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：:An experimental model was developed in dogs to correlate radioisotope scan findings of iatrogenic, in vivo, splenic injury with the natural history of the injury as determined by the clinical course and both gross and microscopic observations. It was found that small subcapsular injuries do not appear as discrete foca...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Washburn ME,Balk MW,Mazat BA,Zurlo JA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric carcinoma following operation for benign peptic ulcer disease has been considered rare but nine patients have been seen during the past five years. All were male patients, the average time interval from prior ulcer operation to development of cancer was 17 years, but was a short as ten years. The symptoms of c...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Eberlein TJ,Lorenzo FV,Webster MW

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 112 patients suspected of periampullary cancer endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was successfully performed in 87 patients (78%). Technical failures were due to gastric outlet obstruction in four patients and inability to cannulate the ampulla of Vater in 21 patients. Succ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hall TJ,Blackstone MO,Cooper MJ,Hughes RG,Moossa AR

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The records of 238 patients with the diagnosis of small bowel obstruction at the University of Illinois Hospital from 1967 through the spring of 1976 were reviewed. Mortality, intra-operative management, and clinical findings were evaluated. Previous reports list a mortality of gangrenous small bowel obstruction, seco...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Stewardson RH,Bombeck CT,Nyhus LM

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population based surgical rates for various common surgical procedures were analyzed on a regional basis by examining select uniform hospital discharge abstract data from Wisconsin hospitals. The surgical asbracts of nearly 64,000 procedures were compared to the supply of physicians and showed a significant variation ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Detmer DE,Tyson TJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method of clinical staging for infants with necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is proposed. On the basis of assigned stage at the time of diagnosis, 48 infants were treated with graded intervention. For Stage I infants, vigorous diagnostic and supportive measures are appropriate. Stage II infants are treated medically,...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bell MJ,Ternberg JL,Feigin RD,Keating JP,Marshall R,Barton L,Brotherton T

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our series of 101 patients with small bowel bypass for morbid obesity, nine developed biliary calculi postoperatively during a mean follow-up of 29.6 months. The development of gallstones depends in part on biliary cholesterol saturation and on the zeta potential of bile. In eight consecutive patients, the lithogen...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wise L,Stein T

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen mini-pigs were bled to a mean aortic blood pressure of 40 mm Hg and maintained at that level for three hours. The control group consisted of eight animals with shock for three hours, while the test group was comprised of seven animals with a similar shock period but which had undergone splanchnicectomy 14 days...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Hottenrott C,Seufert RM,Kühne FW,Büsing M

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intrajejunal infusion of a fat solution on pentagastrin-stimulated (0.5 microgram/kg-hr) gastric acid secretion was studied in five duodenal ulcer patients before and three to five months after truncal vagotomy. Preoperatively mean acid output was reduced from 41 +/- 5.2 meq H+/hr to 15.4 +/- 1.3 meq H+/...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Christiansen J

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminished poststenotic pressure and flow accompanied experimental application of multiple subcritical arterial stenoses in series. Effects of additional stenoses, causing equivalent constrictions, were cumulative in a nonlinear fashion. Seven-hundred-twenty measurements were performed using 10 cm ileofemoral canine a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Flanigan DP,Tullis JP,Streeter VL,Whitehouse WM Jr,Fry WJ,Stanley JC

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma and nine patients with minimal residual disease (MRD) but at high risk for recurrence following nephrectomy received weekly four milligram intradermal injections of purified RNA extracted from lymphoid organs of sheep immunized with human renal cell carcinoma. Eight...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Ramming KP,deKernion JB

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because hospitalization is a key factor in controlling health care costs and because fee-for-service remains the predominant mode of physician payment, a study was undertaken of the hospitalization experiences of open panel fee-for-service health maintenance organizations (IPA-HMOs) and Foundations for Medical Care (F...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Edgahl RH,Taft CH,Friedland J,Linde K

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-three patients (mean age 62 +/- 1 years) were treated for ventricular septal defect (VSD) secondary to myocardial infarction. Whenever possible, operation was postponed until six weeks post-onset chest pain. However, hemodynamic instability, evidenced by cardiogenic shock, refractory pulmonary edema, or a rising...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Daggett WM,Guyton RA,Mundth ED,Buckley MJ,McEnany MT,Gold HK,Leinbach RC,Austen WG

