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BMC CancerBackground The effectiveness of palliative gastrectomy for advanced GC remains a topic of debate. This study sought to establish whether palliative gastrectomy has an impact on prolonging survival.
Desheng Luo +7 more
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Abdominal multi-organ segmentation with organ-attention networks and statistical fusion [PDF]
Medical Image Analysis, 2019, 2018 Accurate and robust segmentation of abdominal organs on CT is essential for many clinical applications such as computer-aided diagnosis and computer-aided surgery. But this task is challenging due to the weak boundaries of organs, the complexity of the background, and the variable sizes of different organs.
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A trial of intraoperative low-tidal-volume ventilation in abdominal surgery.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2013 BACKGROUND Lung-protective ventilation with the use of low tidal volumes and positive end-expiratory pressure is considered best practice in the care of many critically ill patients.
E. Futier +16 more
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Considering the Risks and Costs of Solid Organ Xenotransplantation
Advanced Biology, EarlyView.This perspective discusses the rationale, risks, and costs of whole‐organ xenotransplantation. It considers alternative strategies to obviate the demand for transplants and optimize allotransplantation systems and practices that do not impose xenotransplantation's harms and risks, and whether they are the most ethical and effective means to increase ...
Catharine E. Krebs +5 more
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BMC CancerBackground Family caregivers of gastric cancer (GC) patients after gastrectomy have a strong demand for nutrition knowledge. This study investigates the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of primary caregivers of GC patients regarding ...
Desheng Luo +7 more
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Outcomes of the surgical treatment for adenocarcinoma of the cardia – single institution experience
Radiology and Oncology, 2017 Adenocarcinomas at the cardia are biologically aggressive tumors with poor long-term survival following curative resection. For resectable adenocarcinoma of the cardia, mostly esophagus extended total gastrectomy or esophagus extended proximal gastric ...
Potrc Stojan +5 more
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Laparoscopic fixation of biological mesh at hiatus with glue and suture during hiatal hernia repair
BMC Surgery, 2021 Background Laparoscopic paraesophageal hernia repair is associated with higher recurrence rate. Mesh is used to reduce the recurrence rate. This retrospective study is to review our experience of biological mesh fixed with suture and medical glue in ...
Yusheng Nie +6 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE) may aggravate liver fibrosis. In this study, a novel oral targeting nanoemulsion is fabricated to enhance the therapeutic effect of antifibrotic drug‐pirfenidone (PFD) on fibrosis after TACE. Studies have shown that PFD nanoemulsion can enhance the oral liver targeting effect of PFD, and effectively improve the ...
Zhimei Cheng +12 more
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Right sided posterior diaphragmatic hernia with liver incarceration: A case report
Clinical Case ReportsKey clinical Message Right sided posterior diaphragmatic hernias are a rare diagnosis, especially in adult populations. This patient presented with right thoracic pain for 20 years before investigation.
Boitsios Alexi +3 more
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