2017 SAGES Best International Paper Winners
SAGES Board of Governors and the SAGES Global Affairs Committee would like to acknowledge the following Top International Paper Presenters:
| NAME | Pierre Allemann |
| INSTITUTION | Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, CH and Vrie University Medical Center (VUMC), Amsterdam, NL |
| ABSTRACT | Completely minimally invasive esophagectomy for cancer with intrathoracic anastomosis: A simple and reproducible technique in prone position |
| COUNTRY | Switzerland |
| NAME | Akinari Nomura |
| INSTITUTION | Saga University |
| ABSTRACT | A novel evacuation system enables surgeons to perform laparoscopic total mesorectal excision with high precision using an electric scalpel alone |
| COUNTRY | Japan |
| NAME | Arslan Pannu |
| INSTITUTION | The Central Manchester University Hospitals, The Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK, and The Royal Oldham Hospital, Manchester, UK |
| ABSTRACT | LAPAROSCOPIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE VERSUS SIGMOIDECTOMY FOR MANAGEMENT OF PERFORATED DIVERTICULITIS: META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS |
| COUNTRY | United Kingdom |
| NAME | Eham L Arora |
| INSTITUTION | Grant government medical college & Sir J.J. group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India, and Government Medical College and Hospital, Nagpur, India |
| ABSTRACT | Laparoscopic lateral Pancreaticojejunostomy stapled and sutured techniques. |
| COUNTRY | India |
| NAME | Pablo Achurra |
| INSTITUTION | Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Hospital Sotero del Río, Santiago, Chile |
| ABSTRACT | Laparoscopic four-duct hepatojejunal anastomosis in severe Mirizzi syndrome |
| COUNTRY | Chile |