Issue 8/2019
Content (10 Articles)
Reinforcement and reapproximation of the aortic stump during surgery for acute aortic dissection
Nobuhisa Ohno, Kenji Minatoya
The tumor doubling time is a useful parameter for predicting the histological type of thymic epithelial tumors
Koichi Fukumoto, Takayuki Fukui, Koji Kawaguchi, Shota Nakamura, Shuhei Hakiri, Naoki Ozeki, Shunsuke Mori, Masaki Goto, Kumiko Hashimoto, Hisashi Tateyama, Kohei Yokoi
An elevated neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts a poor postoperative survival in primary hepatocellular carcinoma patients with a normal preoperative serum level of alpha-fetoprotein
Takayuki Shiraki, Mitsuru Ishizuka, Keiichi Kubota, Masato Kato, Takatsugu Matsumoto, Shozo Mori, Takayuki Shimizu, Taku Aoki
Conversion surgery only for highly selected patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer: a satisfactory outcome in exchange for a lower resection rate
Seiji Natsume, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Yoshiki Senda, Susumu Hijioka, Keitaro Matsuo, Seiji Ito, Koji Komori, Tetsuya Abe, Kazuo Hara
Phase II trial of induction chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel plus bevacizumab in patients with stage IIIA to IV nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer
Kazuhiro Imai, Taku Nakagawa, Ikuo Matsuzaki, Kimito Orino, Hajime Saito, Kazuhiro Sato, Masaaki Sano, Katsutoshi Nakayama, Yusuke Sato, Satoru Motoyama, Kyoko Nomura, Hiroyuki Shibata, Yoshihiro Minamiya
Impact of chronic lung allograft dysfunction, especially restrictive allograft syndrome, on the survival after living-donor lobar lung transplantation compared with cadaveric lung transplantation in adults: a single-center experience
Seiichiro Sugimoto, Haruchika Yamamoto, Takeshi Kurosaki, Shinji Otani, Mikio Okazaki, Masaomi Yamane, Shinichi Toyooka, Takahiro Oto
Feasibility of neoadjuvant therapy for elderly patients with locally advanced rectal cancer
Tetsuro Tominaga, Toshiya Nagasaki, Takashi Akiyoshi, Yosuke Fukunaga, Yoshiya Fujimoto, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Tsuyoshi Konishi, Satoshi Nagayama, Masashi Ueno
Daikenchuto accelerates the recovery from prolonged postoperative ileus after open abdominal surgery: a subgroup analysis of three randomized controlled trials
Toru Kono, Mitsuo Shimada, Masaaki Nishi, Yuji Morine, Kozo Yoshikawa, Hidetoshi Katsuno, Koutarou Maeda, Keisuke Koeda, Satoshi Morita, Masahiko Watanabe, Mitsuo Kusano, Junichi Sakamoto, Shigetoyo Saji, Hiroki Sokuoka, Yasuto Sato, Yoshihiko Maehara, Takashi Kanematsu, Masaki Kitajima
Preoperative FOLFOX in resectable locally advanced rectal cancer can be a safe and promising strategy: the R-NAC-01 study
Nobuki Ichikawa, Shigenori Homma, Tohru Funakoshi, Masahiro Hattori, Masanori Sato, You Kamiizumi, Kazuyoshi Omori, Masaru Nomura, Ryoichi Yokota, Masahiko Koike, Hirofumi Kon, Keisa Takeda, Hiroyuki Ishizu, Kunihiro Hirose, Daisuke Kuraya, Takahisa Ishikawa, Ryohei Murata, Hiroaki Iijima, Futoshi Kawamata, Tadashi Yoshida, Yosuke Ohno, Nozomi Minagawa, Norihiko Takahashi, Akinobu Taketomi