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：:Severe fasting hypoglycemia and hypoinsulinemia occurred in a sixty-six year old woman with an intrahepatic mesenchymal tumor. An extract from the tumor was potent in inhibiting the arginine-induced glucagon secretion from the isolated perfused porcine pancreas. This observation supports the theory recently advanced t...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Jensen SL,Kühl C,Lauritsen KB,Moody AJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-two femoropopliteal reconstructions were performed on sixty-six consecutive patients. Of seventeen late failures, thirteen were secondarily reconstructed. Clinical and angiographic studies demonstrated the reasons for failure in all patients except one. Seven patients were improved and six unimproved by reopera...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Painton JF,Avellone JC,Plecha FR

更新日期：1978-02-01 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：:The mesocaval graft for portal decompression is applicable in infants and children with portal hypertension secondary to extrahepatic or intrahepatic causes. It is recommended in patients in whom extensive previous surgery in the portahepatis (Kasai procedure) would make dissection of the portal vein difficult and end...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Altman RP,Potter BM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience with gastrointestinal cancer at a single large hospital has been utilized as a "micro-model" of the experience for the country at large, and the reasons why such a comparison might be possible have been presented. The incidence of various lesions has been discussed in terms of sex, age, and race. The ch...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Cohn I Jr

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our experience from 1960 to 1976 with total infrarenal aortic thrombosis (Leriche syndrome) was reviewed. Sixteen heavy smokers (14 men and 2 women) with an average age of fifty-four years underwent thrombectomy with aortoiliac (12 patients) or aortofemoral (4) Dacron bypasses. The last ten patients were hydrated for ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Casali RE,Tucker E,Read RC,Thompson BW

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy of operative cholangiograms can be increased by radiomanometry. This study identified 17 patients among 198 studied whose choledocholiths would have likely been missed by routine cholangiography. These are almost invariably small stones the fate of which would be conjectural if left behind. In the present...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： McCarthy JD

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yao and Bergan [8] have shown that an ankle systolic index of more than 0.25 is associated with a high rate of success from lumbar sympathectomy. This association has been borne out in our small series. We have also suggested that diseases that obviously compromise collateral circulation might be a relative contraindi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Seeger JM,Lazarus HM,Albo D Jr

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic rupture as a late complication of toxemic pregnancy is a rare yet lethal condition requiring rapid recognition and surgical management. The clinical triad of toxemia, right upper quadrant pain, and sudden hypotension is the diagnostic hallmark of presentation. Most patients present near the time of delivery an...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Nelson EW,Archibald L,Albo D Jr

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximal anal pressures have been measured after proctoscopy in 145 patients with hemorrhoids, 48 patients with anal fissure, and 78 asymptomatic control subjects. Anal pressures in patients with hemorrhoids (106 +/- 40 cm H2O) and anal fissure (130 +/- 43 cm H2O) were very significantly higher than those of controls (...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Arabi Y,Alexander-Williams J,Keighley MR

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After partial or total esophagectomy, total gastrectomy, pancolectomy, and urinary cystectomy, it becomes necessary to reestablish continuity and/or replace function by the creation of a substitute organ obtianed from the various portions of the gastrointestinal tract. Ideally, the creation of the substitute organ sho...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Steichen FM

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing. The results in fity-two patients at twenty different institutions indicates encouraging results. Further evaluation of this method is recomme...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Salyer KE,Newsom HT,Holmes R,Hahn G

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred patients with advanced, recurrent, or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were treated with chemotherapy and BCG as adjuvant immunotherapy. The overall response rate was 35 per cent, and the median duration of response was seventeen weeks. BCG does not prolong duration of remission or s...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Suen JY,Richman SP,Livingston RB,Hersh EM,Craig R,Tonymon K

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Only 3 per cent of all melanomas arise in the mucosa of the head and neck region. Melanomas of mucosal origin in this series differed from their cutaneous counterpart in that size of the primary lesion did not influence prognosis. Regional lymph node metastases were infrequent and did not seem to influence prognosis. ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Shah JP,Huvos AG,Strong EW

