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    Multicenter Experience in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy — a Comparison of Hybrid and Totally Robot-Assisted Techniques

    Oncological esophageal surgery has evolved significantly in the last decades. From open esophagectomy over (hybrid) minimally invasive surgery, nowadays, robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE)...

    Peter P. Grimminger, Julia I. Staubitz, Daniel Perez in Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (2021)

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    Defining benchmarks for robotic-assisted low anterior rectum resection in low-morbid patients: a multicenter analysis

    To define the best possible outcomes for robotic-assisted low anterior rectum resection (RLAR) using total mesorectal excision (TME) in low-morbid patients, performed by expert robotic surgeons in German robot...

    Jan-Hendrik Egberts, Jan-Niclas Kersebaum in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2021)

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    Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy with CME: standardization using the “critical view” concept

    Complete mesocolic excision is gradually becoming an established oncologic surgical principle for right hemicolectomy. However, the procedure is technically demanding and carries the risk of serious complicati...

    Christoph Werner Strey, Christoph Wullstein, Michel Adamina in Surgical Endoscopy (2018)

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    Robotic-assisted total mesorectal excision (TME) for rectal cancer results in a significantly higher quality of TME specimen compared to the laparoscopic approach—report of a single-center experience

    Robotic surgery allows for a better visualization and more precise dissection especially in the narrow male pelvis and mid and lower third of the rectum. However, superiority to laparoscopic TME has yet to be ...

    Heiko Aselmann, Jan-Niclas Kersebaum in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2018)

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    Integrins αvβ3 and αvβ5 as prognostic, diagnostic, and therapeutic targets in gastric cancer

    We investigated the expression of two αv integrins, αvβ3 and αvβ5, in gastric cancer (GC) by testing the following hypotheses: that these molecules are expressed in GC; that they are implicated in GC biology; tha...

    Christine Böger, Viktoria S. Warneke, Hans-Michael Behrens in Gastric Cancer (2015)

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    Alterations of the enteric smooth musculature in diverticular disease

    The pathogenesis of diverticular disease (DD) is considered to be multifactorial and involves intestinal motor disturbances and an underlying enteric neuromuscular pathology. While an enteric neuropathy has be...

    Ines Hellwig, Martina Böttner, Martina Barrenschee in Journal of Gastroenterology (2014)

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    Endoscopic endoluminal vacuum therapy is superior to other regimens in managing anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy: a comparative retrospective study

    Anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy is a life-threatening complication. No comparative outcome analyses for the different treatment regimens are yet available.

    Bodo Schniewind, Clemens Schafmayer, Gesa Voehrs, Jan Egberts in Surgical Endoscopy (2013)

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    Recurrence of gallstones after cholecystectomy is associated with ABCG5/8 genotype

    Gallstone disease is a frequent and economically highly relevant disorder, with cholecystectomy representing one of the most frequently performed operations world-wide. Gallstone recurrence after cholecystect...

    Witigo von Schönfels, Stephan Buch, Maren Wölk in Journal of Gastroenterology (2013)

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    Association study identifying polymorphisms in CD47 and other extracellular matrix pathway genes as putative prognostic markers for colorectal cancer

    We identified recently the extracellular matrix (ECM) receptor interaction pathway as a consistently overrepresented category among gene expression profiling studies on colorectal cancer (CRC) prognosis.

    Jesús Lascorz, Melanie Bevier in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2013)

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    Preoperative risk evaluation of postoperative morbidity in IBD patients—impact of the POSSUM score

    The aim of this study was to assess the morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing surgery for infIammatory bowel disease (IBD) with special focus of the predictive value of the Physiological and Operative...

    Jan-Hendrik Egberts, Antje Stroeh in International Journal of Colorectal Disease (2011)

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    Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma

    Ludwig Wilkens, Martin Bredt, Peer Flemming in Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surge… (2002)