Transferrin level derived from total iron-binding capacity: is it a reliable relationship?

abstract：:We devised a new technique to increase the safety of pancreaticojejunostomy in patients with an extended operation for pancreatic cancer. This new pancreaticojejunostomy was created by end-to-side anastomosis with four layers about 7 cm distal to the jejunal stump. The cut surface of the pancreas was placed on the ser...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hiraoka T,Kanemitsu K,Tsuji T,Saitoh N,Takamori H,Akamine T,Miyauchi Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine completion imaging after carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has been advocated by many investigators to detect and repair unsuspected defects with the goal of reducing perioperative morbidity and residual disease. However, completion imaging has been performed rarely in our practice. Our carotid registry w...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ricotta JJ,O'Brien-Irr MS

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven pairs of rats were simultaneously infused with a chemically formulated nutritionally complete amino acid-glucose diet which was delivered, at the same rate, into a central vein or into a feeding gastrostomy. The intragastrically infused rats showed greater weight gain than did the intravenously infused rats. Thi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Lickley HL,Track NS,Vranic M,Bury KD

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

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 reco...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Lau WF,Lam KH,Wei WI

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who have undergone recent abdominal surgery and have generalized obliterative adhesions provide a major management problem if they require urgent ileostomy for sepsis or fistulization, particularly when there is an associated abdominal wall defect. This report describes a technique for creating an ileostomy t...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Delaney CP,Fazio VW

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two cirrhotic patients who underwent hepatic resection from July 1989 to March 1991 at Vancouver General Hospital were analyzed prospectively in order to determine whether there was any preoperative evaluation of liver function that would help identify those patients who would not survive hepatic resection. Pat...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hemming AW,Scudamore CH,Shackleton CR,Pudek M,Erb SR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preoperative embolization of highly vascular soft tissue tumors was performed in four patients. Selective catheterization of branch vessels supplying the tumors successfully avoided inadvertent embolization of adjacent normal tissue. Operative blood loss was significantly less than anticipated, permitting an easier, m...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Kadir S,Ernst CB,Hamper U,White RI Jr

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rectopexy is one of the accepted treatment options for full-thickness rectal prolapse, but the details of the technique remain controversial. This unit has adopted a laparoscopic approach as an alternative to open surgery, and has used three techniques: mesh, suture, and resection. This retrospective study c...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Benoist S,Taffinder N,Gould S,Chang A,Darzi A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of cholelithiasis, steatorrhea, diabetes mellitus, and a pancreatic tumor initiated a diagnostic workup for somatostatinoma in a 43 year old black woman. The hypothesis of somatostatinoma was supported by a high level of plasma-like immunoreactivity and secretory granules resembling D-cell granules by ele...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Kelly TR

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a random double-blind trial monitored by 125I-fibrinogen leg scan, impedance plethysmography, and contrast phleobograms if impedance became abnormal, hydroxycholoroquine was shown to be no more effective than placebo for prevention of venous thrombosis after total hip replacement. Subsequently, the combination of h...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hume M,Bierbaum B,Kuriakose TX,Surprenant J

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accuracy of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) and contribution to surgical decision making in recurrent or metastatic colorectal cancer were evaluated. METHODS:One hundred whole-body PET tests in colorectal cancer patients (1994 to 1998) were compared with computed tomography (...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Staib L,Schirrmeister H,Reske SN,Beger HG

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our experience with 184 previously untreated patients who had adenoid cystic carcinoma of salivary gland origin is reviewed. Retrospective staging was possible in all but nine patients who had minor salivary gland primary tumors. Sixty-three percent of patients were diagnosed as having stage I or stage II disease (sta...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Spiro RH,Huvos AG

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty extrathoracic operations in twenty-six patients with occlusive disease involving the primary branches of the aortic arch were reviewed. Spanning a fourteen year experience, these operations included carotid-subclavian artery bypass, retrograde common carotid artery thrombectomy, carotid-carotid artery bypass, a...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Moore WS,Malone JM,Goldstone J

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Standard two-dimensional (2D) specimen radiography may guide intraoperative re-excision of margins in patients undergoing breast conserving surgery. We sought to determine the impact of three-dimensional (3D) specimen imaging in further reducing positive margin rates. METHODS:A prospective study of 100 pati...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Chagpar AB,Butler M,Killelea BK,Horowitz NR,Stavris K,Lannin DR

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last 100 years, since César Roux began utilizing his "Ansa-en-Y" procedure for gastric outlet obstruction, the procedure at first fell into disuse but was later adapted for other applications. This article discusses the background of the procedure and compares the original indications with the author's curr...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Mason GR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A breast cancer synoptic operative report was developed using a modified Delphi process METHODS: Data from the British Columbia Cancer Breast Cancer Outcomes Unit (BCOU) was used to analyze the association between the completion of a synoptic operative report and reporting of operative details and The Amer...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Liu C,Cheifetz R,Brown C,Nichol A,Speers C,Lohrisch C,McKevitt E

