The importance of preoperative laryngoscopy in patients undergoing thyroidectomy: voice, vocal cord function, and the preoperative detection of invasive thyroid malignancy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggressive screening for blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) and prompt anticoagulation for documented injuries has resulted in a significant reduction in ischemic neurologic events. An association between vertebral artery injuries (VAIs) and specific cervical spine fracture patterns has been suggested; howe...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Cothren CC,Moore EE,Ray CE Jr,Johnson JL,Moore JB,Burch JM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the years, several modifications of the Scopinaro biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) have been proposed. This retrospective study reported the results of 15 years of follow-up after open BPD coupled with a type of transient gastroplasty (TG) and duodenal switch (DS), termed BPD-TG with DS. METHODS:Data we...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Pata G,Crea N,Di Betta E,Bruni O,Vassallo C,Mittempergher F

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The splanchnic and total body oxygen exchange and flow dynamics for injured patients (n = 7) and patients with sepsis and stable vital signs (n = 12) were studied. All patients were judged to be in the hyperdynamic phase of the stress response. In both patient groups 27% to 28% of the cardiac index was directed to the...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Dahn MS,Lange P,Lobdell K,Hans B,Jacobs LA,Mitchell RA

更新日期：1987-01-01 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:A pathologic complete response (pCR) can be observed in up to 25% of patients after preoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer and is associated with an improved long-term prognosis. However, few data are available regarding the effect of pCR on postoperative morbidity. This study aimed to assess the i...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Maggiori L,Bretagnol F,Aslam MI,Guedj N,Zappa M,Ferron M,Panis Y

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current systemic immunosuppressive regimens are unable to prevent lung allograft rejection consistently and are associated with significant morbidity and death. Acute rejection has occurred in 40% and chronic rejection in 50% of our lung recipients. We hypothesized that regional immunotherapy with aerosolized cyclospo...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Dowling RD,Zenati M,Burckart GJ,Yousem SA,Schaper M,Simmons RL,Hardesty RL,Griffith BP

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neointima formation after human saphenous vein grafting (hSVG) involves several matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMPs). This study assessed the feasibility of modulating MMP activity in hSVGs by adenovirus-mediated gene transfer. METHODS:First, 1 x 10(9) plaque-forming units (p...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Fernandez HA,Kallenbach K,Seghezzi G,Mehrara B,Apazidis A,Baumann FG,Grossi EA,Colvin S,Mignatti P,Galloway AC

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A left hepatic graft in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) often has 2 thin and short hepatic arterial stumps, which makes hepatic artery (HA) reconstructions much more difficult to perform. Consequently, some investigators regard using a left graft as a contraindication to LDLT, whereas others report...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Uchiyama H,Harada N,Sanefuji K,Kayashima H,Taketomi A,Soejima Y,Ikegami T,Shimada M,Maehara Y

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compares the National Board of Medical Examiners Part II (NBME II) subtest scores of medical students attaining honors in a clinical clerkship to those of students receiving a passing score to determine if the NBME II examinations could be considered independently as valid indicators of clinical achievement...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Benenson TF,Stimmel B,Aufses A Jr

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic ultrasound (LUS) is a method of intraoperative bile duct imaging that can be used prior to any potentially hazardous dissection. The purpose of this study was to determine whether LUS could permit safe laparoscopic completion of difficult cholecystectomy (LC) cases and to assess whether its use ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Gwinn EC,Daly S,Deziel DJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Splenocaval shunts have been used in this hospital since 1974 as an alternative to the distal splenorenal shunt. This report will detail the long-term results with this operation. METHODS:Thirty-three patients who were subjected to selective splenocaval shunts for treatment of hemorrhagic portal hypertensio...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Orozco H,Mercado MA,Takahashi T,Capellan F,Rojas G,Chan C

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Somatostatin analogues inhibit peptide release and cell growth through multiple postreceptor signal transduction mechanisms (PRSTM), including G proteins (GP), cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), calcium, protein kinase C (PKC), and tyrosine phosphatase (TP). Octreotide acetate (OA), a somatostatin analog...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Patel PC,Barrie R,Hill N,Landeck S,Kurozawa D,Woltering EA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of dying from primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) is controversial and has been explored mainly in single parathyroid gland disease. The present study investigates mortality in pHPT due to multiple parathyroid gland disease. METHODS:We used the nationwide Swedish In-patient Register and Cause-of-Dea...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Nilsson IL,Wadsten C,Brandt L,Rastad J,Ekbom A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the normal resolution of an acute inflammatory response, neutrophil (PMN) apoptosis is essential to maintain immune homeostasis and to limit inappropriate host tissue damage. A delay in PMN apoptosis has been implicated in the pathogenesis of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). Dopamine, ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sookhai S,Wang JH,McCourt M,O'Connell D,Redmond HP

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diaphragm pacing (DP) can replace mechanical ventilation in tetraplegics and in trials has assisted respiration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. This report describes results of DP in patients with cardiac pacemakers. METHODS:Prospective, single-center and multicenter, nonrandomized, controlled, i...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Onders RP,Khansarinia S,Weiser T,Chin C,Hungness E,Soper N,Dehoyos A,Cole T,Ducko C

