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LATERAL INTERNAL SPHINCTEROTOMY FOR CHRONIC ANAL FISSURE: 10-YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN A SPECIALIST COLORECTAL UNIT
No full textLATERAL INTERNAL SPHINCTEROTOMY FOR CHRONIC ANAL FISSURE: 10-YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN A SPECIALIST COLORECTAL UNIT.
No full textPURPOSE: The aim of the study was to determinate the long-term outcome, recurrence rate and faecal incontinence after lateral internal sphincterotomy for chronic anal fissure (CAF) after failure of conservative treatment. METHODS:110 consecutive patients underwent surgery for a medically resistant CAF between 2002 and 2012. All data were prospectively collected and entered in a database including demographics, type of surgery, complications, healing time, incontinence (FISI score) and satisfaction with the operation (score 1-4). All patients were seen after surgery at 1 week, 1 month, six months and annualy threafter for 5 years. Patients were then contacted by phone. RESULTS: Median follow up was 3.5 years. 11 parients were lost at the follow-up. Overall complications rate was 5% ( 6 out of 110). Postoperative incontinence was 4.5% ( 5 out of 110). At the end of the follow.up 1 patient (1%) experienced significative incontnence (FISI score >5). Overall healing was achieved in 95% (94/99 patients), 91% of patients would have consented to the operation again if necessary. CONCLUSIONS: In our experience LIS remains the treatment ofchoice for medically resistant CAF, recurrence rate is low wiyh a minimal impact on continence
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Mesenteric closure with polymer-ligating clips after right colectomy with complete mesocolic excision for cancer and mesentery-based ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease
No full textMesenteric closure following right colectomy remains controversial and, following the advent of laparoscopic surgery, many surgeons do not routinely close the mesentery after colorectal resection. Nevertheless, especially after the introduction of operations such as right colectomy with complete mesocolic excision and ileocolic resections with extensive mesentery removal for Crohn's disease, the wide mesenteric defect resulting from the dissections can certainly expose the patients to complications such as internal hernias or volvuli. In general, mesenteric closure requires intracorporeal suturing. We describe a simple technique for the closure of the mesentery after surgical resection using polymer-ligating clips. This novel technique seems to minimize the time, effort and risk inherent to the procedure, even after large mesenteric excisions
Ligation of the intersphincteric fistula tract (LIFT) to treat anal fistula: early results from a prospective observational study
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