abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with primary mediastinal lymphomas frequently present with a residual mass after completion of first-line therapy. Although a positron emission tomography scan is usually recommended, it fails to distinguish between persistent lymphoma and inflammation. Although percutaneous biopsy may have a high d...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kane L,Savas H,DeCamp MM,Bharat A

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data from a US multicenter longitudinal study of bariatric surgery were used to compare weight change (primary outcome) and comorbidities (secondary outcome) in patients who underwent sleeve gastrectomy versus Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. METHODS:This study includes participants who underwent sleeve gastrectom...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Ahmed B,King WC,Gourash W,Belle SH,Hinerman A,Pomp A,Dakin G,Courcoulas AP

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of the current study was to define the incidence, as well as time course of mortality within the first year after liver transplantation. METHODS:Data on adult, first-time liver transplant recipients transplanted between February 2002 and June 2016 were obtained from the United Network for Orga...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Baganate F,Beal EW,Tumin D,Azoulay D,Mumtaz K,Black SM,Washburn K,Pawlik TM

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cervical spinal cord injury can result in catastrophic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation with high morbidity, mortality, and cost. Diaphragm pacing was developed to replace/decrease mechanical ventilation. We report the largest long-term results in traumatic cervical spinal cord injury. M...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Onders RP,Elmo M,Kaplan C,Schilz R,Katirji B,Tinkoff G

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative cervical hemorrhage is a rare but life-threatening complication that can cause severe morbidity. Different mechanisms leading to asphyxia have been described based only on clinical observation. METHODS:We performed a series of in vivo animal studies simulating post-thyroidectomy hemorrhage and...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Schopf S,von Ahnen T,von Ahnen M,Schardey HM,Wirth U

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient-reported outcomes are measured in chronic disease states to inform intervention and management decisions while minimizing negative outcomes. We hypothesized that health-related quality of life in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A would be worse than the general US population but simi...

journal_title：Surgery

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

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thoracic aortic injuries have traditionally been associated with high morbidity and mortality. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair has emerged as a suitable alternative to open repair, but its impact at a national level remains ill defined. This study aimed to analyze the national trends of patient character...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Seo YJ,Rudasill SE,Sanaiha Y,Aguayo E,Bailey KL,Dobaria V,Benharash P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endovascular approaches to aortoiliac disease are becoming increasingly frequent due to decreases in recovery time, bleeding, and discomfort. Despite this trend, little is known about the predictors of complications. This study was designed to identify risk factors for major 30-day morbidity and mortality af...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Thomas AT,Leitman IM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regulation of coronary vasomotor tone by serotonin is significantly changed after cardioplegic arrest and reperfusion. The current study investigates whether cardiopulmonary bypass may also affect peripheral arteriolar response to serotonin in patients with or without diabetes. METHODS:Human peripheral micr...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sabe SA,Feng J,Liu Y,Scrimgeour LA,Ehsan A,Sellke FW

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients undergoing ventral hernia repair (VHR) are at risk of an inadvertent enterotomy during surgery. Inadvertent enterotomies potentially contaminate the surgical field presenting a management dilemma for the surgeon. The aim of our study was to define the incidence and risk factors for a recognized inad...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Krpata DM,Prabhu AS,Tastaldi L,Huang LC,Rosen MJ,Poulose BK

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery has a high incidence of postoperative morbidity, including incisional surgical site infection. Although several studies showed that subcuticular sutures reduced incisional surgical site infection in other fields of surgery, their impact on hepatopancreatobiliary surgery remains...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Okubo S,Gotohda N,Sugimoto M,Nomura S,Kobayashi S,Takahashi S,Hayashi R,Konishi M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The performances of the American Joint Committee on Cancer staging systems of the 7th and 8th edition were compared using a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma at 2 tertiary referral Italian hepatobiliary centers. METHODS:The American Joint Committee on Cancer 7th and 8th ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Ruzzenente A,Bagante F,Ardito F,Campagnaro T,Scoleri I,Conci S,Iacono C,Giuliante F,Guglielmi A

