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    Functional evaluations comparing Billroth I with a large remnant stomach and Roux en Y with a small remnant stomach following laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer: An investigation including laparoscopic total gastrectomy

    This study compared the pros and cons of two post-distal gastrectomy (DG) reconstruction methods by comparing the patient quality of life and functional dynamics at one year postoperatively.

    Eiji Nomura, Takatoshi Seki, Yamato Ninomiya, Hideki Izumi in Surgery Today (2023)

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    Small bowel obstruction caused by a true ileo-ileal knot: a rare case successfully treated by prior ligation of mesenteric vessels

    Intestinal knot formation, in which two segments of the intestine become knotted together, can result in intestinal obstruction. An ileo-ileal knot refers to knot formation between two ileal segments and is a ...

    Kohei Kanamori, Kazuo Koyanagi, Hitoshi Hara, Kenji Nakamura in Surgical Case Reports (2021)

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    Prognostic significance of vasohibin-1 and vasohibin-2 immunohistochemical expression in gastric cancer

    It was recently identified that the vasohibin family may regulate angiogenesis through suppression by the vasohibin-1 gene and promotion by the vasohibin-2 gene. We assessed vasohibin expression in gastric can...

    Hitoshi Hara, Soji Ozawa, Yamato Ninomiya, Miho Yamamoto, Mika Ogimi in Surgery Today (2020)

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    Successful laparoscopic surgery combined with selective arterial embolization for bleeding due to jejunal angiodysplasia: a case report

    Angiodysplasia of the gastrointestinal tract is a rare vascular pathology that sometimes causes massive hemorrhage. Angiodysplasias are particularly difficult to find in the small intestine for anatomical reas...

    Hitoshi Hara, Soji Ozawa, Kazuhito Nabeshima, Jun Koizumi in BMC Surgery (2020)

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    Functional evaluations comparing the double-tract method and the jejunal interposition method following laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy for gastric cancer: an investigation including laparoscopic total gastrectomy

    Functional outcomes were prospectively compared between two types of reconstruction [double tract (L-DT; n = 15) and jejunal interposition (L-JIP; n = 15)] following laparoscopic half-proximal gastrectomy (LPG), ...

    Eiji Nomura, Hajime Kayano, Sang-Woong Lee, Masaru Kawai, Takashi Machida in Surgery Today (2019)

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    Endoscopy-assisted gastric resection: a safe and reliable procedure for tumor clearance during laparoscopic high distal or proximal gastrectomy

    Preoperative endoscopic tattooing or clip** is generally used to delineate the tumor-free margin in surgery for early gastric cancer. However, it is sometimes difficult to identify the line of resection duri...

    Hideo Matsui, Yuichi Okamoto, Kazuhito Nabeshima, Yasumasa Kondoh in Surgical Endoscopy (2009)