Final analysis of a phase II study of modified FOLFIRINOX in locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This ...
A liver transplant was performed in a woman, aged 41 years, with advanced primary biliary cirrhosis. Prior to surgery, her investigations included a contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan of ...
Characteristics and outcomes of oncology patients requiring admission to an Australian intensive care unit. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...
Splenic injuries constitute the most common injuries accompanying blunt abdominal traumas. Non-operative treatment is currently the standard for treating hemodynamically stable patients with blunt ...
PPH should be suspected in CP patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding, especially in individuals with isolated gastric varices and normal hepatic functions. Early endoscopy is a gold standard ...
Is watchful waiting safe for patients with high-grade splenic injuries? Scarborough and colleagues used data from 2746 patients in the American College of Surgeons Trauma Quality Improvement Program ...
Background. A 49-year-old woman with hepatitis C and peptic ulcer disease presented to the emergency department after an onset of sudden massive hematemesis. She had a history of alcohol abuse, but ...
The patient underwent aneurysmectomy with splenectomy, distal pancreatectomy and sleeve gastrectomy because of the erosion of the stomach wall from the aneurysm. Histopathology confirmed a true ...
THE recognition of aneurysms of the splenic artery is important since death from spontaneous hemorrhage ultimately occurs in the majority of cases and since these aneurysms may be completely excised ...