abstract：:It is well known that surgical intervention on the stomach will greatly alter gastric function and gastric emptying. In this study, we evaluated the difference in postoperative gastric remnant emptying following pylorus-preserving gastrectomy (PPG) and conventional subtotal gastrectomy (CDG) using sulfamethizole capsu...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Imada T,Rino Y,Takahashi M,Hatori S,Tanaka J,Shiozawa M,Chin C,Yamamoto Y,Amano T,Nakamura K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the influence of potassium ion concentration in an organ preservation solution on lung preservation, four types of solutions were produced. These preservation solutions consisted of sodium and potassium ions on the cation and phosphate ions on the anion with glucose. Contents of solutions were: (1) 155 mmo...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ono K,Sone Y,Irie T,Ohnuki T,Nitta S

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the antiemetic effect of the epidural administration of droperidol on cisplatin-induced emesis, nine adult gastric cancer patients receiving intraoperative cisplatin chemotherapy were studied. After removal of the stomach, 0.05 mg/kg droperidol with 5 ml saline was injected into the epidural space through ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Iwama H,Arai M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to evaluate the release of nitroglycerin (NG) that has been absorbed into the central venous catheter. A 0.05% NG solution was infused through a central venous catheter and the flow rates were set at 1, 5, or 10 ml/h, given over 12, 24, or 48 h. The catheter was flushed with lactate Ringer sol...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Akiyama K,Hirota J,Takiguchi M,Ohsawa S,Hashimoto A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although lateral internal sphincterotomy is widely accepted as the treatment of choice for anal fissures, we report our experience of successfully treating 195 consecutive patients with posterior chronic anal fissures by performing fissurectomy with midline sphincterotomy and anoplasty (FPSA). The surgical technique i...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Di Castro A,Biancari F,D'Andrea V,Caviglia A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to examine the effects of surgical stress on changes in polymorphonuclear leukocyte elastase (PMNE) levels, and to evaluate the relationship of these changes to the development of postoperative complication. A total of 69 patients who underwent alimentary surgery were subsequently divided into...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Noshima S,Morita N,Kobayashi Y,Hayashi D,Okamura K,Takahashi T,Kobayashi T,Enoki T,Esato K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary leiomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland is extremely rare, and to the best of our knowledge only five well-documented cases have been reported in the world literature. We herein report a 58-year-old female patient with primary leiomyosarcoma of the thyroid who was successfully treated by total thyroidectomy with a...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ozaki O,Sugino K,Mimura T,Ito K,Tamai S,Hosoda Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of early gastric cancer, limited to submucosal layer, which was manifested as cerebral metastasis is presented herein. A 47-year-old man was admitted to Nagaoka Chuo General Hospital with convulsions and a disturbance in consciousness, where a computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a cerebral tumor in the left ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nomura T,Yoshikawa T,Kato H,Nikkuni K,Sasaki K,Shirai Y,Hatakeyama K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 77-year-old man presented to our hospital following the sudden onset of left subclavicular swelling, 8 years after undergoing subtotal removal of an axillofemoral bypass. Computed tomography revealed a rupture of the left axillary artery with the formation of a false aneurysm. Emergency surgery was performed in the ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Yamamoto K,Yoshimura T,Ohtani S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed conservative surgery for small differentiated thyroid carcinoma, but also inadvertently carried out minimal insufficient surgery, such as enucleation (Ex) or partial lobectomy (pLx) without regional node dissection for malignant thyroid nodules. In this study, the long-term postoperative outcome after suc...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Shingu K,Sugenoya A,Kobayashi S,Kasuga Y,Fujimori M,Asanuma K,Hama Y,Ito K,Maruyama M,Itoh N,Amano J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the rare case of a 15-year-old girl with chronic appendicitis in whom the appendix was clearly depicted by a barium enema (BE) examination. The patient presented with a 4-month history of diffuse abdominal pain and tenderness in the lower abdomen. Neither computed tomography nor ultrasonography showed...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Okamoto T,Utsunomiya T,Inutsuka S,Sakaguchi T,Notsuka T,Maeda T,Sugimachi K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 601 patients with early gastric cancer (EGC), the clinicopathological findings of 5 patients (invasion of the mucosal layer in 2 and of the submucosal layer in 3) with distant lymph node metastasis according to TNM classification (third- or fourth-tier lymph node metastasis according to the Japanese classificati...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Isozaki H,Okajima K,Ichinona T,Fujii K,Nomura E,Izumi N,Ohyama T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We herein report the case of a 69-year old woman presenting with an abdominal mass, who was found to have a mixed mesodermal tumor (MMT) of the cecum. Imaging studies and endoscopic investigations were consistent with the diagnosis of a nonepithelial malignant tumor of the cecum. On laparotomy, a knuckle-sized firm ma...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Shimizu A,Ohno K,Masuda Y,Endou F,Masuda Y,Ogata A,Nagai M,Obata G,Asano K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between histological factors, including neural invasion (NI), and survival rates in patients with Borrmann type IV diffuse invasive gastric cancer was examined to determine the significance of NI as a prognostic factor. NI was studied histochemically in 75 patients who underwent resection after 1982, ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tanaka A,Yoshikawa H,Okuno K,Koh K,Watatani M,Matsumura E,Yasutomi M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experimental study was conducted using a canine model to elucidate whether the once transected vagal nerve can be conveniently anastomosed, and to determine when and to what degree the vagorrhaphy retains its functions. In the vagorrhaphy group (n = 5), the anterior and posterior vagal trunks were transected 1.5 cm...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kodama M,Arakawa A,Ito M,Koyama K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Esophageal perforations are extremely difficult to diagnose and treat. We report herein our results of a review of 26 patients with esophageal perforation which were spontaneous in 11, iatrogenic in 11, and caused by a foreign body in 4. Surgical treatment was performed in 7 of the patients with spontaneous rupture, b...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Mizutani K,Makuuchi H,Tajima T,Mitomi T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of age on the prognosis of breast cancer remains controversial. To investigate the role of age, we reviewed 316 patients with stage I or II breast cancer. There were 14 patients below 34, 146 between 35 and 49, 115 between 50 and 65, and 41 over 66 years of age. No correlations were observed between age and...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Tsuchiya A,Abe R,Kanno M,Ohtake T,Fukushima T,Nomizu T,Kimijima I

