Synchronous Hepatic Cryotherapy and Resection of Colonic Primary is a High Risk Procedure (2000)
Thirteen patients underwent hepatic cryotherapy and synchronous colonic resection. Two of the nine patients developed hepatic abscess – this is a rare complication of cryotherapy alone.
Leakage Via Aberrant Bile Duct Due to Cholangiocarcinoma (1998)
R. Stanton, P. I. Craig, J. O. Jorgensen, D. L. Morris
The case of a male who had an open cholecystectomy complicated by presistent bile leak from an aberrant bile duct is presented. The persistence and volume of bile leak resulted in subsequent...
Two Cases of Spontaneous Liver Rupture and Literature Review (1996)
Spontaneous liver rupture is uncommon, difficult to diagnose and carries a universally high mortality. It has been well documented to occur as a complication of primary or secondary hepatic...
Hepatic Cryotherapy for Cancer: A Reviewand Critique (1996)
Background: Wedge or other nonanatomic hepatic resections, performed in an attempt to spare functional parenchyma, often are not accomplished with clear resection margins and may be complicated by...
Laparoscopic vs Open Ultrasound of the Liver: An in vitro Study (1996)
P. J. Cozzi, J. L. McCall, J. O. Jorgensen, D. L. Morris
Intra-operative contact ultrasound is a sensitive method of detecting liver tumours. The aim of this study was to compare the sensitivity of open contact ultrasound (OUS) of the liver with...
Cryotherapy of Liver Tumours–A Practical Guide (1995)
W. B. Ross, M. Horton, P. Bertolino, D. L. Morris
The use of cryotherapy for the treatment of some unresectable liver tumours has been clearly established as a therapeutic option. Intra-operative ultrasound has enhanced the process by enabling the...
Intracellular Gastrin in Human Gastrointestinal Tumor Cells (1991)
Watson, S. A., Durrant, L. G., Wencyk, P. M., Watson, A. L., Morris, D. L.
Flow cytometry and immunohisto chemical analyses of the human gastric adenocarcinoma cell line MKN 45G identified an intracellular peptie recognized by an antigastrin-17 (G17) antiserum but not by an...
Morris, D. L., Wilson, S. Rodgers, Pain, J., Edwardson, K. F., Jones, J., Strachan, C., ...
Aztreonam/metronidazole and cefotaxime/metronidazole were compared in a prospective trial in 154 patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery. Three antibiotic doses were given over 16 hours. A...
Effect of Albendazole on Human Hydatid Cysts: An Ultrastructural Study (1990)
K. Sylvia Richards, D. L. Morris
Five patients with hepatic (3), pelvic (1) or spinal (1) hydatid cysts received 10 mg/kg/d albendazole for 1–3 months prior to surgery. Daughter cysts were present in the spinal hydatid and in one...
D. H. Taylor, D. L. Morris, K. S. Richards
Protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus were cultured in vitro in 500, 250 or 100 μg/1 albendazole sulphoxide for 1, 3, 7, 10, 14d and then ‘recued’ (R) into drug-free medium for the remainder...
A Study of The Local Toxicity of Agents Used for Variceal Injection Sclerotherapy (1989)
C. S. Robertson, C. Womack, K. Robson, D. L. Morris
Injection sclerotherapy is widely used in the treatment of oesophageal varices. However, few studies have compared the local toxicity of sclerosant agents which may be important if serious local...
Morris, D. L., Richards, K. S., Chinnery, J. B.
Praziquantel was investigated in an in-vitro culture system of protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid disease). Live protoscoleces were obtained from ovine pulmonary and hepatic cysts. As...
Evaluation of mezlocillin in elective gastrointestinal surgery (1983)
Keighley, M. R. B., Ambrose, N. S., Morris, D. L., Burdon, D. W.
We report the interim results of two trials to evaluate the place of mezlocillin in elective intestinal operations. Sixity-four operations for gastro-oesophageal disease have been performed where...
Gastric exocrine “failure” in critically ill patients: incidence and associated features
Stannard, V A, Hutchinson, A, Morris, D L, Byrne, A
Following the observation that many critically ill patients cannot maintain their gastric juice pH below 4 without treatment a study was performed to measure the gastric juice pH in such patients and...
Adjuvant lipiodol I-131 after curative resection/ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma
Ng, K. M., Niu, R., Yan, T. D., Zhao, J., McKay, E., Chu, F. C. K., ...
Aim. A total of 329 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma have been treated at our unit since 1990. Following the randomized controlled trial in Hong Kong by Lau et al. in 1999, patients have been...
Durrant, L. G., Watson, S. A., Hall, A., Morris, D. L.
Epidermal growth factor receptors and insulin like growth factor-I receptors were co-expressed on two gastric and three colorectal tumour cell lines. Previous studies have shown that gastrin...
Iftikhar, S. Y., Watson, S. A., Morris, D. L.
Twelve patients with rectal carcinoma were treated for 2 weeks with the somatostatin analogue SMS 201.995. Effects of this therapy were assessed using serum marker concentration, Ki67 and...
Watson, S. A., Crosbee, D. M., Morris, D. L., Robertson, J. F., Makovec, F., Rovati, L. C., ...
The gastrin receptor antagonist, CR2093, competed with 125I-gastrin-17 (5 x 10(-10) M) for binding to gastrin receptors on the rat pancreatic adenocarcinoma, AR42J (CR2093 concentration inducing 50%...
Lawson, J. A., Adams, W. J., Morris, D. L.
Histamine has recently been shown to be a growth factor for some gastric and colorectal cancer cells. Previous studies have shown that cimetidine blocks in vitro and in vivo histamine-stimulated...
Bowrey, P F, King, J, Magarey, C, Schwartz, P, Marr, P, Bolton, E, ...
Endogenous histamine has been shown to effect growth mechanisms in experimental mammary carcinomas via H2 membrane receptors (Cricco et al, 1994). Both H1 and H2 binding sites are present in human...