Background The Cooperative Hernia Study assessed postoperative pain in a prospective
trial as part of a larger study looking at the recurrence rate and other morbidity of the Bassini, …

Background The objective of this study was to combine a physiologic triage score (prehospital
index, PHI) with criteria regarding mechanism of injury (MOI) to increase the efficacy of …

Background Conventional surgical wisdom is that a patient with gallstone pancreatitis should
have the gallbladder removed during their initial hospitalization. However, patients are …

In 236 resection specimens of Crohn's disease (127 first excisions and 109 reexcisions)
there were 60 specimens with fistulas (excluding anal fistulas): 44 in first excisions and 16 in …

Three cases are described in which carcinoid tumors arose in previously established inflammatory
bowel disease: two were in the ileum in cases of Crohn's disease, and one was in the …

… The peak r esponse is designated as am aximal response in those instances in which
increase in dose level produced no further increase in response cO, Response not above basal l …

Objective: To develop a disease-specific quality-of-life scale for symptomatic cholelithiasis
for use in clinical trials, and to evaluate its reliability, construct validity and responsiveness. …

… Preshaw RM: Gastric acid output after sham feeding and during release or infusion of gastrin.
Am J Physiol219:1409- 1416, 1970 11. Yalow RS, Berson SA: Radioimmunoassay nf gns…

… FWL KERR AND RM PRESHAW tions were elicited. These responses and those of the
other experiments are summarized in Table 1. … FWL KERR AND RM PRESHAW stimulation …

Sham feeding caused a marked increase in pancreatic protein output in dogs with permanent
pancreatic and gastric fistulas. This effect could not be attributed to secondary pancreatic …