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Open AccessScreening for undiagnosed pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) in a cohort of diabetic patients using faecal elastase testing and PEI scoring system
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) are often accompanied by mild forms of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI). The prevalence rates of PEI in diabetic patients are unclear and variable depending on t...
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A systematic review of the effects of temperature and precipitation on pollen concentrations and season timing, and implications for human health
Climate and weather directly impact plant phenology, affecting airborne pollen. The objective of this systematic review is to examine the impacts of meteorological variables on airborne pollen concentrations a...
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Trends in the Use of Laparoscopic Versus Open Paediatric Appendicectomy: A Regional 12-Year Study and a National Survey
In adult patients, it is generally accepted that laparoscopic appendicectomy (LA) is the predominant operative pathway in treating acute appendicitis. The case for a similar pathway utilising LA in children is...
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Step by step guide to do a systematic review and meta-analysis for medical professionals
Systematic review and meta-analysis are statistical tools used to review researches performed on a same topic. They extract the collective effect of the studies performed on the topic of interest after statist...
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Preoperative CT in patients with surgically resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma: does the time interval between CT and surgery affect survival?
The preoperative imaging-to-surgery time interval (ISI) influences the risk of unexpected progression (UP) found at surgery for pancreatic adenocarcinoma. We aimed to assess whether ISI influences disease rec...
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The nutritional management of type 3c (pancreatogenic) diabetes in chronic pancreatitis
Type 3c diabetes mellitus (T3cDM), also known as pancreatogenic diabetes, refers to diabetes caused by disease of the exocrine pancreas. T3cDM is not commonly recognised by clinicians and frequently it is misc...
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Time to surgical review: an assessment of the traditional model of emergency surgical care
The traditional model for emergency surgical care consists of an on-call team providing service to the emergency department, while simultaneously balancing the demands of elective work. Various newer models, s...
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Augmented efficacy with the combination of blockade of the Notch-1 pathway, bortezomib and romidepsin in a murine MT-1 adult T-cell leukemia model
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is an aggressive malignancy caused by human T-cell lymphotropic virus-1. There is no accepted curative therapy for ATL. We have reported that certain ATL patients have increased Not...
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Pancreatic metastasectomy: experience of the Irish National Surgical Centre for Pancreatic Cancer
Metastatic tumours of the pancreas are rare and the optimal management of these tumours remains unclear, given the paucity of data existing in the literature. We report our experience of pancreatic metastasect...
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Blind bedside insertion of small bowel feeding tubes
The use of Naso-Jejunal (NJ) feeding is limited by difficulty in feeding tube placement. Patients have traditionally required transfer to Endoscopy or Radiology for insertion of small bowel feeding tubes, with...
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Hepatic lymphangioma: a rare cause of abdominal pain in a 30-year-old female
Lymphangiomas are rare tumours usually found in the paediatric population in extra abdominal sites.
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Construct validation of a novel hybrid surgical simulator
Simulated minimal access surgery has improved recently as both a learning and assessment tool. The construct validation of a novel simulator, ProMis, is described for use by residents in training.
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Splenic preserving distal pancreatectomy of a solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumour
Solid pseudopapillary tumours are rare primary lesions of the pancreas.They occur most commonly in young female patients. They are traditionally regarded as benign tumours with malignant potential.
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Validation of a novel hybrid surgical simulator
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Assessment of the value of pelvic ultrasonography (PU) in pre-menopausal women with right iliac fossa pain
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An unusual case of appendicitis
Acute appendicitis in elderly patients often presents late and atypically. Presentation as an incarcerated femoral hernia is rare.
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Development of a wireless network programme
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Impact of Laparoscopy in Malignant Lymphomas
Staging laparotomy was initially advocated from the late 1960s for patients with Hodgkin’s disease (HD), and some patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), to identify those patients who were potentially cur...
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Laparoscopic Staging
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Equipment and Strategies of Staging Laparoscopy
The tenth century Arabian physician Abulkasim (936–1013) [1] is credited with the first documented use of reflected light to view an internal body cavity. Although the procedure was successful, thermal injury ...
