A 83-year-old man complaining of disphagia was referred to our hospital for further examination and treatment of esophageal cancer. An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy showed the circumferential stenosis of the esophagus at 33~38cm from the incision teeth. The mucosa of the stenotic part was almost intact with slight erosion and the biopsy specimen from the erosive […]
Purpose: Cytoreductive surgery followed by intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia (IPCH) is a promising treatment for patients with peritoneal malignancies. Usually, IPCH is performed concomitantly with cytoreductive surgery for peritoneal cancinomatosis (PC) or more occasionally as an adjuvant treatment after gastric resection for cancer. In this report, we describe our experience with staged adjuvant laparoscopic IPCH after complete […]
Against Occam’s Razor: TAP Repair of Recurrent Inguinal Hernia with Concomitant Inversion of Original Polypropylene Plug The patient is a 42 year old female who had undergone an open left inguinal hernia repair 13 years ago. She presents to clinic with a 1 year history of a recurrent left groin mass in the area of […]
Introduction: Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery has been recognized as a safe laparoscopic operative procedure for gastrointestinal malignancies. Although laparoscopic procedure has recently been applied for esophageal cancer, open surgery still remains the standard operative procedure. To overcome the technical difficulty of video-assisted esophagectomy, we applied hand-assisted surgery in VATS esophagectomy. The aim of this study is […]
Background: Gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) from abdominal malignancies reduces the quality of life of the patients and needs gastrojejunostomy or endoscopic stenting (ES). Patients who are indicated to this kind of management tend to have advanced diseases. Therefore, safe and less invasive treatment with early recovery should be considered. Laparoscopic gastrojejunostomy (LGJ) is currently feasible […]