Abstract:
:Between 1982 and 1985, 83 patients with hypopharyngeal or extensive laryngeal cancers underwent pharyngoesophagectomy (48 patients), circumferential pharyngectomy (8 patients), and partial pharyngectomy (27 patients), depending on the site and extent of tumor involvement. The resultant hypopharyngeal defects were reconstructed with gastric transposition, a tubed pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, and a pectoralis major flap patch, respectively. There were three hospital deaths in the gastric transposition group (6 percent) and none in both pectoralis major flap groups. The leakage rate was 8.3 percent in the gastric transposition group, 25 percent in the tubed pectoralis major flap group, and 3.7 percent in the pectoralis major flap patch group. Stricture was avoided with the interdigitation technique used at the tubed-flap-to-esophagus anastomosis, although the fistula rate was high. The overall complication rate was higher with gastric transposition. Although swallowing was satisfactory in all three groups, 42 percent of the patients with gastric transposition experienced regurgitation. Over a follow-up period of 16 to 50 months the local recurrence rate was 5 percent, and the actuarial survival rate was 55 percent at 24 months.
journal_name
Am J Surgjournal_title
American journal of surgeryauthors
Lau WF,Lam KH,Wei WIdoi
10.1016/0002-9610(89)90007-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1987-10-01 00:00:00pages
374-80issue
4eissn
0002-9610issn
1879-1883pii
0002-9610(89)90007-Xjournal_volume
154pub_type
杂志文章abstract:BACKGROUND:Bloodstream infections in critically ill patients are associated with mortality as high as 60% and a prolonged hospital stay. We evaluated the impact of inappropriate antibiotic therapy (IAAT) in a critically ill surgical cohort with bacteremia. METHODS:This retrospective study evaluated adults with intensi...
journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2015.10.025
更新日期:2016-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-9610(83)90187-3
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.11.014
更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
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doi:10.1016/s0002-9610(01)00820-0
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
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更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.06.036
更新日期:2011-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.01.006
更新日期:2012-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type:
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2010.05.009
更新日期:2010-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2017-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0002-9610(88)80197-1
更新日期:1988-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.04.003
更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.12.035
更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00049-X
更新日期:1998-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0002-9610(97)00163-3
更新日期:1997-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0002-9610(05)80743-3
更新日期:1990-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2018.09.019
更新日期:2019-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/S0002-9610(96)00054-2
更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2004.06.018
更新日期:2004-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-9610(94)90092-2
更新日期:1994-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0002-9610(85)90006-6
更新日期:1985-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2001-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1975-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2006.08.050
更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1975-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2012.06.009
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2013.08.050
更新日期:2014-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.06.020
更新日期:2010-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American journal of surgery
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0002-9610(99)00162-2
更新日期:1999-09-01 00:00:00