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Advancing minimally invasive hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery: ensuring safety with implementation
Although minimally invasive hepato-pancreato-biliary (MIS HPB) surgery can be performed with good outcomes, there are currently no standardized requirements for centers or surgeons who wish to implement MIS HP...
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The two sRNAs OmrA and OmrB indirectly repress transcription from the LEE1 promoter of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) is a diarrheagenic bacterium that predominantly infects infants in develo** countries. EPEC forms attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions on the apical surface of the small...
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Slee** Position and SIDS-1993
The prone slee** position has been implicated as an impetus of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in several retrospective studies, though the association is poorly understood. SIDS is the unexplained death...
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Open AccessDefining a patient-centered approach to cancer survivorship care: development of the patient centered survivorship care index (PC-SCI)
This study presents the validation of an index that defines and measures a patient-centered approach to quality survivorship care.
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Open AccessTrajectories of physical activity, from young adulthood to older adulthood, and pancreatic cancer risk; a population-based case-control study in Ontario, Canada
There is inconsistent evidence on the association between physical activity and pancreatic cancer risk and few studies have investigated early life or life-course physical activity. The objective of this study...
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Chapter
Ampullary Cancer
Ampullary tumors are those arising directly from the structures of the ampullary complex distal to the confluence of the bile duct and pancreatic duct and represent roughly ~7% of periampullary neoplasms. Ampu...
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Chapter
Cholangiocarcinoma
Cholangiocarcinoma is an uncommon cancer that arises from the intrahepatic and extrahepatic portions of the biliary system. Since it is often difficult to diagnose and frequently presents at a late stage, it c...
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Open AccessTrajectories of body mass index, from adolescence to older adulthood, and pancreatic cancer risk; a population-based case–control study in Ontario, Canada
Pancreatic cancer has the highest fatality rate of all cancers. Adulthood obesity is an established risk factor for pancreatic cancer; however, life-course obesity is not well understood. The aim of this study...
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Open AccessGenome-wide meta-analysis identifies five new susceptibility loci for pancreatic cancer
In 2020, 146,063 deaths due to pancreatic cancer are estimated to occur in Europe and the United States combined. To identify common susceptibility alleles, we performed the largest pancreatic cancer GWAS to d...
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Advances in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Barrett’s Esophagus and Early Esophageal Cancer; Summary of the Kelly and Carlos Pellegrini SSAT/SAGES Luncheon Symposium
Patients with Barrett’s esophagus (BE) are at increased risk of develo** esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). The incidence of EAC is rising faster than any other cancer.
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Primary perivascular epithelioid cell tumors of the liver: CT/MRI findings and clinical outcomes
The purpose of our study was to describe the CT and MRI features of primary PEComas of the liver and to document the associated clinical outcomes.
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Ductal pancreatic cancer modeling and drug screening using human pluripotent stem cell– and patient-derived tumor organoids
Human pluripotent stem cells can be differentiated into exocrine pancreas progenitor organoids, allowing studies of development and pancreatic cancer modeling.
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Managerial Practices and Corporate Social Responsibility
A unique dataset is exploited to provide insight into the impact of management quality practices (MQPs) on corporate social responsibility (CSR) for a sample of US manufacturing firms. Our results suggest that...
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Open AccessMedial open transversus abdominis plane (MOTAP) catheters for analgesia following open liver resection: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
The current standard for pain control following liver surgery is intravenous, patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA) or epidural analgesia. We have developed a modification of a regional technique called medial...
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Effectiveness of the Smoking Cessation and Reduction in Pregnancy Treatment (SCRIPT) Dissemination Project: A Science to Prenatal Care Practice Partnership
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Smoking Cessation and Reduction in Pregnancy Treatment (SCRIPT) Program selected by the West Virginia—Right From The Start Project for state-wide dissemination. A ...
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Comparison of outcomes and costs between laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy and open resection at a single center
The cost implications of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) and a detailed breakdown of hospital expenditures has not been presented in the literature to date. This study aimed to compare hospital costs ...
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Tame combing and almost convexity conditions
We give the first examples of groups which admit a tame combing with linear radial tameness function with respect to any choice of finite presentation, but which are not minimally almost convex on a standard g...
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A Trajectory Model for Understanding and Assessing Health Disparities in Immigrant/Refugee Communities
While numerous factors contributing to racial/ethnic health disparities have been identified, the clustering and interaction of these factors as a syndemic or trajectory has not been well-studied (Starfield in...
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Minimal length elements of Thompson’s groups F(p)
We describe a method for determining the minimal length of elements in the generalized Thompson’s groups F(p). We compute the length of an element by constructing a tree pair diagram for the element, classifying ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Computational Explorations in Thompson’s Group F
Here we describe the results of some computational explorations in Thompson’s group F. We describe experiments to estimate the cogrowth of F with respect to its standard finite generating set, designed to address...
