理性看待微创外科

所谓“微创”,乃是传统外科发展的伸延和提升。微创不等于无创,微创需要科学的决策,同时微创要运用循证医学。微创具有广阔的前景,但它的治疗之路依然很长。它需要进一步的完善。目前,还不是丰收的季节。     

侵袭性垂体腺瘤的个性化治疗

垂体腺瘤是颅内常见的良性肿瘤,但部分垂体腺瘤却呈现恶性生物学行为,呈侵袭性生长,导致手术全切困难,或是虽然手术切除满意,但却存在较高的复发率,使得临床治疗效果不满意。基于此,Jefferson1940年提出侵袭性垂体腺瘤的概念,随后人们对其诊断和治疗进行了深入系统的研究,取得了明显进展,特别是近年来有人提出垂体腺瘤的个性化治疗,使得侵袭性垂体腺瘤的治疗效果大为改观。     

泌尿外科微创技术与临床决策

微创技术在泌尿外科中的应用越来越广泛,对临床决策也产生了深远的影响。临床决策应以最佳证据作指导,充分评价不同方案的风险和利益,选择出最优方案应用于临床实践。微创技术的应用要以人为本,要贯穿诊断和治疗的全过程,要因地制宜,充分考虑应用的物质条件和基础。微创技术的应用也必须考虑经济因素,应选择适宜技术进行适度治疗。     

经肛直肠癌切除术的应用现状

在严格选择适应证的条件下,经肛直肠癌切除术是治疗早期低位直肠癌的可选术式之一。相比于直肠癌前切除术和经腹会阴切除术,经肛切除术具有创伤小,并发症少等特点。关于经肛切除术后的局部复发率以及综合治疗对经肛切除术治愈能力的影响尚存在争议。本文将对经肛切除术做一系统的回顾。     

微创神经外科发展的思考

神经外科的发展历史就是一个不断追求微创的过程。微创神经外科狭义的理解,更多侧重于微创技术手段的应用;而广义的理解,则是指微创理念。微创神经外科取得了很大的成就,但还有许多问题需要解决。在微创神经外科的实践和发展中,不仅应重视微创技术的应用,更要注意应用微创理念。     

垂体瘤侵袭性概念的多元化思考

垂体腺瘤是颅内常见的良性肿瘤,但却存在较高的手术不全切除率和术后复发率,因此1940年Jefferson提出侵袭性垂体腺瘤的概念,认为这部分肿瘤的生物学行为实际上是介于良性垂体腺瘤和恶性垂体癌之间,肿瘤侵袭性生长。随后各个专业的医生们从各自的角度对侵袭性进行了诠释,形成了目前多元化的概念。如解剖学的诊断,影像学的和手术学的标准,还有新近出现的分子生物学和病理学等的诊断等等。使得诊断标准众多,概念混乱,这里做一综述,以期能对侵袭性提出一个相对合理的解释。     

Reducing Parent Distress and Increasing Parent Coping-Promoting Behavior During Children's Medical Procedure

The study investigated whether involving parents in their child's cognitive-behavioral intervention would effectively reduce parent distress during their child's medical procedure. Parents participating with their 3- to 7-year-old children prior to a voiding cystourethrogram were randomly assigned to an intervention (N = 20) or a standard care (N = 20) condition. The intervention included provision of information, coping skills training, and parent coaching. Parents participating in the intervention had a significant reduction in anxiety following the intervention relative to parents in standard care. Trained parents displayed fewer distress-promoting and more coping-promoting behaviors during the procedure, even though parents in both conditions reported similar levels of anxiety during the procedure. Involving parents in children's interventions is crucial to reduce parent distress and prepare parents to assist their child during the medical procedure.     

心脏病外科治疗之趋势——微创

在近20年间,伴随着科学技术的发展以及医疗水平的提高,微创已经成为了外科医生行使手术的重要选择之一;由于国家生活水平的提高,患者不但追求高生存率,同时提出了更高的要求——低病痛,快恢复期,伤口美观等,微创外科得到了越来越多的人的青睐。本文主要探讨了微创心脏外科的分类(小切口技术,电视胸腔镜辅助心脏外科技术,机器人辅助心脏外科技术)以及各种新技术在心脏外科领域所存在的优势和不足,同时辩证地指出了心脏外科的未来发展趋势以及在发展过程中可能存在的一系列矛盾,同时指出了医疗为患者个体服务的观点。     

Development and Feasibility of a Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Fear of Cancer Recurrence

This paper describes the development, content, and preliminary results of a group cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for fear of cancer recurrence (FCR). A manualized CBT intervention was developed and offered to 38 patients with various cancer types and stages in two hospitals. Four weekly group CBT sessions were administered by two licensed psychologists as part of routine care. Patients completed self-report scales before the first treatment session and, a second time, 1 month after the last session.Overall, 33 patients had clinical levels of FCR at baseline. The participants’ satisfaction toward the group CBT for FCR was high. Significant reductions on the total score and most subscales of the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory (FCRI) were observed, as well as significant improvements on most of the other psychological variables measured (i.e., insomnia, anxiety, depression, dysfunctional beliefs about cancer, and intolerance of uncertainty). In addition, 52% of the patients with clinical levels of FCR (FCRI-severity subscale score ≥ 13) at baseline no longer reached this clinical threshold at posttreatment.These preliminary results suggest that our group CBT for FCR is well accepted and feasible, and shows promising efficacy for decreasing FCR and improving other psychological variables among cancer patients. The next step is to investigate the efficacy of this minimal intervention in larger and controlled clinical trials, as well as its usefulness as part of a stepped care approach.This low-cost intervention is easy to implement in various clinical settings and has a strong potential to help large numbers of patients with FCR.     

The Effects of Early English Learning on Auditory Perception of English Minimal Pairs by Taiwan University Students

Auditory perception of English minimal pairs was tested with or without noise background. Each subject was interviewed after the test to collect information regarding their early experience on learning English as a foreign language. This study was designed to examine the differential effects of learning English at three age-starting points and two learning durations. This study hopes to determine how childhood experience of English learning (which is not mandatory in public elementary schools) has affected the auditory competence of university students in distinguishing English minimal pairs. Results showed that age effects were salient only under condition of noise background. Without the interference of background noise, most subjects performed well enough to obliterate any potential differences.