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Analysis of Clinical Relevance and Predictive Factors for Postoperative Ascites after Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Actual Long-Term Survival Analysis
No full textBackground: Ascites is one of the most common complications after liver resection. Although it is not generally considered to be an expression of postoperative liver failure, it is commonly associated with an increased rate of postoperative mortality. Objective: We evaluated the predictive factors and the clinical relevance of postoperative ascites, both for early and long-term results, using actuarial and actual long-term survival analysis. Materials and methods: A retrospective evaluation of 325 unselected and consecutive patients who received liver resection with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was carried out. Overall survival and disease free survival according to the occurrence of postoperative ascites were computed. Results: No features linked to the technical aspect of the resection had a predictive value. The only feature related to the tumor was the posterior location of HCC. In the subgroup of cirrhotic patients with a posterior-side HCC, the rate of ascites was 34.9%; 51 out of 57 patients with ascites (89.5%) presented a posteriorly located HCC in cirrhosis. Roughly one-fifth of patients with postoperative ascites presented signs of liver failure, but in-hospital mortality was almost four-fold that of patients without ascites. Conclusion: A posterior location of HCC significantly increased the risk of ascites
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Liver Transplantation Exceeding UCSF Criteria: Case Report of a Late Recurrence Treated by Surgery and Review of the Literature
No full textIntroduction: Treatment of a recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation. Surgery has seldom been considered in such a situation because HCC recurrences are generally considered as a systemic disease. Patient and Methods: We describe a 47-year-old male patient who underwent liver transplantation in October 1999 for HCC exceeding the Milan and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), criteria. Results: In 2007 (8 years after liver transplantation), the patient developed a cervical bone metastasis treated by surgery. In April 2008, HCC had disseminated to hepatic pedicle lymph nodes. An extended hepatic pedicle lymphadenectomy was then performed. Today, our patient is doing well, without signs of recurrence. Discussion: The risk of developing a tumor recurrence is the main argument against expanding the UCSF criteria. In case of an HCC recurrence, various treatments ranging from a change in the immunosuppression regimen to chemotherapy have been proposed. Surgical treatment has rarely been envisaged in the treatment of HCC recurrences because of the technical difficulties and the frequent dissemination of cancer. Copyright (C) 2009 S. Karger AG, Base
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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