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ASO Authors Reflections: Could Robotics, 3D Imaging, and Liver Venous Deprivation Potentially Redefine Surgical Standards for Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma?
Full text link: Peri-hilar cholangiocarcinoma remains a major challenge in hepatobiliary surgery, where safety of surgical operation and oncological radicality (R0 resection) are primary goals. Traditional open surgery, including major hepatectomy with caudate lobe and bile duct resection plus lymphadenectomy, remains the standard. Recent advances-robotic platforms, 3D imaging, and liver venous deprivation-offer new possibilities: liver venous deprivation ensures sufficient future liver remnant, and robotics provide precise dissection and enhanced visualization. Although costs and the learning curve remain limiting factors, these strategies could safely expand the use of minimally invasive surgery in peri-hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Validation in larger cohorts is required to assess their true potential
Robotic Right Hepatectomy for Peri-Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma after Liver Venous Deprivation
No full textBackground: Recent innovations such as robotic platforms and liver venous deprivation (LVD) have the potential to improve the management and surgical treatment of peri-hilar cholangiocarcinoma (Ph-CCA). Robotic platforms integrate the operative field view with intraoperative ultrasound and preoperative 3D planning. 1-4 LVD is increasingly preferred over portal vein embolization for better liver hypertrophy outcomes in both speed and percentage.5 This video demonstrates the feasibility of fully robotic right hepatectomy with common bile duct resection and reconstruction for Ph-CCA after LVD. Patients: A Bismuth 3a Ph-CCA was diagnosed in a 74-year-old female with jaundice. Preoperatively, the patient underwent 3D volumetry and planning and percutaneous drainage of left biliary ducts. The future remnant liver volume increased from 38 to 53% of total liver volume after LVD. Technique: Four robotic trocars and one laparoscopic port were placed, and the da Vinci Xi system was docked. En-bloc regional lymphadenectomy was performed, followed by isolation of the hepatic pedicle elements. After mobilization of the caudate lobe and section of the distal common bile duct, the en-bloc right hepatectomy was carried out. A single biliodigestive anastomosis was performed on B2-3-4 on an antecolic Roux-&-Y jejunal loop. The operative time was 810 min. The blood loss was 500 mL. The patient was discharged on postoperative day 16. The pathology confirmed pT2b N0 (0/11 nodes) R0r R0b6,7 G2 Ph-CCA. Conclusion: Although this was a very demanding and challenging approach for both the patient and the surgical team, this video demonstrates the feasibility of this management and probably sets the goal for a new standard of care
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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