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    Impact of age on groin hernia profiles observed during laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair

    How increasing age affects the characteristics of groin hernia remains uncertain. This study evaluated the association between age and the type of groin hernia, especially with respect to its multiplicity, obs...

    Kentaro Fukushima, Takahide Yokoyama, Shiro Miwa, Hiroaki Motoyama in Surgical Endoscopy (2019)

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    Survival Benefits of Surgical Resection in Patients with Recurrent Biliary Tract Carcinoma

    Whether surgical resection for recurrent biliary tract carcinoma (BTC) prolongs survival and the patients who are most likely to benefit from such treatment remain unclear.

    Hiroaki Motoyama, Akira Kobayashi, Takahide Yokoyama in World Journal of Surgery (2017)

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    Liver failure after hepatocellular carcinoma surgery

    The aim of this study was to construct a prediction model for posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF), as defined by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery, and evaluate its accuracy in hepatocellular car...

    Hiroaki Motoyama, Akira Kobayashi, Takahide Yokoyama in Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery (2014)