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What Is Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction?

The sphincter of Oddi is a muscular valve that plays a vital role in digestion. It controls the flow of bile and pancreatic juice. It opens and closes to let the juices flow from the liver and ...
Medical News Today

The esophageal sphincter: Upper, lower, and how it works

The esophageal sphincters are bands of muscles at the top and bottom of the esophagus — the muscular tube that passes food and drink from the mouth to the stomach. Esophageal sphincters open and close ...
Nature

Neoadjuvant chemoradiation and sphincter preservation

The benefit of preoperative combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy to perform sphincter-preserving surgery for patients with locally advanced distal rectal cancer is not supported by findings from ...
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Does adjuvant oxaliplatin affect the sphincter function in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy followed by low ...

Impact of dose intensity of XELOX and MFOLFOX6 on survival of metastatic colorectal cancer patients: A retrospective analysis at the Jewish General Hospital between 2006 and 2013. This is an ASCO ...
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FDA Grants RMAT designation for Cook MyoSite’s Investigational Autologous Muscle Derived Cells for Urinary Sphincter Repair

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cook MyoSite, a biotechnology firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted the Regenerative ...