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English
Medicine & Public Health
Yi**ang Chen
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Laparoscopic Hartmann’s Procedure
Hartmann’s procedure, Hartmann’s resection, or Hartmann’s operation is the surgical resection consisting of sigmoidectomy without intestinal restoration. It contains an end-colostomy and closure of a rectal st...
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Laparoscopic Left Hemicolectomy
What is the clear definition of left colectomy? Unfortunately, the answer is not as clear as it is with a right colectomy. The resection can involve resection of the colonic segment anywhere between the left t...
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Laparoscopic Parastomal Hernia Repair
Parastomal hernia is an incisional hernia resulting from an abdominal wall stoma creation [1]. The published incidence of parastomal hernia varies widely, with 2–28% and 4–48% affecting end ileostomies and end...
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Laparoscopic Ventral Mesh Rectopexy
Rectal prolapse (RP) is a disabling condition and can range from internal rectal prolapse (IRP) or rectal intussusception to full-thickness external rectal prolapse (ERP). RP occurs in 0.5% of the general popu...
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Laparoscopic Anterior Resection
The first radical rectal surgery was first performed by Sir William Ernest Miles with a permanent stoma in 1907 while restorative rectal resection was introduced in 1948 by Claude F Dixon. The evolution of usi...
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Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy with Complete Mesocolic Excision and Central Vascular Ligation (CME/CVL) for Right Sided Colon Cancer
Hohenberger et al. [1] advocated CME/CVL for resection of right-sided colon cancers. CME involves sharp dissection along Toldt’s fascia with the goal of removing the primary tumor, its mesentery, and an undisr...
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Laparoscopic Total Colectomy
Total colectomy (TC) with ileorectal (IRA) is frequently performed for colorectal cancer, familial adenomatous polyposis, unidentified bleeding from the lower GI tract, inflammatory bowel disease, and sometime...
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Laparoscopic Abdominoperineal Resection
A rectal cancer located within the narrow confines of the bony pelvis has for centuries been the bugbear of abdominal surgeons. Advances in operative technique, surgical technology, imaging methods, and multim...
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Correction to: Ultrasonography Diagnosis of Peripheral Nerves
The original version of all the chapters were inadvertently published without video files. This has now been corrected and the video files are made available in the respective chapters along with its in-text c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Segmentation of Left Ventricle via Level Set Method Based on Enriched Speed Term
Level set methods have been widely employed in medical image segmentation, and the construction of speed function is vital to segmentation results. In this paper, two ideas for enriching the speed function in ...