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sphingosine-1-phosphate, a pleiotropic bioactive lipid mediator, is an important player in cancer progression. Previous studies suggested that sphingosine-1-phosphate produced by sphingosine kinase 1, which is activated by phosphorylation, plays important roles in the progression of disease and metastasis. T...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Hanyu T,Nagahashi M,Ichikawa H,Ishikawa T,Kobayashi T,Wakai T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite curative resection of hepatocellular carcinoma, patients have a high probability of recurrence. We examined indications for liver resection in cases of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma. METHODS:Patients undergoing a second liver resection (n=210) or treatment by transcatheter arterial chemoemboliz...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Yagi R,Midorikawa Y,Moriguchi M,Nakayama H,Aramaki O,Yamazaki S,Higaki T,Takayama T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of invasive cancer in resected intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm with main pancreatic duct involvement is 33%-60%. Most guidelines, therefore, advise resection of main duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm and mixed type intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm in surgically fit patients...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Scholten L,van Huijgevoort NCM,Bruno MJ,Fernandez-Del Castillo C,Satoi S,Sauvanet A,Wolfgang C,Fockens P,Chari ST,Del Chiaro M,van Hooft JE,Besselink MG,European Study Group on Cystic Tumours of the Pancreas and the International

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pathways critical for neuroblastoma cancer stem cell function are targeted by 4,19,27-triacetyl withalongolide A (WGA-TA). Because neuroblastoma cells and their cancer stem cells highly overexpress the scavenger receptor class B type 1 receptor that binds to synthetic high-density lipoprotein, we hypothesize...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Subramanian C,White PT,Kuai R,Kalidindi A,Castle VP,Moon JJ,Timmermann BN,Schwendeman A,Cohen MS

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The benefit of adding external beam radiation to adjuvant chemotherapy in patients that have undergone a margin positive resection for early stage, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma has not been determined definitively. METHODS:The National Cancer Data Base was queried to evaluate the utility of adjuvant rad...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Suss NR,Talamonti MS,Bryan DS,Wang CH,Kuchta KM,Stocker SJ,Bentrem DJ,Roggin KK,Winchester DJ,Marsh R,Prinz RA,Murad FM,Baker MS

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer have historically been considered inoperable. The purpose of this report was to determine resectability rates for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer based on our recently described definitions of type A and type B locally advanced pancreatic canc...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Chatzizacharias NA,Tsai S,Griffin M,Tolat P,Ritch P,George B,Barnes C,Aldakkak M,Khan AH,Hall W,Erickson B,Evans DB,Christians KK

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Donor characteristics and graft quality were recently reported to play an important role in the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation. Our aim was to establish a prognostic model by using both donor and recipient variables. METHODS:Data of 1,010 adult patients (training/validati...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Ling Q,Liu J,Zhuo J,Zhuang R,Huang H,He X,Xu X,Zheng S

更新日期：2018-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Video review for assessment of surgical performance is gaining popularity but is time consuming for busy expert reviewers, making review delays inevitable. Decreasing review time and including nonexpert reviewers may facilitate more timely reviews. We hypothesized that a shorter duration video clip would not...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sawyer JM,Anton NE,Korndorffer JR Jr,DuCoin CG,Stefanidis D

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intravenous (IV) fluid therapy should be individualized according to each patient's weight, disease, and comorbidities, as well as the type and duration of the operative procedure. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy represents one of the most common, short-duration operations; thus, the aim of this study was to as...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Henriques JR,Correia MITD

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palliative care has long been described in medical literature but only recently is being discussed in the surgical domain. Mounting evidence suggests that early integration of palliative care improves patient outcomes and this is especially true of oncology patients. Thus, the pendulum is swinging toward recognizing t...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sadler EM,Hawley PH,Easson AM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Surgical enteral access prior to multimodality treatment for esophageal cancer is controversial as dysphagia is often used for feeding tube referral. We hypothesized that enteral access before neoadjuvant chemoradiation for esophageal cancer provides no benefit compared to that placed during definitive esoph...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Jenkins TK,Lopez AN,Sarosi GA,Ben-David K,Thomas RM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The American Board of Surgery encourages graduating medical students to prepare for surgical residency before day 1. We sought to determine the impact of personalized video feedback on an advance preparation task. METHODS:We conducted a nonrandomized study comparing video feedback versus no feedback. We sen...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Naik ND,Abbott EF,Gas BL,Murphy BL,Farley DR,Cook DA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peptide receptor radionuclide therapy is a valid therapeutic option for pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms. The aim of this study was to describe an initial experience with the use of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy as a neoadjuvant agent for resectable or potentially resectable pancreatic neuroendocr...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Partelli S,Bertani E,Bartolomei M,Perali C,Muffatti F,Grana CM,Schiavo Lena M,Doglioni C,Crippa S,Fazio N,Zamboni G,Falconi M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epistemic Network Analysis (ENA) is a technique for modeling and comparing the structure of connections between elements in coded data. We hypothesized that connections among team discourse elements as modeled by ENA would predict the quality of team performance in trauma simulation. METHODS:The Modified No...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sullivan S,Warner-Hillard C,Eagan B,Thompson RJ,Ruis AR,Haines K,Pugh CM,Shaffer DW,Jung HS

