Is there a role for bowel preparation and oral or parenteral antibiotics in infection control in contemporary colon surgery? [0.03%]
当代结肠手术中肠道准备和口服或静脉用抗生素在感染控制中的作用是什么呢？
Susan Galandiuk,Donald E Fry,Hiram C Polk Jr
Susan Galandiuk
The numbers of unanswered questions are many. Can intraoperative application, such as topical antimicrobial use in pulsed lavage, reduce the microbial burden on the wound interface before closure? Can closed suction drains within the closed...
Russell N Wesson,Andrew M Cameron
Russell N Wesson
Patients with acute liver failure are a particularly challenging group, with unique difficulties faced in treatment decisions. Life-saving therapy is available, but organ shortage, delays in transplantation, and complications in management ...
Local and regional control in breast cancer: role of sentinel node biopsy [0.03%]
乳腺癌的局部和区域控制：前哨淋巴结活检的作用
Armando E Giuliano,Soo Hwa Han
Armando E Giuliano
The development and acceptance of the SLND has profoundly affected the management of breast cancer. SLND has supplanted ALND as a highly accurate and less-morbid axillary staging procedure in patients with clinically node-negative early-sta...
Jennifer A Sexton,John J Ricotta
Jennifer A Sexton
AVFs differ in their characteristics, natural history, and response to interventions. These differences need to be considered when planning treatment. Endovascular treatments have emerged as a mainstay of treatment of all types of AVMs. The...
Richard A Cooper
Richard A Cooper
Almost 50 years ago, John F. Kennedy told Yale's graduating class that "what is needed today is a new, difficult but essential confrontation with reality, for the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dish...
Beejay A Feliciano,Michael C Dalsing
Beejay A Feliciano
The continued advancement of RFA and EVLS technology should provide for an increased safety profile and lasting efficacy for treating the major saphenous veins. The challenge lies in determining what type of patient comorbidities and anatom...
Jin He,Jonathan E Efron
Jin He
March is national colorectal cancer awareness month. It is estimated that as many as 60% of colorectal cancer deaths could be prevented if all men and women aged 50 years or older were screened routinely. In 2000, Katie Couric's televised c...
Martin Donald Zielinski,Michael Patrick Bannon
Martin Donald Zielinski
SBO is a common disease with multiple causes. The most significant advances over the past several years have involved, first, decision-making techniques to promptly and accurately identify patients who will require exploration, and, second,...
William M Stone
William M Stone
Stephen R Grobmyer,Steven N Hochwald
Stephen R Grobmyer
It is clear that a properly performed initial operation is the key to success in the management of a patient with ZES. However, reoperation is frequently a consideration in the management of patients with ZES because high rates of persisten...