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Hepatic Artery Infusion Chemotherapy
Hepatic artery chemotherapy was given to 36 patients, using totally implantable devices consisting of a port
and external pump. Twenty-seven patients had inoperable liver metastases of colorectal origin. The infusion
system was inserted by laparotomy into the hepatic artery via the gastroduodenal artery. There was no
operative mortality. Thirteen infusion systems could not be used for chemotherapy due to dislodgement,
early death and lack of follow-up. FUdR was infused every two weeks. There were minor local
complications like thrombosis of the system and dislodgement of the port. Toxic effects could be managed
by reducing the dose. Response to chemotherapy was evaluated by survival, clinical condition, CEA,
ultrasound and CT six months after onset of arterial chemotherapy. Ten/twenty-three patients (43%)
responded to therapy, eight of them died on the average 19 months after initial chemotherapy. Six patients
were non-responders, seven had stable disease. Five/ten patients developed extrahepatic metastases. Mean
survival time was 13.1 months, mean interval until relapse 10.6 months
Kommentar zur Arbeit «Über die Anwendung von Klammernahtgeräten in der resezierenden Magenchirurgie»
English-Chinese CLIR using a Simplified PIRCS System
A GUI is presented with our PIRCS retrieval system for supporting English-Chinese cross language information retrieval. The query translation approach is employed using the LDC bilingual wordlist. Given an English query, different translation methods and their retrieval results can be demonstrated
Eingeladener Kommentar zu: “Mikrolaryngeale Laserchirurgie: Glottiserweiterung bei beidseitiger Stimmlippenlähmung”
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