General Surgery

Gloved Appendectomy Performed With a Gloved Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery Technique Versus Conventional Multiport Laparoscopic Technique

General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy
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Bin Chet Toh, MBChB, MRCS, Quor Meng Leong, MBBS, MRCS, MMed, FRCSEdDepartment of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore (both authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Using a commercially available multichannel port for single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) can be cost prohibitive to the development of this novel surgical technique. The use of […]

Curable Resection in Gastric and Lymph Node Metastases From Melanoma

Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy
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Yasunori Otowa, MD, Satoshi Suzuki, MD, PhD, Tatsuya Imanishi, MD, PhD, Tetsu Nakamura, MD, PhD, Kenichi Tanaka, MD, PhD, Masanobu Sakaguchi, MD, PhD, Toshinori Bito, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Kakeji, MD, PhDDepartment of Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan (Drs. Otowa, Suzuki, Imanishi, Nakamura, Tanaka, and Kakeji).Department of Internal Related, Kobe University Graduate

Biliary Stricture After a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass with Remnant Gastrectomy

Gastroenterology, General Surgery
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Salvador Navarrete Llopis, MD, Igor Bello, MD, José Luis Leyba, MD, Gabriel Escalona, MD, Cono Gumina Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Venezuela (Drs. Llopis, Escalona). Department of General Surgery, Universidad de Carabobo, Naguanagua, Venezuela (Dr. Bello). Department of General Surgery, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela (Dr. Leyba). Department of Gastroenterology, Clínica Santa Sofía, Caracas,

Acute Ulcerative Colitis, Thrombocytopenia, and Venous Thromboembolism Treated With Combined Laparoscopic Splenectomy and Colectomy

Gastroenterology, General Surgery
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Ahmed Dehal, MD, MPH, Sunal Patel, MD, Samir Johna, MD, Patrick Nguyen, MDDepartment of General Surgery, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana, CA, USA (all authors). ABSTRACT Immune thrombocytopenic purpura and venous thromboembolism are rare but known complications of ulcerative colitis. Although several case studies have examined the treatment options available for ulcerative colitis patients presenting with immune

Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer After Liver Transplantation

General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy, Transplantation
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Gustavo Rossi, MD, Ricardo Mentz, MD, Carlos A. Vaccaro, MD, PhD, Fernando A. Alvarez, MD, Guillermo Ojea Quintana, MDSection of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Juan D. Peron 4190, C1181ACH, Buenos Aires, Argentina (all authors). ABSTRACTIntroduction: Colon cancer in liver transplant patients is an uncommon clinical situation.

Gastric Banding Causing Adnexal Entrapment During Pregnancy

General Surgery, OB/GYN Laparoscopy, Surgical Endoscopy
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Zvi Vaknin, MD, Hasan Kais, MD, Noga Fuchs, MD, Sharon Berger, MD, Moty Pansky, MD, Noam Smorgick, MD, Msc Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Assaf Harofe Medical Center, affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Beer Yaakov, Israel (Drs. Vaknin, Fuchs, Berger, Pansky; Smorgick). Department of General Surgery B, Assaf Harofe Medical

Rare Occurrence of Small-Bowel Volvulus Following Laparoscopic Appendectomy

General Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy
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Andrea Rossetti, MD, Michel Adamina, PD, Franziska Naef, MD, M. Zadnikar, Sascha A. Mueller, PD Klinik fur Chirurgie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland (all authors).ABSTRACT Introduction: Laparoscopy has proven to be safe for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes in patients with suspected acute appendicitis.Case Description: We report a case of a rare occurrence of small-bowel volvulus after

Single-Port Total Abdominal Colectomy for Colon Cancer

General Surgery
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Maen Aboul Hosn, MD, Faek R. Jamali, MD, FSSO, Ramzi Alami, MD Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Single-incision laparoscopic surgery has gained popularity in recent years with an increasing number of complicated procedures being performed using this approach. Single-port total colectomy has been

Totally Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Cystojejunostomy for Large Pancreatic Pseudocyst

General Surgery
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Youzhu Hu, MD, Junjie Liang, MD, Qiang Li, MD, Qiong Zhao, MD Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (Drs. Hu and Liang). Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (Drs. Li and Zhao). ABSTRACT With the advancement of minimally invasive technique, laparoscopic

Severe Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

General Surgery
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S. Wolk, MD, V. Plodeck, MD, J. Weitz, MD, M. Distler, MD, Department of General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany (Drs. Wolk, Weitz, and Distler). Institute for Diagnostic Radiology, Medizinische Fakultät Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Dresden, Dresden, Germany (Dr. Plodeck). ABSTRACT Portomesenteric venous thrombosis is a

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