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An eighteen month study of the incidence of nosocomial infections was conducted at a 436 bed general army hospital. The overall rate of nosocomial infection was 1.48 per cent, with a monthly range of 0.42 to 2.30 per cent. Gynecology had the highest rate of 5.8 per cent. Escherichia coli, klebsiella, and Staphylococcu...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： John JF Jr

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new surgical approach is proposed for patients with coarctation of the aorta associated with severe aortic valvular insufficiency. The valvular lesion should be repaired first and the coarctation corrected during a second operation; both interventions should be done during the same hospital stay. We base our approac...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Rufilanchas JJ,Villagra F,Maroñas JM,Tellez G,Agosti J,Juffe A,Figuera D

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first reported aorto-left main coronary artery saphenous vein bypass for an aberrant left main coronary artery arising from the anterior sinus of Valsalva is presented. Late follow-up revealed a normal stress test, and cardiac catheterization revealed the left system to be entirely supplied by the graft. ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Sacks JH

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to the peroneal artery as well as to the anterior tibial artery can be accomplished by a lateral approach with fibular resection. The technic is described as well as the use of the glutaraldehyde-tanned human umbilical cord vein as a vascular prosthesis. The results using the latter have been extremely gratifyi...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Dardik H,Ibrahim IM,Dardik II

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of intragastric instillation of meat extract, two groups of duodenal ulcer patients were identified--antral responders and antral nonresponders. Antral response was abolished ater vagotomy and drainage or vagotomy-antrectomy. The differentiation would allow for selective surgery for duodenal ulcer patients. ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Perreault C,Coutsoftides T,Himal HS

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The satisfactory substitute for catgut suture, Vicryl (polyglactin 910) suture, was used in fifty-three patients who underwent general and thoracic surgical procedures. Theoretical advantages of increased strength, controlled absorption by slow depolymerization and dissolution, and superior handling characteristics we...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Reul GJ Jr

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three distinct forms of postoperative breakdown after Nissen fundoplication have been discussed. Disruption and recurrent reflux is most common, with slipping occurring infrequently. For the first time, three patients developing a proximal gastric pouch deformity causing partial obstruction of the fundus without recur...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Saik RP,Greenburg AG,Peskin GW

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine cases of microemboli of arterial origin to the upper extremity are reported. The source of emboli in five of these cases was in the subclavian artery compressed by osseous anomalies in the thoracic outlet. Three aneurysms, one in a subclavian vein graft and two traumatic false aneurysms in the hand, were also not...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Banis JC Jr,Rich N,Whelan TJ Jr

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injuries to the inferior vena cava are being seen with increasing frequency in the civilian population. A review of the experience at UCLA/Harbor General Hospital Medical Center over a ten year period (1966 to 1976) discloses thirty-four patients with major injuries to the inferior vena cava, with an overall mortality...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Turpin I,State D,Schwartz A

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of six healthy laboratory workers with no history of illness caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, four exhibited positive skin responses at 24 hours, strong inhibition of leukocyte migration, and marked stimulation of blastogenesis of peripheral lymphocytes when exposed to a "cocktail" of three phenol-killed strains of P...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Munster AM,Leary AG

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intragastric illumination using a flexible light source is described as a technical aid in the management of gastric bleeding. The flexible light source can be recommended for illumination of the proximal intragastric area to facilitate surgical control of bleeding from Mallory-Weiss lacerations, ulcers, varices, and ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Delany HM,Moss CM

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved technic has been developed to predict rapidly the critical number of bacteria in tissues. This technic gave reliable and accurate measurements for wounds containing more than 2 X 10(5) organisms per gram of tissue. It is fortuitous that 10(6) bacteria is the critical number of bacteria that will induced cl...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Magee C,Haury B,Rodeheaver G,Fox J,Edgerton MT,Edlich RF

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lower esophageal high pressure zone (HPZ) was characterized manometrically and reflux status determined in eight male rhesus monkeys. The studies were repeated six weeks and six months after 50 per cent distal small bowel resection. At the same time fasting serum gastrin and gastric inhibitory polypeptide values w...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hall AW,Moossa AR,Pelligrini C,Clark J,Skinner DB

