International expert consensus on laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy.

Importance: While laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) is being adopted with increasing enthusiasm worldwide, it is still challenging for both technical and anatomical reasons. Currently, there is no consensus on the technical standards for LPD.

Objective: The aim of this consensus statement is to guide the continued safe progression and adoption of LPD.

Clinical Characteristics, Treatment, and Prognosis of Diabetic Foot Disease in Macao and Beijing: A Retrospective Study.

Introduction: There has been no epidemiological study of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Macao. Also, multidisciplinary treatment is yet to be popularized and complications of DM cannot be managed promptly in this region. Therefore, this study was performed to compare the clinical characteristics, treatment, and prognosis of diabetic foot disease between patients in Macao and Beijing.

Endoscopic thyroidectomy via areola approach: summary of 1,250 cases in a single institution.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect and cosmetic results of endoscopic thyroidectomy (ETE) via the areola approach for patients with thyroid diseases.

Methods: A total of 1,250 patients with thyroid diseases underwent ETE via the areola approach between April 2005 and January 2011. Of these, 898 were benign goiters, 260 were Graves' disease, 28 were secondary hyperthyroidism, and 64 were papillary carcinomas.

Thoraco-abdominal aorta revascularization through a retroperitoneal approach.

Objective: To investigate the application of the retroperitoneal approach in aortic surgery.

Methods: We collected and analyzed data of 7 patients in Macau who presented with aortic diseases from 2007 to 2008 and were treated with aorta repair through retroperitoneal approach. Demographic features as well as intraoperative and postoperative data were analyzed.

Revascularization for iliac-femoral artery pseudoaneurysm with greater saphenous vein.

Objective: To investigate the role of revascularization procedures with autologous greater saphenous vein in surgical management of iliac-femoral artery pseudoaneurysm in parenteral drug abusers.

Methods: Twenty-one patients with iliac-femoral artery pseudoaneurysm caused by parenteral drug abuse from 2004 to 2007 were enrolled. Among them, 15 patients were male and 6 were female; their average age was 31.

Hybrid endovascular aorta repair with simultaneous supra-aortic branch or iliac branch revascularization.

Objective: To describe a hybrid endovascular procedure for aorta repair with different kinds of bypass followed by concomitant placement of stent graft in the aorta.

Methods: From June 2007 to May 2008, 5 consecutive patients who presented with aortic aneurysm or dissection were treated with a new hybrid aorta repair technique. Complete surgical rerouting of supra-aortic vessels was simultaneously created by endovascular repair of aortic arch aneurysm with stent graft.