abstract：:Two-plane angiography and direct segmental pressure measurements in the femoral and popliteal arteries and indirectly on the arm and ankle were performed in 101 limbs seeking to establish a relationship between angiographic assessment of the patency of the popliteal artery and the trifurcation vessels and the poplitea...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Agerskov K,Faris I,Tønnesen KH,Kristensen P,Christensen SC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism is affected by various pathologic states including tumors. In this project, glucose turnover and recycling rates in 11 patients with colorectal carcinoma were measured using a double-labelled 3-3H and 1-14C glucose injection technique. Fasting blood glucose, lactate, pyruvate, alanine, glycerol, 3-h...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kokal WA,McCulloch A,Wright PD,Johnston ID

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with Marfan's syndrome have cardiovascular manifestations and complications of these abnormalities lead to death in 50% of patients by the age of 32. This report is concerned with the performance of 79 operations to control these problems in 41 patients during a 16-year period. There were 3 early deaths ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Crawford ES

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delivery of cardioplegic (CP) solutions to all regions of the myocardium is critical for optimal myocardial protection during cardiac surgery. However, there are little data regarding the effects of CP agents upon coronary vascular resistance (CVR) and CP delivery. Accordingly, we evaluated blood CP (Hct 30) delivery ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Leicher FG,Magrassi P,LaRaia PJ,Derkac WM,Buckley MJ,Austen WG

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The University of Rochester, Department of Surgery, in response to an experimental community-wide limit on hospital budgets, studied high-cost general surgical patients as a potential source of leverage for containment of hospital costs. It was found that a small number of patients impact significantly on hospital cos...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Drucker WR,Gavett JW,Kirshner R,Messick WJ,Ingersoll G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight patients after vagotomy and Jaboulay gastroduodenostomy had their gastroduodenostomy closed to treat dumping and diarrhea. Eight gastroduodenostomies were closed once and four were closed twice, a total of 12 procedures. Of these, ten were "simple" closures (direct suture of the opening into the duodenum via a g...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hoffmann J,Fischer A,Jensen HE

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pH on the tensile properties of eight commonly used 2-0 suture materials--plain catgut, Dexon, Vicryl, silk, Nurolon, Ethilon, Mersilene, and Prolene--were examined. The pH level ranged from 3.0 to 10.0. In general, absorbable suture materials were more sensitive to pH than non-absorbable suture materia...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Chu CC,Moncrief G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred patients with intraabdominal infections were assigned randomly in double-blind fashion to receive either the combination of tobramycin plus clindamycin (TM/C) or moxalactam (MOX) alone. Fifty patients comprised each group, but one patient in each group died of infection before 48 hours treatment. In the re...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schentag JJ,Wels PB,Reitberg DP,Walczak P,Van Tyle JH,Lascola RJ

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Umbilical hernia is a common finding in cirrhotic patients with ascites. Spontaneous disruption of the hernia and attendant discharge of ascitic fluid is an unusual and rarely reported complication in these patients and is associated with an overall mortality rate of nearly 30%. During the 5-year period 1977-1982, nin...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lemmer JH,Strodel WE,Knol JA,Eckhauser FE

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new approach for preventing and treating sepsis due to central venous catheter (CVC) has been devised at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan. A prospective protocol has been developed that includes the weekly exchange of the CVC via a guidewire as well as its exchange when a CVC-related sepsis is suspected. Growt...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bozzetti F,Terno G,Bonfanti G,Scarpa D,Scotti A,Ammatuna M,Bonalumi MG

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy continues concerning the advisability of routine shunting, no shunting, or selective shunting during carotid endarterectomy. Because of its reflection of the physiologic state of the end organ, the authors chose routine 18 lead EEG monitoring as a guide to selective shunting and as an indication of adequat...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Whittemore AD,Kauffman JL,Kohler TR,Mannick JA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to determine the best provocative test for the diagnosis of gastrinoma, ten normal subjects, 13 patients with known gastrinoma, and one patient with presumed gastrinoma were administered four regimens: (1) rapid calcium infusion (2 mg Ca++/kg/min), (2) secretin (2 clinical units (CU)/kg/bolus), (3) long ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Romanus ME,Neal JA,Dilley WG,Leight GS,Linehan WM,Santen RJ,Farndon JR,Jones RS,Wells SA Jr

