Annals of surgery
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Our aim was to evaluate a fluorescence-based enhanced-reality system to assess intestinal viability in a laparoscopic mesenteric ischemia model. ⋯ Fluorescence-based AR may effectively detect the boundary between the ischemic and the vascularized zones in this experimental model.
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To assess the contribution of hypoxia and bone marrow-derived cells to aggressive outgrowth of micrometastases after liver surgery. ⋯ Surgery-generated hypoxia in the liver causes rapid dedifferentiation of tumor cells into immature CSCs with high clone- and metastasis-forming capacity. The results help explain the phenomenon of aggressive local tumor recurrence after liver surgery and offer a potential strategy to kill aggressive CSCs by hypoxia-activated prodrugs.
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Editorial Comment
Drainage after pancreaticoduodenectomy: controversy revitalized.