Surgical treatments of advanced tumors have expanded in the last two decades as a result of ad-vances in surgical techniques, advanced interventional radiology methods, improved intensive care unit settings and increased overall life expectancy. Advanced liver tumors represent a broad category from various malignancies such as liver metastasis or native liver tumors. Not uncom-monly these tumors are not amenable to curative treatment and require down-staging, or local control at the initial diagnosis.
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December 2022
It has been hypothesized that short appendices increase intraluminal pressure more rapidly and perforate more frequently than long appendices. Two hundred seventy-seven adult patients were retrospectively analyzed and underwent an appendectomy between January 2015 and August 2021. Data extracted from patient records included sex, age, time from admission to operation (hospital interval), weekday or weekend operation time, and operative and pathological findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the ameliorative effect of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on acetic acid colitis model via Nrf2/HO-1 pathway in rats.
Methods: In this study, 30 rats were divided into three groups. Acute colitis was induced by rectal administration of 4% solution of acetic acid.