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen patients with primary duodenal carcinoid were analysed retrospectively, and eight of the tumors were immunocytochemically examined. One tumor contained somatostatin, two tumors gastrin, two tumors both these peptides, and one tumor contained serotonin. In two tumors no peptide or amine could be demonstrated. ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lasson A,Alwmark A,Nobin A,Sundler F

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major surgical procedure can impair the delayed hypersensitivity response. This impairment is associated with suppressor cell activity that can alter either afferent or efferent responses. Using the third party mixed leukocyte culture to define cell types involved, major immune impairment was seen with the combinati...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Lundy J,Ford CM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of deep vein thrombosis on intramuscular pressure was evaluated in 22 patients by means of the wick technique. Intramuscular pressure was measured in the anterior tibial and the deep posterior compartments in both legs before and during treatment. The intramuscular pressure was significantly (p less than...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Qvarfordt P,Eklöf B,Ohlin P

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obturator bypass graft operation can be performed in a moderately simplified manner by a technique that allows extension of indications for the procedure beyond situations in which sepsis is present in the groin. Long-term analysis of the results of the cases available for study indicates that the procedure may ve...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Pearce WH,Ricco JB,Yao JS,Flinn WR,Bergan JJ

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary hyperparathyroidism was studied in a well-defined geriatric population of 1129 individuals during a three-month interval. Primary hyperparathyroidism was diagnosed in 1.5%. The diagnosis was based on a morphologic and biochemic basis. From clinical material consisting of 400 patients treated surgically for pri...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Tibblin S,Pålsson N,Rydberg J

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of two levels of protein intake on protein metabolism in six severely burned adult patients were studied (means of 70% BSA burned). A crossover experimental design enabled the authors to study each patient at the end of two three-day dietary regimens. All diets were isocaloric and provided approximately 25...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wolfe RR,Goodenough RD,Burke JF,Wolfe MH

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between June 1977 and November 1981, 26 children and adults with ulcerative colitis have undergone a total colectomy, an endorectal dissection of the rectal mucosa, and an ileoanostomy. A combined abdominoperineal approach was used to perform the operation, and the mucosal-submucosal rectal tube was dissected out inta...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Coran AG,Sarahan TM,Dent TL,Fiddian-Green R,Wesley JR,Jordan FT

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determines the infiltration rate of proximal and distal margins of resection in patients operated on for gastric cancer at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan. Two hundred and eighty-five proximal margins and 286 distal margins were reviewed, and the incidence of infiltration was related to the length of...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bozzetti F,Bonfanti G,Bufalino R,Menotti V,Persano S,Andreola S,Doci R,Gennari L

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes 140 cases in which Linton splenorenal shunts were performed for the management of the complications of portal hypertension by a large number of surgeons in a single hospital. There was a history of variceal bleeding in 130. Using the Childs designation to reflect hepatic functional reserve, the o...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ottinger LW

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conversion of jejunoileal bypass to gastric bypass was performed in 11 patients because of metabolic problems and physical discomforts, and in three patients because of insufficient weight loss. There was no mortality and little morbidity after operation. An additional mean weight loss of 6% occurred, and weight stabi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ackerman NB

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in infancy is related to developmental factors, and there is a high incidence of associated conditions such as neurologic syndromes and esophageal atresia (60%). This is different from the situation in adults. Experience with 18 consecutive children with peptic esophageal ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： O'Neill JA Jr,Betts J,Ziegler MM,Schnaufer L,Bishop HC,Templeton JM

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ileosigmoid fistula complicating Crohn's disease of the small bowel has been considered a perplexing entity, but in practice does not pose a serious operative problem. The presence of such a fistula does not signify that the sigmoid colon is a primary site of Crohn's disease. The operative treatment of this entity ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Block GE,Schraut WH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is frequently stated that hypertrophied ventricles tolerate ischemia less well than nonhypertrophied ventricles. The authors' earlier studies in a rat supravalvular aortic stenosis model and canine valvular aortic stenosis model, both with concentric left ventricular hypertrophy, disclosed accelerated rates of isch...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Peyton RB,Jones RN,Attarian D,Sink JD,Van Trigt P,Currie WD,Wechsler AS

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-seven consecutively presenting myasthenia gravis (MG) patients with generalized weakness were treated according to a standardized prospective protocol. All patients underwent a sternal splitting "total" thymectomy. Medical status before surgery was optimized by plasmapheresis without immunosuppression. Medicatio...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Olanow CW,Wechsler AS,Roses AD