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy induces an unprecedented liver hypertrophy and enables resection of otherwise unresectable liver tumors. The effect of associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy on tumor proliferation, however, remai...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Kambakamba P,Linecker M,Schneider M,Reiner CS,Nguyen-Kim TDL,Limani P,Romic I,Figueras J,Petrowsky H,Clavien PA,Lesurtel M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Affordable Care Act aims to improve patient outcomes. Race/ethnicity and insurance status impact outcomes after traumatic brain injury. We sought to gauge the Affordable Care Act's effect on outcomes after traumatic brain injury, as graded by race/ethnicity and insurance status. METHODS:The National Tra...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Moffet EW,Zens TJ,Haines KL,Beems MV,McQuistion KM,Leverson GE,Agarwal SK

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of diabetic therapies on myocardial substrate selection during cardiac surgery is unknown but may be important to ensure optimal surgical outcomes. We hypothesized that metformin and insulin alter myocardial substrate selection during cardiac surgery and may affect reperfusion cardiac function....

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Holmes C,Powell L,Clarke NS,Jessen ME,Peltz M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Small bowel neuroendocrine tumors (SBNETs) present frequently with metastases, yet little is known about the molecular basis of this progression. This study sought to identify the serial differential expression of genes between normal small bowel, primary small bowel neuroendocrine tumors, and liver metastas...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Keck KJ,Breheny P,Braun TA,Darbro B,Li G,Dillon JS,Bellizzi AM,O'Dorisio TM,Howe JR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guidelines for management of small adrenal incidentalomas are mutually inconsistent. No cost-effectiveness analysis has been performed to evaluate rigorously the relative merits of these strategies. METHODS:We constructed a decision-analytic model to evaluate surveillance strategies for <4cm, nonfunctional,...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Chomsky-Higgins K,Seib C,Rochefort H,Gosnell J,Shen WT,Kahn JG,Duh QY,Suh I

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current quality of life assessment tools for thyroid cancer survivors are not clinically useful due to the length of available questionnaires. Computerized adaptive tests are easily administered electronically and can achieve highly accurate and efficient results in minimal time. We aimed to develop a qualit...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Aschebrook-Kilfoy B,Ferguson BA,Angelos P,Kaplan EL,Grogan RH,Gibbons RD

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Medullary thyroid cancer portends poor survival once liver metastasis occurs. We hypothesize that Notch3 overexpression in medullary thyroid cancer liver metastasis will decrease proliferation and growth of the tumor. METHODS:TT cells were modified genetically to overexpress Notch3 in the presence of doxycy...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Lou I,Odorico S,Yu XM,Harrison A,Jaskula-Sztul R,Chen H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to investigate the genotype-phenotype relationship of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 treated at our institution. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective chart review of all patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 treated...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Christakis I,Qiu W,Hyde SM,Cote GJ,Grubbs EG,Perrier ND,Lee JE

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm is one of the most difficult clinical problems in surgical practice, with extraordinarily high morbidity and mortality. During the past 23 years, the literature has become replete with reports regarding ruptured endovascular aneurysm repair. METHODS:A variety of study desi...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Robinson WP

更新日期：2017-12-01 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:Emergency medical services are important to the functioning of health systems, but these services tend to be neglected in low- and middle-income countries, such as India. In recent years, several models of pre-hospital emergency medical services have emerged in India. Research on these models holds important...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Sriram VM,Gururaj G,Hyder AA

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic appendectomy is the predominant method of treatment of acute appendicitis. There is insufficient evidence on the most effective management of the appendix stump. The aim of this study was to investigate the relative effectiveness and provide a treatment ranking of different options for securing ...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Antoniou SA,Mavridis D,Hajibandeh S,Hajibandeh S,Antoniou GA,Gorter R,Tenhagen M,Koutras C,Pointner R,Chalkiadakis GE,Granderath FA,Fragiadakis GF,Philalithis AE,Bonjer HJ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A better understanding of the analgesia needs of patients who undergo common operative procedures is necessary as we address the growing opioid public health crisis in the United States. The aim of this study was to evaluate patient experience with our opioid prescribing practice after elective inguinal hern...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Mylonas KS,Reinhorn M,Ott LR,Westfal ML,Masiakos PT

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Operative time often has been cited as an important factor for postoperative outcomes. Despite this belief, most efforts to improve liver transplant outcomes have largely focused on only patient and donor factors, and little attention has been paid on operative time. The primary objective of this project was...

journal_title：Surgery

authors： Lee DD,Li J,Wang G,Croome KP,Burns JM,Perry DK,Nguyen JH,Hopp WJ,Taner CB

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00