Differential Analysis of Pregnancy Outcomes After Treatment of HIFU and LEEP in Patients with Cervical High-Grade Squamous Intraepithelial Lesions.

Purpose: To verify whether there is lower incidence of adverse pregnancy outcomes after high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment than loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) in young women of childbearing age.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective cohort study enrolled 46 patients treated with HIFU and 46 patients treated with LEEP. To compare the differences between the two groups, Fisher's exact test or the Kruskal-Wallis (K-W/H) test was used in the univariate analysis, while the logistic regression method was applied for further verification.

Impact of metformin on survival outcome of esophageal squamous cell carcinomas patients undergoing surgical resection: a multicenter retrospective study.

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a recognized risk factor for esophageal squamous cell carcinomas (ESCC), and metformin is a recognized protective factor for some gastrointestinal tumors. But knowledge is limited regarding the effect of metformin on survival outcome of ESCC patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). We assessed the impact of post-diagnosis metformin use on overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS) in ESCC with T2DM undergoing surgical resection.

Ballpoint connector-protected salt-oil-salt liquid phase microextraction for concentration and enrichment of trace anthraquinone compounds in rhubarb.

This study proposed a new ballpoint connector-protected salt-oil-salt liquid phase microextraction for extraction and enrichment of trace rhein and chrysophanol in rhubarb prior to determination of the analytes by high performance liquid chromatography. In this study, a handy ballpoint connector (between ballpoint tip and ink chamber) was used as extraction device, in which its cavity was filled with n-octanol, and the bare n-octanol in its two opening ends was covered with a thin layer of sodium chloride film. The design subtly assembled salt film onto ballpoint connector for extraction and enrichment, which greatly improved the enrichment factors of the target analytes.

Preoperative Administration of Olive Oil Reduces Chylothorax After Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy.

Background: Chylothorax after esophagectomy is uncommon but potentially fatal. We performed a retrospective study to assess the effect of olive oil administered orally before surgery on reducing chylothorax in patients who underwent minimal invasive esophagectomy.

Methods: Between May 2013 and December 2016, patients with esophageal squamous cell cancer who underwent minimal invasive esophagectomy were screened.

Prohibitin, relocated to the front ends, can control the migration directionality of colorectal cancer cells.

Directional migration is a cost-effective movement allowing invasion and metastatic spread of cancer cells. Although migration related to cytoskeletal assembly and microenvironmental chemotaxis has been elucidated, little is known about interaction between extracellular and intracellular molecules for controlling the migrational directionality. A polarized expression of prohibitin (PHB) in the front ends of CRC cells favors metastasis and is correlated with poor prognosis for 545 CRC patients.

[Anatomy of mesoesophagus in esophagectomy with minimally invasive three-fields lymphadenectomy].

Objective: To explore the anatomic features of mesoesophagus in combined thoracoscopic and laparoscopic esophagectomy with three-fields lymphadenectomy.

Methods: Clinical data of 67 patients undergoing thoracoscopic and laparoscopic esophagectomy with three-fields lymphadenectomy from July 2011 to September 2012 were analyzed retrospectively. All the patients underwent three-fields lymphadenectomy.