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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approaches have produces relevant advancements in the pre/intra/postoperative outcomes. The conventional laparoscopic approach presents similar oncological results in comparison to laparotomic approaches. Despite these evidences, a considerable part of the colorectal operations are still being performed in an open w...
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As a result of the increasing of life expectancy, the incidence of pathologies that can lead to operation for bowel obstruction is also increasing. Comorbidities and reduced physiological reserve can decrease elderly patients' ability to tolerate operations especially in an emergency context. We retrospectively evaluated the treatment and outcomes ...
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This study aims to investigate the impacts of preoperative maximum detrusor pressure (Pdet.max) on minimally invasive surgery effect on patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. The clinical data of a total of 156 patients receiving minimally invasive surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia in Hospital of Nanchang Institute of Medical Sciences f...
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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has produced an important improvement in terms of peri-operative outcomes. Laparoscopic colorectal surgery presents comparable outcomes vs. open approach from an oncological standpoint. However, there are some technical challenges/hurdles that laparoscopy may have. Worldwide there are still too many colonic/rectal o...
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Incarcerated groin hernias are a common presentation as surgical emergencies. Other surgical treatment modalities are becoming more widely accepted including the use of prosthetic mesh and laparoscopy for assessment of hernia content viability and for repair. The aim of this study was to report our current experience with the use of prosthetic mesh...
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Although the true prevalence is unknown, colonic diverticulosis is one of the most common disease of the digestive tract in Western countries. Based on administrative data of hospitalized patients, the incidence of diverticulitis has been increasing in last decades. In general, elderly patients undergo less frequently an elective colonic resection;...
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A still too high percentage of the colorectal resections are currently performed by open technique. This in part because laparoscopy has some technical hurdles: not ideal ergonomics, poor control on the traction exerted by the Assistant, long/steep learning curve, confined dexterity, low tactile feedback, hand-tremor and 2D vision with a not comple...
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To investigate the therapeutic effects of anterolateral thigh flap transfer in repairing oral and maxillofacial defects after ablative surgery of neoplasms and to discuss perioperative psychological care. A total of 80 patients who received oral and maxillofacial surgery for tumor resection in Nanfang Hospital from October 2014 to August 2016 were ...
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Rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm remains a fatal event in up to 65% of cases and emergency open surgery (ruptured open aneurysm repair or rOAR) has a great intraoperative mortality of about 30-50%. The introduction of endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (ruptured endovascular aneurysm repair or rEVAR) has rapidly challenged the con...
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A positive correlation between calcium and magnesium serum levels is well known and depends upon various factors. This study aims at verifying the existence of this association in a retrospective series of patients who underwent thyroid surgery. Two hundred eighty-five consecutive patients (202F, 83M, mean age 57 years) who underwent at least total...
