Single umbilical incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: initial experience of the Coelio Club.

Aim: To assess the initial results of single umbilical incision laparoscopic cholecystectomies (SUILC) performed by the members of the Club Coelio.

Patients And Methods: This multicenter study involved 65 consecutive patients undergoing SUILC between September 2008 and December 2009. The operation was performed with a 0° scope in 35 and with a 30° scope in 30 patients.

[Laparoscopic cure of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Results of a multicenter trial].

Objectives: The aim of our trial was to assess preoperative assessment and short-term results of laparoscopic cure of gastroesophageal disease performed by digestive surgeons not specialized in this disease.

Methods: 335 consecutive cures were performed by 11 surgeons.

Results: 29% of patients had pH-metry, 52% had manometry.

[Time off of work after inguinal hernia repair. Results of a multicenter prospective study].

A multicentre prospective study was conducted to evaluate the effective duration of time off work following inguinal hernia repair. From 1st October to 30 November 1997, 14 surgeons repaired 459 hernias in 359 patients, corresponding to 28.8% of salaried workers, 10.

[Treatment of the loss of major wall substance in children using synthetic resorbable mesh. Apropos of 10 cases].

Ten children with a major parietal defect, abdominal or thoracic, were operated by using a resorbable polyglactine network, during these three last years. On six children, the parietal defect was only deep, according to the surgical ablation of a parietal malignant tumor; on four other children, the defect was total, interesting the muscular and aponeurotic plan, but also the skin (two gastroschisis, and two septic eviscerations). Neither reject nor suppuration were observed.

[Lumbar sympathectomy in the aged subject: surgery or phenolization? Prospective study of early results].

Lumbar sympathectomy, which is usually indicated in the arteritic patient in cases of severe ischemia and occlusion of leg arteries when bypass surgery is not feasible, can be performed surgically or by scanner-guided phenolization. Surgical sympathectomy was performed by resection of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th lumbar ganglia under general anesthesia by a retroperitoneal route. Chemical sympathectomy involved scanner-guided injection of phenol diluted 6.