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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011 Quality assurance (QA) is a process that includes the systematic evaluation of a service, institution of improvements and ongoing evaluation to ensure that effective changes were made.
Robert J Hilsden +5 more
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Analysis of factors influencing early readmission after resection of primary rectal cancer [PDF]
Korean Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2013 Purpose: Early readmission of patients who underwent resection for primary rectal cancer will raise social costs and resources for treatment and will affect the patients’ prognosis.
Bong Kyun Kim +6 more
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Estimating the coverage in 3d reconstructions of the colon from colonoscopy videos [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Colonoscopy is the most common procedure for early detection and removal of polyps, a critical component of colorectal cancer prevention. Insufficient visual coverage of the colon surface during the procedure often results in missed polyps. To mitigate this issue, reconstructing the 3D surfaces of the colon in order to visualize the missing regions has
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BMC Cancer, 2022 Background The purpose was to examine the effect of negative lymph nodes (NLN) number on survival in stage III colon cancer. To reduce the interference of acute inflammation, we included patients with stage III colon cancer who had undergone elective ...
Yi-Hung Kuo +5 more
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Invariant means, complementary averages of means, and a characterization of the beta-type means [PDF]
Mathematics 8 (10), Art. No. 1753(2020), 2020 We prove that whenever the selfmapping $(M_1,\dots,M_p)\colon I^p \to I^p$, ($p \in \mathbb{N}$ and $M_i$-s are $p$-variable means on the interval $I$) is invariant with respect to some continuous and strictly monotone mean $K \colon I^p \to I$ then for every nonempty subset $S \subseteq\{1,\dots,p\}$ there exists a uniquely determined mean $K_S \colon
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Case Reports, 2007 A healthy 51-year-old man presented to the emergency department owing to a lack of bowel movement and dull abdominal pain for 1 week. He had no history of any systemic illness. Physical examination disclosed hypoactive bowel sound and a 4-cm palpable mass over the left lower quadrant. A rectal examination was normal.
S-H Tsai, S-J Chu, S-J Lee
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Protective loop ileostomy or colostomy? A risk evaluation of all common complications [PDF]
Annals of ColoproctologyPurpose Protective ileostomy and colostomy are performed in patients undergoing low anterior resection with a high leakage risk. We aimed to compare surgical, medical, and daily care complications between these 2 ostomies in order to make individual ...
Yi-Wen Yang +8 more
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Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: a trade-off links $R_0$ and susceptibility to co-colonization across countries [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Modern molecular technologies have revolutionized our understanding of bacterial epidemiology, but reported data across different settings remain under-integrated in common theoretical frameworks. Pneumococcus serotype co-colonization, caused by the polymorphic bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, has been increasingly investigated in recent years. While
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Algebraic independence and linear difference equations [PDF]
Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS). Vol. 26,
(2024), no. 5, p. 1899-1932, 2020 We consider pairs of automorphisms $(\phi,\sigma)$ acting on fields of Laurent or Puiseux series: pairs of shift operators $(\phi\colon x\mapsto x+h_1, \sigma\colon x\mapsto x+h_2)$, of $q$-difference operators $(\phi\colon x\mapsto q_1x,\ \sigma\colon x\mapsto q_2x)$, and of Mahler operators $(\phi\colon x\mapsto x^{p_1},\ \sigma\colon x\mapsto x^{p_2}
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2019 Background Local excision (LE) is a feasible treatment approach for rectal cancers in stage pT1 and presents low pathological risk, whereas total mesorectal excision (TME) is a reasonable treatment for more advanced cancers. On the basis of the pathology
I-Li Lai +12 more
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