OBJECTIVE: To describe an improved percutaneous tracheostomy combined with conventional tracheostomy technique with result of less trauma and fewer complications, and to explore its application in the patients for whom conventional tracheostomy is di...
Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition
Nov 1, 2015
OBJECTIVE: To reveal if whether fennel fruit (Fructus Foeniculi) tea drinking enhances the recovery of intestinal function after gynecologic malignancies operation.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the bioabsorbable staple line reinforcement in distal pancreatic resection.
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: It is considered difficult to perform laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer with T4b that is directly invades to adjacent organs. This retrospective study evaluated pT4b colorectal cancer in terms of the efficacy of laparoscopic surg...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: By remarkable progress of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, we sometimes achieve resection of initially unresectable pancreatic cancer after chemotherapy. Otherwise, the safety and feasibility of radical pancreatic resection after chemo...
Surgical laparoscopy, endoscopy & percutaneous techniques
Oct 1, 2015
PURPOSE: Oncologic and surgical outcomes of bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) robotic thyroidectomy (RoT) are comparable with those of open thyroidectomy (OT). We compared degree of scarring and psychological/physical distress between OT and BA...
International journal of gynecological cancer : official journal of the International Gynecological Cancer Society
Sep 1, 2015
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to determine (1) if there is a relationship between increasing body mass index (BMI) and postoperative complications in patients undergoing robotic hysterectomy for endometrial cancer and (2) if there are ad...
PURPOSE: By integrating intraoperative near infrared fluorescence imaging into a robotic system, surgeons can identify the vascular anatomy in real-time with the technical advantages of robotics that is useful for meticulous lymphovascular dissection...
BACKGROUND: Totally robotic gastric bypass (robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, R-RYGBP) has been adopted in some centers on the basis of large retrospective studies. In view of some data showing higher morbidity and higher costs, some authors have con...