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Comparison of bowel-cleansing efficacy of split-dose and same-day dose bowel preparation for afternoon colonoscopy in patients with gastrectomy: a prospective randomized study
A split dose (SPD) of purgative is the recommended bowel-preparation method for colonoscopy, although for colonoscopy scheduled for the afternoon, a same-day dose (SDD) of purgative is recommended. However, it...
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A Comprehensive Study on Safety-Indicating Parameters of High Flash Light Sources
The safety-indicating parameters including the exposure limit effective radiance, the effective radiance dose, and the recently proposed exposure limit distance are thoroughly investigated to examine utilizati...
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A Plausible SAM IR APD with HgCdTe Heterojunctions
In this study, a plausible separate absorption and multiplication infrared avalanche photodiode (SAM IR APD) with HgCdTe heterojunctions was investigated, including a design method and a comparative study of m...
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Radical Gastrectomy After Chemotherapy May Prolong Survival in Stage IV Gastric Cancer: A Korean Multi-institutional Analysis
Despite the development of newer treatments, the prognosis for patients with stage IV gastric cancer remains grave. This study evaluated the efficacy of gastrectomy following response to chemotherapy in patie...
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Endoscopic submucosal dissection versus surgical resection for early gastric cancer: a retrospective multicenter study on immediate and long-term outcome over 5 years
Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is an alternative to surgical resection for treating early gastric cancer (EGC). However, there have been limited reports on the long-term outcome of ESD compared to that...
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A Simple Method of Liver Retraction for Various Types of Laparoscopic Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeries: The Prolene Hanging-Up Method
This study describes a safe and the simple method for liver retraction during various types of laparoscopic upper gastrointestinal surgeries. The technique was performed using only a 75 cm 2–0 prolene suture, ...
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Delta-shaped anastomosis, a good substitute for conventional Billroth I technique with comparable long-term functional outcome in totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy
Delta-shaped anastomosis (DA) is a new Billroth I reconstruction technique using only a laparoscopic linear stapler under a totally laparoscopic approach. The present study compared the outcomes of DA with tho...
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Single Port Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Hernioplasty: A Comparative Study of Short-term Outcome with Conventional Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Hernioplasty
Recently, single port laparoscopic surgery has begun to develop as an extension of minimally invasive surgery, but there have been only a few reports of single port laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (SPLTEP...
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Concurrent p16 methylation pattern as an adverse prognostic factor in multiple myeloma: a methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction study using two different primer sets
Disruption of cell cycle control genes, including p16, is known to contribute to the cancerogenesis of multiple myeloma (MM). We investigated the methylation status of p16 and its association with common cytogene...
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Coupled physics analyses of VOx-based, three-level microbolometer
As an uncooled infrared (IR) detector, a vanadium-oxide(VOx)-based microbolometer plays a very important role in the emerging IR imaging technology due to its low cost, small size, simple system-architecture, and...
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Is Totally Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Less Invasive Than Laparoscopy-assisted Gastrectomy?: Prospective, Multicenter Study
Laparoscopic surgery has been adopted for the treatment of gastric cancer, and many reports have confirmed its favorable outcomes. Most surgeons prefer to laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy using minilaparotomy ...
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Totally laparoscopic gastrectomy with various types of intracorporeal anastomosis using laparoscopic linear staplers: preliminary experience
We analyzed our preliminary clinical data for totally laparoscopic gastrectomy (TLG) in order to evaluate its effectiveness in terms of minimal invasiveness, technical feasibility, and safety.
