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Attitudes of surgeons to the use of postoperative markers of the systemic inflammatory response following elective surgery [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Cancer is responsible for 7.6 million deaths worldwide and surgery is the primary modality of a curative outcome. Postoperative care is of considerable importance and it is against this backdrop that a questionnaire based study assessing ...
Dolan, Ross D., Horgan, Paul G., McMillan, Donald C., McSorley, Stephen T.   +3 more
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Transanal minimally invasive surgery to rescue anastomosis following leak after low anterior resection: A case report

Laparoscopic, Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery, 2021
Restorative low anterior resection (LAR) for rectal cancer carries a significant risk of anastomotic leak: One of the most feared complications in colorectal surgery.
James Wei Tatt Toh, Henry Wang, Geoffrey Collins, Chelsea Beinke, Elissa Zhang, Alistair Escott, Toufic El-Khoury, Nimalan Pathma-Nathan   +7 more
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Preoperative chemoradiation versus radiation alone for stage II and III resectable rectal cancer [PDF]

, 2013
Background : Preoperative radiotherapy (RT) decreases local recurrence rate and improves survival in stage II and III rectal cancer patients. The combination of chemotherapy with RT has a sound radiobiological rationale, and phase II trials of combined ...
Ceelen, Wim, DE CALUWE, LAURA, Van Nieuwenhove, Yves   +2 more
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Perioperative management and early complications after intestinal resection with ileocolonic anastomosis in Crohn’s disease: analysis from the PRACTICROHN study [PDF]

, 2018
This study is aimed at describing the prevalence of and risk factors associated with early post-operative complications after Crohn’s disease-related intestinal resection.
Barreiro de Acosta, Manuel, Barrio, Jesús, Borruel Sainz, Natalia, Castro, Manuel, Cea Calvo, Luis, Domènech, Eugeni, Francisco, Ruth de, García Sánchez, Valle, Gutiérrez, Ana, Juliá, Berta, Martín Arranz, María Dolores, Rivero, Montserrat, Romero, Cristina   +12 more
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Endoscopic management of anastomotic leak after esophageal or gastric resection for malignancy: a multicenter experience

Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, 2021
Background: Most anastomotic leaks after surgical resection for esophageal or esophagogastric junction malignancies are treated endoscopically with esophageal stents.
Rachel Hallit, Mélanie Calmels, Ulriikka Chaput, Diane Lorenzo, Aymeric Becq, Marine Camus, Xavier Dray, Jean Michel Gonzalez, Marc Barthet, Jérémie Jacques, Thierry Barrioz, Romain Legros, Arthur Belle, Stanislas Chaussade, Romain Coriat, Pierre Cattan, Frédéric Prat, Diane Goere, Maximilien Barret   +18 more
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A standardized comparison of peri-operative complications after minimally invasive esophagectomy: Ivor Lewis versus McKeown. [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: While our institutional approach to esophageal resection for cancer has traditionally favored a minimally invasive (MI) 3-hole, McKeown esophagectomy (MIE 3-hole) during the last five years several factors has determined a shift in our ...
Berger, Adam C., Brown, Andrew M., Evans III, Nathaniel R., Palazzo, Francesco, Pucci, Michael J., Rosato, Ernest L., Tatarian, Talar   +6 more
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CRP Predicts Safe Patient Discharge after Colorectal Surgery. Reply [PDF]

, 2016
Reply: We would like to thank Aurelie´n Dupre`, Johan Gagnie´r, Heloı¨se Samba, Michel Rivoire, and Karem Slim for their comments about our article ‘‘Procalcitonin Reveals Early Dehiscence in Colorectal Surgery: The PREDICS Study.’’1 It is very rewarding
Antonelli, MARIA SERENA, Balducci, Genoveffa, Corcione, Francesco, de Manzini, Nicolò, Giaccaglia, Valentina, Nigri, Giuseppe, Ramacciato, Giovanni, Salvi, Pier Federico   +7 more
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Does Preoperative Radio(chemo)therapy Increase Anastomotic Leakage in Rectal Cancer Surgery? A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Gastroenterology Research and Practice, 2014
Objective. Preoperative radio(chemo)therapy (pR(C)T) appears to increase postoperative complications of rectal cancer resection, but clinical trials have reported conflicting results.
Changjiang Qin, Xuequn Ren, Kaiwu Xu, Zhihui Chen, Yulong He, Xinming Song   +5 more
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Buttressing staples with cholecyst-derived extracellular matrix (CEM) reinforces staple lines in an ex vivo peristaltic inflation model [PDF]

, 2008
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008Background - Staple line leakage and bleeding are the most common problems associated with the ...
Abhay Pandit, CA Brewer, CC Vaughn, DM Downey, DM Downey, DM Downey, DO Freytes, EC Consten, EC Consten, F Portilla de la, I Matsumoto, JC Coburn, JCY Chan, JD Cooper, JE Connolly, Jeffrey C. Y. Chan, JJ Tuech, John L. Kelly, JS Pinheiro, K Burugapalli, K Burugapalli, K Potaris, Krishna Burugapalli, L Angrisani, M Suter, MF Shamji, NT Nguyen, O Awais, PY Choy, S Ahmed, S Brody, S Provencher, SA Lustosa, SA Shikora, SA Shikora, SM Eisenkop, TW Rice, U Stammberger, V Pagan, W Arnold   +39 more
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State of the art in tracheal surger. A brief literature review [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Tracheal surgery requires a highly specialized team of anesthesiologists, thoracic surgeons, and operative support staff. It remain a formidable challenge for surgeons due to the criticality connected to anatomical considerations ...
Ibrahim, Mohsen, Rendina, Erino Angelo, Siciliani, Alessandra   +2 more
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