Annals of surgery
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Review Historical Article
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery 3.0: Lessons Learned From the History of Lung Cancer Surgery.
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To apply the principles of the Metro-ticket paradigm to develop a prognostic model for patients undergoing hepatic resection of colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM). ⋯ An externally validated "Metro-ticket" TBS model had excellent prognostic discriminatory power. TBS may be an accurate tool to account for the impact of tumor morphology on long-term survival among patients undergoing resection of CRLM.
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To examine sites of initial recurrence in patients after resection of gastric and gastroesophageal junction Siewert II/III adenocarcinoma (GA). ⋯ In GA patients who recur after resection, patterns of recurrence vary significantly based on Lauren histologic type.
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We propose an objective and practical classification system to predict difficulty of different laparoscopic liver resections (LLRs). ⋯ This objective and practical classification system allows the stratification of LLR comprising the low (group I), the intermediate (group II), and the high (group III) grades.