Publications by authors named "Charalambos Mirelis"
BACKGROUND In the emergency department pain in the right lower quadrant is a frequent finding and is related to a wide variety of diseases, the most common of which is acute appendicitis. An unusual presentation of pain in the right iliac fossa is due to perforation of a duodenal peptic ulcer. The fluid that originates from the perforated ulcer moves through the paracolic sulcus to the right iliac fossa and causes irritation of the peritoneum and even chemical peri-appendicitis, thereby imitating all the usual causes of pain in the right lower quadrant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: Emergency surgery for obstructing colorectal carcinoma is thought to be associated with poor survival. The aim of the study is to assess the results of surgery for obstructing colorectal cancer.
Materials And Methods: From 1987 to 2004, 80 patients underwent emergency surgery for completely obstructing colorectal carcinoma (COC), and 171 patients underwent elective surgery for non-obstructing cancer (NOC).
Background: Large ventral incisional hernias are frequently repaired either by open or by laparoscopic mesh technique. The technique recommended by Nuttall has been used for the repair of large subumbilical incisional hernias but has not been popularized.
Materials And Methods: From 1991 to 2005, 21 patients, mean age 64.
Background/aims: Radical lymph node resection of the retroperitoneal area for cancer of the left half of the colon has been strongly questioned. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of extended lymph node resection of the retroperitoneal area in left-sided colon cancer.
Materials And Methods: From 1993 to 2002, 124 patients with left-sided colon cancer were randomly elected to undergo either conventional left colectomy (62 patients) or left colectomy combined with radical lymphadenectomy (62 patients).
Background/aims: The purpose of the study is to report two long-term survivors with ovarian carcinosarcomas, which are rare intrapelvic malignancies with unfavorable prognosis.
Methods: Two middle-aged women with palpable abdominal tumors underwent complete cytoreductive surgery and no macroscopic tumor was left behind. Early postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy with doxorubicin was used as an adjuvant treatment.