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William Clark Meyers

Medical Professor in the Department of Surgery
Surgery
Box 3704 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
Dept of Surgery, Durham, NC 27710

Scholarly Works - Conferences


WHipple-ABACUS, a simple, validated risk score for 30-day mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy developed using the ACS-NSQIP database.

Conference Surgery · November 2016 BACKGROUND: Pancreaticoduodenectomy needs simple, validated risk models to better identify 30-day mortality. The goal of this study is to develop a simple risk score to predict 30-day mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy. METHODS: We reviewed cases of p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Safety and efficacy of living donor liver preservation with HTK solution.

Conference Transplant Proc · 2005 BACKGROUND: In living donor liver transplantation (LDLTx) organ procurement is usually well controlled, and allows to assess liver preservation and graft function under standardized conditions. Because publications on histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate (HT ... Full text Link to item Cite

Laparoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia: does anterior hemifundoplication affect clinical outcome?

Conference Ann Surg · June 2004 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the addition of anterior hemifundoplication to laparoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia yields better clinical outcomes than laparoscopic esophagomyotomy alone. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Although hemifundoplication may prev ... Full text Link to item Cite

Hepatic abscess. Changes in etiology, diagnosis, and management.

Conference Ann Surg · December 1990 Most recent reviews of pyogenic hepatic abscess emphasize percutaneous versus open surgical management and devote little time to studying the etiology or the clinical condition of the patient. In this study a detailed review was performed with a computeriz ... Full text Link to item Cite