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurement of arterial and liver tissue oxygen tension (PO2) in animals subjected to hemorrhagic shock demonstrates a significant (p less than 0.001) decrease in tissue PO2 while PaO2 remains essentially unchanged. In fact, marked increase in PaO2 fail to increase tissue PO2 to control levels, demonstrating that the ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hartong JM,Dixon RS,Meyers TT

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombocytopenic patients with surgically correctable lesions such as radial clubhands are too often repeatedly transfused with randomly pooled platelets. This is followed by a clinical rejection of the foreign protein and rapid destruction of the platelets. There may be excessive bleeding episodes. Tissue typing tech...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Schenkar DL,Roeckel IE,Bailey HL,Brower TD

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a random double-blind trial monitored by 125I-fibrinogen leg scan, impedance plethysmography, and contrast phleobograms if impedance became abnormal, hydroxycholoroquine was shown to be no more effective than placebo for prevention of venous thrombosis after total hip replacement. Subsequently, the combination of h...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Hume M,Bierbaum B,Kuriakose TX,Surprenant J

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For 173 patients undergoing major leg amputations, the operative mortality was 13 per cent. The ratio of below-knee (BK) to above-knee (AK) amputations was approximately unity. Of the 150 patients who survived amputation, 93 were given prostheses. Amoung the latter group, 76 per cent of the unilateral AK amputees and ...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Couch NP,David JK,Tilney NL,Crane C

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical extirpation of the primary tumor has traditionally been utilized as initial treatment for sarcomas in children. The present report, however, demonstrates that sarcomas are optimally treated by means of a coordianted multidisciplinary approach. The latter offers the potential for achieving improved survival an...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Jaffe N,Murray J,Traggis D,Cassady RJ,Filler RM,Watts H,Weichselbaum R,Weinstein H

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical analysis of mitochondrial metabolism was made on biopsy specimens of fifteen jaundiced patients. In all but three jaundiced patients the phosphorylative activity based on mitochondrial protein was within normal limits or higher. In nine jaundiced patients the concentrations of cytochrome a(+a3), as repre...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Ozawa K,Honjo I

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the purpose of facilitating liver biopsy during upper abdominal procedures, an adaptation of the percutaneous one-second needle biopsy technic is proposed. A simple device, consisting of a three-way deviator, allows the utilization of the standard needles for percutaneous biopsy. The entire procedure requires fro...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Menghini G,Antonini R,Bruschelli P

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study by questionnaire was sent to 134 Surgical Services at Veterans Administration Hospitals to ascertain the prevalence of the practice of preoperative hydration during the period of hydropenia preceding surgery. A 92.5 per cent response was noted and the following conclusions are drawn: (1) The majority of Vetera...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Whang R,Papper S,Lempke RE

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successfully treated case of a duodenal hamartoma is presented. A review of the literature has shown that this is the largest such tumor so far described, and the first time a mass was palpable on abdominal examination. Its large size resulted in pyloric obstruction, and its wide attachment to the duodenum necessita...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： de Silva S,Chandrasoma P

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of hepatoma are presented in which the clinical manifestations of biliary obstruction resulted from growth of hepatoma into the extrahepatic bile duct. Recognition of such a manifestation of the hepatoma may allow for surgical extirpation of the tumor combined with radiation therapy, which may result in long...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Kuroyanagi Y,Sawada M,Hidemura R,Aoki S,Kato H

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technetium 99m-pyridoxylideneglutamate (99mTc-PG) administered intravenously is excreted by hepatocytes into the bile canaliculi and enters the gallbladder through the cystic duct and consequently, can be used for scanning the hepatobiliary ductal system. A total of 166 patients representing 27 normal subjects, 84 pat...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Matolo NM,Stadalnik RC,Wolfman EF Jr

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrity of the normal mature intestinal mucosal barrier to unaltered proteins was evaluated with tritiated bovine albumin in rats. Intact H3-BSA placed into either colon or small intestinal lumen regularly reached the bloodstream in quantities sufficient to be antigenic or toxigenic, although the fraction of H3-...

journal_title：American journal of surgery

authors： Warshaw AL,Bellini CA,Walker WA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00