Lorenzo-Zúñiga, Vicente Bustamante-Balén, Marco Pons-Beltrán, Vicente
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World journal of gastroenterology
Endoscopic removal of large (≥ 20 mm) non-pedunculated colorectal lesions (LNPCLs) may result in major adverse events, such as delayed bleeding (DB) and delayed perforation (DP), despite closure of the mucosal defects with clips. Topical application of a coverage agent refers to the creation of a shield with a biocompatible medical device (tissue o...
Alharbi, Samah Abdulaali Ovchinnikov, Dmitry A Wolvetang, Ernst
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World journal of gastroenterology
Colon cancer cell lines are widely used for research and for the screening of drugs that specifically target the stem cell compartment of colon cancers. It was reported that colon cancer carcinoma specimens contain a subset of leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled receptor 5 (LGR5)-expressing stem cells, these so-called "tumour-initiatin...
Yang, Qing-Hua Ma, Xiao-Peng Dai, Dong-Ling Bai, Da-Ming Zou, Yu Liu, Si-Xi Song, Jian-Ming
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World journal of gastroenterology
Gastrointestinal cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease occurs commonly in immunocompromised/immunodeficient patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection, neoplasm, solid organ transplantation, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, or treatment with immunosuppressants, but is rarely reported in association with measles infection. We desc...
Ali, Fares E M Mohammedsaleh, Zuhair M Ali, Mahmoud M Ghogar, Osama M
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World journal of gastroenterology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a devastating worldwide pandemic infection caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome namely coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that is associated with a high spreading and mortality rate. On the date this review was written, SARS-CoV-2 infected about 96 million people and killed about 2 million people. Several arg...
Sakai, Yuji Ohtsuka, Masayuki Sugiyama, Harutoshi Mikata, Rintaro Yasui, Shin Ohno, Izumi Iino, Yotaro Kato, Jun Tsuyuguchi, Toshio Kato, Naoya
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World journal of gastroenterology
Bile duct epithelial tumours showing papillary neoplasm in the bile duct lumen are present in the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts. Clinicopathological images of these tumours are distinctive and diverse, including histological images with a low to high grade dysplasia, infiltrating and noninfiltrating characteristics, excessive mucus produ...
Sbeit, Wisam Khoury, Tawfik Mari, Amir
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World journal of gastroenterology
Faecal incontinence (FI) is a debilitating common end result of several diseases affecting the quality of life and leading to patient disability, morbidity, and increased societal burden. Given the various causes of FI, it is important to assess and identify the underlying pathomechanisms. Several investigatory tools are available including high-re...
Liang, Xue-Ying Jia, Tian-Xu Zhang, Mei
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World journal of gastroenterology
In the early stage of acute pancreatitis (AP), a large number of cytokines induced by local pancreatic inflammation seriously damage the intestinal barrier function, and intestinal bacteria and endotoxins enter the blood, causing inflammatory storm, resulting in multiple organ failure, infectious complications, and other disorders, eventually leadi...
Muniraj, Thiruvengadam Aslanian, Harry R Laine, Loren Jamidar, Priya A Farrell, James F Mitchell, Kisha A Salem, Ronald R
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World journal of gastroenterology
Recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP) may be a presenting feature of and an indication for resection of pancreatic cysts, including intra-ductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN). Few data are available regarding the prevalence of malignancy and post-operative RAP in this population. To study the role of resection to help prevent RAP and analyze if p...
Tsilimigras, Diamantis I Pawlik, Timothy Michael Moris, Dimitrios
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World journal of gastroenterology
The concept of textbook outcome (TO) has recently gained popularity in surgical research and has been used to evaluate the quality or success of different surgical procedures, including hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) operations. TO consists of individual outcome parameters that each reflect different domains of care including structure, process, and ...
Li, Kun Peng, Yi-Fan Guo, Jing-Zhu Li, Mei Zhang, Yu Chen, Jing-Yi Lin, Ting-Ru Yu, Xin Yu, Wei-Dong
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Expression of the full-length isoform of Abelson interactor 1 (ABI1), ABI1-p65, is increased in colorectal carcinoma (CRC) and is thought to be involved in one or more steps leading to tumor progression or metastasis. The ABI1 splice isoform-L (ABI1-SiL) has conserved WAVE2-binding and SH3 domains, lacks the homeo-domain homologous region, and is m...
