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Inhibitions from Syngas Impurities: Impact of Common Tar Components on a Consortium Adapted for Syngas Biomethanation
In a circular economy approach, syngas biomethanation is a promising technology for waste to energy conversion. However, syngas can contain impurities, notably tar, that can limit the processes upgrading synga...
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Oncological strategies for locally advanced rectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases, interval strategy versus rectum first strategy: a comparison of short-term outcomes
The goal of treatment for patients with synchronous liver metastases (SLM) from rectal cancer is to achieve a complete resection of both tumor locations. For patients with symptomatic locally advanced rectal c...
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Treatment strategies for rectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases: surgical and oncological outcomes with propensity-score analysis
The optimal sequence of surgery for rectal cancer (RC) with synchronous liver metastases (SLM) is controversial.
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An adaptive laser cladding methodology for blade tip repair
Worn-out blade geometries differ from the nominal geometry. Studies about numerical control tool path recalculation or control processes at constant melt pool are the most used approaches to generate a good re...
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Open AccessLong-term outcomes of patients with 10 or more colorectal liver metastases
Although the number of colorectal liver metastases (CLM) is decreasingly considered as a contraindication to surgery, patients with 10 CLM or more are often denied liver surgery. This study aimed to evaluate t...
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A feedforward controller for tuning laser cladding melt pool geometry in real time
In this paper, a feedforward proportional-integral (PI) controller is developed to effectively control and tune the laser cladding melt pool geometry in real time. Width setpoint is included in the computer nu...
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Extreme liver surgery as treatment of liver tumors involving the hepatocaval confluence
Analyze the characteristics, surgical technique, morbidity and survival of patients treated with extreme liver surgery.
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Is Radical Surgery Feasible in Liver Hydatid Cysts in Contact with the Inferior Vena Cava?
Cysts in contact with the inferior vena cava (IVC) represent a challenge for hepato-pancreatico-biliary surgeons. Although the literature on the topic is scarce, the most widely accepted approach is conservati...
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Retrospective analysis of pathological response in colorectal cancer liver metastases following treatment with bevacizumab
Pathological response has been shown to be a predictor for survival after preoperative chemotherapy and surgical resection of colorectal cancer liver metastases. This retrospective analysis evaluated the effec...
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The ALPPS Approach: Should We Sacrifice Basic Therapeutic Rules in the Name of Innovation?
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Preoperative treatment with bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy in patients with unresectable metastatic colorectal carcinoma
This prospective observational study assessed the efficacy of bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy as preoperative treatment to downsize tumours for radical resection in patients with unresectable meta...
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Cysto-biliary communication in liver hydatidosis
Liver hydatidosis is a severe health problem in endemic areas. Due to migration from these countries to other zones, now it is a worldwide problem. Liver hydatidosis can provoke many complications (abscess, fi...
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Open AccessPRL-3 is essentially overexpressed in primary colorectal tumours and associates with tumour aggressiveness
Phosphatase PRL-3 has been involved in different types of cancer, especially in metastases from colorectal carcinoma (CRC). In this study, we explored both isoforms of PRL-3 as a biomarker to predict the recur...
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Guidelines for the detection and treatment of liver metastases of colorectal cancer
The spread of the surgical treatment for hepatic metastases have been crucial in the improvement of treatment and survival of metastatic colorectal cancer. The early and accurate diagnosis of metastases and th...
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Effect of surgical resection of metastatic disease on immune tolerance to cancer. How a systemic disease could be controlled by a local therapy
Surgery represents the only chance of cure for patients with colorectal liver metastases. The results of expanded indications for surgical treatment revealed that even advanced disease can be cured in a signif...
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Surgical treatment of liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma in elderly patients. When is it worthwhile?
The elderly are under-represented in series of patients operated on for colorectal liver metastases (LM).
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The loss of vortex line tension sets an upper limit to the irreversibility line in YBa2Cu3O7
In high-temperature superconductors, magnetic field lines penetrate the samples through vortices arranged in an Abrikosov vortex lattice. In a magnetic field Hm(T ) below the upper critical field Hc2(T ) that des...
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Coronary occlusions in first non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
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Acute pulmonary edema with preserved ejection fraction: clinical and prognostic profile in patients with coronary heart disease
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376 Postnatal Growth Restriction in VLBW Infants in Spanish NICUs. A Multicentric Study(SEN 1500 Network).
OBJECTIVE: To study postnatal growth restriction from birth to discharge, in VLBW infants <33 weeks admitted in all 55 NICUs of SEN 1500 Network. To study their differences related to perinatal morbidity and N...