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 35-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for investigation of lower abdominal pain and a feeling of fullness. At her first consultation, a transvaginal ultrasonography (US) revealed a homogeneous cystic mass in the lower abdomen. Over a period of 8 months the US findings of the content of this mass changed fro...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Uchiyama S,Suzuki T,Imai S,Nanbu K,Yokoyama T,Imura Y,Santô Y,Shioya T,Yano M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relationship between the incidence of p53 gene deletion in each nucleus and the clinicopathological features in colorectal cancers, we performed a cytogenetic study using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). FISH was performed on 5 adenomas and 38 colorectal cancers that had been resected surgical...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nanashima A,Tagawa Y,Yasutake T,Taniguchi Y,Sawai T,Nakagoe T,Ayabe H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the fact that no effective conditioning agent for hemodynamically unstable donors exists, the number of suitable donors is limited. The efficacy of OP-41483, a stable analog of prostaglandin I2, as a conditioning agent of the liver was investigated in this study using pigs. OP-41483 was administered via the por...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kishida A,Kurumi Y,Kodama M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there have been numerous reports on implantable infusion devices for chemotherapy of patients with malignancy, we occasionally face problems with this therapy due to trouble with implantation. We performed a retrospective review of 81 implantations in 77 patients, who were treated with intraarterial chemother...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Matsuda T,Yamagishi H,Jin MB,Kobayashi Y,Sonoyama T,Oka T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemodynamic effect and degree of damage in grafts of single lung transplants for pulmonary hypertension were studied in rats with monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension. Inbred male Lewis rats (weight 200-230 g) were divided into two groups. Group 1 (control group, n = 16) underwent isogenic left lung transp...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Yamamoto S,Kawahara K,Takahashi T,Akamine S,Tagawa T,Nakamura A,Muraoka M,Ide S,Sasaki N,Shingu H,Nagayasu T,Yamasaki N,Tomita M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the case of a 46-year-old man in whom an esophageal hemangioma was successfully treated by endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS). The patient was admitted to hospital after a routine upper gastrointestinal series demonstrated a filling defect in the esophagus. Endoscopy, computed tomography (CT) im...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Aoki T,Okagawa K,Uemura Y,Nishioka K,Miyata H,Ukei T,Miyauchi K,Terashima T,Kaneko T,Mizunoya S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bax-alpha, a splice variant of bax which promotes apoptosis, is expressed in many kinds of untransformed cell lines and breast tissue, whereas only weak or no expression could be detected in breast cancer cell lines and malignant breast tissue. Human breast cancer MCF-7 cells, which have a weak bax gene expression, we...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Sakakura C,Sweeney EA,Shirahama T,Igarashi Y,Hakomori S,Tsujimoto H,Imanishi T,Ohgaki M,Yamazaki J,Hagiwara A,Sawai K,Yamaguchi T,Takahashi T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Massive intraoperative blood loss is a major cause of complications following hepatectomy. To evaluate the efficacy of intraportal prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) for preventing liver deterioration in hepatectomy patients with an intraoperative blood loss of over 2000 ml, a retrospective analysis was conducted on 10 patients ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Katsuramaki T,Mukaiya M,Yamashiro K,Kimura H,Denno R,Hirata K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the case of a 72-year-old man in whom a nonanastomotic pseudoaneurysm arose from a reinforced ringed expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (EPTFE) graft (Gore-Tex, Flagstaff, AZ, USA) following an axillobifemoral bypass. The pseudoaneurysm developed 2 years after graft insertion and induced graft thrombosi...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Akiyama K,Hirota J,Shiina Y,Ohkado A,Ohsawa S,Kainuma Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to assess blood vessel invasion (BVI) and other histologic features to determine the best method of histologic prognosis in node-negative breast cancer patients. The prognostic significance of the clinico-pathological findings was evaluated in 70 patients with node-negative breast cancer amon...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Kato T,Kimura T,Miyakawa R,Tanaka S,Kamio T,Yamamoto K,Hamano K,Aiba M,Kawakami M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between a local hypercoagulable state and primary varicose veins of the lower legs was investigated by measuring the plasma levels of D-dimer (DD) and the thrombin-antithrombin-III complex (TAT) in 122 consecutive patients before treatment, and in 46 patients after surgical intervention and compressio...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ikeda M,Kambayashi J,Iwamoto S,Shinoki N,Nakamura T,Shibuya T,Kawasaki T,Monden M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) activities and total protein concentrations were examined in the postrinsing solutions from rat lungs preserved in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), Euro-Collins (E-C) solution, or low-potassium E-C solution for 8 h at 4 degrees C, 10 degrees C, or 20 deg...