragni F

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of the topical application of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent, flurbiprofen, on postburn hypermetabolism and systemic lipid peroxidation. Twelve sheep with a 15% total body surface third-degree burn were monitored over a 4-day postburn period. In six sheep, a single application of a 5% f...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： LaLonde C,Knox J,Daryani R,Zhu DG,Demling RH,Neumann M

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-dose tacrolimus (FK506) monotherapy has significantly prolonged rat hindlimb allograft survival. With an eye toward direct clinical application, we used a large-animal extremity composite tissue allograft model to assess the antirejection efficacy and systemic toxicity of combination FK506-mycophenolate...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Jones JW Jr,Ustüner ET,Zdichavsky M,Edelstein J,Ren X,Maldonado C,Ray M,Jevans AW,Breidenbach WC,Gruber SA,Barker JH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The proportion of positive among examined lymph nodes (lymph node ratio [LNR]) has been recently proposed as an useful and easy-to-calculate prognostic factor for patients with cutaneous melanoma. However, its independence from the standard prognostic system TNM has not been formally proven in a large series...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Mocellin S,Pasquali S,Rossi CR,Nitti D

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acupuncture is a safe and well-tolerated treatment for pain relief. Previous studies supported the effectiveness of several acupuncture techniques for postoperative pain. The aim of this randomized, controlled trial was to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture in reducing pain after thyroid surgery. METHODS:...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Iacobone M,Citton M,Zanella S,Scarpa M,Pagura G,Tropea S,Galligioni H,Ceccherelli F,Feltracco P,Viel G,Nitti D

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Consortium of American College of Surgeons-Accredited Education Institutes was created to explore new opportunities in simulation-based surgical education and training beyond the scope of individual accredited institutes. During the Third Annual Meeting of the Consortium of American College of Surgeons-Accredited ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Scott DJ,Pugh CM,Ritter EM,Jacobs LM,Pellegrini CA,Sachdeva AK

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study reports national estimates of population characteristics and outcomes for patients with esophageal atresia with or without tracheoesophageal fistula (EA/TEF) and evaluates the relationships between hospital volume and outcomes. METHODS:Patients admitted within 30 days of life who had Internationa...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sulkowski JP,Cooper JN,Lopez JJ,Jadcherla Y,Cuenot A,Mattei P,Deans KJ,Minneci PC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since November 1992, operative repair in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) at this institution was delayed until respiratory insufficiency had resolved. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was performed (n = 33) comparing delayed repair with our previously reported institutional experience wi...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Reickert CA,Hirschl RB,Schumacher R,Geiger JD,Cox C,Teitelbaum DH,Polley TZ Jr,Harmon CM,Lelli JL,Coran AG

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00