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined Cambridge/King's College Hospital series of 64 orthotopic liver grafts' experience dates back to 1968. Many patients were referred for liver grafting late in the course of their diseases and were operated on when they were too ill or died before suitable livers could be found. Complications of biliary dra...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Calne RY,McMaster P,Portmann B,Wall WJ,Williams R

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 112 patients who underwent reoperation for primary hyperparathyroidism at the Massachusetts General Hospital between 1930 and 1975, all but 10 were treated successfully. Seventy-five initial explorations had been performed elsewhere, and 37 in our hospital. A total of 110 diseased parathyroids were unco...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Wang CA

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segments of rat inferior vena cava were modified by proteolytic digestion and dialdehyde starch tanning in an attempt to alter their antigenic nature and increase their tensile strength. These tissues were found to retain their ability to sensitize allogeneic recipients in both the intradermal and intra-aortic positio...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Perloff LJ,Rowlands DT,Barker CF

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports cite better survival when repeatedly rejecting renal allografts are removed and patients returned to hemodialysis. However, the criteria for graft removal remain undefined; although some reports recommend removing all kidneys undergoing a third rejection. In our series (1968-1973) of 316 patients with t...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Matas AJ,Simmons RL,Kjellstrand CM,Fryd DS,Najarian JS

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the years 1954 through 1964, 259 individuals with primary malignant melanoma had an elective node dissection. Microscopic metastases were found in 15% of these patients. The presence of only a microscopic focus of involvement gave a 10-year cure rate of 67%; metastasis larger than a microscopic focus in a singl...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Fortner JG,Woodruff J,Schottenfeld D,Maclean B

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred seventeen carotid endarterectomies performed on 240 consecutive patients in four Charleston hospitals were reviewed. The overall incidence of stroke was 10.7% and the mortality 3.2%. From these 317 operations a standardized series of 253 operations performed on neurologically stable patients was analyzed...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Prioleau WH Jr,Alken AF,Hairston P

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small intestinal morphologic and biochemical changes were studied following jejuno-ileal bypass for obesity after body weight stabilization had occurred. Four patients underwent biopsy of in-continuity and bypassed jejunal and ileal segments of the small intestine 11 to 22 months after the bypass operation. Microscopi...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Dudrick SJ,Daly JM,Castro G,Akhtar M

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1016 Women were placed on estrogen support following hysterectomy and have been followed for a total of 14,318 patient/years. Support was principally conjugated estrogen with the customary dose 1.5 mg/day. The follow-up studies in this group of women shows a marked drop in deaths from all causes over those which might...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Byrd BF Jr,Burch JC,Vaughn WK

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of important differences in prognosis and treatment, prompt and accurate diagnosis of fever, decreasing function, and pain and tenderness around a renal allograft is crucial for differentiation between acute rejection and other post-operative conditions which may give a similar picture. Ultrasound examinations...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Petrek J,Tilney NL,Smith EH,Williams JS,Vineyard GC

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with surgically treated Menetrier's disease are presented. Diffuse or focal cystic hyperplasia of mucous secreting epithelium of the fundus with antral sparing characterized the stomachs in all of these cases. In most instances the disorder was found during evaluation of non-specific complaints of pain, n...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Davis JM,Gray GF,Thorbjarnarson B

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe hemorrhage associated with major trauma and vascular procedures is seen frequently in our operating rooms. Immediate autotransfusion has enabled us to safely and adquately correct blood losses without placing overwhelming demands on our blood bank. Since October 1973, a device capable of retrieving, filtering a...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Bonfils-Roberts EA,Stutman L,Nealon TF Jr

更新日期：1977-03-01 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：:Reservoir and ileostomies were performed in 54 patients between 1972 and 1975. Primary colonic pathology included chronic ulcerative colitis in 47 patients, Crohn's colitis in one, familial polyposes in 5 and Gardner's Syndrome in one. Followup is complete and varies from 6 months to three years. All but three patient...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gelernt IM,Bauer JJ,Kreel I