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vertical banded gastroplasty creates a channel by two applications of the TA-90 stapler from an end-to-end anastomosis window above the crow's foot to the angle of His, against a 32 F. tube along the lesser curvature. The caudad end of the channel is restricted by a 5 cm collar. Thirty-one obese patients more than 45 ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Deitel M,Khanna RK,Hagen J,Ilves R

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We hypothesized that early use of external mechanical compression (EMC) reduces hemorrhage and mortality associated with pelvic fractures. METHODS:Patients with pelvic fractures and one of the following risk factors for hemorrhage were studied retrospectively: (1) unstable fracture pattern, or (2) any fract...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ghaemmaghami V,Sperry J,Gunst M,Friese R,Starr A,Frankel H,Gentilello LM,Shafi S

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In a time of increasing specialization, academic training institutions provide a compartmentalized learning environment that often does not reflect the broad clinical experience of general surgery practice. This study aimed to evaluate the contribution of the Veterans Affairs (VA) general surgery surgical ex...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Poteet S,Tarpley M,Tarpley JL,Pearson AS

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The few series of synchronous lung cancers have included small cell and carcinoid tumors. We wished to determine the prognosis for patients with synchronous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS:A database of 3034 lung cancer patients was reviewed for synchronous NSCLC. Survival was determined by Ka...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Pommier RF,Vetto JT,Lee JT,Johnston KM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its own inherent morbidity, the pain associated with chronic wounds presents a primary obstacle to healing. To initiate safe and effective therapy, we used a multidisciplinary approach that required the wound-healing clinician and pain-management practitioner to work together to diagnose and treat the p...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Freedman G,Entero H,Brem H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous pneumothorax is rare among Nigerians, but our experience with olive oil confirms its advantages as a good agent for chemical pleurodesis. Clinical and supporting experimental data from rabbits are presented. In high risk patients with poor respiratory reserve, including some who have bronchopleural fistula...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ofoegbu RO

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of preoperative irradiation on the healing of low colorectal anastomoses was studied experimentally. In 12 dogs in whom preoperative irradiation of 4,000 rads was given before low colorectal stapled anastomosis was performed, anastomotic leakage occurred in 66 percent. More than half of the anastomotic leak...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Morgenstern L,Sanders G,Wahlstrom E,Yadegar J,Amodeo P

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to assess the impact of previous abdominal surgery (PAS) on single-port laparoscopic colectomy (SPLC). METHODS:We studied 429 consecutive patients who underwent SPLC in our department from May 2009 to December 2013. Patients were divided into 2 groups: those with PAS (PAS group) an...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Tei M,Wakasugi M,Omori T,Ueshima S,Tori M,Akamatsu H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few data exist regarding surveillance for multiple primary melanoma (MPM) in elderly patients or whether the incidence and risk factors are the same as for younger patients. Thus, we studied the frequency and characteristics of MPM in the elderly melanoma patients. METHODS:From our prospective melanoma regi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Krajewski AC,Hart DR,Hieken TJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a large single-center prospective randomized controlled study to assess the role of peritoneal drainage in simple elective cholecystectomy. In 248 patients, drains were omitted; 122 patients had closed suction drains and 124 had Penrose drains. There were no deaths, and no patient required reoperation or ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Lewis RT,Goodall RG,Marien B,Park M,Lloyd-Smith W,Wiegand FM

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen operations were performed in 13 patients with total carotid artery occlusion. All patients had symptoms ranging in duration from a few hours to several months. Flow wa reestablished in 10 of the 14 arteries operated on, a success rate of 74 percent. Complication included one operative death and one permanent ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hunt DG,Wheeler CG,Bukhari HI,Hempel GK

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presentation, surgical management, and clinical outcome in 153 patients with biliary pancreatitis has been reviewed. Only 37 percent of our patients demonstrated any of Ranson's 11 prognostic signs of severe pancreatitis, and only 3 percent had 3 or more signs. Fourteen patients underwent emergency operation withi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Frei GJ,Frei VT,Thirlby RC,McClelland RN

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successfully treated case of a duodenal hamartoma is presented. A review of the literature has shown that this is the largest such tumor so far described, and the first time a mass was palpable on abdominal examination. Its large size resulted in pyloric obstruction, and its wide attachment to the duodenum necessita...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： de Silva S,Chandrasoma P

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined and compared APP versus surgical resident perceptions of the role of APPs in surgical subspecialty teams. METHODS:Residents/first year surgical critical care fellows and inpatient service-specific APPs responded to a survey that examined perceptions about the APP-resident/fellow relationship. St...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Eaton B,Hessler L,O'Meara L,Herrera A,Tesoriero R,Diaz J,Bruns B

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00