Familial gastric cancer: overview and guidelines for management

C Caldas, F Carneiro, HT Lynch, J Yokota… - Journal of medical …, 1999 - jmg.bmj.com
Families with autosomal dominant inherited predisposition to gastric cancer have been
described. More recently, germline E-cadherin/CDH1 mutations have been identified in …

Appendicitis: a critical review of diagnosis and treatment in 1,000 cases

FR Lewis, JW Holcroft, J Boey, JE Dunphy - Archives of surgery, 1975 - jamanetwork.com
One thousand cases of appendicitis seen from 1963 to 1973 were reviewed. The overall
negative appendectomy rate was 20%, but in women between ages 20 and 40 it exceeded …

Operative experience of surgery residents: trends and challenges

MA Malangoni, TW Biester, AT Jones… - Journal of surgical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate trends in operative experience and to determine the effect of
establishing the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE) operative classification …

Epidemiology of trauma deaths

CC Baker, L Oppenheimer, B Stephens… - The American Journal of …, 1980 - Elsevier
The records of all 437 persons who died from trauma in San Francisco in 1977 were
examined. Sixty-five percent of the sample (285 were younger than 50 years, and 119 were …

[HTML][HTML] Early gastric cancer in young, asymptomatic carriers of germ-line E-cadherin mutations

DG Huntsman, F Carneiro, FR Lewis… - … England Journal of …, 2001 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Germ-line truncating mutations in the E-cadherin (CDH1) gene have been
found in families with hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. These families are characterized by a …

Operative experience of residents in US general surgery programs: a gap between expectation and experience

RH Bell Jr, TW Biester, A Tabuenca, RS Rhodes… - Annals of …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The purpose of the study was to identify a group of operations which general
surgery residency program directors believed residents should be competent to perform by …

[HTML][HTML] National cluster-randomized trial of duty-hour flexibility in surgical training

KY Bilimoria, JW Chung, LV Hedges… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Concerns persist regarding the effect of current surgical resident duty-hour
policies on patient outcomes, resident education, and resident well-being. Methods We …

American surgical association blue ribbon committee report on surgical education: 2004

HT Debas, BL Bass, MF Brennan, TC Flynn… - Annals of …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
American surgical education has a rich heritage, and its programs produce some of the best
trained and most competent surgeons. Although surgery residency training has changed …

Acute appendicitis: high-resolution real-time US findings.

RB Jeffrey Jr, FC Laing, FR Lewis - Radiology, 1987 - pubs.rsna.org
High-resolution, real-time ultrasonography (US) with graded compression was used to
evaluate 90 patients with clinically suspected acute appendicitis. US visualization of a …

Prevention of venous thromboembolism in trauma patients

MM Knudson, FR Lewis, A Clinton… - Journal of Trauma …, 1994 - journals.lww.com
PREVENTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN TRAUMA PATIENTS : Journal of Trauma
and Acute Care Surgery PREVENTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN TRAUMA …