Early and late recurrences in lymph node-negative gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Predictors of recurrence in patients with lymph node-negative gastric cancer (GC) who have undergone curative resection have been widely investigated, but not the effects of predictors on timing of recurrence.

Objective: Determine the factors associated with early and late recurrence in patients with node-negative GC.

Design: Retrospective cohort.

[Effect of Qingyi Chengqi Decoction on severe acute pancreatitis patients: a clinical study].

Objective: To observe the change of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) in severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) patients, and to study the effect of Qingyi Chengqi Decoction (QCD) on it.

Methods: Eighty-six SAP patients from Department of General Surgery and Department of Digestive Diseases, Qingyang People's Hospital, Gansu Province, who were in line with diagnosis standard of SAP, were assigned to the treatment group (44 cases) and the control group (42 cases) from March 2012 to May 2013. All patients received routine Western medicine.