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the clinical posttransplant effect of allopurinol on preserved kidneys. Thirty-four paired kidneys from brain-dead cadavers were preserved by hypothermic pulsatile perfusion with silica gel fraction in separate cassettes. Allopurinol was added to one perfusate and omitted from the other in a randomized...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Toledo-Pereyra LH,Simmons RL,Olson LC,Najarian JS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous transhepatic bile drainage was performed in 13 patients with obstructive jaundice, using a combination of the PTC technique and a Seldinger angiography catheter. In 11 cases, the outflow of bile through the catheter was satisfactory and complications were few. Since the risk of the procedure is low and it...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Mori K,Misumi A,Sugiyama M,Okabe M,Matsuoka T

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the purpose of this research to define the progression over several days of changes in pulmonary function and structure and to document the phases of recovery following transfusions to dogs of sublethal quantities of stored blood containing microaggregates. Ten dogs underwent partial exchange transfusions avera...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Brown C,Dhurandhar HN,Barrett J,Litwin MS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with a syphilitic aneurysm of the aorta treated by the insertion of wire is presented. The patient remained well for almost 40 years, but finally succumbed after rupture. The autopsy findings are discussed. To our knowledge, this represents the longest reported survival after treatment of an aortic aneurysm ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Altman P,Voorhees AB Jr

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of the association of mammalian ovarian function with lactation was common knowledge to dairy-men early in the 19th century or earlier. This thesis reviews the application of these empiric observations to lactation in humans by Beatson of Glasgow, supported by his preliminary laboratory investigation...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Macmahon CE,Cahill JL

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread recognition of coartation of the aorta there are still many patients in whome the diagnosis is not made. A simple clinical test which is useful in making the diagnosis in infants and adults, is described. It depends upon the differential color changes between fingers and toes after releasing a m...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Gerbode F

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the absence of a prospective randomized study of patients treated conservatively or with thymectomy, a computer-assisted retrospective matches study was devised. Of 563 patients treated for myasthenia gravis without thymoma up to 1965, 104 had thymectomy. With computer assistance, each surgical patient was matched ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Buckingham JM,Howard FM Jr,Bernatz PE,Payne WS,Harrison EG Jr,O'Brien PC,Weiland LH

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prolonged feeding of chenodeoxycholic acid produces hepatic injury in both pregnant and non-pregnant baboons. CDC feeding does not adversely affect ovarina function and no teratogenic effects of this bile acid were noted in 16 live birth and two stillborn progeny of CDC fed animals. However, 10 of the 16 live birt...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： McSherry CK,Morrissey KP,Swarm RL,May PS,Niemann WH,Glenn F

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective (Part I) and a retrospective (Part II) study were used to determine the safety and efficacy of corticosteroids in the treatment of septic shock. In Part I, 172 consecutive patients in septic shock admitted over an 8-year period were treated with either steroid or saline: 43 received dexamethasone (DMP), ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Schumer W

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients, ages 7 and 17, with unresectable obstructions within the left ventricular cavity, have been managed by interposing a conduit bearing a porcine aortic valve between the apex of the left ventricle and the infra-renal abdominal aorta. The younger child had idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS) r...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Dembitsky WP,Weldon CS

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 915 resections for bronchogenic carcinoma over a 25-year period (1945-1969), 249 patients survived over 5 years; 127 of the patients eligible survived over 10 years, 61 over 15 years, and 22 over 20 years. The case material was divided into three time periods: 1945-49, 1950-59 and 1960-69, as well as by extent of r...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Paulson DL,Reisch JS

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurence of gastroenteric fistulae in non-surgically treated peptic ulcer disease is rare as suggested by only 26 cases published in the literature so far. We had the opportunity to care for 3 patients with this problem in a period of one year. At our institution, a search of the medical records dating back to 1955 y...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Kumar GK,Razzaque MA,Naidu VG,Barbour EM

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three methods of closing bronchial stumps were evaluated in 90 dogs undergoing left pneumonectomy:interrupted 3-0 silk sutures, interrupted 3-0 nylon sutures, and stapling with an automatic device. The dogs were sacrificed at 24 hours, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 14 days after pneumonectomy. Brochial stump leakage pressures and ...

journal_title：Annals of surgery

authors： Scott RN,Faraci RP,Hough A,Chretien PB

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00