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Clinical Usefulness of Laparoscopic Surgery for Very Elderly Patients with Colorectal Cancer
Hirohisa Miura, Atsuko Tsutsui, Naoto Ogura, Masanori Naito, Takeo Sato, Takatoshi Nakamura, Masahiko Watanabe School of Medicine,Kitasato University Background: Laparoscopic colectomy has been acknowledged to be a minimally invasive procedure. On the other hand, open surgery is often selected for very elderly patients to shorten operation time.In recent years, however, improvements in surgical techniques have… Continue Reading
Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis using Pressurized Aerosol as an Alternative to Liquid Solution: First Evidence for Efficacy and Tolerability
Wiebke Solass, MD, Urs Pabst-Giger, MD, Thomas Murdter, PhD, Reinhold Kerb, MD, Matthias Schwab, MD, Jurgen Zieren, MD, Marc A Reymond, MD, MBA Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany With authorization of the IRB, we applied a pressurized aerosol of doxorubicin 1.5 mg/m2 and cisplatin 7.5 mg/m2 during 17 laparoscopies in 8 end-stage patients with therapy-resistant peritoneal carcinomatosis… Continue Reading
Minimally Invasive Approach to Treatment of all Colorectal pathology: A retrospective chart review and experience of One Surgeon
Anna Goldenberg, DO, Devin Flaherty, DO, PhD, Mara Piltin, MSIII, Roy L Sandau, DO University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-SOM Kennedy University Hospital Introduction: Over the last 30 years the face of surgery has been moving in the direction of minimally invasive techniques for colorectal pathology. In the last decade, with the forthcoming… Continue Reading