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    Technical Aspects of Orthotopic Liver Transplantation—a Survey-Based Study Within the Eurotransplant, Swisstransplant, Scandiatransplant, and British Transplantation Society Networks

    Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has emerged as the mainstay of treatment for end-stage liver disease. However, technical aspects of OLT are still subject of ongoing debate and are widely based on person...

    Zoltan Czigany, Marcus N. Scherer, Johann Pratschke in Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (2019)

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    Liver Resection for Non-colorectal Non-neuroendocrine Metastases: Where Do We Stand Today Compared to Colorectal Cancer?

    The continuing controversy about surgery for non-colorectal non-neuroendocrine liver metastases (NCRNNE) necessitates identifying risk factors of worsened outcomes to improve patient selection and survival. Pr...

    Tobias S. Schiergens, Juliane Lüning in Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (2016)

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    Rapamycin decreases leukocyte migration in vivo and effectively reduces experimentally induced chronic colitis

    Immunosuppressive calcineurin inhibitors, like cyclosporine (CsA), can be used for the clinical management of severe ulcerative colitis. However, patients treated with CsA are at a risk for develo** kidney f...

    Stefan Farkas, Matthias Hornung in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2006)

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    Vascular endothelial growth factor in colorectal cancer

    Angiogenesis plays an important role in colorectal cancer progression. Evidence from preclinical and clinical studies indicates that vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is the predominant angiogenic fact...

    Markus Guba, Hendrik Seeliger in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2004)