Issue 2/2014
Content (32 Articles)
What is essential for the elimination of persistent or chronic atrial fibrillation?
Taijiro Sueda
Possible roles of 5-HT in vein graft failure due to intimal hyperplasia 5-HT, nitric oxide and vein graft
Akio Kodama, Takeo Itoh, Kimihiro Komori
Multidisciplinary treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma with major portal vein tumor thrombus
Satoshi Katagiri, Masakazu Yamamoto
Interposition of the hernia sac as a protective layer in repair of giant incisional hernia with polypropylene mesh
Mustafa Hasbahceci, Fatih Basak
A high MELD score, combined with the presence of hepatitis C, is associated with a poor prognosis in living donor liver transplantation
Toru Ikegami, Ken Shirabe, Shohei Yoshiya, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Yo-ichi Yamashita, Norifumi Harimoto, Takeo Toshima, Hideaki Uchiyama, Yuji Soejima, Yoshihiko Maehara
Liver injury following blunt abdominal trauma: a new mechanism-driven classification
J. E. Slotta, C. Justinger, O. Kollmar, C. Kollmar, T. Schäfer, M. K. Schilling
Surgical repair of Kommerell’s diverticulum and an aberrant subclavian artery
Soh Hosoba, Tomoaki Suzuki, Tohru Asai, Hiromitsu Nota, Satoshi Kuroyanagi, Takeshi Kinoshita, Noriyuki Takashima, Masato Hayakawa
Is the enteral replacement of externally drained pancreatic juice valuable after pancreatoduodenectomy?
Yukihiro Yokoyama, Tomoki Ebata, Tsuyoshi Igami, Gen Sugawara, Masato Nagino
Do patient- and tumor-related factors predict the peritoneal spread of pancreatic adenocarcinoma?
Ingmar Königsrainer, Derek Zieker, Stephan Symons, Katharina Horlacher, Alfred Königsrainer, Stefan Beckert
How does the type of thoracotomy affect the patient quality of life? A short form-36 health survey study
Timuçin Alar, Kenan Can Ceylan, Seyda Ors Kaya, Serpil Sevinç, Deniz Sigirli, Cemal Ozçelik
Laparoscopic gastrectomy for patients with a history of upper abdominal surgery: results of a matched-pair analysis
Shigeru Tsunoda, Hiroshi Okabe, Kazutaka Obama, Eiji Tanaka, Masatoshi Akagami, Yousuke Kinjo, Yoshiharu Sakai
Clinical utility of the Revised Cardiac Risk Index in non-cardiac surgery for elderly patients: a prospective cohort study
Yuki Hirano, Hiroya Takeuchi, Koichi Suda, Takashi Oyama, Rieko Nakamura, Tsunehiro Takahashi, Hirofumi Kawakubo, Norihito Wada, Yoshiro Saikawa, Hideaki Obara, Hiromitsu Jinno, Hirotoshi Hasegawa, Minoru Tanabe, Yuko Kitagawa
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Inhaled tiotropium to prevent postoperative cardiopulmonary complications in patients with newly diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease requiring lung cancer surgery
Takashi Nojiri, Masayoshi Inoue, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hajime Maeda, Yukiyasu Takeuchi, Tomoyuki Nakagiri, Yasushi Shintani, Masato Minami, Noriyoshi Sawabata, Meinoshin Okumura
The impact of postoperative infliximab maintenance therapy on preventing the surgical recurrence of Crohn’s disease: a single-center paired case–control study
Toshimitsu Araki, Keiichi Uchida, Yoshiki Okita, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Mikihiro Inoue, Masaki Ohi, Koji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Yasuhiko Mohri, Masato Kusunoki
Intraluminal exfoliated cancer cells and effectiveness of bowel ligatures during sigmoidectomy for sigmoid colon cancer
Kotaro Maeda, Tsunekazu Hanai, Harunobu Sato, Koji Masumori, Yoshikazu Koide, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Hidetoshi Katsuno, Makoto Kuroda
Possible involvement of notch signaling in the pathogenesis of Buerger’s disease
Hiroaki Tamai, Masayoshi Kobayashi, Kyousuke Takeshita, Akio Kodama, Hiroshi Banno, Hiroshi Narita, Kiyohito Yamamoto, Kimihiro Komori
A new hepatectomy-induced postoperative adhesion model in rats, and evaluation of the efficacy of anti-adhesion materials
