Protective effect of allopurinol in renal ischemia.

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of literature concerning general anesthesia and surgery in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). This report summarizes the largest series of surgical cases in ALS during multicenter prospective trials of the laparoscopic diaphragm pacing system (DPS) t...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Onders RP,Carlin AM,Elmo M,Sivashankaran S,Katirji B,Schilz R

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the usefulness of ultrasound and ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology in detecting occult cervical lymph node metastases, 107 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, who underwent 132 elective neck dissections, had preoperative ultrasound examination. During the assessment of...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： van den Brekel MW,Stel HV,Castelijns JA,Croll GJ,Snow GB

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Board of Surgery was established in 1937 to certify surgeons who through training, experience, and examination meet the highest standards of surgical care. This lecture was given as the Edgar Poth lecture at the April 2015 meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress. Dr Poth was a surgical educator from...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Walker JP

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:Thirty-one patients with melanoma of the head and neck received split-course radiation therapy (5,000 to 6,000 rads/30 fractions) for loco-regional disease. There was no difference in survival in patients with gross tumors versus patients with no clinical evidence of disease at the start of radiation therapy. The prog...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Creagan ET,Woods JE,Cupps RE,O'Fallon JR

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When dense hemiparesis has developed appropriate to the operated vessel after carotid surgery, the patient has been immediately returned to the operating room for reexploration of the vessel and thrombectomy. Over a 5-year period, we identified four patients who developed dense hemiparesis in the recovery room postope...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Dooner J,Kuechler P

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although common in Japan, early gastric cancer is rarely seen in Western countries and generally accounts for only 7 to 10 percent of all gastric malignancies. Eleven patients with early gastric cancer seen over a 10 year period have been reviewed for clinical and pathologic features, method of diagnosis, treatment, a...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Traynor OJ,Lennon J,Dervan P,Corrigan T

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased strength of healing incisions infected with E coli was demonstrated in this experiment. Efforts to measure respiratory gas tensions and pH in these incisions were unsuccessful. Therefore, these moieties were measured in normal and infected wound fluid contained in implanted wire cylinders. The wound fluid fr...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Raju R,Weiner M,Enquist IF

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angioaccess procedures at one institution over a 4-year period were retrospectively reviewed to ascertain the frequency of major limb- or life-threatening complications. A total of 435 angioaccess procedures were performed, including 81 Cimino-Brescia fistulas, 166 polytetrafluoroethylene grafts, and 111 thrombectomy/...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ballard JL,Bunt TJ,Malone JM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the incidence of severe brain injury was 600 percent higher for patients riding without a helmet and the incidence of all brain injuries was nearly twice as high in the nonhelmeted riders. All surviving patients with severe brain injury sustained residual long-term disability. The incidence of in...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Bachulis BL,Sangster W,Gorrell GW,Long WB

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:How systemic inflammation-based prognostic scores such as the modified Glasgow Prognostic Score (mGPS) and neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (NLR) differ across populations of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) remains unknown. The present study examined the mGPS and NLR in patients from United Kingdom (UK) and...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Park JH,Ishizuka M,McSorley ST,Kubota K,Roxburgh CSD,Nagata H,Takagi K,Iwasaki Y,Aoki T,Horgan PG,McMillan DC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The superiority of the minimally invasive approach to adrenal resections has been well documented for benign pathology. With technical advances and increased experience, surgeons have successfully performed laparoscopic adrenalectomies for metastatic and primary malignancies of the adrenal gland. The technique of lapa...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Cobb WS,Kercher KW,Sing RF,Heniford BT

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports in the surgical literature are conflicting as to whether appendectomy "in passing" during laparotomy for trauma or for some other disease state does or does not significantly increase patient morbidity or mortality. A chart survey of all appendectomies (342 for acute appendicitis and 146 as incidental procedur...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Strom PR,Turkleson ML,Stone HH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three patients who underwent 95 percent removal of the pancreas for chronic pancreatitis with autotransplantation of the body and tail of the gland to the femoral area are described. The follow-up periods are 18, 6, and 2 months. Pain lessened in all patients and none required exogenous insulin. Patency of the graft w...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Rossi RL,Braasch JW,Nugent FW,Silverman ML,Beckmann CF,Watkins E Jr

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gallbladder inflammation and mucus hypersecretion are prominent features of cholesterol and pigment gallstones in humans and animals. The factors leading to inflammation and mucus hypersecretion are poorly understood. These studies examine the inflammatory potential of bile from dogs with pigment gallstones....

