Outcome of phase II study of intraoperative radiation therapy and external-beam radiation therapy plus gemcitabine in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer No significant financial ...
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Phase IIb trial of fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and paclitaxel (POF) compared with fluorouracil, feucovorin, and irinotecan (IF) as first-line treatment for advanced gastric cancer (AGC) No ...
In this study, patients were followed up for less than 5 years with the median follow-up at analysis being 32 months. Although 35% of cytology-negative PCR-positive patients developed no peritoneal ...
Over the years various therapeutic techniques for diverticulitis have been developed. Laparoscopic peritoneal lavage (LPL) appears to be a safe and useful treatment, and it could be an effective ...
Forty patients were treated with the conventional Hartmann approach (resection plus a diverting colostomy) and 43 patients were managed by laparoscopy and peritoneal lavage. Patients in the lavage ...
Researchers found that, prior to resection, performing a minimally invasive staging procedure on newly diagnosed patients with pancreatic cancer helped identify metastatic disease and cancer stage, ...
The peritoneum has an area approximately that of the glomerular capillaries or of the twin-coil artificial kidney. Its behavior as an inert, semipermeable membrane and the use of "idealized ...
Long-term severe complications were similar with laparoscopic lavage and primary resection in perforated purulent diverticulitis patients, researchers reported, although recurrence was more frequent ...