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Hanagiri T,Igisu H,Matsumura H,Yasumoto K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrospective 10-year study was conducted on 473 patients who underwent rectal cancer surgery, to evaluate a surgical procedure which has been generally abandoned, but which we believe has a significant potential to reduce the incidence of the severe and often fatal complications caused by anastomotic breakdown foll...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Jatzko GR,Lisborg PH,Wette VM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new technique for partial resection of the head of the pancreas with an end-to-side pancreaticoduodenostomy, while preserving the duodenum, the common bile duct, and the upper part of the head of the pancreas around the duct of Santorini. A resection of the inferior head of the pancreas was performed in...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Nakagohri T,Asano T,Takayama W,Uematsu T,Hasegawa M,Miyauchi H,Maruyama M,Iwashita C,Isono K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) and cefmetazole sodium on survival, neutrophil count, and neutrophil function in rats with peritonitis produced by cecal ligation and puncture. Rats with peritonitis received either rhG-CSF (50 or 100 micrograms/kg) with or wi...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ishikura H,Uedono Y,Yamagami K,Arai T,Takeyama N,Tanaka T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4-year-old boy was diagnosed as having a chromosomal abnormality with trisomy 3p associated with a secundum atrial septal defect and a cleft of the anterior mitral leaflet. His craniofacial features showed microcephaly, micrognathia, ocular hypertelorism associated with epicanthus, and low-set ears. Moderate mental ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Suzuki M,Ishikawa S,Ohtaki A,Sakata K,Kawashima O,Otani Y,Morishita Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular lesions of the duodenum, including hemangioma, are rare causes of gastrointestinal bleeding. We herein describe a 52-year-old woman with a solitary cavernous hemangioma of the duodenum that caused chronic gastrointestinal bleeding. Repeated upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and a barium meal study revealed a s...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Fujikawa T,Kurata M,Takaori K,Matsusue S,Takeda H,Sakai S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the case of a patient who developed a malignant recurrence of pheochromocytoma 13 years after undergoing complete resection of a histologically benign, unilateral, sporadic tumor. A discussion on the importance of lifelong follow-up for patients undergoing surgery for pheochromocytoma follows this cas...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Koçak S,Aydintuğ S,Ozbaş S,Ceyhan K,Eraslan S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the cases of two patients with Crohn's disease complicated by a psoas abscess. The first patient was a 29-year-old man who underwent definitive surgery after acute inflammation had been controlled by nutritional therapy. In the second patient, a 37-year-old man, the abscess required drainage under loc...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Funayama Y,Sasaki I,Naito H,Tsuchiya T,Takahashi M,Koyama K,Masuko T,Takahashi K,Hiwatashi N,Matsuno S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of calcium (Ca) on a hyperkalemic cardioplegic solution for continuous cardioplegia were examined in an isolated perfused working rat heart model. The coronary arteries were perfused with a modified Krebs-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer (K-H) solution, containing various concentrations of Ca (0.1, 0.6, 1.2, a...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Takemoto N,Kuroda H,Nakamura Y,Ichiba T,Matsuda N,Ashida Y,Hamasaki T,Hara Y,Ishiguro S,Mori T

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 67-year-old Japanese woman with leiomyoma arising from the lesser omentum is reported herein. Although the patient had no abdominal symptoms, findings of a routine abdominal ultrasound examination suggested a mass between the stomach and the lateral segment of the liver. Subsequent magnetic resonance ima...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ikematsu Y,Usui K,Kamohara Y,Inoue K,Maeda J,Amano M,Horita Y

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunosuppressive effects of a leukotriene B4 (LTB4) receptor antagonist, ONO4057, on liver allotransplantation in rats were evaluated, and the levels of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in the liver tissue during rejection of the allografts examined. The rats were divided into four groups: group 1: Lewis rats (LEW) given ...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Ii T,Izumi R,Shimizu K

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 70-year-old man who had undergone esophagectomy with reconstructive surgery using a portion of the stomach 5 years earlier for esophageal cancer was admitted to our hospital after a routine endoscopy and histological examination of a biopsy specimen revealed poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma in the stomach. A gas...

journal_title：Surgery today

authors： Saeki T,Mandai K,Moriwaki S,Yamagami K,Sakamoto N,Takiyama W,Takashima S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00