Immune RNA therapy for renal cell carcinoma: survival and immunologic monitoring.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop evidence-based recommendations for safe, effective, and appropriate thyroidectomy. BACKGROUND:Surgical management of thyroid disease has evolved considerably over several decades leading to variability in rendered care. Over 100,000 thyroid operations are performed annually in the US. METHODS:The...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Patel KN,Yip L,Lubitz CC,Grubbs EG,Miller BS,Shen W,Angelos P,Chen H,Doherty GM,Fahey TJ 3rd,Kebebew E,Livolsi VA,Perrier ND,Sipos JA,Sosa JA,Steward D,Tufano RP,McHenry CR,Carty SE

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic changes in six severely affected tetanus patients suffering from characteristic labile hypertension (maximum systolic blood pressure greater than 200 mmHG, maximum diurnal change in systolic pressure greater than 100 mmHg) were investigated. Daily urinary excretion of urea nitrogen increased gradually from t...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hiraide A,Katayama M,Sugimoto H,Yoshioka T,Sugimoto T

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the optimal management of symptomatic non-parasitic liver cysts. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Management options for symptomatic nonparasitic liver cysts lack substantiation through comparative studies with respect to safety and long-term effectiveness. METHODS:A retrospective review of the surgical...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Martin IJ,McKinley AJ,Currie EJ,Holmes P,Garden OJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To prospectively evaluate the psychosocial outcomes and body image of patients 2 years postmastectomy reconstruction using a multicenter, multisurgeon approach. BACKGROUND:Although breast reconstruction has been shown to confer significant psychosocial benefits in breast cancer patients at year 1 postreconst...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Atisha D,Alderman AK,Lowery JC,Kuhn LE,Davis J,Wilkins EG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival after distal splenorenal shunt in appreciably better in nonalcoholic patients than in alcoholics. This increase in survival does not appear to be dependent upon the state of biochemical liver function or the severity of changes in liver histology since these latter were similar for both groups. We suggest tha...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Zeppa R,Hensley GT,Levi JU,Bergstresser PR,Hutson DG Sr,Livingstone AS,Schiff ER,Fink P

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A randomized controlled trial was conducted to clarify the effectiveness of intraoperative blood salvage in reducing blood loss. BACKGROUND:Although reduction of central venous pressure (CVP) is thought to decrease blood loss during liver resection, no consistently effective and safe method for obtaining the...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hashimoto T,Kokudo N,Orii R,Seyama Y,Sano K,Imamura H,Sugawara Y,Hasegawa K,Makuuchi M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the course of 186 patients with external gastrointestinal fistulas treated at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco from 1968 to 1977. There were 82 patients in the earlier group (1968-1971) and 104 patients in the later group (1972-1977). The groups differed in that 35% of patients in...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Reber HA,Roberts C,Way LW,Dunphy JE

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Though histological grade is known to have a major prognostic impact in metastatic mucinous appendiceal adenocarcinomas, the prognostic impact of grade in localized disease, and the validity of the American Joint Committee on Cancer AJCC Staging Manual 7th edition's decision to combine moderately and poorly dif...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Overman MJ,Fournier K,Hu CY,Eng C,Taggart M,Royal R,Mansfield P,Chang GJ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To establish criteria for venous reconstruction of middle hepatic vein (MHV) tributaries of the right liver graft in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:In adult LDLT using the right hemiliver, the MHV is usually separated from the graft, which results in potenti...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Sano K,Makuuchi M,Miki K,Maema A,Sugawara Y,Imamura H,Matsunami H,Takayama T

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine preoperative dietary influences on gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) cell number in the context of postoperative infectious complications. BACKGROUND:There is little clinical evidence regarding whether nutritional routes affect GALT size and/or phenotype. The influence of GALT atrophy on clini...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Okamoto K,Fukatsu K,Hashiguchi Y,Ueno H,Shinto E,Moriya T,Saitoh D,Yamamoto J,Hase K

