Gallbladder perforation during elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes.

Objective: This study aimed to reveal the risk factors and outcomes of gallbladder perforation (GP) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Methods: Videotapes of all patients who underwent an elective cholecystectomy at our department were retrospectively analyzed, and the patients were divided into two groups based on the presence of GP. The possible risk factors and early outcomes were analyzed.

J-pouch vs. side-to-end anastomosis after hand-assisted laparoscopic low anterior resection for rectal cancer: A prospective randomized trial on short and long term outcomes including life quality and functional results.

Purpose: To analyze the outcomes of j-pouch and side-to-end anastomosis in rectal cancer patients treated with laparoscopic hand-assisted low anterior resection.

Methods: Prospective trial on cases randomized to have a colonic j-pouch or a side-to-end anastomosis after low anterior resection. Demographics, characteristics of disease and treatment, perioperative results, and functional outcomes and life quality were compared between the groups.

Hand-Assisted versus Straight-Laparoscopic versus Open Proctosigmoidectomy for Treatment of Sigmoid and Rectal Cancer: A Case-Matched Study of 100 Patients.

To assess the efficacy of laparoscopic proctosigmoidectomy for cancer treatment, 25 patients who underwent hand-assisted laparoscopic resection during the study period (9/2006 - 7/2012) were matched to 25 straight-laparoscopic and 50 open-surgery cases. The patients who underwent hand-assisted resection had higher rates of preoperative cardiac disease and hypertension than did the straight-laparoscopy and open-surgery groups. Straight-laparoscopic surgery seems to provide faster convalescence compared with open surgery and hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

Stereotactic excision of additional lesions detected with intraoperative ultrasound examination during radiofrequency dissecting sealar (habib®) assisted hepatic metastasectomy: report of 4 cases.

Intraoperative ultrasound has been using to achieve a proper resection strategy in patients undergoing a hepatic colorectal metastasectomy. This study aims to describe and reveal the place of stereotactic metastasectomy in nonpalpable colorectal liver metastases (CLM). A chart review was initiated for all patients underwent resection for CLM between 2006 and 2011.

Ramadan fasting in patients with a stoma: a prospective study of quality of life and nutritional status.

Ramadan fasting is an Islamic obligation for healthy Muslims after the age of puberty. Persons with an acute or chronic disease may be excused from this obligation; the degree of the disease is an important parameter for not fasting. Little is known about the effect of fasting on persons with a stoma.

An interesting journey of an ingested needle: a case report and review of the literature on extra-abdominal migration of ingested foreign bodies.

Swallowed foreign bodies encounter a major problem especially in children, but fortunately they mostly do not cause any related complication and are easily passed with the stool. In this paper, an interesting journey of a needle is presented. A 20-year old female admitted to our emergency service after she had swallowed a sewing machine needle, which is initially observed in the stomach in the plain abdominal radiography.

Heparin for adhesion prevention: comparison of three different dosages with Seprafilm in a murine model.

Background: This study aimed to assess the safety and effectiveness of different dosages of heparin for adhesion prevention by comparing with Seprafilm, in a murine model.

Materials And Methods: Seventy five Balb/c mice were randomized into five groups. Group C were reserved as controls, and 62.

Left inferior quadrant oblique incision: a new access for hand-assisted device during laparoscopic low anterior resection of rectal cancer.

Background: Although long-term results are not clear, laparoscopic resection of rectal cancer may be feasible, and the use of hand-assisted technique may ease the procedure. This article aims to describe the details of left inferior quadrant oblique incision (LIQOI) and to discuss the results of patients who underwent laparoscopic hand-assisted low anterior resection using LIQOI.

Materials And Methods: All rectal cancer patients who underwent a hand-assisted low anterior resection through a LIQOI at our department between November 2006 and May 2008 were retrospectively evaluated.