Published in Am J Surg on December 01, 1980
Safety and efficacy of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A prospective analysis of 100 initial patients. Ann Surg (1991) 8.49
Risk adjustment of the postoperative mortality rate for the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical care: results of the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study. J Am Coll Surg (1997) 4.55
Acute appendicitis occurring in hernias: a report of 10 cases. Surgery (1967) 3.50
Risk adjustment of the postoperative morbidity rate for the comparative assessment of the quality of surgical care: results of the National Veterans Affairs Surgical Risk Study. J Am Coll Surg (1997) 3.46
Metallothionein: the multipurpose protein. Cell Mol Life Sci (2002) 3.00
Renal ischemia/reperfusion leads to macrophage-mediated increase in pulmonary vascular permeability. Kidney Int (1999) 2.17
Relation of surgical volume to outcome in eight common operations: results from the VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Ann Surg (1999) 1.98
Age-related hypermethylation of the 5' region of MLH1 in normal colonic mucosa is associated with microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancer development. Cancer Res (2001) 1.93
Complications of splenectomy. Etiology, prevention, and management. Surg Clin North Am (1983) 1.88
The use of CEA as an early indicator for gastrointestinal tumor recurrence and second-look procedures. Cancer (1977) 1.83
Preoperative percutaneous transhepatic biliary decompression lowers operative morbidity in patients with obstructive jaundice. Am J Surg (1981) 1.78
The role of polymeric surface smoothness of biliary stents in bacterial adherence, biofilm deposition, and stent occlusion. Gastrointest Endosc (1993) 1.64
Comparison of surgical outcomes between teaching and nonteaching hospitals in the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ann Surg (2001) 1.61
Blood sugar and insulin response of humans in shock. Ann Surg (1970) 1.58
Review of small bowel obstruction at Milwaukee County General Hospital. Am J Surg (1966) 1.56
Determination of viability of ischemic intestine by Doppler ultrasound. Surgery (1978) 1.54
Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist decreases severity of experimental acute pancreatitis. Surgery (1995) 1.49
The effects of hyperoxia during fulminant sepsis. Surgery (1989) 1.47
Viable intraluminal tumour cells and local/regional tumour growth in experimental colon cancer. Ann R Coll Surg Engl (1989) 1.45
Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with peripheral vascular disease. Surgery (1978) 1.44
Acute suppurative cholangitis. Experience with 15 consecutive cases. Arch Surg (1967) 1.43
Analysis of residual cancer after diagnostic breast biopsy: an argument for fine-needle aspiration cytology. Ann Surg Oncol (1995) 1.42
Decreased mortality of severe acute pancreatitis after proximal cytokine blockade. Ann Surg (1995) 1.41
Pilot study evaluating the intraoperative localization of radiolabeled monoclonal antibody CC83 in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma. Surgery (1995) 1.40
Cholescintigraphy in the critically ill. Am J Surg (1988) 1.40
Human pancreatic adenocarcinoma: in vitro and in vivo morphology of a new tumor line established from ascites. In Vitro (1982) 1.39
Biliary reconstruction without transanastomotic stent. Am Surg (1988) 1.38
Morbidity of emergency operations in patients with metastatic cancer receiving chemotherapy. Surgery (1982) 1.38
Gastric partitioning for morbid obesity. Ann Surg (1979) 1.35
Primary peptic ulcerations of the jejunum associated with islet cell tumors. Twenty-five-year appraisal. Ann Surg (1980) 1.32
Determinants of survival following hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer. World J Surg (1998) 1.24
Carcinoembryonic antigen: clinical and historical aspects. Cancer (1976) 1.24
Laparoscopic feeding jejunostomy: also a simple technique. Surg Endosc (1993) 1.21
Inguinal and femoral hernia repair in geriatric patients. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1982) 1.21
