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@#Objective To investigate the effects of closed thoracic drainage with single tube or double tubes after video-assisted thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery. Methods Retrospective analysis was performed on 50 patients (39 males, 11 females) who underwent three-port thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery in our hospital from January 2013 to March 2019. Twenty-five patients with single indwelling tube after surgery were divided into the observation group and 25 patients with double indwelling tubes were divided into the control group. Results There was no significant difference in pulmonary retension on day 3 after surgery, postoperative complications, the patency rate of drainage tube before extubation, retention time or postoperative hospital stay (P>0.05). Postoperative pain and total amount of nonsteroidal analgesics use in the observation group was less than those in the control group (P<0.05). Conclusion It is safe and effective to perform closed thoracic drainage with single indwelling tube after video-assisted thoracoscopic lung volume reduction surgery, which can significantly reduce the incidence of related adverse drug reactions and facilitate rapid postoperative rehabilitation with a reduction of postoperative pain and the use of analgesic drugs.
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Objective To study the prognostic factors of primary duodenal papilla carcinoma.Methods The clinical data of 73 patients with primary duodenal papilla carcinoma who were admitted to the Dongnan Hospital of Xiamen University from June 1995 to June 2005 were retrospectively analyzed.Ten factors including gender,age,jaundice,tumor size,course of disease,total bilirubin,tumor differentiation,lymphatic metastasis,type of surgery and degree of resection were analyzed by Log-rank test.Prognostic factors with significant difference were further analyzed by the Cox regression model.The survival curve was drawn by using the Kaplan-Meier method.Results The median survival time of the patients was 34 months.Age,jaundice,tumor size,course of disease,total bilirubin,tumor differentiation,lymphatic metastasis,type of surgery and degree of resection were correlated with the prognosis (x2 =18.315,4.562,7.989,10.660,11.138,7.995,5.423,114.464,83.383,P＜0.05),while no significant difference was found between gender and prognosis ( x2 =1.720,P ＞ 0.05 ).Multivariate analysis demonstrated that tumor differentiation,type of surgery and degree of resection were the factors influencing the prognosis of patients with duodenal papilla carcinoma (RR =2.039,2.178,5.798,P＜0.05).Conclusions Tumor differentiation,type of surgery and degree of resection are the dependent factors influencing the prognosis of patients with duodenal papilla carcinoma.The standard type of surgery and degree of resection are important for the prognosis of patients.
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Objective To investigate the expression of CD44V6 in thyroid neoplasms and its significance. Methods The expression of CD44V6 in paraffin-embeded thyoid carcinoma tissue from 100 patients (50 with lymph node metastasis,50 without) and 20 patients with thyroid adenoma was measured by immunohistochemistry staining. Results Positive expression of CD44V6 in the group of thyoid carcinoma was 72%, significantly higher than the group of thyroid adenoma.Positive expression of CD44V6 in the group of thyoid carcinoma with lymph node involvement was 90%,significantly higher than the group of thyoid carcinoma without lymph node involvement.In patients with different pathological grade,different clinical stage and different survival time, the positive expression of CD44V6 was significantly different. Conclusions The results suggest that CD44V6 can be regarded as an valuable molecular markers to distinguish benign thyroid tumor from malignant tumor, to predict lymph node metastasis and prognosis.