Through the leak transpyloric tube treatment of gastric sleeve leak
Elizabeth Z Colsen, MD, Daniel B Leslie, MD, Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD. University of Minnesota Objective of the technique: Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is the most common weight loss operation performed in the United States with low mortality and a few complications. However staple line leak is associated with high morbidity. Management strategies have included stents, endoscopic… Continue Reading
Total Medial Approach for Complete Mesocolic Excision of Advanced Transverse Colon Cancer; How To Approach Easily Ensuring Oncological Safety
Masato Kondo. Kobe City Medical Center General HospitalINTRODUCTION The laparoscopic surgery for advanced transverse colon cancer is still controversial in terms of technical difficulty caused by anatomical complexity around duodenum and pancreas including vascular abnormalities of middle colic vessels. We aim to describe in detail our ordered, sequential laparoscopic approach for advanced transverse colon cancer… Continue Reading
Total Mesorectal Excision in Rectal Cancer and Optimal Duration of Urinary Catheter Drainage
Jagannath Dixit, MBBSMSMchFICSFIAGES. HCG, BengaluruBACK GROUND; total mesorctal excison(TME) minimizes urinary dysfunction, facilitating autonomic nerve preservation during rectal caancer surgery. However urinary catheter drainage for several days after TME is acommon surgical practice, despite insufficient evidence supporting its routine use PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate optimal duration of urinary catheter drainage… Continue Reading
Total Sharp dissection for laparoscopic cholecystectomies
Daniel Gomez, MD, Pedro Villadiego, MD, Cesar Guevara, MD, Cristian Gomez, MD. CPO Introducction Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a minimally invasive and highly effective technique that have become the current standard of care for gallstone disease. Several minimally invasive aproaches have been developed such as híbrid procedures, single port or minilaparoscopy between others, showing no great… Continue Reading
Totally laparoscopic Colon Surgery: Single group experience.
Gilberto Lozano-Dubernard, MD1, Ramon Gil-Ortiz, MD1, Javier Lopez-Gutierrez, MD1, Gustavo Reyes-Rodriguez, MD1, Fidel Ruiz-Healy, MD2. 1, Hospital Angeles del Pedregal, Mexico City, Mexico, 2Centro Hospitalario Sanatorio Durango, Mexico City, Mexico Introduction: Laparoscopic procedures have been reaching all surgical specialties, performing the most difficult operations and replacing open surgery as the golden standard. We started in… Continue Reading
Totally laparoscopic gastrectomy for an early gastric cancer patient
Hao Xu, Li Yang, Zekuan Xu. The First Affliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical UniversityINTRODUCTION: The use of laparoscopic gastrectomy for treating gastric cancer has spread rapidly. We describe a totally laparoscopic D1 radical distal gastrectomy for an early gastric cancer. METHODS AND PROCEDURES: A 63-year-old male patient was admitted due to “upper abdominal discomfort for… Continue Reading
Totally Laparoscopic Resection of Primary Fallopian Tube Adenocarcinoma
Guillermo Peralta, Denisse Lorena Sepúlveda, MD, Zanndor del Real-Romo, MD, Roberto Alatorre, MD, Jose Antonio Diaz-Elizondo, MD. Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyPrimary carcinoma of the fallopian tube is a rare disease that shares similar clinical and histological features of epithelial ovarian tumor. These tumors has an extremely low incidence of 0.3 to 1%,… Continue Reading
Totally transanal laparo-endoscopic single-site ileal J-pouch (TLPC-J) – Experimental study in 6 fresh human cadavers of a novel approach for avoiding abdominal wall incision for total colectomy
Reza M. Vahdad1, Grigore Cernaianu2, Thomas Boemers1, Hamid R. Foroutan3. 1Children's Hospital Cologne Amsterdamer Strasse, Department of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatric Urolo, 2University Hospital Lubeck, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Lubeck, Germany,, 3Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, IBackground: Completely avoiding abdominal wall incisions through the use of transanal laparoscopic… Continue Reading
Touch Surgery, mobile Cognitive Task Simulation and Rehearsal
Ali N Bahsoun, MBBS1, Jean Nehme, MBBS, MSc2, Andre Chow2. 1King's College London, 2Touch Surgery1. Objective of the technology: Touch Surgery is a free mobile platform that allows surgical trainees to simulate and rehearse surgical procedures on smartphones and tablets. This allows for unrestricted access to simulate over 50 surgical procedures. Touch Surgery has also… Continue Reading
Towards the future of endoluminal surgery – Pre-clinical experience of using the ESP.
S K Sharma1, A Datta1, A Nguyen1, C D Dillon1, L Lefebvre1, G Silberhumer2, J F Cornhill1, J W Milsom1. 1Minimally Invasive New Technologies, Weill Cornell Medical College and N.Y Presbyterian Hospital, 2Medical University Vienna, Department of Surgery, Vienna, Austria Objective: Despite the widespread use of colonoscopy in the detection and prevention of colorectal cancer,… Continue Reading
Training improves laparoscopic tasks performance and decreases operator workload as measured using the NASA-TLX score
Jesse Hu, FRCS, MRCS, MBBS, Jirong Lu, MRCS, MBBS, Wee Boon Tan, FRCS, MRCS, MBBS, Davide Lomanto, MD, Rome, PhD, Rome, FAMS, General, Sur. NUHSIntroduction It has been postulated that increased operator workload during task performance may increase fatigue and increase in errors. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) is a validated… Continue Reading
Training Surgical Residents to Perform Critical Care Focused Echocardiography
Heidi J Miller, MD, MPH, Katarzyna Wolanin, MD, Pak S Leung, MD. Albert Einstein Healhcare NetworkBackground: The ability of surgical residents to obtain data regarding a patient’s changing volume status can be valuable for guiding decisions regarding patient care and resuscitation in a surgical intensive care unit. The focused rapid echocardiographic evaluation (FREE) has been… Continue Reading
Training Wheels for Laparoscopic Surgery: Kinematic and Dynamic Constraints for Proper Tool Handling
Husam Wadi, BS1, Diana Diesen, MD2, Ann Majewicz, PhD1. 1University of Texas at Dallas, 2Children's Medical CenterLearning and mastering laparoscopic skills is an involved and complicated process. It requires excellent hand-eye coordination, precise spatial reasoning skills, and the automation of non-intuitive arm movements. Learning these skills is especially difficult for pediatric residents who must additionally… Continue Reading
Trans-abdominal HALS conversion from retroperitoneoscopic donor nephrectomy in living donor kidney transplantation
Naotake Akutsu, MD, Michihiro Maruyama, MD, Kenichi Saigo, MD, Masayuki Hasegawa, MD, Kazunori Otsuki, MD, Hiromichi Aoyama, MD, Ikuko Matsumoto, MD, Takehide Asano, MD. Chiba-East Hsopital [INTRODUCTION] It is seriously important for living donations to make safer and to reduce operating stress. Endoscopic surgery is thought to be a useful operating procedure for solving these… Continue Reading
Trans-peri-areolar endoscopic breast conservative surgery followed with endoscopic sentinel lymph node biopsy or endoscopic axillary lymph node dissection in treatment in breast cancer.
Weige Yang, MD, PhD, Hongwei Zhang, MD, Wei Zhu, Hongshan Wang. Fudan University Affiliated Zhongshan Hospital Objective Although endoscopic surgery has been introduced to breast surgery since 1993, the benefits of minimal invasiveness and cosmetic results that expected, has been taken place by sentinel lymph node biopsy(SLB) and oncoplastic breast surgery. Endoscopic surgery may not… Continue Reading