Publications by authors named "Mesut Atli"
Background/aims: We aimed to search the effects of two different drugs in bacterial translocation, both in combination and alone: ursodeoxycholic acid, the effectiveness of which was evidenced previously, and ciprofloxacin, which had not been used before, in an experimental obstructive jaundiced rat model.
Methods: Fifty Wistar Albino rats were divided into five groups: sham group (A), control group (B), ciprofloxacin group (C), ursodeoxycholic acid group (D), and ciprofloxacin + ursodeoxycholic acid group (E). Except in Group A animals, the common bile ducts in all animals were ligated.
The treatment strategy of an incidentally detected thyroid nodule is controversial. The aim of this study was to establish management criteria for thyroid incidentalomas by defining and formulating the risk factors predicting thyroid malignancy. A prospective database containing 815 consecutive patients who underwent a thyroidectomy for nodular thyroid disease, between January 1992 and May 2003, was studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChild abuse by burning is a common means of assault that may be difficult to prove. Even though well trained in burns management physicians on the burn team may not be sufficiently qualified to clarify the medicolegal aspects of the incident. In Turkey, physicians have a responsibility to notify the law offices of injury to children caused by any non-accidental mechanism including neglect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Exactly what constitutes a marginal donor remains ill defined. The authors set out to create a scoring system that objectively classifies a donor as marginal or nonmarginal and to define what the maximum acceptable preservation period is for the marginal liver to minimize early graft dysfunction.
Methods: The authors performed an analysis on data collected prospectively of 397 cadaveric liver transplants.
Background/aims: Scoring systems are generally used for predicting prognosis in critically ill patients, but not frequently for predicting prognosis in cancer. Our aim was to develop a prognostic score for colorectal cancer.
Methodology: Demographic, clinical, laboratory, radiologic, histopathologic and operative data of 112 patients who had resection for colorectal cancer, were analyzed for their effect on survival.
Background/aims: This study was planned to investigate the therapeutic value of performing an extended lymphadenectomy in potentially curable gastric cancer.
Methodology: A prospective gastric cancer database was used. In total 114 gastric cancer patients (85 male, 29 female) who underwent a gastrectomy for curative intent from 1992 through 1999 were included to this study.