Publications by authors named "Antonietta Petrusic"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of routine histopathological exams for patients undergoing sigmoidectomy due to diverticular disease after having a colonoscopy within a year prior.
- - A total of 207 patients were analyzed, revealing only a small percentage (3.9%) had unexpected findings during histopathological exams, most of which were clinically insignificant.
- - The findings suggest that preoperative colonoscopy results were highly reliable in predicting histopathological outcomes, indicating that routine exams may not be necessary for all patients.
In the setting of minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS), training in robotic liver resections (RLR) usually follows previous experience in laparoscopic liver resections (LLR). The aim of our study was to assess the learning curve of RLR in case of concomitant training with LLR. We analyzed consecutive RLRs and LLRs by a surgeon trained simultaneously in both techniques (Surg1); while a second surgeon trained only in LLRs was used as control (Surg2).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The advantages of the robotic approach in minimally invasive liver surgery (MILS) are still debated. This study compares the short-term outcomes between laparoscopic (LLR) and robotic (RLR) liver resections in propensity score matched cohorts.
Methods: Data regarding minimally invasive liver resections in two liver surgery units were retrospectively reviewed.