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Publikováno v:
Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 7:390-396
Background: Accurate staging of resected lung cancer requires mediastinal lymph node (MLN) examination. MLN dissection (MLND) and systematic sampling (SS) are acceptable procedures; random sampling (RS) and no sampling (NS) are not. Forty percent of
Publikováno v:
Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. 5:364-368
A 28-year-old woman was admitted to our institution, reporting progressive dyspnea, cough, and weight loss of 14 kg. Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed a left atrial mass, and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed localized involvement of
Publikováno v:
Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care. 63:1173-1184
Despite significant advances in modern surgery and intensive care medicine, esophageal perforation continues to present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Controversies over the diagnosis and management of esophageal perforation remain, and deba
Publikováno v:
Clinica Chimica Acta. 376:72-76
Introduction Serum amyloid A (SAA) and C-reactive protein (CRP) are both acute-phase reactants synthesized by the liver upon stimulation by proinflammatory cytokines reflecting both the acute and chronic inflammatory states. Methods We have establish
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis. 21:418-425
Cosmetic liposuction is a surgical procedure performed on normal nonobese subjects to remove unwanted fat. We are interested to know whether the impact of acute inflammatory response induced by liposuction differs from that of chronic inflammation an
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis. 21:426-431
Patients with renal stones are known to be at risk of clinical complications such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), nephropathy, and cancer. Recently, it has been realized that almost all risk markers for CVD, nephropathy, etc. are all markers associa
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis. 21:367-371
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are both lung diseases involving chronic inflammation of the airway. The injury is reversible in asthma whereas it is mostly irreversible in COPD. Both patients of asthma and COPD are known at r
Publikováno v:
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis. 21:193-196
As the best‐known tumor marker for ovarian carcinoma, CA 125 has also been commonly used to monitor patients with common benign gynecologic diseases such as endometriosis and leiomyoma. Both of these benign tumors are known to be at risk of develop
Autor:
Tsu-Lan Wu, Pi-Yueh Chang, Lily Wu, Chung-Chih Hung, Kuo-Chien Tsao, Chien-Feng Sun, James T. Wu
Publikováno v:
Clinica Chimica Acta. 373:158-163
Myeloperoxidase (MPO), a leukocyte enzyme, is implicated in both the pathogenesis and the progression of atherosclerosis.We developed a sandwich ELISA on microplate using commercial antibodies for the measurement of plasma MPO.The in-house ELISA has
Autor:
John G. Kral, James T. Wu
Publikováno v:
Annals of Surgery. 239:464-474
Ghrelin is a novel gastric hormone recognized in 1999 as a mediator of growth hormone release. Since growth hormone is anabolic, an important function of ghrelin may be to coordinate energy needs with the growth process. Newly discovered biologic rol