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Strictureplasty for large bowel stenosis in Crohn's disease: quality of life after surgical therapy
The aim of surgical therapy in Crohn's disease is to improve quality of life. Surgery does not provide cure with radical resection of inflamed bowel. Therefore strictureplasty has become a useful bowel-preserv...
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Postoperative pulmonary complications in patients with esophageal cancer
There are recent reports on postoperative pulmonary complications in patients with esophageal cancer who were treated preoperatively with chemotherapy and irradiation. The Hamburg Esophageal Study Group is cur...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Surgical Experiences with 191 Implanted Venous Port-a-Cath Systems
Central venous access remains a problem in patients needing long-term intravenous therapy. Parenteral treatment with the common catheter systems proved to be possible for a short time only, being usually limit...
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Primary duodenal carcinoma arising in a non-vaterian tubulo-villous adenoma
Primary duodenal carcinoma and duodenal adenoma are rare tumours. Duodenal carcinoma makes up about 0.3% of all malignant tumours of the gastrointestinal tract (Alwmark et al. 1980; Spira et al. 1977). The pre...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Activation of B Cells Spontaneously Secreting Ig After Surgery
Following surgery a state of immunosuppression or immunodeficiency, in which cellular immune responses are more heavily depressed, has been described (Antonacci 1986). On the other hand the appearance in the c...
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The effect of surgery and anesthetic agents on granulocyte-chemiluminescence in whole blood
The effect of anesthesia and major abdominal surgery on zymosan-induced chemiluminescence (CL) of neutrophil granulocytes was evaluated. CL was measured in diluted whole blood taken at distinct intervals withi...
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Beta-Adrenergic Regulation of the Blood Lymphocyte Phenotype Distribution in Normal Subjects and Splenectomized Patients
The beta-adrenergic effect on the release of immunoregulatory cells from the spleen was investigated by physical stress testing (bicycle ergometry up to submaximal work capacity) in 19 normal subjects (15 male...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Parasacral Approach for Rectal Prolapse
The complete rectal prolapse is generally accompanied by a partial or complete incontinence. The patients are mostly elderly and may not always be fit for major abdominal surgery. The rectal prolapse is charac...
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Measurement of chemiluminescence in freshly drawn human blood
The aim of the present study was to investigate chemiluminescence (CL) of stimulated peripheral phagocytic cells (PC, i.e. granulocytes and monocytes) in patients with malignant disease at various stages. As a...