Introduction:
Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease of unknown cause in which more than 90% of patients exhibit mediastinal and hilar lymph node enlargement or parenchymal lung disease. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is based on compatible clinical and radiographic findings supported by histologic evidence of non-caseating granulomas in one or more organs in the absence of any foreign particles or organisms. Intestinal manifestations of sarcoidosis are rare with few case reports in
Introduction: Laparoscopic procedures have been reaching all surgical specialties, performing the most difficult operations and replacing open surgery as the golden standard. We started in 1995 with laparoscopic colectomy. The aim was to decrease the surgical trauma by reducing the incision size on the abdominal wall. Results have been reduction in hospitalization time, post-operative recovery, pain and return to normal life.
Methods: In a ten-year period (1995–2014), retrospective study of c
Background: Anastomotic leakage was one of the most dreaded complications after colorectal surgery. Almost every surgeon has faced the intraoperative dilemma of whether to divert in colorectal surgery because of its advantages and disadvantages. To avoid the dilemma, some surgeons use a technique, a prophylactic preplaced ileum loop attached to right low abdominal subcutaneously( a pre-stage ileostomy, Ghost Ileostomy). This technique can help them to perform ileostomy when there is anatomotic l
[Backgrounds] A history of previous abdominal surgery often has some influences on performability of laparoscopic procedures. Severe adhesion of bowels to the operative scar or adhesion between bowels would be a problem and surgeons could not often help converting to the conventional procedures. On the other hand, the recent progress of laparoscopic equipment makes several complicated procedures feasible to perform without conversion to open surgeries. The high-definition image system, for examp
INTRODUCTION This study aims to demonstrate a new surgical procedure for the modified extralevator abdominoperineal resection, which satisfies both an extended cylindrical resection and a convenient perineal wound closure by modification of the surgical dissection plane.
METHODS AND PROCEDURES From September 2011 to February 2014, 12 consecutive patients (5 males and 7 females) underwent the modified extralevator APR in Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea. Pat