Andreas Kiriakopoulos, MD, Dimitrios Tsakayannis, MD, Dimitrios Linos, MD. Department of Surgery, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece Background: Reduced port cholecystectomy either as needlescopic or hybrid-SILS cholecystectomy challenges the classic laparoscopic approach since it holds the promise of a smaller footprint and perhaps improved patient outcome. We present our comparative results, retrospectively, between these different […]
Sumio Matsumoto, PhD, Hiromi Tokumura, Dr, Yuichi Yamashita, Professor, Taizo Kimura, DMsc, Toshiyuki Mori, Professor, Fumio Konishi, Professor, Seigo Kitano, Professor, Masaki Kitajima, Professor. ESSQS Committee of the Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery Purpose: The Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery (JSES) started Endoscopic Surgical Skill Qualification (ESSQS) in 2004, and carried out seven […]
Alexey Markelov, MD, Holy Hedrick, MD FAAP FACS. Easton Hospital, Drexel University School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia A uterine malformation is a type of female genital malformation resulting from an abnormal development of the Mullerian ducts during embryogenesis. The prevalence of uterine malformation is estimated to be 0.4% in the general […]
Osama Hamed, MBBS, Ajay Jain, MD, Mark Kligman, MD. Department of General Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore MD Objective: Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) for Gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies had gained large attention recently, the plethora of information available on the internet resulted in patients expectation to have their elective cancer surgery done […]
Osama Hamed, MBBS, Stephen Kavic, MD. University of Maryland School of Medicine Introduction: Gastrointestinal (GI) involvement in type 1 neurofibromatosis is rare. Neurofibromas in the GI tract can cause bleeding or obstruction and there is also a risk of malignant transformation. We present here the first reported case of laparoscopic resection of the fourth […]