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen patients who had a prior portasystemic shunt underwent orthotopic liver transplantation. Shunt types were portacaval in six patients, H-graft mesocaval in six, distal splenorenal in two, and proximal splenorenal in one. Mean blood loss and hospital stay were highest in the portacaval group. Retransplants (two ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Brems JJ,Hiatt JR,Klein AS,Millis JM,Colonna JO,Quinones-Baldrich WJ,Ramming KP,Busuttil RW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the events and people that shaped Harvey Cushing, one of the nation's leading surgeons, into a political actor as he rallied support for the issue of military medical preparedness for World War One. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:In a little remembered episode of American medical history, for 2 years bef...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rutkow E,Rutkow I

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is fast becoming the standard for testing lymph node involvement in many institutions. However, questions remain as to the best method of injection. The authors hypothesized that a subareolar injection of material would drain to the same lymph node as a peritumoral injection,...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Klimberg VS,Rubio IT,Henry R,Cowan C,Colvert M,Korourian S

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess relative clinical and economic performance of the revised American Thyroid Association (ATA) thyroid cancer guidelines compared to current standard of care. BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of thyroid cancer in the United States has tripled whereas mortality has only marginally increased. Most patients present...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： White C,Weinstein MC,Fingeret AL,Randolph GW,Miyauchi A,Ito Y,Zhan T,Ali A,Gazelle GS,Lubitz CC

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The authors evaluated the outcome and potential prognostic factors of 60 patients with surgically resected periampullary tumors. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Periampullary carcinomas exhibit different clinical behaviors according to their site of origin. There are no prognostic factors for deciding the type of su...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Chan C,Herrera MF,de la Garza L,Quintanilla-Martinez L,Vargas-Vorackova F,Richaud-Patín Y,Llorente L,Uscanga L,Robles-Diaz G,Leon E

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) has dramatically affected the surgical treatment of malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias. The authors continue to perform electrophysiologically directed subendocardial resection (SER) of left ventricular (LV) scars in selected patients, and...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Geha AS,Elefteriades JA,Hsu J,Biblo LA,Hoch DH,Batsford WP,Rosenfeld LE,Carlson MD,Johnson NJ,Waldo AL

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a devastating disease that killed nearly 38,000 people in the United States this past year. OBJECTIVE:Treatment of PDA typically includes surgery and/or chemotherapy with gemcitabine. No reliable biomarker exists for prognosis or response to chemotherapy. Two previo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Richards NG,Rittenhouse DW,Freydin B,Cozzitorto JA,Grenda D,Rui H,Gonye G,Kennedy EP,Yeo CJ,Brody JR,Witkiewicz AK

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the outcome of preoperative gemcitabine-based chemoradiation therapy (CRT) for borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (BRPC), focusing on the associations among the tumor-vascular relationship, surgical outcomes, and pattern of recurrence. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Among the various multimodal tre...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Takahashi H,Akita H,Tomokuni A,Kobayashi S,Ohigashi H,Fijiwara Y,Yano M,Sakon M,Ishikawa O

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) complexed with its principal binding protein, IGFBP-3, on skeletal muscle metabolism in severely burned children. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Severe burns are associated with a persistent hypermetabolic response characterized by h...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Herndon DN,Ramzy PI,DebRoy MA,Zheng M,Ferrando AA,Chinkes DL,Barret JP,Wolfe RR,Wolf SE

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective study of 910 patients surviving at least five years after cervical irradiation for Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, or primary head an neck neoplasms showed the incidence of stroke following cervical irradiation was 63 of 910 patients (6.3%) during a mean period of observation of nine years. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Elerding SC,Fernandez RN,Grotta JC,Lindberg RD,Causay LC,McMurtrey MJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients with vascular deformities of the lower extremity were studied and were classified into three groups based on their clinical and angiographic findings. 1) The Klippel or Venous Dysplasia Group (n = 8) demonstrated: cutaneous nevi of metameric distribution, congenital varices (many of which were anomal...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： O'Donnell TF Jr

