Advantages of Laparoscopic Assisted Colorectal Surgery at a VA HospitalBackground: The safety and efficacy of laparoscopic assisted colectomy has been demonstrated in several trials and has become an accepted means for the surgical management of benign and malignant colorectal disease. We provided a laparoscopic colorectal surgery option to our veteran population at the Indianapolis VA […]
Introduction: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) has become the standard for removal of most adrenal pheochromocytomas (pheos). However, laparoscopic (LAP) resection of extra-adrenal pheos or paragangliomas has been reported only anecdotally. This study investigates the results of resection of paragangliomas in the laparoscopic era.Methods: A retrospective record review of all patients who underwent resection of intra-abdominal paragangliomas […]
Backgrounds and Purposes ; Recently, the laparoscopic resection on solid organs is performed in standard operation style with the improvement of the laparoscopic instrument and the developing operation technique. Still, it is not easy to perform liver exploration by using the laparoscope. Because there are still other problems, such as the styptic matter against bleeding, […]
1. Introduction: Abdominal pain diagnosis when appendicitis is suspected is based on clinical findings. However, near half of these patients have atypical or equivocal presentation signs and symptoms. When the result of evaluation is unclear, diagnostic imaging alternatives are used; if unavailable, patients may be discharged undiagnosed. Every year in the U.S., near 100,000 patients […]
IntroductionAnastomotic complications are frequently encountered in the setting of esophagectomy, with leak rates ranging from 10-20%. Complete necrosis of the gastric tip is a rare complication that can be associated with significant morbidity and impairment of quality of life. In the current study, we evaluated the perioperative outcomes of patients who developed gastric tip necrosis […]