Atsushi Shimizu, Takashi Suhara, Taichi Ito, Kiyohiko Omichi, Katsutoshi Naruse, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Norihiro Kokudo
Increase of bone morphogenetic protein-7 expressing pulmonary resident cells in pneumonectomized rats
Taro Ohba, Hironobu Wada, Ichiro Yoshino, Shigetoshi Yoshida, Tetsuzo Tagawa, Fumihiro Shoji, Koji Yamazaki, Yoshihiko Maehara
Trehalose does not affect the functions of human neutrophils in vitro
Koji Tanaka, Mikio Kawamura, Kohei Otake, Yuji Toiyama, Yoshinaga Okugawa, Yasuhiro Inoue, Keiichi Uchida, Toshimitsu Araki, Yasuhiko Mohri, Masato Kusunoki
Effects of duodeno-jejunal bypass on glucose metabolism in obese rats with type 2 diabetes
Hirofumi Imoto, Chikashi Shibata, Fumie Ikezawa, Daisuke Kikuchi, Soutoku Someya, Koh Miura, Takeshi Naitoh, Michiaki Unno
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm originating from a jejunal heterotopic pancreas: report of a case
Hiroshi Okamoto, Fumiyoshi Fujishima, Kazuyuki Ishida, Ken Tsuchida, Takuya Shimizu, Hitoshi Goto, Akira Sato, Susumu Satomi, Hironobu Sasano
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma arising 28 years after excision of a type IV-A congenital choledochal cyst: report of a case
Takafumi Kumamoto, Kuniya Tanaka, Kazuhisa Takeda, Kazunori Nojiri, Ryutaro Mori, Kouichi Taniguchi, Ryusei Matsuyama, Michio Ueda, Mitsutaka Sugita, Yasushi Ichikawa, Youji Nagashima, Itaru Endo
Successful treatment of non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI) using the HyperEye Medical System™ for intraoperative visualization of the mesenteric and bowel circulation: report of a case
Nobuhiro Nitori, Tomoaki Deguchi, Keisuke Kubota, Masashi Yoshida, Ayu Kato, Masayuki Kojima, Tomohisa Kadomura, Akihiro Okada, Juri Okamura, Michiya Kobayashi, Takayuki Sato, Yoshifumi Beck, Yuko Kitagawa, Masaki Kitajima
Incremental change in acute esophageal necrosis: report of two cases
Ming-Ho Wu, Han-Yun Wu
Margin-negative limited resection of metastatic pancreatic tumors from rectal cancer preoperatively diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsies: report of two cases
Akihiro Tanemura, Shugo Mizuno, Yasuo Okura, Hiroyuki Inoue, Haruyuki Takaki, Keisuke Nishimura, Katsunori Uchida, Shuji Isaji
Photodynamic detection and management of intraperitoneal spreading of primary peritoneal papillary serous carcinoma in a man: report of a case
Emel Canbay, Haruaki Ishibashi, Shouzou Sako, Toshiyuki Kitai, Eisei Nishino, Masamitsu Hirano, Akiyoshi Mizumoto, Yoshio Endo, Shun-ichiro Ogura, Yutaka Yonemura
Rhabdomyosarcoma of the duodenum: report of a case
Asahi Sato, Masaji Hashimoto, Jin Moriyama, Marie Hanaoka, Kohta Momose, Keiichi Kinowaki, Sumiyo Ando, Takeshi Fujii, Kenichi Ohashi, Goro Watanabe
Rare diaphragmatic complications following cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC: report of two cases
Benedikt Lampl, Hubert Leebmann, Max Mayr, Pompiliu Piso
Chemoradiotherapy followed by restorative proctocolectomy with partial intersphincteric resection for advanced rectal cancer associated with ulcerative colitis: report of a case
Yasuhiro Inoue, Toshimitsu Araki, Yoshinaga Okugawa, Aya Kawamoto, Junichiro Hiro, Yuji Toiyama, Koji Tanaka, Keiichi Uchida, Yasuhiko Mohri, Masato Kusunoki
Development of gelatin flakes, a new type of anti-adhesive material: a preliminary study of in vivo rat adhesion models
Hiroyuki Tsujimoto, Hideki Takamori, Misaki Tsuji, Maho Hayashi, Junki Ikeda, Taichi Orikasa, Hiroko Torii, Yuki Ozamoto, Shuko Suzuki, Shinichiro Morita, Yoshito Ikada, Akeo Hagiwara
A two-stage operation for thoracic esophageal cancer: esophagectomy and subsequent reconstruction by a free jejunal flap
Yasuhiro Okumura, Kazuhiko Mori, Yukinori Yamagata, Takashi Fukuda, Ikuo Wada, Nobuyuki Shimizu, Sachiyo Nomura, Takuya Iida, Makoto Mihara, Yasuyuki Seto