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Rege RV,Prystowsky JB

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current evidence-based guidelines provide recommendations for prophylaxis and treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in a variety of surgical patients. DATA SOURCES:A systematic Ovid Medline search (from 1950 to the present) was conducted for relevant articles using the following search terms: "venous th...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Muntz JE,Michota FA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) has recently been shown to be more sensitive than contrast arteriography in the detection of patent distal runoff vessels. This study compares MRA and contrast arteriography in evaluating the severity of stenotic lesions in peripheral arteries, which has not been previously investi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hertz SM,Baum RA,Owen RS,Holland GA,Logan DR,Carpenter JP

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular growth hormone has been demonstrated in human mammary carcinoma cells by using an unlabeled antibody enzyme technic with horseradish peroxidase and antihorseradish peroxidase complex. Intense reaction was seen in both male and female mammary carcinoma cells. Positive staining was observed in nuclei and c...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ghosh L,Ghosh BC,Das Gupta TK

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Estrogen-receptor (ER)-, progesterone-receptor (PR)-, and androgen-receptor (AR)-negative breast cancer cells are unaffected by treatment with dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEAS) and an aromatase inhibitor (AI). We hypothesized that cell growth would be inhibited with DHEAS/AI treatment after successful t...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Garreau JR,Muller P,Pommier R,Pommier S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reconstruction of the portal vein with autologous veins requires extra incisions. Prosthetic material is associated with an increased risk of infection. We therefore created an animal model of portal vein reconstruction using the peritoneum. METHODS:A 2.5 x 2.5 cm piece of the peritoneum was resected from L...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Yoshioka M,Onda M,Tajiri T,Akimaru K,Mineta S,Hirakata A,Takubo K

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study compares NBME surgical clerkship scores of students who completed their medicine clerkship before their surgical clerkship with the performance of those who had not previously completed their medical clerkship. METHODS:The study included 815 New York University School of Medicine students from ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Adelsheimer A,Berman RS,Pachter HL,Hochberg MS

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in the surgical training landscape have sparked an interest in developing new educational models anchored on entrustment assessment. We sought to optimize the validated OpTrust entrustment assessment tool by comparing ratings from short-course video reviews to previously validated intraoperative asse...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Nikolian VC,Sutzko DC,Georgoff PE,Matusko N,Boniakowski A,Prabhu K,Church JT,Thompson-Burdine J,Minter RM,Sandhu G

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

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：:Between September 1982 and April 1988, 60 cirrhotic patients with prior variceal hemorrhage were randomized to undergo the placement of an elective shunt (distal splenorenal: 26; nonselective: 4) or long-term endoscopic sclerotherapy (n = 30). Eighty-six percent of patients had alcoholic cirrhosis, and 33% were classi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Rikkers LF,Jin G,Burnett DA,Buchi KN,Cormier RA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with acute amebic dilatation of the colon and multiple intrahepatic abscesses was successfully treated by a combination of medical and surgical therapy. Creation of a loop ileostomy and blow-hole colostomy facilitated complete healing of the colon. ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Greenstein AJ,Greenstein RJ,Sachar DB

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that the mortality rate was no greater in patients with necrotizing enterocolitis complicated by perforation compared with the rate in those with other causes of perforation in similar weight classes. Iatrogenic injuries had a 50 percent mortality rate in all gestational age and birth weight categories and, t...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Borzotta AP,Groff DB

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role for liver resection in metastatic ovarian cancer has not been defined. The aim of the current study was to investigate the validity of hepatic resection as a treatment option in metastatic ovarian cancer. METHODS:Retrospective review of a single institution's experience of patients undergoing hepat...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Abood G,Bowen M,Potkul R,Aranha G,Shoup M

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appendicitis in preschool children is not uncommon. A duration of greater than 40 hours usually implied perforation. The most common findings were abdominal pain, tenderness, temperature elevation and vomiting. In the presence of perforation or abscess formation, appendectomy followed by copious wound irrigation, absc...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Graham JM,Pokorny WJ,Harberg FJ

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer in a young person is considered by many to be a rare and very aggressive disease. Theories regarding the aggressiveness of the disease are varied. This study was undertaken in an attempt to help formulate guidelines regarding screening for and treatment of breast cancer in the young patient. P...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Sariego J,Zrada S,Byrd M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of venous, capillary, and arterial blood flow in microgravity is required to modify hemostatic techniques for control of bleeding in traumatic injuries or surgical procedures in space. To simulate human arterial, venous, and capillary bleeding, fresh whole bovine blood was injected by two operators at calcul...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： McCuaig K,Lloyd CW,Gosbee J,Snyder WW

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00