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Operative Experience of U.S. General Surgery Residents with Diseases of the Adrenal Glands, Endocrine Pancreas, and Other Less Common Endocrine Organs
(Springer-Verlag; by the Société Internationale de Chirugie, 1996-07)
Measuring Surgical Quality: What’s the Role of Provider Volume?
(Springer-Verlag; Société Internationale de Chirurgie, 2005-10)
Although not ideal for all situations, provider volume is particularly suited for measuring surgical quality in certain contexts. Specifically, we believe that for uncommon operations with a strong volumes–outcome effect, ...
The Search for Occult Metastatic Disease in Breast Cancer Patients: How Far Should We Go?
(Springer-Verlag; The Society of Surgical Oncology, Inc., 2006-05)
Efficacy of sentinel lymph node biopsy in male breast cancer
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-05-01)
Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is rapidly becoming the standard of care in the treatment of women with early stage breast cancer. Male breast cancer although relatively rare, has typically been treated with ...
Spectrum of pheochromocytoma in the 131 I-MIBG era
(Springer-Verlag; Société Internationale de Chirurgie, 1988-08)
131 I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ( 131 I-MIBG) scintigraphy allows for both functional diagnosis and anatomical localization of pheochromocytoma. The spectrum of pheochromocytoma since the routine use of preoperative 131 ...
Repeat hepatic resections for colorectal metastases
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1990-02)
We identified 106 patients who had undergone complete resection of isolated colorectal hepatic metastases. Nine of these patients subsequently underwent repeat liver resections for isolated hepatic recurrences. The median ...
Divergent effects of TNF[alpha] in the adoptive immunotherapy of a murine sarcoma
(Elsevier, 1992-08)
We have previously described an in vitro sensitization (IVS) procedure which enabled the generation of therapeutic T cells from tumor-bearing mice for adoptive immunotherapy. The procedure involved culture of tumor-draining ...
Primary hyperaldosteronism caused by adrenocortical carcinoma
(Springer-Verlag; Société Internationale de Chirurgie, 1986-08)
Since the syndrome of primary hyperaldosteronism was described by Jerome Conn in 1955, over 300 patients with this disorder have been identified in the medical centers of Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan. ...