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 531 patients admitted to the Duke Coronary Care Unit with unstable angina (UA) from June 1981 to September 1982, 100 had persistent angina despite optimal medical therapy of nitrates, propranolol, and nifedipine. At catheterization, 70% of the refractory patients had left main (LM) or three-vessel disease (TVD), 68...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Rankin JS,Newton JR Jr,Califf RM,Jones RH,Wechsler AS,Oldham HN Jr,Wolfe WG,Lowe JE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report survival, functional, and quality-of-life (QoL) outcomes after extended radical resection for advanced pelvic tumors with en bloc sciatic or femoral nerve resection. BACKGROUND:Advanced pelvic tumors involving the sciatic or femoral nerve have traditionally been considered inoperable. Small studies...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Brown KGM,Solomon MJ,Lau YC,Steffens D,Austin KKS,Lee PJ

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:PORTAS-3 was designed to compare the frequency of pneumothorax or haemothorax in a primary open versus closed strategy for port implantation. BACKGROUND DATA:The implantation strategy for totally implantable venous access ports with the optimal benefit/risk ratio remains unclear. METHODS:PORTAS-3 was a mul...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hüttner FJ,Bruckner T,Hackbusch M,Weitz J,Bork U,Kotschenreuther P,Heupel O,Kümmel S,Schlitt HJ,Mattulat M,Pintér L,Seiler CM,Gutt CN,Nottberg HS,Pohl A,Ghanem F,Meyer T,Imdahl A,Neudecker J,Müller VA,Gehrig T,R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the outcomes of bilateral subtotal (BST) versus total thyroidectomy (TT) for benign bilateral thyroid disease (BBTD). BACKGROUND:The extent of thyroid resection in benign goiter is controversial. Potential advantages of TT over BST may include: one-stage removal of incidental thyroid cancer, and a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Barczyński M,Konturek A,Stopa M,Cichoń S,Richter P,Nowak W

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) are rare tumors composed of several well defined histologic subtypes. The aim of this study was to analyze patterns of recurrence and treatment variations in a large population of patients, treated at reference centers. METHODS:All consecutive patients with primary RPS treated...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gronchi A,Strauss DC,Miceli R,Bonvalot S,Swallow CJ,Hohenberger P,Van Coevorden F,Rutkowski P,Callegaro D,Hayes AJ,Honoré C,Fairweather M,Cannell A,Jakob J,Haas RL,Szacht M,Fiore M,Casali PG,Pollock RE,Raut CP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare resection rates and outcome of patients subsequently referred with hepatic metastases whose initial colon cancers were resected by surgeons with different specialty interests. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Variation in practice among noncolorectal specialist surgeons has led to recommendations that colo...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wigmore SJ,Madhavan K,Currie EJ,Bartolo DC,Garden OJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role for neoadjuvant systemic therapy in resectable pancreas adenocarcinoma remains undefined. OBJECTIVE:We evaluated the efficacy of gemcitabine and oxaliplatin administered as preoperative therapy in patients with resectable pancreas adenocarcinoma. METHODS:Eligible patients were screened using compu...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： OʼReilly EM,Perelshteyn A,Jarnagin WR,Schattner M,Gerdes H,Capanu M,Tang LH,LaValle J,Winston C,DeMatteo RP,DʼAngelica M,Kurtz RC,Abou-Alfa GK,Klimstra DS,Lowery MA,Brennan MF,Coit DG,Reidy DL,Kingham TP,Allen PJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To define the natural history of, and treatment strategy for, blunt traumatic internal carotid artery (ICA) pseudoaneurysms. BACKGROUND:The natural history and management of traumatic ICA pseudoaneurysms is controversial. METHODS:We retrospectively identified all traumatic ICA pseudoaneurysms diagnosed on h...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Morton RP,Levitt MR,Emerson S,Ghodke BV,Hallam DK,Sekhar LN,Kim LJ,Chesnut RM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Release of pancreatic polypeptide (PP) after a meal is biphasic, with an early transient peak believed to be under cholinergic control, and a secondary, prolonged intestinal phase thought to be mediated by hormones. Endogenous release of PP was stimulated by intraduodenal oleate (6.8 mmol/hr) or by intravenous adminis...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fried GM,Ogden WD,Greeley GH Jr,Thompson JC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00