Annals of surgery
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Comparative Study
Paradoxical effect of IL-18 therapy on the severe and mild Escherichia coli infections in burn-injured mice.
To investigate the effects of IL-18 therapy on severe and mild bacterial infection after burn injury. ⋯ IL-18 therapy can be a potent therapeutic tool against severe bacterial infection in immunocompromised hosts, but careful attention should also be paid to its adverse effects.
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Comment Letter Comparative Study
Laparoscopic adjustable silicone gastric banding versus vertical banded gastroplasty in morbidly obese patients.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The role of surgery in primary gastric lymphoma: results of a controlled clinical trial.
We began a controlled clinical trial to assess efficacy and toxicity of surgery (S), surgery + radiotherapy (SRT), surgery + chemotherapy (SCT), and chemotherapy (CT) in the treatment of primary gastric diffuse large cell lymphoma in early stages: IE and II1. ⋯ In patients with primary gastric diffuse large cell lymphoma and aggressive histology, diffuse large cell lymphoma in early stage SCT achieved good results, but surgery was associated with some cases of lethal complications. Thus it appears that CT should be considered the treatment of choice in this patient setting. Current clinical classifications of risk are not useful in defining treatment.
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We evaluated the ability of neuromonitoring to predict postoperative outcome in patients undergoing thyroid surgery for different indications. ⋯ Neuromonitoring is useful for identifying the recurrent laryngeal nerve, in particular if the anatomic situation is complicated by prior surgery, large tissue masses, aberrant nerve course. However, neuromonitoring does not reliably predict postoperative outcome.