Fluorescence-guided identification and dissection of retroperitoneal lymphomas (with video).

Surgery, especially if minimally invasive, still plays a role in the diagnosis of suspect lymphoproliferative lesions in challenging locations such as the retroperitoneum. Fluorescence guidance may help in such cases facilitating the visualization of highly vascularized lesions. Our recent experience with a 71-year-old woman with retroperitoneal lymphadenopathy and suspected lymphoma supports this hypothesis.

Prevertebral cervical approach: a pure endoscopic surgical technique for posterior mediastinum parathyroid adenomas.

Background: Parathyroid gland mediastinal ectopia is an unusual but challenging condition in surgical management of hyperparathyroidism. Posterior mediastinum parathyroid ectopia is rare, and glands need to be removed either with a broad open cervical or thoracic approach. In recent years, several minimally invasive approaches to mediastinal parathyroid glands have been described, but for posterior mediastinum adenomas, proposed techniques are transthoracic.

[Randomized clinical study of polydioxanone and nylon sutures for laparotomy clousure in high-risk patients].

Introduction: The complications of surgical wound closure in patients with risk factors significantly increases morbidity and mortality. The aim of the present study was to evaluate differences in abdominal wall closure in patients with risk factors with the same closure technique and slow-absorbable or non-absorbable sutures.

Material And Methods: We performed a prospective, multicenter, comparative study of polydioxanone versus nylon sutures.