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Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice

A. M. Cotlar
- 23 May 2001 - 
- Vol. 285, Iss: 20
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This article is published in JAMA.The article was published on 2001-05-23. It has received 459 citations till now.

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Efforts to Prevent Surgical Site Infection After Colorectal Surgery

TL;DR: The abuse of antibiotics is well known to increase resistance to the antibiotic; in fact, the number of SSIs caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria and fungi is on the rise, which is the reason continuous research for preventing SSIs has been emphasized.
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Treatment of advanced stage cholangiocarcinoma: Systemic therapy may be the starting step for radical surgery

TL;DR: This work encountered two unusual cases of iCCA patients who were initially diagnosed as advanced stage and underwent systemic chemotherapy, which enabled radical operation.
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Optimising intratumoural treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma mouse models with EBC-46

TL;DR: This thesis is intended to qualify for the award of another degree by the author and others and to provide a history of the field in which it is situated and some of the main characters are described.
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Withdrawn: An innovative procedure: Laparoscopic sterilization of liver cyst cavities with foley catheter method.

TL;DR: It is thought that this procedure can reach cysts at all locations of liver and be applied to multiple liver cysts, too and is innovative procedure from laparoscopic point of view.
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Transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement: first experience with a new tavi system.

TL;DR: TAVI provides an alternative to the conventional approach in patients with severe aortic stenosis aged over 75 years and a novel transapical TAVI device is associated with good short-term results and lower complication rate.
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Inflammatory mechanisms contributing to pancreatic cancer development.

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