Issue 10/2020
Content (25 Articles)
Pancreatic cancer treatment: better, but a long way to go
Robert J. Torphy, Yuki Fujiwara, Richard D. Schulick
Video-assisted neck surgery (VANS) using a gasless lifting procedure for thyroid and parathyroid diseases: “The VANS method from A to Z”
Kazuo Shimizu, Kazuhide Shimizu, Ritsuko Okamura, Takehito Igarashi, Ryuta Nagaoka, Marie Sanada, Iwao Sugitani, Tatsuya Fukumori, Tetsu Yamada
Sarcopenia as an independent predictor of the surgical outcomes of patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis
Adrienn Erős, Alexandra Soós, Péter Hegyi, Zsolt Szakács, Márton Benke, Ákos Szűcs, Petra Hartmann, Bálint Erőss, Patricia Sarlós
Congenital vascular ring
Naoki Yoshimura, Kazuaki Fukahara, Akio Yamashita, Toshio Doi, Shigeyuki Yamashita, Takahiro Homma, Shigeki Yokoyama, Masaya Aoki, Akihiko Higashida, Yoshifumi Shimada, Daisuke Toritsuka, Kanetsugu Nagao, Yuki Ikeno
General surgery and COVID-19: review of practical recommendations in the first pandemic phase
Vittorio Bresadola, Carlo Biddau, Alessandro Puggioni, Alessandro Tel, Massimo Robiony, Jonathan Hodgkinson, Cosimo Alex Leo
Scheduled intravenous acetaminophen versus nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for better short-term outcomes after esophagectomy for esophageal cancer
Jiro Kawakami, Tetsuya Abe, Eiji Higaki, Takahiro Hosoi, Masahide Fukaya, Koji Komori, Seiji Ito, Masahiro Nakatochi, Masato Nagino, Yasuhiro Shimizu
Clinical significance of preoperative CA19-9 and lymph node metastasis in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Tadafumi Asaoka, Shogo Kobayashi, Takehiko Hanaki, Yoshifumi Iwagami, Yoshito Tomimaru, Hirofumi Akita, Takehiro Noda, Kunihito Gotoh, Yutaka Takeda, Masahiro Tanemura, Yuichiro Doki, Hidetoshi Eguchi
Near-infrared fluorescence-guided surgery using indocyanine green facilitates secure infrapyloric lymph node dissection during laparoscopic distal gastrectomy
Shin-Hoo Park, Felix Berlth, Jong-Ho Choi, Ji-Hyeon Park, Yun-Suhk Suh, Seong-Ho Kong, Do Joong Park, Hyuk-Joon Lee, Han-Kwang Yang
Facilitated completion of 1-year adjuvant S-1 monotherapy for pathological stage II or III gastric cancer by medical oncologists
Yosuke Kano, Manabu Ohashi, Naoki Hiki, Daisuke Takahari, Keisho Chin, Kensei Yamaguchi, Satoshi Ida, Koshi Kumagai, Takeshi Sano, Souya Nunobe
A nomogram for predicting rectovaginal fistula after low anterior resection for rectal cancer
Ming-Jin Huang, Dao-Xiong Ye, Yu Lin, Xing-Rong Lu, Hui-Ming Lin, Pan Chi, Ying Huang
Etiology and impact on outcomes of polycystic kidney disease in abdominal aortic aneurysm
Mitsunori Nakano, Naoyuki Kimura, Takao Nonaka, Makiko Mieno, Keisuke Tanno, Yusuke Sasabuchi, Yuichiro Kitada, Daijiro Hori, Koichi Yuri, Harunobu Matsumoto, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kazushige Hanaoka
Low metabolic activity in primary gastric adenocarcinoma is associated with resistance to chemoradiation and the presence of signet ring cells
Kazuto Harada, Madhavi Patnana, Xuemei Wang, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Mariela A. Blum Murphy, Meina Zhao, Prajnan Das, Bruce D. Minsky, Brian Weston, Jeffrey H. Lee, Manoop S. Bhutani, Jeannelyn S. Estrella, Namita Shanbhag, Naruhiko Ikoma, Brian D. Badgwell, Jaffer A. Ajani
The duodenal tube test is more specific than hepatobiliary scintigraphy for identifying bile excretion in the differential diagnosis of biliary atresia
Daiki Yoshii, Yukihiro Inomata, Hirotoshi Yamamoto, Tomoaki Irie, Masashi Kadohisa, Kenji Okumura, Kaori Isono, Masaki Honda, Shintaro Hayashida, Yuki Oya, Taizo Hibi
Clinical outcomes of radical gastrectomy following trastuzumab-based chemotherapy for stage IV HER2-positive gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer
Ryo Takahashi, Souya Nunobe, Hiroki Osumi, Daisuke Takahari, Noriko Yamamoto, Satoshi Ida, Koshi Kumagai, Manabu Ohashi, Takeshi Sano, Naoki Hiki
Can plain chest X-ray replace computed tomography for the follow-up of children who have undergone the Nuss procedure?
