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Impact of the first wave of COVID-19 epidemy on the surgical management of sigmoid diverticular disease in France: National French retrospective study
To analyze the surgical management of sigmoid diverticular disease (SDD) before, during, and after the first containment rules (CR) for the first wave of COVID-19.
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Open AccessThe effect of metformin on the survival of colorectal cancer patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Evidence from previous studies suggests a protective effect of metformin in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC). The aim of this study was to examine the associations between metformin use and overall surviv...
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Gastric Pneumatosis with Portal Venous Gas can be Treated Non-operatively: A Retrospective Multi-institutional Study
Gastric pneumatosis (GP) is a rare radiologic finding with an unpredictable prognosis. The aim of this study was to identify mortality risk factors from patients presenting with GP on computed tomography (CT),...
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Open AccessContemporary snapshot of tumor regression grade (TRG) distribution in locally advanced rectal cancer: a cross sectional multicentric experience
Pre-operative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) followed by surgical resection is still the standard treatment for locally advanced low rectal cancer. Nowadays new strategies are emerging to treat patients with a comple...
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Open AccessONCOGRAM: study protocol for the evaluation of therapeutic response and survival of metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated according to the guidelines of a chemosensitivity assay, the Oncogramme®
Colorectal cancer is a major public concern, being the second deadliest cancer in the world. Whereas survival is high for localized forms, metastatic colorectal cancer has showed poor prognosis, with a 5-year ...
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Open AccessPrevalence of Metastatic Lateral Lymph Nodes in Asian Patients with Lateral Lymph Node Dissection for Rectal Cancer: A Meta-analysis
Rectal cancers occupy the eighth position worldwide for new cases and deaths for both men and women. These cancers have a high tendency to form metastases in the mesorectum but also in the lateral lymph nodes....
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Open AccessSacro-coxxygial hygiene, a key factor in the outcome of pilonidal sinus surgical treatment?
Surgical wound infection contributes to prolonged recovery time after pilonidal sinus excision. As a standard procedure after surgery, we recommend our patients to perform water irrigations in the intergluteal...
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Open AccessC-reactive protein is a predictive factor for complications after incisional hernia repair using a biological mesh
The introduction of biological or absorbable synthetic meshes has provided an alternative to conventional repair for incisional hernia. The ability to predict the development of complications after hernia surg...
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Implantation of biologic mesh in ventral hernia repair—does it make sense?
Biological acellular porcine dermis mesh, such as Permacol™, has been used since 2009 to treat abdominal incisional hernias in a septic context. This study investigated the risk factors for incisional hernia r...
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Open AccessNeurotensin pathway in digestive cancers and clinical applications: an overview
Initially, NEUROTENSIN (NTS) has been shown to play physiological and biological functions as a neuro-transmitter/modulator in the central nervous system and as an endocrine factor in the periphery, through it...
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Total mesorectal excision with and without lateral lymph node dissection: a systematic review of the literature
Treatment of lateral lymph node metastasis in rectal cancer is still under debate. While these nodes are routinely resected by Japanese teams, neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy alone is performed in Western countr...
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Open AccessIdentification of risk factors for morbidity and mortality after Hartmann’s reversal surgery – a retrospective study from two French centers
Hartmann’s reversal procedures are often fraught with complications or failure to recover. This being a fact, it is often difficult to select patients with the optimal indications for a reversal. The post-reco...
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One-Year Postoperative Mortality in MEN1 Patients Operated on Gastric and Duodenopancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: An AFCE and GTE Cohort Study
In MEN1 patients with gastric and duodenopancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GPD-NET), surgery aims to control secretions or to prevent metastatic spread, but after GPD-NET resection, postoperative mortality may...
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Open AccessNeurotrophins and their involvement in digestive cancers
Cancers of the digestive system, including esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, hepatic, and colorectal cancers, have a high incidence and mortality worldwide. Efficient therapies have improved patient care; howev...
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The extracellular domain of E cadherin linked to invasiveness in colorectal cancer: a new resistance and relapses monitoring serum-bio marker?
Multiple studies have attempted to demonstrate the interest of the cell adhesion marker, E cadherin, as a diagnostic and prognosis marker in colorectal cancer (CRC). However, it was considered non specific.
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Assessment of the Aldosteronona resolution score as a predictive resolution score of hypertension after adrenalectomy for aldosteronoma in French patients
Aldosteronoma Resolution Score (ARS) is a predictive score for cure of hypertension after adrenalectomy for hyperaldosteronism and has been validated in American patients. The aim of the study was to validate ...
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New ex-ovo colorectal-cancer models from different SdFFF-sorted tumor-initiating cells
Despite effective treatments, relapse of colorectal cancer (CRC) is frequent, in part caused by the existence of tumor-initiating cells (TICs). Different subtypes of TICs, quiescent and activated, coexist in t...
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Management of thyroid nodules incidentally discovered on MIBI scanning for primary hyperparathyroidism
Parathyroid sestamibi scan is routinely performed before parathyroid surgery. A large number of thyroid cancers take up 99mTc-sestamibi (MIBI). Since 2001, thyroid nodules discovered on sestamibi, nodules >2 c...
