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Eur Urol
June 2017
Department of Urology, University Hospital Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany.
Context: The incidence and awareness of postprostatectomy incontinence (PPI) has increased during the past few years, probably because of an increase in prostate cancer surgery. Many theories have been postulated to explain the pathophysiology of PPI.
Objective: The current review scrutinizes various pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying the occurrence of PPI.
Clin Orthop Relat Res
October 2015
Limb Lengthening and Complex Reconstruction Service (LLCRS), Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, 535 East 70th Street, New York, NY, USA,
Background: Limb lengthening and reconstruction surgery is a relatively new subspecialty of orthopaedic surgery in the United States. Despite increased awareness and practice of the specialty, it is rarely vested as a separate clinical service in an academic department of orthopaedic surgery. We have had experience growing such a dedicated service within an academic department of orthopaedic surgery over the past 9 years.
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April 2014
Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address:
Objective: To assess the impact of American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) participation on outcomes in gastrointestinal surgical oncology.
Study Design: A total of 6,076 resections for esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, hepatobiliary, and colorectal cancers at 316 hospitals from the 2006 to 2011 ACS NSQIP were examined. Thirty-day complication rates were analyzed longitudinally over time with the use of multiple regression; we adjusted for operation type and preoperative risk factors.
Chest
September 2004
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Suite M404, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 525 E 68th St, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Background: As the US population ages, clinicians are increasingly confronted with octogenarians with resectable non-small cell lung cancer. Earlier reports documented substantial risk for surgical resection in this age group.
Methods: We reviewed our surgical experience in octogenarians who underwent curative resection from 1990 to 2003.
Vestn Khir Im I I Grek
February 1970
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