Zheng Pan, Md PhD, Xiao-hua Jiang, PhD MD, Jia-hua Zhou, MD PhD, Zhen-ling Ji, MD PhD. Department of General Surgery, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast Univerisity Medical College, Nanjing, China AbstractBackground: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and cosmetic resultsof a novel technique: transumbilical single-incision laparoscopic appendectomy(TSILA) by using a single working channel with […]
D R Kwazneski, MD, C K Six, MD, K R Stahlfeld, MD. UPMC Mercy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Introduction:Laparoscopic instruments are being used with increasing frequency. Our surgeons recently experienced several independent adverse events involving the laparoscopic linear stapler. Although the Food and Drug Administration maintains a Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database […]
Yasushi Rino, PhD, Norio Yukawa, PhD, Roppei Yamada, PhD, Tsutomu Sato, PhD, Masanori Inamori, PhD, Yasunobu Abe, PhD, Tomoko Koide, PhD, Takashi Oshima, PhD, Toshio Imada, PhD, Munetaka Masuda, PhD. Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University BackgroundLaparoscopic wedge resections are increasingly applied for gastric submucosal tumors such as gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST). Despite this, […]
Parambir S Dulai, MD, Neil Ghushe, MD, Thadeus Trus, MD, Charles Alexander Mosse, PhD, Per Ola Park, MD, Maria Bergstrom, MD, Margherita Cadeddu, MD, Richard I Rothstein, MD, Paul Swain, MD. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA, Imperial College, London, UK, University College, London, UK, Boras General Hospital, Boras, Sweden, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada […]
Li Xiaoyang, MD PhD, Xu Dongsheng, MD, Yu Hong, MD. the first hospital of Harbin Purpose:To evaluate the feasibility and outcome of laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy (LAG)by using the novel technique of transoral placement of anvil and intracorporeal gastrojejunostomy(the OrVil system).Materials and methods: A retrospective study of proximal or total gastrectomy from July 2008 to August […]