Giovanni Lezoche, *Lino Polese, Giancarlo D’Ambrosio, Alessandro M Paganini, Andrea Balla, Daniele Scoglio, Silvia Quaresima, *Lorenzo Norberto, Emanuele Lezoche Department of General Surgery, Surgical Specialties and Organ Transplantation Paride Stefanini, Sapienza University of Rome. *Department of Surgical and Gastroenterological Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy. IntroductionSeveral technological advances have radically modified the management of low […]
Declan M Soden, PhD, Patrick Forde, PhD, Mira Sadadcharam, MD, Michael Bourke, MD, Gerald C O’Sullivan, MB, MCh, MSc, FRCSI University College Cork The EndoVe system has been developed at the Cork Cancer Research Centre and allows for the endoscopic facilitated targeted treatment of colorectal tumors. It functions by applying a brief electric/electroporation pulse (around […]
Kenric Murayama, MD, Rashikh A Choudhury, BA, Kristoffel Dumon, MD, Noel Williams, MBBCh, Henry Glick, PhD, Peter Abt, MD, Ali Naji, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania PURPOSE: Aggressive weight loss has been touted to improve renal transplant candidacy for morbidly obese patients. Our aim was to create a decision analytic model to estimate the impact […]
Song Liang, MD, PhD, Morris E Franklin Jr, MD, FACS, Jeffrey L Glass, MD, FACS Texas Endosrugery Institute Introduction: Both diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy had been applied as acceptable approaches to manage intestinal obstruction in the acute setting. This prospective study based on our practice was aimed at investigating the practicability and applicability of laparoscopic […]
Song Liang, MD, PhD, Morris E Franklin Jr, MD, FACS, Jeffrey L Glass, MD, FACS Texas Endosurgery Institute BACKGOUND AND OBJECTIVES: This prospective study focused on the patients with rectal cancer who underwent laparoscopic low anterior resection with total mesorectal excision and was specifically aimed at investigating if the this laparoscopic approach can be accepted […]