Purpose Patients with advanced pancreatic cancer have a poor prognosis and there have
been no improvements in survival since the introduction of gemcitabine in 1996. Pancreatic …

Weight loss surgery is one of the fastest growing segments of the surgical discipline. As with
all medical procedures, postoperative complications will occur. Acute care surgeons need to …

Background We investigated the efficacy of cetuximab plus irinotecan, fluorouracil, and
leucovorin (FOLFIRI) as first-line treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer and sought …

Computed tomography (CT) scanning after blunt abdominal trauma has allowed
nonoperative management of selected patients with liver injuries. This report describes 52 …

TISlO is a primary response gene whose cDNA was cloned as a result of its rapid,
superinducible expression in Swiss 3T3 cells in response to 12-0-tetradecanoylphorbol-13 …

• Cases of motor vehicle trauma victims who died after arrival at a hospital were evaluated in
both Orange County (90 cases) and in San Francisco County (92 cases), Calif. All victims in …

Previously we reported that a karyotypically silent t (4; 14)(p16. 3; q32. 3) translocation is
present in about 25% of multiple myeloma (MM) tumors, and causes overexpression of …

Renal angiomyolipomas without visible fat (AML. wovf) are benign masses that are
incidentally discovered mainly in women. AML. wovf are typically homogeneously …

Objective Living-related liver transplantation (LRLT) has established efficacy in children. In a
larger recipient, LRLT requires the use of a small graft because of limits on the donor …

With increased demands for various types of assessments-from the class-room use of
individual student results to international comparisons-has come an expanded desire to use …