Issue 8/2020
COVID-19 Special Issue
Content (20 Articles)
COVID-19: clinical issues from the Japan Surgical Society
Masaki Mori, Norihiko Ikeda, Akinobu Taketomi, Yo Asahi, Yoshio Takesue, Tatsuya Orimo, Minoru Ono, Takashi Kuwayama, Seigo Nakamura, Yohei Yamada, Tatsuo Kuroda, Kenji Yuzawa, Taizo Hibi, Hiroaki Nagano, Michiaki Unno, Yuko Kitagawa
True esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma: background of its definition and current surgical trends
Tsutomu Kumamoto, Yasunori Kurahashi, Hirotaka Niwa, Yasutaka Nakanishi, Koichi Okumura, Rie Ozawa, Yoshinori Ishida, Hisashi Shinohara
Aortic valve approaches in the era of minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Go Ueno, Nobuhisa Ohno
Evolution of photodynamic medicine based on fluorescence image-guided diagnosis using indocyanine green and 5-aminolevulinic acid
Tsutomu Namikawa, Jun Iwabu, Masaya Munekage, Sunao Uemura, Hiromichi Maeda, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Taku Nakayama, Keiji Inoue, Takayuki Sato, Michiya Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Hanazaki
High-risk lesions in the remnant pancreas: fate of the remnant pancreas after pancreatic resection for pancreatic cancer and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms
Yoshihiro Miyasaka, Takao Ohtsuka, Ryota Matsuda, Yasuhisa Mori, Kohei Nakata, Kenoki Ohuchida, Masafumi Nakamura
Tolvaptan can limit postoperative paroxysmal atrial fibrillation occurrence after open-heart surgery
Yoshinobu Nakamura, Yuichirou Kishimoto, Shingo Harada, Takeshi Onohara, Yuki Otsuki, Hiromu Horie, Motonobu Nishimura
Albumin–Indocyanine Green Evaluation (ALICE) grade predicts bile leakage after hepatic resection
Norifumi Harimoto, Ryo Muranushi, Kouki Hoshino, Takahiro Yamanaka, Kei Hagiwara, Norihiro Ishii, Mariko Tsukagoshi, Takamichi Igarashi, Akira Watanabe, Norio Kubo, Kenichiro Araki, Ken Shirabe
Hartmann’s reversal as a safe procedure for selected patients: analysis of 199 patients at a high-volume center in Sao Paulo
Alberto Bitran, Roberto Rasslan, Fabio de Oliveira Ferreira, Edivaldo Massazo Utiyama, Samir Rasslan
Pulmonary aspergillosis as a late complication after surgery for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer treated with induction chemoradiotherapy
Seiichiro Sugimoto, Junichi Soh, Ken Suzawa, Kentaroh Miyoshi, Shinji Otani, Hiromasa Yamamoto, Mikio Okazaki, Masaomi Yamane, Takahiro Oto, Susumu Kanazawa, Katsuyuki Kiura, Shinichi Toyooka
A retrospective comparison of robotic versus laparoscopic distal resection and enucleation for potentially benign pancreatic neoplasms
Nawid Najafi, I. Mintziras, D. Wiese, M. B. Albers, E. Maurer, D. K. Bartsch
Prophylactic ligation of the thoracic duct branch prevents chylothorax after pulmonary resection for right lung cancer
Zixu Liu, Minjun Du, Yicheng Liang, Shaolong Ju, Xingkai Li, Yushun Gao
Long-term follow-up for anorectal function after anorectoplasty in patients with high/intermediate imperforate anus: a single center experience
Toshiaki Takahashi, Koji Fukumoto, Masaya Yamoto, Kengo Nakaya, Akinori Sekioka, Akiyoshi Nomura, Yutaka Yamada, Naoto Urushihara
Sarcopenia assessed by the quantity and quality of skeletal muscle is a prognostic factor for patients undergoing cardiac surgery
Yuriko Kiriya, Nakajima Toshiaki, Ikuko Shibasaki, Koji Ogata, Hironaga Ogawa, Yusuke Takei, Masahiro Tezuka, Masahiro Seki, Takashi Kato, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Hirotsugu Fukuda
Perioperative pirfenidone treatment as prophylaxis against acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a single-center analysis
Keigo Sekihara, Keiju Aokage, Tomohiro Miyoshi, Kenta Tane, Genichiro Ishii, Masahiro Tsuboi
Importance of the neoadjuvant rectal (NAR) score to the outcome of neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone for locally advanced rectal cancer
Toshiki Mukai, Keisuke Uehara, Toshisada Aiba, Atsushi Ogura, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Aya Tanaka, Masanori Sando, Noriyuki Ohara, Yusuke Sato, Norifumi Hattori, Goro Nakayama, Yasuhiro Kodera, Masato Nagino
Resistin-like molecule beta, a colonic epithelial protein, exhibits antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus including methicillin-resistant strains
Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kikuji Itoh, Sang-Hee Park, Mitsuo Kaku, Keiko Ishii, Hironobu Sasano, Takeshi Naitoh, Michiaki Unno, Kouhei Fukushima
Prognostic impact of CD8+ T cell distribution and its association with the HLA class I expression in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Yoh Asahi, Kanako C. Hatanaka, Yutaka Hatanaka, Toshiya Kamiyama, Tatsuya Orimo, Shingo Shimada, Akihisa Nagatsu, Yuzuru Sakamoto, Hirofumi Kamachi, Nozomi Kobayashi, Moto Fukai, Akinobu Taketomi
A novel ‘two-window’ technique to facilitate totally 3D-endoscopic mitral valve repair
Soh Hosoba, Toshiaki Ito, Kenta Zaikokuji
Key considerations in reviewing “a comparison of the outcomes between surgical resection and proton beam therapy for single primary hepatocellular carcinoma”: the importance of scientific objective perspectives in clinical studies
Toshiyuki Okumura, Hirokazu Makishima, Hideyuki Sakurai