Surgical Management of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (gist) of the Stomach. Comparison of Outcomes After Laparoscopic Versus Open Surgery. the Most Recent NSQIP Acs Database
Omar Bellorin, MD, Mingwei Ni, MD, Frank Zheng, Turner James, MD, Du Litong, MD. New York Hospital Queens. Flushing. New York Introduction:Laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric GIST is emerging in the West as a technique that may offer benefits for patients, although large-scale studies are lacking. The goal of this project is to assess the… Continue Reading
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- Posters of Distinction
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- Foregut
Surgical Management of Duodenal Perforations After Ercp: the Crucial Role of a Retroperitoneal Approach.
Sergio Alfieri, MD, Fausto Rosa, MD, Caterina Cina, MD, Antonio P Tortorelli, MD, Vincenzo Perri, MD, Guido Costamagna, MD, Giovanni B Doglietto, MD. Department of Digestive Surgery, Catholic University, "A. Gemelli” Hospital ABSTRACT IntroductionEndoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) combined with endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) has become a common procedure worldwide in the era of minimally invasive… Continue Reading
Surgeons’ Estimated Standard Metabolic Equivalent, a Pilot Study.
Miroslaw Szura, MD PhD, Jan M Krzak, MD, Poul Bak Thorsen. IST DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SURGERY JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, KRAKOW,POLAND & SYGEHUS LILLEBAELT KOLDING DENMARK INTRODUCTION: To estimate surgeons’ estimated standard metabolic equivalent (MET) in a pilot study from established METs.From 70 observations including skiing, running, bicycling, consultations in outpatient clinic, cholecystectomy, endoscopy, and endoscopic… Continue Reading
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- Posters
Surgeons Don’t Know What They Don’t Know About the Safe Use of Energy in Surgery
Liane S Feldman, MD, Pascal Fuchshuber, MD PhD, Daniel B Jones, MS MD, Jessica Mischna, Steven D Schwaitzberg, MD, Fuse Task Force . McGill University, The Permanente Medical Group,Harvard Medical School, SAGES, Cambridge Heath Alliance Introduction: Surgeons have not been required to train on the energy-based devices they use in the operating room or… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Education / Simulation
Sumotm System Facilitates Mucosotomy and Submucosal Tunnel Creation for Per-oral Esophageal Myotomy (POEM)
Objective:The POEM procedure for achalasia is a complex therapeutic flexible endoscopic technique, requiring extensive practice to learn. Initial experience with the POEM demonstrates that it has the potential to become the therapeutic procedure of choice in the future. However, in order for this to be achieved, the procedure needs to be simple, safe and easily… Continue Reading
Summary of Living Donor Retroperitoneoscopic Nephrectomy in Kidney Transplantation at a Single Institution
Naotake Akutsu, MD, Michihiro Maruyama, MD, Chikara Iwashita, MD, Kazunori Otsuki, MD, Taihei Ito, MD, Ikuko Matsumoto, MD, Takehide Asano, MD, Takashi Kenmochi, MD. Department of Surgery, Chiba-East National Hospital [INTRODUCTION] It is seriously important for living donations to make safer and to reduce operating stress. Endoscopic surgery is thought to be a useful… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Solid Organ and Endocrine
Successful Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration
Christopher W Salzmann, MD, Morris E Franklin, MD FACS, Karla Russek, MD. Texas Endosurgery Institute * The routine use of intraoperative cholangiogram (IOC) performed by some surgeons at the time of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, also leads to identification of patients with totally unsuspected choledocholithiasis. *Sequential Technique-Intraoperative cholangiogram: Road map of the biliary system, ID of… Continue Reading
Subcutaneoscopic Excision of External Angular Dermoid Cyst in Children: Avoiding a Scar On the Face.
Julius Carillo, MD, Bethany Slater, MD, Ashwin Pimpalwar, MD. Division of Pediatric surgery, Michael E Debakey Department of surgery, Baylor college of medicine and Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas. Background: External angular dermoid cysts/ epidermoid inclusion cysts are a common subcutaneous tumor of the face. For the majority of these lesions, excision is relatively… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Minimally Invasive Other
Subaxillary Submuscular Endoscopic Approach for Subclavicular Tumor
Yi-chen Chang, MD, Chun-wei Chang, MD. Far Eastern Memorial Hospital Bilateral axillo breast approach (BABA) for thyroidectomy utilized artificial subcutaneous emphysema to create a space for endoscopic surgery of thyroid. We utilized the similar idea to approach a subclavicular mass via the ports at subaxillary area. Materials and methods:A 23 year-old young lady visited… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Minimally Invasive Other
Sub-total Laparoscopic Gastrectomy Provides an Appropriate Oncologic Procedure in Selected Patients With Antral Adenocarcinoma
Samantha Benlolo, Jonathan Cools-lartigue, MD, Victoria Marcus, MD, Lorenzo Ferri, MD PhD. Department of Surgery McGill University Health Center, Department of Pathology McGill University Health Center, Steinberg-Bernstein Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery Introduction: Laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) is being employed with increasing frequency in the management of gastric cancer. However, the short-term benefit and oncologic… Continue Reading
Sterilisation and Disinfection Acceptation Test of Reusable Single Port and Miniport Laparoscopic Instruments
D A Van Dam, MD, S Beeksma, W J Meijerink, MD PhD. VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam Objective: to determine if newly designed reusable laparoscopic HiQ LS (Olympus, Hamburg Germany) for single port surgery and AdTech®mini (BBraun, Melsungen Germany) miniport instruments meet the disinfections and sterilisation standards used in the VU university medical centre,… Continue Reading
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- Posters
Stapler Misfire During Sleeve Gastrectomy: Caution With Buttress Use
David Nguyen, MD, Bahar Moheban, Amir Mehran, MD. UCLA Department of Surgery Introduction: The use of staple line buttressing during vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG)has been advocated by some authors as a method to reduce the incidence of bleeding, leak, or strictures. The surgical literature, however, does contain reports of complications attributed to their use.… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Metabolic / Obesity
Stapled Transrectal Notes® Closure Technique
Byron F Santos, MD, Eric S Hungness, MD, Anne-marie Boller, MD. Northwestern University Department of Surgery Transrectal access for Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is a promising alternative to transgastric and transvaginal approaches. However, current methods for transrectal access closure may be unreliable or require incorporation of the access site into a colorectal… Continue Reading
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- Video Loop Presentations
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- Endolumenal / NOTES
Standardization of Hybrid-vans (tori Method) for Thyroid Differentiated Cancer Including Invasion to the Trachea
Masayuki Tori, MD, Hiroki Akamatsu, MD, Takeshi Omori, MD, Katsuhide Yoshidome, MD, Toshirou Nishida, MD. Endocrine Surgery, Osaka Police Hospital Background and Aim: Video-assisted neck surgery (VANS) has not been established, because it cannot be applied to invasive cases and to radical lymph nodes dissection which needs enough view and lift-up of the trachea.… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Solid Organ and Endocrine
Staged Approach to Infected Synthetic Mesh: Outcomes Following Abdominal Wall Reconstruction With Strattice Biological Matrix
Sujata Sofat, MD, Ketan Patel, MD, Frank Albino, MD, Maurice Nahabedian, MD, Parag Bhanot, MD. Georgetown University Hospital Departments of General Surgery and Plastics Surgery Background: Infection of synthetic mesh following abdominal wall hernia repair is a complex problem. Management can be difficult resulting in multiple operations with significant morbidity. The majority of cases… Continue Reading
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- Posters
- Topic:
- Abdominal Wall Hernias