Ivanesa Pardo, MD, Rahul Reddy, MD, Eric Wiebke, MD, Don Selzer, MD. Indiana University School of Medicine Introduction: Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a well documented complication after splenectomy. The incidence of PVT in symptomatic patients has been reported to be up to 15 % and up to 50% in asymptomatic patients through postoperative […]
Hector R Romero, MD, Victoria Cerecedo, MD, Mauricio Sierra, MD, David Velazquez, MD PhD, Nicholas Williams, FRACS, Alexander P Heinze. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran Background. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) is associated with several advantages over the open equivalent such as less postoperative pain, use of lesser dose of analgesics, decreased […]
Gideon Sroka, MD MSc, Nadav Slijper, MD, Dan Shteinberg, MD, Husam Mady, MD, Ibrahim Mattar, MD. Bnai-Zion Medical Center, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Introduction: Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy (LA) is the treatment of choice for benign adrenal lesions. Size of the lesion and radiologic features define the risk for malignancy. In lesions […]
Masanobu Hagiike, MD PhD, Seiji Noge, MD, Hiroto Yamada, MD, Takuo Noda, MD, Takanori Oyama, MD, Hiroyuki Kubo, MD, Norikatsu Maeda, MD, Hirotaka Kashiwagi, MD, Masao Fujiwara, MD, Yasuyuki Suzuki, MD. Department of Gastroenterological and Pediatric Surgery, Kagawa University, Japan Pediatric laparoscopic treatment is now widespread because of its feasibility and patient’s quick recovery […]
Ashutosh Kaul, MD FRCS FACS, Anthony Maffei, MD FACS, Thomas Cerabona, MD FACS, John Savino, MD FACS, David Cho, MD, Anil Pahuja, MD. New York Medical College This video highlights the various options in minimally invasive approaches to the tail of pancreas. Anatomic relations to this retroperitoneal organ have been highlighted. In this video […]