Studies of the modified venous allograft.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Compare outcomes of non-emergent laparoscopic to open colon surgery. BACKGROUND:Laparoscopy has revolutionized much of gastrointestinal surgery. Colon and rectal surgery has seen drastic changes with many of the abdominal operations being performed laparoscopically. However, data comparing recovery and compl...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kennedy GD,Heise C,Rajamanickam V,Harms B,Foley EF

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in particular, living donor liver transplant (LDLT) improves access to transplant. We report our results in 36 patients with HCC who underwent LDLT with a median follow-up >1 year. METHODS Underlying diagnoses included: hepatitis C (24), hepatitis B (9), cry...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gondolesi GE,Roayaie S,Muñoz L,Kim-Schluger L,Schiano T,Fishbein TM,Emre S,Miller CM,Schwartz ME

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Previous studies have suggested a variety of factors that may affect the false negative (FN) rate for sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy in breast cancer. Because FN results are relatively rare, no prior studies have had sufficient sample size to allow detailed statistical analysis of factors pred...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Martin RC 2nd,Chagpar A,Scoggins CR,Edwards MJ,Hagendoorn L,Stromberg AJ,McMasters KM,University of Louisville Breast Cancer Sentinel Lymph Node Study.

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of the English literature reveals a total of 1,337 patients with choledochal cysts. Improved diagnostic techniques to visualize the biliary system are demonstrating an increasing number of unsuspected choledochal cysts in adult patients. Either choledochal cysts remain clinically silent until adulthood or may...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Powell CS,Sawyers JL,Reynolds VH

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that training to expert-derived levels of speed and motion will lead to improved learning and will translate to better operating room (OR) performance of novices than training to goals of speed or motion alone. BACKGROUND:Motion tracking has been suggested to be a more sensitive performance m...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Stefanidis D,Yonce TC,Korndorffer JR Jr,Phillips R,Coker A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the modified Rossetti fundoplication with the classic Nissen. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The traditional surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux in children has been the classic Nissen fundoplication, defined by liver mobilization, crural repair, takedown of short gastric vessels, and floppy wr...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Levy MS,Sorrels CW,Wagner CW,Jackson RJ,Barnes RW,Smith SD

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess a new bloodless technique using radiofrequency energy for segmental liver resection of hepatic tumors. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Liver resection remains a formidable surgical procedure; safe performance requires a high level of training and skill. Intraoperative blood loss during liver resection rema...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Weber JC,Navarra G,Jiao LR,Nicholls JP,Jensen SL,Habib NA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the association between pre- and perioperative factors and pouch-related septic complications (PRSC) in ulcerative colitis (UC) and in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:For patients with UC and FAP, IPAA is the surgical therapy ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Heuschen UA,Hinz U,Allemeyer EH,Autschbach F,Stern J,Lucas M,Herfarth C,Heuschen G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past 27 years cavernous hemangioma of the liver has been diagnosed in 12 nonoperated patients and in 16 patients who had resection of the lesion at Strong Memorial Hospital. In almost all patients the diagnosis was suggested by an imaging procedure. In the 12 nonoperated patients the average size of the tumor...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schwartz SI,Husser WC

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the impact of varying approaches to congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) repair timing on survival and need for ECMO when controlled for anatomic and physiologic disease severity in a large consecutive series of patients with CDH. BACKGROUND:Our publication of 60 consecutive patients with CDH in ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kays DW,Islam S,Larson SD,Perkins J,Talbert JL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although patients with bronchial and ovarian carcinoid tumors can develop the carcinoid syndrome (diarrhea and/or flushing) in the absence of hepatic metastasis, it is believed that development of the carcinoid syndrome in patients with carcinoid tumors of gastrointestinal origin occurs only after the patient has hepa...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Feldman JM,Jones RS

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aims to describe recent experience with rectal carcinoids in European and North American centers. BACKGROUND:While considered indolent, the propensity of carcinoids to metastasize can be significant. METHODS:Rectal carcinoid patients were identified from prospective databases maintained at 9 inst...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Shields CJ,Tiret E,Winter DC,International Rectal Carcinoid Study Group.

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence of Wnt pathway activation in patients with stage I NSCLC and its influence on lung cancer recurrence. BACKGROUND:Despite resection, the 5-year recurrence with localized stage I nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is 18.4%-24%. Aberrant Wnt signaling activation plays an important role...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Shapiro M,Akiri G,Chin C,Wisnivesky JP,Beasley MB,Weiser TS,Swanson SJ,Aaronson SA

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of abdominal ultrasonography (US) for screening and grading pediatric splenic injury. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:The use of abdominal US has increased rapidly as a method of evaluating organ damage after blunt abdominal trauma. Despite US's increasing use, ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Krupnick AS,Teitelbaum DH,Geiger JD,Strouse PJ,Cox CS,Blane CE,Polley TZ

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to assess the reduction in the incidence of parastomal hernia (PH) after placement of prophylactic synthetic mesh using a modified Sugarbaker technique when a permanent end-colostomy is needed. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Prevention of PH formation is crucial given the high prevalenc...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： López-Cano M,Serra-Aracil X,Mora L,Sánchez-García JL,Jiménez-Gómez LM,Martí M,Vallribera F,Fraccalvieri D,Serracant A,Kreisler E,Biondo S,Espín E,Navarro-Soto S,Armengol-Carrasco M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desmoid tumors are locally invasive, nonmetastasizing fibrous tumors most frequently seen in patients with familial polyposis coli (FPC). Of 325 patients with FPC treated at the Cleveland Clinic, 29 (8.9%) were found to have a total of 36 desmoid tumors. These tumors occur in young patients (mean age: 29.8 years), par...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Jones IT,Jagelman DG,Fazio VW,Lavery IC,Weakley FL,McGannon E