The use of serial carcinoembryonic antigen determinations to predict recurrence of carcinoma of the colon and the time for a second-look operation. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1978) 1.20
Colorectal trauma. Surg Clin North Am (1988) 1.19
Instructional intranets in graduate medical education. Acad Med (1998) 1.19
CEA-directed second-look surgery in the asymptomatic patient after primary resection of colorectal carcinoma. Ann Surg (1985) 1.19
Complications of cholecystectomy. Surg Clin North Am (1983) 1.17
Observations on the postoperative tumor growth behavior of certain islet cell tumors. Ann Surg (1976) 1.15
Incidence and prevention of thrombosis of the subclavian vein during total parenteral nutrition. Surg Gynecol Obstet (1982) 1.15
Frequency with which surgeons undertake pancreaticoduodenectomy determines length of stay, hospital charges, and in-hospital mortality. J Gastrointest Surg (2001) 1.14
Colostomy closure--a simple procedure? Dis Colon Rectum (1979) 1.14
Capillary leak syndrome with pulmonary edema. Arch Intern Med (1972) 1.13
Radioimmunoguided surgery using iodine 125 B72.3 in patients with colorectal cancer. Arch Surg (1991) 1.13
Iodine-125 brachytherapy in the treatment of colorectal adenocarcinoma metastatic to the liver. Cancer (1999) 1.11
Location, not staging, of cholangiocarcinoma determines the role for adjuvant chemoradiation therapy. Am Surg (2001) 1.10
Proceedings: A quarter century with splenectomy. Changing concepts. Arch Surg (1974) 1.08
A series of 20 successful Warren shunts. Arch Surg (1975) 1.07
Surgical management of papillary and follicular carcinoma of the thyroid. Ann Surg (1980) 1.06
Cholangiocarcinoma: advocate an aggressive operative approach with adjuvant chemotherapy. Am Surg (2004) 1.06
Cholecystectomy in elderly patients. Am J Surg (1983) 1.05
NCCN Practice Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer. Oncology (Williston Park) (2000) 1.04
The use of serial CEA determinations to predict recurrence of colon cancer and when to do a second-look operation. Cancer (1978) 1.03
Correction of hypersplenism following distal splenorenal shunt. Surgery (1979) 1.02
Evaluation of ischemic intestine by Doppler ultrasound. Am J Surg (1980) 1.01
Sixty second-look procedures indicated primarily by rise in serial carcinoembryonic antigen. J Surg Res (1980) 0.99
Survival and function after left ventricular aneurysmectomy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (1975) 0.99
Peritoneal lavage in experimental pancreatitis in dogs. Am J Surg (1966) 0.99
Intraoperative localization of neuroendocrine tumors with 125I-TYR(3)-octreotide and a hand-held gamma-detecting probe. Surgery (1993) 0.98
Is carcino-embryonic antigen useful in the follow-up management of patients with colorectal liver metastases? Am J Surg (1999) 0.98
Surgical management of pancreas divisum. Am J Surg (1982) 0.98
Regulation of atrial natriuretic peptide gene expression in gastric antrum by fasting. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (2000) 0.97
Limitations with light microscopy in the detection of colorectal cancer cells. Dis Colon Rectum (1999) 0.97
Intraoperative localization of intestinal arteriovenous malformation. Arch Surg (1978) 0.97
Early surgical treatment of gastrinoma. Am J Med (1987) 0.97
Historical review of pancreaticoduodenectomy. Am J Surg (1991) 0.97
18F-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-guided surgery for recurrent colorectal cancer: a feasibility study. J Surg Res (2001) 0.96
Effect of gastrointestinal secretions on the formation of hemorrhagic intestinal necrosis in Escherichia coli endotoxin shock. Am J Surg (1966) 0.96
Observations on fifty distal splenorenal shunts. Surgery (1978) 0.96
Surgical decision-making in the treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts. Internal versus external drainage. Am J Surg (1979) 0.96
Chronic and recurrent appendicitis. Am J Surg (1979) 0.96
Neurologic complications of gastric partitioning. Arch Neurol (1985) 0.95