Surgical Spring Week
April 9-12, 2008
Pennsylvania Convention Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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SAGES 2008 Abstracts and Posters
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Tep with No Balloon, No Staples and with Thinner Instruments. Initial 50 Cases Experience
Marcelo Loureiro, Eduardo Bonin, Claus Christiano. Jacques Perissat Institut Laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernias is one of the best methods available to treat this so common disease. TEP is also probably the best laparoscopic option. Today there is a growing concern about chronic pain after hernia repairs as well as surgical costs. The authors present… Continue Reading
Near Infra-Red (NIR) Laparoscopy for Lymphatic Road-Mapping and Sentinel Node Biopsy in Patients with Localized Colorectal Neoplasia
Ronan A Cahill, MD, Mark Anderson, MD, James East, MD, Lai Mun Wang, MD, Richard Guy, MD, Oliver Jones, MD, Ian Lindsey, MD, Chris Cunningham, MD, Neil J Mortensen, MD. EISRI, Dublin, Ireland and Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, UK Background: Appropriate lymphatic assessment is a corner-stone of definitive surgical resection for colorectal cancer. Here, we… Continue Reading
Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Does Not Necessarily Increase the Propensity to Develop Internal Hernias
Background: Although laparoscopic Roux en Y gastric bypass (LGB) has been proven to have numerous advantages over the open technique, internal hernia formation has been cited as a common and life-threatening complication associated more frequently with the laparoscopic technique.Methods: A review of all patients who underwent a LGB between 2003 and 2007 by a single… Continue Reading