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My appendectomy

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2012
A personal experience of a medical resident with appendicitis.
openaire   +4 more sources

The role of appendectomy in the development of Parkinson’s disease: a retrospective study in a teaching hospital in Jordan

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2021
Background Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain disease related to the accumulation of an abnormally aggregated alpha-synuclein protein. A hypothesis was presumed that this protein will be transported retrogradely from the gastrointestinal tract ...
Said Salah Dahbour, Aseel Subuh, Rama Haddad, Tulay Al-Samardali, Aladdin Dahbour   +4 more
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Evaluating the distribution of the locations of colorectal cancer after appendectomy and cholecystectomy

World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2020
Backgrounds The number of appendectomies and cholecystectomies performed is gradually increasing worldwide. An increasing incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) after appendectomy and cholecystectomy has been reported, but the location of tumors in certain
Szabolcs Ábrahám, Tibor Németh, Ria Benkő, Mária Matuz, Aurél Ottlakán, Dániel Váczi, Attila Paszt, Zsolt Simonka, György Lázár   +8 more
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Increased Risk of Clinically Significant Gallstones following an Appendectomy: A Five-Year Follow-Up Study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Although the vermiform appendix is commonly considered a vestigial organ, adverse health consequences after an appendectomy have garnered increasing attention.
Shiu-Dong Chung, Chung-Chien Huang, Herng-Ching Lin, Ming-Chieh Tsai, Chao-Hung Chen   +4 more
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Picard-Lefschetz theory and dilating C^*-actions [PDF]

, 2015
We consider C^*-actions on Fukaya categories of exact symplectic manifolds. Such actions can be constructed by dimensional induction, going from the fibre of a Lefschetz fibration to its total space.
Seidel, Paul
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3D printing variation: Teaching and assessing hepatobiliary variants in human anatomy

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Textbook anatomy depiction of the hepatobiliary tree is present in 55%–62% of the population. Misidentification of hepatobiliary variants can lead to bile duct injuries in cholecystectomies. A better understanding of variants has been cited as a key area for improvement in anatomy education.
Christian Myles, Laura Gorman, James F. X. Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Single-incision versus conventional laparoscopic appendectomy: A case-match study

SAGE Open Medicine, 2014
Background: Three-port laparoscopic appendectomy is considered standard in many countries for the surgical treatment of acute appendicitis. Single-incision laparoscopic technique has been recently introduced and is supposed to minimize the aggression ...
Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, Emilie Uldry, Nicolas Demartines, Markus Schäfer   +3 more
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Ileocecal appendix involvement in fabry disease mimicking an acute abdomen [PDF]

, 2014
Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) is a rare, X-linked, lysosomal storage disorder due to a deficiency of alphagalactosidase A. The direct consequence is a lipid storage with the accumulation of glycosphingolipids throughout the body.
Cristi E, Feriozzi S, Giannakakis K, Gomes VV, MASSARI, ANNALISA, Ranalli TV   +5 more
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The Delphi and GRADE methodology used in the PSOGI 2018 consensus statement on Pseudomyxoma Peritonei and Peritoneal Mesothelioma

, 2021
Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (PMP) and Peritoneal Mesothelioma (PM) are both rare peritoneal malignancies. Currently, affected patients may be treated with Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy offering long-term survival or even ...
de Hingh, I.,, Deraco, M.,, Glehen, O.,, Govaerts, K.,, Kepenekian, V.,, Kusamura, S.,, Lund University., Lurvink, R.J,, Moran, B.,, PSOGI, Syk, Ingvar,, Van der Speeten, K.,, Villeneuve, L.,   +12 more
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Postnatal determinants of testicular germ cell tumor by histological subtypes: The EPSAM1 and EPSAM2 studies

International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? While several nongenetic risk factors are linked to testicular germ‐cell tumors (TGCTs), the influence of environmental and hormonal factors remains unclear. This study evaluated the role of postnatal exposures in the etiology of TGCT using data from the ongoing EPSAM case–control investigation in Italy.
Mauro Cioffi, Giovenale Moirano, Elena Isaevska, Valentina Fiano, Massimo Di Maio, Patrizia Lista, Ilaria Depetris, Andrea Zitella, Pietro Quaglino, Lorenzo Richiardi, Maja Popovic   +10 more
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