Oncologic Surgical Emergencies
A Practical Guide for the General Surgeon
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Laparoscopy is widely adopted across nearly all surgical subspecialties in the elective setting. Initially finding indication in minor abdominal emergencies, it has gradually become the standard approach in th...
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Enhanced perioperative care protocols become the standard of care in elective surgery with a significant improvement in patients’ outcome. The key element of the enhanced perioperative care protocol is the mul...
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Due to delayed diagnosis and a lower surgical indication rate, left-sided pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is often associated with a poor prognosis in comparison to pancreatic head tumors.
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Laparotomy incisions provide easy and rapid access to the peritoneal cavity in case of emergency surgery. Incisional hernia (IH) is a late manifestation of the failure of abdominal wall closure and represents ...
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Intra-abdominal infections (IAI) are among the most common global healthcare challenges and they are usually precipitated by disruption to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Their successful management typically...
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Many countries are facing an aging population. As people live longer, surgeons face the prospect of operating on increasingly older patients. Traditional teaching is that with older age, these patients face an...
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Given the scarce donor supply, an increasing number of so-called marginal or extended criteria donor (ECD) organs are used for liver transplantation. These ECD liver grafts are however known to be associated w...
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Timely access to the operating room for emergency general surgery (EGS) indications remains a challenge across the globe, largely driven by operating room availability and staffing constraints. The “timing in ...
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Minimally invasive surgery (MIS), including laparoscopic and robotic approaches, is widely adopted in elective digestive surgery, but selectively used for surgical emergencies. The present position paper summa...
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Esophageal cancer (EC) is a frequent and highly lethal disease associated with a considerable decline in health-related quality of life. Treatment with curative intent relies on multimodal approaches including...
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Caustic ingestion is a rare but devastating condition, and the emergency management of these patients is a difficult challenge. Computed tomography has replaced endoscopy in therapeutic algorithms and can be u...
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Injuries to the esophagus due to external trauma are rare. They may be classified as penetrating (knife, gunshot) or blunt. These injuries can be life-threatening on their own due to digestive contamination of...
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In 2017, the World Society of Emergency Surgery published its guidelines for the management of adult and pediatric patients with splenic trauma. Several issues regarding the follow-up of patients with splenic ...
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To evaluate the thoracic duct (TD) diameter on CT scan in a population of cirrhotic patients before and after relief of portal hypertension by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) insertion. To...
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Few data on the management of acute phase of traumatic spinal cord injury (tSCI) in patients suffering polytrauma are available. As the therapeutic choices in the first hours may have a deep impact on outcome ...
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Despite the call to enhance accuracy and value of operation records few international recommended minimal standards for operative notes documentation have been described. This study undertook a systematic revi...
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Splenic vessel involvement occurs frequently in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) of the body and the tail (B/T) but the impact on survival is unknown. We assessed the influence of radiological and patho...