Sam B Atallah, MD, George Nassif, DO, Beatriz Martin-Perez, MD, Sergio W Larach, MD. Florida Hospital. Real-time stereotactic navigation can be used to help facilitate transanal total mesorectal excision (TME) using a frameless navigation system. This is demonstrated in video format. A 67 year-old male has undergone neoadjuvant treatment for a distal, locally advanced rectal cancer. […]
Daniel C Steinemann, MD, Andreas Zerz, MD, Sebastian H Lamm, MD. Cantonal Hospital Basel Country, Department of Surgery, Bruderholz, Switzerland. Objective: Although, in standard laparoscopy anterior resection can usually be performed using two five millimetres incisions and two twelve millimetre trocar (for insertion of the Endostapler), there remains the need for a minilaparotomy for specimen […]
Saud Aldeghaither, Benjie Tang, Donald McLean, Emma Wright, Zhigang Wang, Afshin Alijani, Ian Tait, Alfred Cuschieri. Cushieri Skills Center &institute of medical science and technology, University of Dundee,Dundee, Scotland. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the adhesion and retraction properties of C3 bioadhesive polymers, in an ex-vivo model of liver retraction. Background […]
Abdorrasoul Malekpour, Dr, Saeideh Zahedi, Bs, Hamed Hasani, Javad Kojuri, MD. Quality improvement in clinical Education Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Common areas of medical uses include: bronchoscopy, colonoscopy and viewing of the upper gastroenterological systems. Endoscopies are commonly used for the diagnosis of cancer. Recent video-endoscopes with high costs can only […]
Mingtian Wei, MD, Hang Yi, MD, Ziqiang Wang, MD, Zongguang Zhou, MD. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Background: Achalasia is a rare esophageal motility disorder with a low incidence of 1/100 000 per year in general people. Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), reported in the management of achalasia patients in 2010, has […]