Purpose : Between laparoscopic and open surgery for tumoral organisms, after laparoscopic surgery immune system of organism supresses lesser, for this reason, by some, it is believed that after surgery the remaining tumor cells grow more slowly. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of laparoscopic and open surgery to tumor growth and activity.
Methods : Five- to six- weeks- old female, thirty, BALB/C mice were used for this study. 2.5×106 CT- 26 tumor cells were inoculated intr
Background: Colorectal adenocarcinoma is the third most common site for new cancers and death in both men and women. The unique anatomy of the rectum, with its retroperitoneal location in a narrow pelvis and proximity to the urogenital organs, autonomic nerves, and anal sphincters, makes surgical access relatively difficult. Prognosis in rectal cancer including the mortality, recurrence and disease free survival is tightly related to adequacy of TME, number of lymph nodes harvested and margin st
Purpose: Laparoscopic surgery has accepted as a standard procedure for colorectal cancer, and become popular. Colorectal cancer usually presents in the elderly patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer in the elderly patients.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 49 patients older than 80 years of age, who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer from Jan. 2008 to Jun. 2012. The patients was divided into the open group (N=22) and the
Background and hypothesis
There is limited data available on the surgical site infection (SSI) of patients following debulking operation of pelvic exenteration. NHSN includes these patients under the broad category of colectomy. We sought to compare surgical site infection in patients with pelvic exenteration procedure and conventional rectal resections.
Design and methods
The NSQIP databases were used to examine the clinical data of rectal cancer patients undergoing elective resection be
INTRODUCTION: Several procedures have been designed and applied to treat overt rectal prolapse. Transperineal procedures, such as Miwa-Gantz, Altemeier and Delorme operations, are associated with less morbidity, but higher rate of recurrence. Transabdominal procedures include a variety of rectopexies with the use of prosthesis or sutures and with or without resection of the redundant sigmoid colon, which are all approached by laparoscopy in recent years. Traditional prosthesis rectopexies are so