Rei Matsuura, Yuko Tazuke, Takehisa Ueno, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Yuichi Takama, Ryuta Saka, Hiroomi Okuyama
Open colectomy vs. laparoscopic colectomy in Japan: a retrospective study using real-world data from the diagnosis procedure combination database
Takehide Tajima, Jun Nagata, Yasuki Akiyama, Takayuki Torigoe, Kenji Fujimoto, Norihiro Sato, Yoshihisa Fujino, Kazunori Shibao, Shinya Matsuda, Keiji Hirata
Ribcage procedure after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer involving the chest wall
Hiroaki Nomori, Koichi Honma, Kazufusa Shoji, Ayumu Otsuki, Yue Cong, Hiroshi Sugimura, Yu Oyama
The prognostic value of the prognostic nutritional index and inflammation-based markers in obstructive colorectal cancer
Ryuichiro Sato, Masaya Oikawa, Tetsuya Kakita, Takaho Okada, Tomoya Abe, Takashi Yazawa, Haruyuki Tsuchiya, Naoya Akazawa, Masaki Sato, Tetsuya Ohira, Yoshihiro Harada, Haruka Okano, Kei Ito, Takashi Tsuchiya
An outcome analysis of predictive factors for portal or splenic vein thrombosis after distal pancreatectomy
Nobutake Tanaka, Suguru Yamada, Fuminori Sonohara, Hideki Takami, Masamichi Hayashi, Goro Nakayama, Masahiko Koike, Michitaka Fujiwara, Tsutomu Fujii, Yasuhiro Kodera
Influence of endoscopic resection on additional laparoscopic distal gastrectomy: a propensity score-matching analysis
Koji Shindo, Jaymel Castillo, Kenoki Ohuchida, Taiki Moriyama, Shuntaro Nagai, Tomohiko Moriyama, Takao Ohtsuka, Eishi Nagai, Shuji Shimizu, Masufumi Nakamura
Impact of a board certification system and implementation of clinical practice guidelines for pancreatic cancer on mortality of pancreaticoduodenectomy
Masamichi Mizuma, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Hiroaki Miyata, Mitsukazu Gotoh, Michiaki Unno, Tooru Shimosegawa, Yasushi Toh, Yoshihiro Kakeji, Yasuyuki Seto
Hepatectomy using a novel cart-based indocyanine green fluorescence imaging system
Seikan Miyashita, Etsuro Hatano, Masaharu Tada, Toshihiro Okada
Packing procedure effective for liver transplantation in hemophilic patients with HIV/HCV coinfection
Susumu Eguchi, Akihiko Soyama, Takanobu Hara, Masaaki Hidaka, Shinichiro Ono, Tomohiko Adachi, Takashi Hamada, Tota Kugiyama, Sinichiro Ito, Kengo Kanetaka, Takuji Maekawa, Motohiro Sekino, Tetsuya Hara, Kazuhiro Nagai, Yasushi Miyazaki
PD-L1, fibrosis, and immunotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma: the importance of a scientific method to explore observations and answer questions
Fabio Grizzi, Dorina Qehajaj, Daniel Yiu, Robert S. Bresalier, Maurizio Chiriva-Internati
Reply to the letter
Hirohisa Okabe, Yo-ichi Yamashita, Hatem A. Elmezayen, Hiromitsu Hayashi, Katsunori Imai, Hideo Baba