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Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 192:153-160
The primary objective of this study was to determine an objective method for estimating the risk of mortality after burn trauma, and secondarily, to evaluate the relationship between gender and mortality, in the setting of a quantifiable inflammatory
Autor:
Linwah, Yip, Jeffrey E, Lee, Suzanne E, Shapiro, Steven G, Waguespack, Steven I, Sherman, Ana O, Hoff, Robert F, Gagel, James F, Arens, Douglas B, Evans
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 198(4)
Surgical treatment of hereditary pheochromocytoma remains controversial because of the need for lifelong corticosteroid therapy and the risk of Addisonian crisis associated with bilateral total adrenalectomy. We examined our large series of patients
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 182(1)
Pedestrian-motor vehicle trauma (PMVT) is a common mechanism of injury in urban populations.We performed a retrospective review of 273 PMVT victims (16 percent of all patients with blunt injuries) seen at a Level I trauma center over a three-year per
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 178(6)
This study was done to identify the cause of intestinal obstruction with particular emphasis on the gynecologic and perioperative related causes. All medical records from females with the discharge diagnosis "intestinal obstruction" from 1988 to 1991
Autor:
Giuseppe Orlando, David Harriman, Amber Reeves-Daniel, Scott Kaczmorski, William Doares, Colleen L. Jay, Michael D. Gautreaux, Robert J. Stratta, Alan C. Farney, Jeffrey Rogers
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 228:690-705
Background The study purpose was to analyze outcomes in recipients of pediatric dual en bloc (PEB) kidneys from small pediatric donors (SPDs, age ≤ 3 years) and dual kidney transplants (KTs) from adult marginal deceased donors (DDs) in the context
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Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 226:1175-1180
Background Survival of burn patients with abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) is uniformly reported to be poor, averaging just 16% after laparotomy. We hypothesize that better outcomes can be achieved with a strategy of immediate laparotomy and earl
Autor:
Jin He, John L. Cameron
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 220:530-536
Background The first successful local resection of a periampullary tumor was performed by Halsted in 1898. Kausch performed the first regional resection in 1909, and the operation was popularized by Whipple in 1935. The operation was infrequently per
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Patricia K. Long, John T. Woosley, Faera L. Byerly, David W. Ollila, Michael O. Meyers, Jill S. Frank, Jen Jen Yeh, Keith D. Amos, Allison M. Deal
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 211:744-748
Background Atypical melanocytic neoplasms present a therapeutic dilemma. Current consensus is to perform a sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy as part of management. However, it is unclear whether this is required in all patients. We present our experie
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Vassiliki L. Tsikitis, David W. Larson, John H. Pemberton, Bruce G. Wolff, Heidi Nelson, Robert R. Cima, Venkat P. Poola
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 209:114-118
Background The use of defunctioning stomas has been advocated to mitigate the adverse sequela from anastomotic dehiscence after rectal cancer resection. The aim of this study was to report our experience with anastomotic dehiscence and overall morbid
Autor:
Frederick A. Moore, Stephen A. Jones, Krista L. Turner, S. Rob Todd, Laura J. Moore, R. Matthew Sailors, Joseph F. Sucher, Bruce A. McKinley, Alicia Valdivia
Publikováno v:
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 213(1)
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is secreted in response to myocardial stretch and has been used clinically to assess volume overload and predict death in congestive heart failure. More recently, BNP elevation has been demonstrated with septic shock