Hepato Gastroenterol
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Hepato Gastroenterol · May 2003
Factors for prolonged length of stay after elective hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma. The surgeon's role in the managed care era.
Length of stay is an important marker of medical resource consumption. In the modern managed care era physicians are driven to deliver the highest quality of care while using fewest resources. Hepatectomy represents a technically challenging and resource-intensive procedure, particularly in the setting of hepatic malignancy and liver cirrhosis. For improving quality of surgical management in such cases, we aimed to identify the factors affecting length of stay after hepatectomy for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. ⋯ Most of the independent factors for prolonged length of stay after elective hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma patients are operation-related and surgeon-dependent. The surgeon plays a key role in determining length of stay. By minimizing blood transfusion, surgical complication, and the time to abdominal drain removal, length of stay can be significantly decreased in hepatocellular carcinoma patients undergoing hepatectomy.
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Hepato Gastroenterol · May 2003
Outcome of total pelvic exenteration for locally recurrent rectal cancer.
Local recurrence occurs in 10 to 30% of patients with rectal cancer following curative resection. However treatment of choice remains controversial. We assessed the results of total pelvic exenteration for locally recurrent cancer of the rectum retrospectively. ⋯ Total pelvic exenteration for local recurrence of rectal cancer can achieve long-term survival when curative resection is possible and the disease-free interval is long.
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Hepato Gastroenterol · May 2003
Arterial embolization in the treatment of severe blunt hepatic trauma.
The Authors stress the role of arterial embolization in the treatment of severe blunt hepatic trauma, with stable hemodynamic conditions, but with continuous bleeding, demonstrated by computed tomography scan. ⋯ Our results show that arterial embolization is useful and effective in the treatment of severe blunt hepatic trauma when, in spite of stable hemodynamic state, computed tomography scan shows persistent bleeding.