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Medicine & Public Health
Abdominal Surgery
Young-** Eun
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Effect of Protease Inhibitor on Ischemia-reperfusion Injury to Rat Liver
Liver failure due to ischemia-reperfusion injury, believed to be closely related to the generation of oxygen-free radicals, is a serious problem during liver surgery. Gabexate mesilate, a synthetic protease i...
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Massive gastrointestinal bleeding from jejunal varices
We report a patient with massive gastrointestinal bleeding from jejunal varices, confirmed by emergency laparotomy. A 54-year-old woman was admitted to Chonnam National University Hospital with a 5-day histor...
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Primary duodenal adenocarcinoma associated with neurofibromatosis type 1
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Congenital anomalous connection between the left intrahepatic bile duct and the stomach
An accessory bile duct is found in up to 4% of necropsies and is usually a single thin-walled channel that drains a segment of the right lobe of the liver into the common bile duct or, rarely, into the gallbla...
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Hemobilia caused by liver abscess due to intrahepatic duct stones
Hemobilia occurs when injury or disease causes communication between intrahepatic blood vessels and the biliary tract. Causes of hemobilia include trauma; gallstones; inflammatory diseases; and vascular disord...
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Primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the common bile duct presenting as obstructive jaundice
Primary non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma of the extrahepatic bile duct presenting as obstructive jaundice is an extremely rare disease. At this writing, a review of the medical literature disclosed 17 reported cases of ...
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Comparison of Uptake Characteristics and Prognostic Value of 201Tl and 18F-FDG in Esophageal Cancer
Patients with esophageal cancer often undergo 201Tl myocardial imaging for preoperative risk evaluation, thereby providing an excellent opportunity to assess tumor handling of 201Tl. We thus compared the characte...
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Sphincter-Preserving Operations Following Preoperative Chemoradiation: An Alternative to Abdominoperineal Resection for Lower Rectal Cancer?
Sphincter-preserving operations (SPO) for lower rectal cancer are on the rise. In the study reported here, we compared the oncologic outcomes of patients who underwent sphincter-preserving operations following...
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Diagnostic Accuracy of CT and Ultrasonography for Evaluating Metastatic Cervical Lymph Nodes in Patients with Thyroid Cancer
The present study was designed to investigate the diagnostic ability of computed tomography (CT) and ultrasonography (USG) in the preoperative evaluation of the cervical nodal status of patients with thyroid c...
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Fascin overexpression correlates with positive thrombospondin-1 and syndecan-1 expressions and a more aggressive clinical course in patients with gallbladder cancer
This study was conducted to evaluate the prognostic role of fascin expression in gallbladder (GB) cancer and to define the relationship of thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) and syndecan-1 in fascin expression.
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The role of hedgehog signaling during gastric regeneration
Hedgehog signaling plays critical roles during embryonic development. It is also involved in tissue regeneration and carcinogenesis in various adult tissues. Moreover, it regulates the maintenance of cancer st...
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Prospective randomized pilot trial comparing closed suction drainage and gravity drainage of the pancreatic duct in pancreaticojejunostomy
Pancreaticojejunal anastomotic leakage remains a major complication after pancreatoduodenectomy, and various means of preventing pancreatic leakage have been studied over the past few decades. The purpose of t...
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Clinical outcomes for perforations during endoscopic submucosal dissection in patients with gastric lesions
The endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique has been gaining popularity, with continued advances in this treatment approach. However, ESD still is associated with potential complications such as sever...
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The feasibility of scarless single-port transumbilical total laparoscopic hysterectomy: initial clinical experience
The purpose of the present study is to demonstrate the feasibility of single-port transumbilical laparoscopic surgery (SPLS) for hysterectomy and elaborate on our experience in order to introduce the single-po...
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Endoscopic and histopathological characteristics suggesting the presence of gastric mucosal high grade neoplasia foci in cases initially diagnosed as gastric mucosal low grade neoplasia by forceps biopsy in Korea
As biopsy sites may miss coexisting gastric mucosal high grade neoplasia (HGN) foci, making a diagnosis of gastric mucosal low grade neoplasia (LGN) based only on forceps biopsy specimens can be inaccurate. Th...
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Endoscopic treatments of gastric mucosal lesions are not riskier in patients with chronic renal failure or liver cirrhosis
Little is known about the feasibility of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) for patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) or liver cirrhosis (LC). This study aimed to...
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The effectiveness and safety of endoscopic submucosal dissection compared with endoscopic mucosal resection for early gastric cancer: a systematic review and metaanalysis
Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) allows en bloc resection of the entire lesion, permitting a higher curative resection rate and increased quality of life by minimizing the resection size compared with th...
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A randomized prospective study of single-port and four-port approaches for hysterectomy in terms of postoperative pain
This study aimed to compare single-port transumbilical total laparoscopic hysterectomy (SPLS-TLH) and four-port total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) in terms of postoperative pain.
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Endoscopic thyroidectomy via bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA): review of 512 cases in a single institute
Various techniques for endoscopic thyroidectomy have been introduced in the past decade, and the cosmetic superiority of these techniques has been universally acknowledged. We developed the endoscopic thyroide...
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Single-port laparoscopic surgery is applicable to most gynecologic surgery: a single surgeon’s experience
The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of single-port laparoscopic surgery in benign gynecologic diseases and to examine its impact on surgical outcomes.