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnosis of intra-abdominal abscess by radiographic means often relies on combining the results of several different imaging modalities. Computed tomography (CT) has been shown to be a safe, accurate and rapid diagnostic method of diagnosing these abscesses. Five patients with a variety of intra-abdominal abscess...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Daffner RH,Halber MD,Morgan CL,Trought WS,Thompson WM,Rice RP

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spectral analysis was used to examine 257 carotid arteries in 227 patients who had undergone carotid endarterectomy at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after surgery and annually thereafter. Routine intraoperative completion angiography ensured that the operations were technically satisfactory. Postoperative restenoses were ide...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Thomas M,Otis SM,Rush M,Zyroff J,Dilley RB,Bernstein EF

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this report is to review the results of mitral valve replacement since a first report in the Annals of Surgery in 1961, in order to determine the relative importance of new valve designs versus other surgical variables. The continued use of the silastic ball valve in its 1966 configuration (Model 6120),...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Cobanoglu A,Grunkemeier GL,Aru GM,McKinley CL,Starr A

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the outcome of technical variant liver transplant techniques relative to whole organ liver transplantation in pediatric liver transplant recipients. BACKGROUND:Technical variant liver transplant techniques comprising split, reduced, and live-donor liver transplantation evolved to address the need ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Diamond IR,Fecteau A,Millis JM,Losanoff JE,Ng V,Anand R,Song C,SPLIT Research Group.

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the extent to which multiple, sequential complications impacts variation in institutional postoperative mortality rates. BACKGROUND:Failure to rescue (FTR) has been proposed as an underlying factor in hospital variation in surgical mortality. However, little is currently known about hospital varia...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Massarweh NN,Anaya DA,Kougias P,Bakaeen FG,Awad SS,Berger DH

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:For patients with gastroparesis, temporary pyloric disruption has been shown to improve symptoms and gastric emptying. Per-oral pyloromyotomy (POP) is an innovative endoscopic procedure to divide the pylorus from within a submucosal tunnel, as a corollary to surgical pyloromyotomy. Here we evaluate subjective...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rodriguez J,Strong AT,Haskins IN,Landreneau JP,Allemang MT,El-Hayek K,Villamere J,Tu C,Cline MS,Kroh M,Ponsky JL

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess our outcomes after minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Esophagectomy has traditionally been performed by open methods. Results from most series include mortality rates in excess of 5% and hospital stays frequently greater than 10 days. MIE has the potential to improve th...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Luketich JD,Alvelo-Rivera M,Buenaventura PO,Christie NA,McCaughan JS,Litle VR,Schauer PR,Close JM,Fernando HC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of lead poisoning from bullets has been investigated by surgically implanting discs of lead, each enriched in a different natural isotope, into the tissue of two mongrel dogs and monitoring by mass spectrometry the release of the lead into each animal's blood over the course of 3 years. Lead placed in the ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Manton WI,Thal ER

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a prognostic scoring system for risk stratification of patients with hepatic graft failure (GF) undergoing retransplants of the liver (ReLT) and improve patient selection. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA:Retransplantation of the liver remains controversial because of inferior outcomes compared with the...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hong JC,Kaldas FM,Kositamongkol P,Petrowsky H,Farmer DG,Markovic D,Hiatt JR,Busuttil RW

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review a single center's experience and outcome with living donor transplants. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Outcome after living donor transplants is better than after cadaver donor transplants. Since the inception of the authors' program, they have performed 2,540 living donor transplants. For the most recent...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Matas AJ,Payne WD,Sutherland DE,Humar A,Gruessner RW,Kandaswamy R,Dunn DL,Gillingham KJ,Najarian JS

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Minimal immunosuppression (IS) is desirable in organ transplantation to reduce side effects and to promote the process of tolerance induction. MATERIAL AND METHODS:Between February 2000 and September 2004, 156 adults (>15 years old) receiving a primary liver graft were enrolled in a prospective, randomized,...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lerut J,Mathys J,Verbaandert C,Talpe S,Ciccarelli O,Lemaire J,Bonaccorsi-Riani E,Vanthuyne V,Hetsch N,Roggen F,Reyck CD,Goffette P,Latinne D,Orlando G,Rahier J,Sempoux C,Wallemacq P,Laterre PF,Gianello P

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intrajejunal infusion of a fat solution on pentagastrin-stimulated (0.5 microgram/kg-hr) gastric acid secretion was studied in five duodenal ulcer patients before and three to five months after truncal vagotomy. Preoperatively mean acid output was reduced from 41 +/- 5.2 meq H+/hr to 15.4 +/- 1.3 meq H+/...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Christiansen J

更新日期：1977-11-01 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:To determine whether F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) micro-positron emission tomography (micro-PET) can predict abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture. BACKGROUND:An infrarenal AAA model is needed to study inflammatory mechanisms that drive rupture. F-FDG PET can detect vascular inflammation in animal models a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： English SJ,Piert MR,Diaz JA,Gordon D,Ghosh A,DʼAlecy LG,Whitesall SE,Sharma AK,DeRoo EP,Watt T,Su G,Henke PK,Eliason JL,Ailawadi G,Upchurch GR Jr

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00