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：:During the past 20 months, 28 patients with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux were treated with the Angelchik anti-reflux prosthesis. The patients ranged in age from 12 to 75 years, with symptoms present from one to 24 years. Vigorous medical management had failed with all patients prior to surgery. Before operation...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Starling JR,Reichelderfer MO,Pellett JR,Belzer FO

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Continuous epidural anesthesia offers special advantages for patients with vascular disease. In 193 patients who had this technique employed for aortofemoral arteriography, profound pain relief was provided and the accompanying vasodilation produced superior demonstration of collateral and small distal vessels. Eleven...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fuchs JC,Fagraeus L,Lumb PD

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 161 adult patients who underwent a modification of the Witzel gastrostomy without gastropexy at Ellis Fischel State Cancer Hospital, Columbia, Missouri, between 1977 and 1980, are reviewed in detail and form the basis of this report. Six of these patients had gastrostomies on two different occasions. Th...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Johnston WD,Lopez MJ,Kraybill WG,Bricker EM

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) was performed as an adjunct to an operation in 43 patients with peripheral arterial insufficiency. This represents 26% of patients undergoing PTA over the past 44 months. In 23 patients PTA was done in conjunction with planned vascular reconstruction. It was successful in al...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kadir S,Smith GW,White RI Jr,Kaufman SL,Barth KH,Williams GM,O'Mara CS,Burdick JF

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma of the gallbladder is an uncommon, but not rare tumor that is associated with a 5% five-year survival rate after resection and this rate has not appreciably improved over the last decades in most series. Nevin et al.(20) however have reported that favorably staged gallbladder cancers (according to histologic...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wanebo HJ,Castle WN,Fechner RE

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial blood flow was measured in dogs simultaneously with electromagnetic flow probes and with ultrasonic "flow probes." The ultrasonic probes were used to determine transcutaneously the mean velocity of arterial flow and the cross-sectional area of the blood vessel. A 10 MHz probe was used for blood vessels 1 cm d...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kasulke RJ,Lichti EA,Kapsch DN,Silver D

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one children from the ages of 4 to 12 years old were treated for esophageal hemorrhage by distal splenorenal shunt (DSS). In four patients, thrombosis of the shunt occurred within the first 24 hours after operation. In the other 17 children, long-term shunt patency was verified. Only one thrombosis has occurred...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Maksoud JG,Mies S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated clinical and vascular laboratory data on 126 patients with below-knee or forefoot amputation. Vascular laboratory examination included Doppler systolic blood pressure and arterial wave form analysis using the segmental plethysmograph. Fifty-four patients had below-knee amputation. A calf systolic pressure...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Nicholas GG,Myers JL,DeMuth WE Jr

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-two patients developed one or more aortoenteric fistulae following aortic reconstruction with a dacron graft. Endoscopy was performed on 11 of these patients on 17 occasions and a preoperative diagnosis was made in eight patients. Fistulous communication was most common between the aorta and duodenum (60%), and...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Champion MC,Sullivan SN,Coles JC,Goldbach M,Watson WC

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was done of 144 patients undergoing Billroth I partial gastrectomy for benign gastric ulcer. At a mean follow-up of 9.4 years, 95 patients were alive. Of 79 patients reviewed, 84% had an excellent or good result on clinical (Visick) grading. Five cases of proven recurrent ulceration were found; two of these pa...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Thomas WE,Thompson MH,Williamson RC

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 10-year period, 94 surgical resections for adenocarcinoma of the cardia (75 "curative" and 19 palliative) were performed using three primary approaches: Group I (46 curative, 14 palliative), esophagogastrectomy performed through a left thoracotomy or left thoraco-abdominal incision; Group II (17 curative, 4 p...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Molina JE,Lawton BR,Myers WO,Humphrey EW

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of endoscopy and directed biopsy in the differential diagnosis of gastric lesions was evaluated by comparing the diagnoses of one endoscopic procedure (endoscopy and multiple directed biopsies) with the definitive diagnoses in 333 patients. The overall endoscopic and bioptic accuracy rate for all patients...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Llanos O,Guzmán S,Duarte I

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambulatory venous pressure (AVP) and ascending and retro-grade phlebography have been used to elucidate the precise pathogenetic factors in cases of venous stasis. On the bases of this information, procedures aimed at the correction of the particular pathophysiological alterations were carried out. Fifty-two lower ext...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schanzer H,Peirce EC 2nd

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00