How to do it: perineal hernia repair.

Perineal hernias are rare complications of surgeries like abdominoperineal resections. This submission is an educational piece outlining the steps to completing a posterior perineal hernia repair with mesh.

Pelvic mesh in colorectal pelvic floor surgery-implications of recent developments.

The use of mesh prostheses in pelvic surgery is under significant scrutiny. There are justifiable concerns around the transvaginal use of mesh products for POP surgery. The latter part of 2017 saw the announcement of wide-ranging regulatory actions relating to transvaginal mesh products, by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in Australia and subsequently Medsafe in New Zealand.

Timely cholecystectomy for acute gallstone disease: an ongoing challenge in a New Zealand provincial centre.

Aims: To review the prior management of patients who underwent cholecystectomy for gallstone disease at a provincial centre over a 1-year period, with a particular focus on potentially preventable morbidity by performing index cholecystectomy (IC).

Methods: Retrospective case note review was performed for patients who underwent cholecystectomy at Hawke's Bay's hospitals between 1 March 2009 and 1 March 2010.

Results: 148 cholecystectomies were performed over the study period.

Composition of volatile organic compounds in diathermy plume as detected by selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry.

Background: There is some evidence that surgical plume may pose a risk to health professionals, but the risks posed by volatile organic compounds have not been thoroughly investigated.

Methods: The composition of volatile organic compounds in diathermy plume produced during surgery was analysed by selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry.

Results: Hydrogen cyanide (3-51 parts per million), acetylene (2-8 parts per million), and 1,3-butadiene (0.

Men with colorectal cancer are predisposed to prostate cancer.

Background: The objective of the present study was to investigate the relationship between colorectal and prostate cancer.

Methods: All Victorian men who developed metachronous colorectal and prostate cancer with the first primary diagnosed between 1982 and 1993 were identified retrospectively from the Victorian Cancer Registry and were followed up to the end of 1995. Analyses were stratified by age group and years of follow up.