Postoperative intensive care unit stay after minimally invasive esophagectomy shows large hospital variation. Results from the Dutch Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Audit [PDF]
, 2021 INTRODUCTION: The value of routine intensive care unit (ICU) admission after minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) has been questioned. This study aimed to investigate Dutch hospital variation regarding length of direct postoperative ICU stay, and the ...
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Cancer Medicine, 2021 Background In several reports, gastric cancer nomograms for predicting overall or disease‐specific survival have been described. The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) introduced the attractiveness of disease‐specific mortality (DSM) as an ...
Etsuro Bando +5 more
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Clinical Practice Guideline for Endoscopic Resection of Early Gastrointestinal Cancer [PDF]
, 2020 Although surgery was the standard treatment for early gastrointestinal cancers, endoscopic resection is now a standard treatment for early gastrointestinal cancers without regional lymph node metastasis.
김지현, 박준철
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Failure to Cure in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Gastric Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2021 BACKGROUND: This study aimed to describe the incidence of failure to cure (a composite outcome measure defined as surgery not meeting its initial aim), and the impact of hospital variation in the administration of neoadjuvant therapy on this outcome ...
Dutch Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer Audit group
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Macrophage spatial heterogeneity in gastric cancer defined by multiplex immunohistochemistry
Nature Communications, 2019 Tumor associated macrophages are functionally and phenotypically heterogeneous. Here the authors describe the spatial distribution of distinct macrophage populations within regions of gastric cancer and probe their associations with clinical outcomes ...
Yu-Kuan Huang +8 more
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Hospital Variation in Feeding Jejunostomy Policy for Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy: A Nationwide Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2023 The purpose of this study was to investigate hospital variation in the placement, surgical techniques, and safety of feeding jejunostomies (FJ) during minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) in the Netherlands.
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Clinical & Translational Immunology, 2020 Objectives To facilitate disease prognosis and improve precise immunotherapy of gastric cancer (GC) patients, a comprehensive study integrating immune cellular and molecular analyses on tumor tissues and peripheral blood was performed.
Minyu Wang +16 more
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BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives The public health disorder gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is linked with several comorbidities, including oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC), but whether life expectancy is reduced by GORD is uncertain.
Jesper Lagergren +5 more
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Cancer of the upper gastrointestinal tract [PDF]
BMJ, 1994 EDITOR, - In their letter J G Weil and S J Munday provide further evidence of surgeons' experience as a prognostic factor and in their subsequent editorial S O'Reilly and A Forastiere draw attention to the potential value of multimodality in the management of oesophageal cancer.
R J Donnelly, D J Girling, P M Fayers
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A Fibreoptic Endoscopic Study of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania: a Retrospective Review of 240 Cases. [PDF]
, 2012 Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is recognized as a common and potentially life-threatening abdominal emergency that needs a prompt assessment and aggressive emergency treatment.
Wolfgang Scheppach +35 more
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