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A prospective cohort study characterising patients declined emergency laparotomy: survival in the ‘NoLap’ population

Anaesthesia, 2019
Patients eligible for emergency laparotomy who do not proceed to surgery are not as well characterised as patients who do proceed to surgery. We studied patients eligible for laparotomy, as defined by National Emergency Laparotomy Audit criteria, from ...
E. McIlveen, Emma Wright, Martin Shaw, J. Edwards, Mark Vella, Tara Quasim, S. Moug   +6 more
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Pancreatic Heterotopia of Small Intestine with Tubercular Ileitis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Pancreatic heterotopia is defined as pancreatic tissue outside the boundary of pancreas that lacks an anatomic and vascular connection to it. Till today, no case of pancreatic heterotopia along with tubercular ileitis has been reported.
Dinesh Kumar, Romi Srivastava, Jay Prakash, Kachnar Varma, Vatsala Misra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome in pancreatitis, paediatrics, and trauma [PDF]

, 2015
Intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) is an important contributor to early organ dysfunction in trauma and sepsis. However, relatively little is known about the impact of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) in general internal medicine, pregnant patients, and ...
De Keulenaer, Bart L, De laet, Inneke, De Waele, Jan, Ejike, Janeth C, Ivatury, Rao, Kimball, Edward, Kirkpatrick, Andrew W, Leppäniemi, Ari, Malbrain, Manu LNG, Roberts, Derek J   +9 more
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Association between surgeon special interest and mortality after emergency laparotomy

British Journal of Surgery, 2019
Approximately 30 000 emergency laparotomies are performed each year in England and Wales. Patients with pathology of the gastrointestinal tract requiring emergency laparotomy are managed by general surgeons with an elective special interest focused on ...
H. Boyd-Carson, B. Doleman, P. J. Herrod, I. Anderson, J. P. Williams, J. N. Lund, G. Tierney, D. Murray, S. Hare, S. Lockwood, C. M. Oliver, L. J. Spurling, T. Poulton, C. Johnston, D. Cromwell, A. Kuryba, P. Martin, J. Lourtie, J. Goodwin, R. Mooesinghe, N. Eugene, S. Catrin-Cook, I. Anderson   +22 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

WSES classification and guidelines for liver trauma [PDF]

, 2016
The severity of liver injuries has been universally classified according to the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) grading scale. In determining the optimal treatment strategy, however, the haemodynamic status and associated injuries ...
Abu-Zidan, Fikri M., Ansaloni, Luca, Biffl, Walter, Catena, Fausto, Ceresoli, Marco, Coccolini, Federico, Coimbra, Raul, Fraga, Gustavo, Ivatury, Rao, Kluger, Yoram, Montori, Giulia, Moore, Ernest E., Moore, Frederick A., Naidoo, Noel, Peitzman, Andrew, Rizoli, Sandro, Sartelli, Massimo, Weber, Dieter, Zanini, Nicola   +18 more
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Long-term survival and complications of colic surgery in horses: analysis of 331 cases

Veterinární Medicína, 2008
Three hundred and thirty-one (331) horses out of 371 cases (i.e. 351 individuals discharged from the clinic) were followed up in order to evaluate long-term survival rate and complications after colic surgery.
J. Mezerova, Z. Zert
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Closure methods for laparotomy incisions for preventing incisional hernias and other wound complications.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017
BACKGROUND Surgeons who perform laparotomy have a number of decisions to make regarding abdominal closure. Material and size of potential suture types varies widely.
Sunil V. Patel, D. Paskar, R. Nelson, S. Vedula, S. Steele   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Penetrating thoracoabdominal injuries from multiple‐spiked spear stabbing: Case report and literature review

Clinical Case Reports, 2020
Penetrating thoracoabdominal injuries carry high morbidity and mortality. Concurrent clinical evaluation and resuscitation followed by early surgery are associated with good outcome.
David Muchuweti, Edwin Muguti
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The CEA Second-Look Trial: a randomised controlled trial of carcinoembryonic antigen prompted reoperation for recurrent colorectal cancer [PDF]

, 2014
Objective In patients who have undergone a potentially curative resection of colorectal cancer, does a ‘second-look’ operation to resect recurrence, prompted by monthly monitoring of carcinoembryonic antigen, confer a survival benefit?Design A randomised
Bacon, Cochrane, Doshi, Ekman, Ellis, Embun, Fiorentino, Fiorentino, Fiorentino, Gill, Goldenberg, Grunhagen, Horton, Keep, Kraemer, Lennon, Levesque, Lewis, Loder, Mach, Mackay, Martin, Martin, Meeker, Moertel, Morris, Nicholson, Northover, Polk, Poston, Primrose, Randomised trial of intravenous streptokinase, oral aspirin, both, or neither among 17,187 cases of suspected acute myocardial infarction: ISIS-2, Rosen, Searle, Staab, Treasure, Treasure, Treasure, Treasure, Utley, Wangensteen, Welch   +41 more
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Abdominal Wall Closure in Elective Midline Laparotomy: The Current Recommendations

Frontiers in Surgery, 2018
Introduction The risk of developing an incisional hernia after primary elective median laparotomy is reported in the literature as being between 5 and 20 percent. The goal of this systematic review was to evaluate different closure techniques for midline
R. Fortelny
semanticscholar   +1 more source