{"title":"Active surveillance for complex renal cysts: is it time for III-F and IV-F?","authors":"J. Nolazco, Yuzhe Tang, Steven L. Chang","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-73","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-73","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45013856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adherence of unpublished case reports to the Case Report (CARE) guidelines: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 139 case report manuscripts initially submitted to AME medical journals","authors":"Fanghui Yang, Yaling Cheng, Kaiping Zhang","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-94","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-94","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44645167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ke Xu, J. Ni, Xiaodi Wu, Jingyuan Xie, Mo Chen, Fang Zhang, Hongbing Liu, P. Zhan, T. Lv, Yong Song
{"title":"Efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Ke Xu, J. Ni, Xiaodi Wu, Jingyuan Xie, Mo Chen, Fang Zhang, Hongbing Liu, P. Zhan, T. Lv, Yong Song","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-88","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49127770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giorgio Lo Iacono, Federica Danuzzo, L. Fournel, A. Mazzella, M. Alifano
{"title":"Bilateral pneumothorax after breast augmentation surgery: it does not happen or it is not sought? Consideration of a case report","authors":"Giorgio Lo Iacono, Federica Danuzzo, L. Fournel, A. Mazzella, M. Alifano","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-93","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44500256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jeremy Armstrong, Gavin Cardwell, Alyson J Brinker
{"title":"Stewart-Treves syndrome of the lower extremity: case report","authors":"Jeremy Armstrong, Gavin Cardwell, Alyson J Brinker","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48215565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delays in care and the failure of the lung cancer care continuum","authors":"Amit Mahajan","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-39","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41971946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lung function assessment before anatomical lung resections—is everything so clear?—a narrative review","authors":"D. Subotic","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45043240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feng Su, Heng Jiao, Jun Yin, Yong Fang, L. Tan, Yaxing Shen
Background: Esophagectomy offers the chance of cure for esophageal cancer, however, the optimal circumferential extent of surgery remains uncertain. Yet, the practice of en bloc esophagectomy (EBE) and meso-esophagectomy (TME) reached inconsistent results, which led to the proposal of this study was to evaluate the surgical and oncological effect of EBE and TME on the esophageal cancer patients. Methods: Five databases were searched through March 1st, 2022, and the references of eligible studies were further searched in the databases and assessed. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the e�cacy of EBE or TME were included. The outcomes were recorded in the forms of mean difference (MD), risk ratio (RR), odds ratio (OR) and hazard ratio (HR) with its corresponding 95% con�dence intervals (CI). Results: Overall, a total of 14 RCTs involving 3106 subjects were included. Compared with standard resection, a higher blood loss (MD=56.29, (14.80, 97.77), P=0.008), more lymph nodes acquired (MD=14.39, (9.79, 19.00), P<0.001) and better long-term outcomes for early (OS: HR=0.31, (0.10, 0.96), p =0.04; DFS: HR=0.71, (0.41, 1.21), P=0.21) and advanced staged esophageal cancer patients (OS: HR=0.47, (0.33, 0.66), p <0.001; DFS: HR=0.62, (0.38, 0.99), P=0.05) were observed in the EBE surgery group, while TME showed less blood loss (MD=-74.03, (-96.69, -51.38), p <0.001), shorter operation time (MD=-32.37, (-65.12, 0.37), p =0.05) and better overall survival (HR=0.74, (0.55, 0.98), p for TME), studies in EBE subgroup unanimously indicated a longer operation time for EBE.
{"title":"Effect of en bloc esophagectomy and total meso-esophagectomy on esophageal cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis","authors":"Feng Su, Heng Jiao, Jun Yin, Yong Fang, L. Tan, Yaxing Shen","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-38","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Esophagectomy offers the chance of cure for esophageal cancer, however, the optimal circumferential extent of surgery remains uncertain. Yet, the practice of en bloc esophagectomy (EBE) and meso-esophagectomy (TME) reached inconsistent results, which led to the proposal of this study was to evaluate the surgical and oncological effect of EBE and TME on the esophageal cancer patients. Methods: Five databases were searched through March 1st, 2022, and the references of eligible studies were further searched in the databases and assessed. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the e�cacy of EBE or TME were included. The outcomes were recorded in the forms of mean difference (MD), risk ratio (RR), odds ratio (OR) and hazard ratio (HR) with its corresponding 95% con�dence intervals (CI). Results: Overall, a total of 14 RCTs involving 3106 subjects were included. Compared with standard resection, a higher blood loss (MD=56.29, (14.80, 97.77), P=0.008), more lymph nodes acquired (MD=14.39, (9.79, 19.00), P<0.001) and better long-term outcomes for early (OS: HR=0.31, (0.10, 0.96), p =0.04; DFS: HR=0.71, (0.41, 1.21), P=0.21) and advanced staged esophageal cancer patients (OS: HR=0.47, (0.33, 0.66), p <0.001; DFS: HR=0.62, (0.38, 0.99), P=0.05) were observed in the EBE surgery group, while TME showed less blood loss (MD=-74.03, (-96.69, -51.38), p <0.001), shorter operation time (MD=-32.37, (-65.12, 0.37), p =0.05) and better overall survival (HR=0.74, (0.55, 0.98), p for TME), studies in EBE subgroup unanimously indicated a longer operation time for EBE.","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49482628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acquisition of surgical technique by surgical training using a Swine model—evaluation of the suture technique using a WKS-2 simulator","authors":"M. Noda, Izumi Shibasaki, Yoshinori Okada","doi":"10.21037/amj-21-59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-21-59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48216162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kyoto Matsudo, N. Haratake, Yuki Ono, M. Kohno, T. Takenaka, T. Yoshizumi
{"title":"Robotic-assisted thoracoscopic thymectomy for thymic carcinoid: case report","authors":"Kyoto Matsudo, N. Haratake, Yuki Ono, M. Kohno, T. Takenaka, T. Yoshizumi","doi":"10.21037/amj-22-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21037/amj-22-12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72157,"journal":{"name":"AME medical journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44256737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}