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Surgical Approach for Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: Analysis of Risk Factors of Treatment Failure
Adhesive small bowel obstruction is one of the most frequent postoperative morbidities and a major cause of hospital admission. Previous surgery is the most important factor predisposing patients to adhesions....
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Long-Term Outcomes Using a Questionnaire After Inguinal Hernia Repair in Female
Although gender should be considered a biological variable in all studies, there are few reports on long-term outcomes stratified by gender in inguinal hernia repair. The aim of this study was to compare the l...
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Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 plus cisplatin for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
S-1 shows good efficacy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) under single use or combined with cisplatin or radiotherapy. The S-1 plus cisplatin (SP) regimen is one of the chemotherapy candidates for ...
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Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of Transabdominal Preperitoneal, Open Mesh Plug and Open Tissue Inguinal Hernia Repair
There have been few comparisons of the postoperative outcomes of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP), open mesh plug (mesh plug) and open tissue (tissue) hernia repair. The objectives of this study were to com...
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Open AccessLaparoscopic liver resection after laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy for liver metastases of ampulla of Vater adenocarcinoma
Repeat laparoscopic surgery has become increasingly common. However, reports of liver resection after pancreatoduodenectomy are scarce, and we report the first successful case of a patient who underwent laparo...
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The preoperative prognostic nutrition index is a prognostic indicator for survival in elderly gastric cancer patients after gastrectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis
The incidence of gastric cancer (GC) in elderly patients has increased, and it is important for predicting prognosis for those patients. The prognostic nutrition index (PNI), which is a indicator of nutrition ...
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Etiologies and outcomes of emergency surgery for acute abdominal pain: an audit of 1456 cases in a single center
There are few studies that have reported the details of emergency surgery for acute abdominal pain. This study aimed to clarify the etiologies and outcomes of emergency abdominal surgery among patients in diff...
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Comparison of end-to-end anastomosis and interposition graft during pancreatoduodenectomy with portal vein reconstruction for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Many studies report that pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) with portal-superior mesenteric vein resection and reconstruction (PVR) is not a contraindication to extended tumor resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarc...
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Adverse oncological outcome of surgical site infection after liver resection for colorectal liver metastases
Postoperative complications are associated with poor overall and cancer-specific survival after resection of various types of cancer, including primary colorectal cancer. However, the oncological impact of sur...
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Internal hernia after proximal gastrectomy with jejunal interposition
Although internal hernia (IH) has been reported after laparoscopic distal or total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction, there are few reports of IH after proximal gastrectomy with jejunal interposition (...
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Clinical Effect of Water-Soluble Contrast Agents for Small Bowel Obstruction in the Virgin Abdomen
Several studies have investigated the diagnostic and therapeutic role of water-soluble contrast agents (WSCAs) in adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO). However, the clinical effect of WSCA for SBO without pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Conscious Robot that Can Venture into an Unknown Environment in Search of Pleasure
A “conscious system that can venture into an unknown environment” has been proposed. This study models the process of consciousness of a person who is going into an unknown environment. First, we assumed that ...
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Preoperative radiographic vascular involvement score predicts the prognosis of resected pancreatic head adenocarcinoma
Operative indications for pancreatic head adenocarcinoma (PHC) with vascular invasion remain unclear. We aimed to develop a new prognostic model focusing on preoperative portal/superior mesenteric vein (PV/SMV...
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Ultrasonic energy device versus monopolar energy device in laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) inguinal hernia repair
Laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) is gaining popularity as an approach to repairing of inguinal hernia. In many institutions, a disposable ultrasonic energy device is used in the TAPP repair pro...
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Postoperative complications following aggressive repeat hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastasis have adverse oncological outcomes
Repeat hepatectomy remains the only curative treatment for recurrent colorectal liver metastasis (CLM) after primary hepatectomy. However, the repeat resection rate is still low, and there is insufficient data...
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Feasibility of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis beyond 72 h of symptom onset
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) performed for acute cholecystitis (AC) is usually advised within 72 h of symptom onset. This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of LC beyond 72 h after presentation. A total...
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Major hepatopancreatoduodenectomy with simultaneous resection of the hepatic artery for advanced biliary cancer
Major hepatopancreatoduodenectomy (HPD) with simultaneous resection of the hepatic artery (HA) for biliary cancer is the most extended surgery for obtaining curative resection, and its clinical significance is...
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Hepatic Artery Reconstruction with a Continuous Suture Method for Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery
In some cases, hepato-biliary-pancreatic (HBP) surgery requires hepatic artery resection and hepatic artery reconstruction (HAR) for histologically curative resection. We describe our surgical HAR technique, ...
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Benefit of extended radical surgery for incidental gallbladder carcinoma
We aimed to define the benefit of extended radical surgery for incidental gallbladder carcinoma (IGC), the most appropriate treatment for which remains controversial.
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Simultaneous resection for colorectal cancer and synchronous liver metastases
The correct timing of hepatectomy in patients with synchronous colorectal liver metastases is unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical value of simultaneous resection (SR) for patients with co...
