Background: Early-stage esophageal cancer can be cured by surgical resection with low mortality and excellent five-year survival. Recently, however, endoscopic therapies have been proposed as an acceptable alternative. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is typically used for pretreatment staging; the presence of muscularis propria invasion and/or nodal metastasis are a contraindication to endoscopic therapy. We hypothesized that […]
Laparoscopic adrenalectomy has become in last decade “gold standard” for treating of adrenal tumors with diameters smaller than 6 cm. In addition, one should note that larger tumors or potentially malignant tumors, once considered contraindications to a laparoscopic approach, can now be removed laparoscopically, with virtually no complication. In many surgical centers a tumor size […]
PURPOSE: To assess the effectiveness of laparoscopic radio frequency ablation therapy (Lap-RFA) for small hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) located beneath the diaphragm or on the surface of the liver. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Lap-RFA indication was as follows; smaller than 3cm in a diameter and less than three in the number, no vascular invasion, general condition available […]
Introduction With the increasing uptake of laparoscopic hernia repairs, there could be concern that the availability of this basic open training procedure will be less for the current cohort of trainees as consultants and experienced registrars are doing more hernia repairs laparoscopically. This study aimed to determine whether there was a reduction in trainee exposure […]
This study is a retrospective review of all patients treated with a robotic-assisted mininvasive surgery for visceral artery aneurysms (VAA) at a single Institution. Robotic surgery seems to offer an important alternative to the traditional treatment.Materials and Methods: between September 2001 and June 2007, 12 patients aged 41-78 (mean = 59.25) underwent minimally invasive robotic […]