… It was not standard practice to give back the patient’s own blood just because the patient …
We are trying to increase the patient’s level of comfort about receiving blood transfusions. …

… Fisher’s exact test was used to investigate the association between complications, hepatic
dysfunction, and 25% of liver remaining. The Wilcoxon test was used for length of stay, …

Objectives: The objectives of this study are 1) to determine whether the future liver remnant
will grow after portal vein embolization (PVE) in patients with colon cancer on concurrent …

… The PCR amplification parameters were as follows: 94 C for 5 min and then 94 C for 30 s,
57 C for 30 s and 72 C for 50 s for 25 cycles with a final extension at 72 C for 7 min using an …

18 F-FDG PET has proven invaluable in the staging of patients with metastatic colorectal
cancer. The aim of the current study was to determine whether this biologic scan would …

Importance Ablative therapies extend the capability of delivering potentially curative
treatment for bilateral hepatic colorectal metastases. Objective To compare the long-term …

BACKGROUND: Left-handedness has been considered a simple inconvenience by some
or something as convoluted as “the sinister,” the Latin word for the left, by others. One in ten …

Importance Portal vein embolization improves the safety of liver resection by increasing the
size of residual liver, but the embolization may increase tumor growth during the waiting …

BACKGROUND: Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scanning technology has
increased the ease with which pulmonary emboli (PE) are evaluated. Our aim was to determine …

… A key to understanding the relationship among extinctions, impact(s), and large igneous
province volcanism is the location of the Ir anomaly relative to the fossil record. Recent studies …