Liver Resection Under Total Vascular Isolation Variations on a Theme

Liver Resection Under Ischemia: Inflow Occlusion or Total Hepatic Isolation

203 surgery group. The procedure-related complications (28% and 32%, respectively) and 30 day mortality (8% and 20%) were similar. Although the initial hospital stay was significantly shorter in the stented group (18 vs 24 days), this difference was not maintained when readmissions for obstructed endoprostheses and duodenal obstruction were also considered. Another study by Dowsett et al. inclu...

Technique of Vascular Isolation for Liver Resection

of hepatic vascular exclusion for extensive liver resection. Hepatic vascular exclusion, which includes clamping of the portal pedicle along with the inferior vena cava below and above the liver, may be a useful procedure for resection of liver tumors close to the hepatic veins or the vena cava that are usually considered unresectable by conventional techniques. Since complete caval exclusion i...

Variations on a theme.

A ring satisfying x = x is necessarily commutative. We consider a variety of weaker forms of this condition and show that many but not all of them imply commutativity. We also present a variety of elementary proofs of the fact that x = x implies commutativity.

Variations on a Theme

Variations on a Montagovian theme

What are the objects of knowledge, belief, probability, apriority or analyticity? For at least some of these properties, it seems plausible that the objects are sentences, or sentence-like entities. However, results from mathematical logic indicate that sentential properties are subject to severe formal limitations. After surveying these results, I argue that they are more problematic than ofte...