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to identify factors in primary tumors that would predict liver metastases, we retrospectively reviewed 102 patients with gastric cancer, and their tissue blocks were restained. New staining methods for elastin and endothelium were used to identify intratumoral vessels. Blood vessel invasion, thus detected...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Noguchi Y

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although there is a large body of published data demonstrating improved outcomes for complex operations when performed by high-volume surgeons at high-volume hospitals, the literature is mixed regarding whether this same relationship applies in less complex and more common surgeries such as laparoscopic chol...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Abelson JS,Spiegel JD,Afaneh C,Mao J,Sedrakyan A,Yeo HL

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found mentions of 581 resections of hilar bile duct cancer in the literature to January 1989. Resection in 499 patients, reported or updated since 1980, resulted in an operative mortality of 12% and a 5-year survival rate of 13%. Resections confined to the hepatic duct confluence or extended to the quadrate lobe le...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Boerma EJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Physical and psychosocial morbidity of multiple endocrine neoplasia type-1 is ill-defined. How disease and treatment-related factors relate to patient-reported outcomes including health-related quality of life is unknown. We hypothesized that disease and treatment burden negatively impacts health-related qua...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Goswami S,Peipert BJ,Helenowski I,Yount SE,Sturgeon C

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study sought to determine whether a protective diverting ileostomy improves short-term outcomes in patients with rectal resection and colonic J-pouch reconstruction for low anastomoses. Criteria for the use of a proximal stoma in rectal resections with colonic J-pouch reconstruction have not been define...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Mrak K,Uranitsch S,Pedross F,Heuberger A,Klingler A,Jagoditsch M,Weihs D,Eberl T,Tschmelitsch J

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cyclosporine causes intrarenal vasoconstriction, which may account for its nephrotoxic side effects. Plasma levels of the vasoconstrictor peptide endothelin-1 are increased after cyclosporine administration, and endothelin-1 has been shown to cause renal vasoconstriction. In this study we used in vivo micros...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Bloom IT,Bentley FR,Garrison RN

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial translocation has been implicated in the alteration of the immune response after shock and trauma. This study examined the effect of bacterial translocation on myelopoiesis after hemorrhagic shock in germ-free and conventional rats. METHODS:Awake, unrestrained germ-free and conventional rats were ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Livingston DH,Wang MT,Hsieh J,Murphy TF,Rush BF Jr

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Restorative proctocolectomy (RP) has been the surgical procedure of choice for surgical management of mucosal ulcerative colitis since 1978. This study was undertaken to investigate the clinical presentation and implications of portal vein thrombi (PVT). METHODS:We reviewed all patients undergoing RP in our...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Remzi FH,Fazio VW,Oncel M,Baker ME,Church JM,Ooi BS,Connor JT,Preen M,Einstein D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention of ischemic bowel complications following abdominal aortic reconstruction requires identification of the patient at high risk for developing the complication; on precise, gentle, meticulous operative technique; on knowledge of bowel blood supply; on determining when the IMA must be reconstructed or when it ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Ernst CB

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the past 14 years, we have been performing laparoscopic adrenalectomy via the lateral transabdominal as well as the posterior retroperitoneal approach. The aim of this study is to describe patient selection criteria for each approach with comparison of perioperative outcomes. METHODS:In patients with sm...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Berber E,Tellioglu G,Harvey A,Mitchell J,Milas M,Siperstein A

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative effects of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection on morbidity and mortality rates were examined in 320 renal transplant cases. With the use of virus cultures and CMV antibody measurements, all patients were studied, regardless of symptoms, from a time before transplantation to at least 1 year, 11 months aft...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Marker SC,Howard RJ,Simmons RL,Kalis JM,Connelly DP,Najarian JS,Balfour HH Jr

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carcinoid tumors of the duodenum are rare, and their natural history has not been defined. Consequently, there is no consensus on the optimal extent of surgical treatment. METHODS:The authors reviewed the records of all patients with primary carcinoid tumors of the duodenum treated at their institution from...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Mullen JT,Wang H,Yao JC,Lee JH,Perrier ND,Pisters PW,Lee JE,Evans DB

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Systemic hyperfibrinolysis (accelerated clot degradation) and fibrinolysis shutdown (impaired clot degradation) are associated with increased mortality compared with physiologic fibrinolysis after trauma. Animal models have not reproduced these changes. We hypothesize rodents have a shutdown phenotype that...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Moore HB,Moore EE,Lawson PJ,Gonzalez E,Fragoso M,Morton AP,Gamboni F,Chapman MP,Sauaia A,Banerjee A,Silliman CC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are solid, approximately 10% are cystic. Some studies have suggested that cystic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are associated with a more favorable prognosis. METHODS:A retrospective review of all patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors who underwent ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Cloyd JM,Kopecky KE,Norton JA,Kunz PL,Fisher GA,Visser BC,Dua MM,Park WG,Poultsides GA

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of this study were to determine whether ectopic pacemakers are present after meals in the Roux limbs of dogs after vagotomy and Roux gastrectomy, whether these pacemakers slow gastric emptying of liquids or solids, and whether abolishing the pacemakers with electric pacing might speed any slow emptying that o...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Karlstrom L,Kelly KA

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00