Benefits of jejunostomy feeding in patients who underwent gastrectomy for cancer treatment.

Background: Gastric cancer is associated with significant undernutrition responsible for an increase in morbidity and mortality after gastrectomy.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of enteral nutrition by jejunostomy feeding in patients undergoing gastrectomy for cancer.

Methods: Between 2003 and 2017, all patients undergoing gastrectomy for cancer treatment were included retrospectively.

Stenosis of the colorectal anastomosis after surgery for diverticulitis: A national retrospective cohort study.

Aim: The aim of this work was to investigate the association between early postoperative anastomotic leakage or pelvic abscess (AL/PA) and symptomatic anastomotic stenosis (SAS) in patients after surgery for left colonic diverticulitis.

Method: This is a retrospective study based on a national cohort of diverticulitis surgery patients carried out by the Association Française de Chirurgie. The assessment was performed using path analyses.

Risk factors for emergency surgery for diverticulitis: A retrospective multicentric French study at 41 hospitals.

Background: The observed increase in the incidence of complicated diverticulitis may lead to the performance of more emergency surgeries. This study aimed to assess the rate and risk factors of emergency surgery for sigmoid diverticulitis.

Method: The primary outcomes were the rate of emergency surgery for sigmoid diverticulitis and its associated risk factors.

Impact of the first wave of COVID-19 epidemy on the surgical management of sigmoid diverticular disease in France: National French retrospective study.

Objective: To analyze the surgical management of sigmoid diverticular disease (SDD) before, during, and after the first containment rules (CR) for the first wave of COVID-19.

Methods: From the French Surgical Association multicenter series, this study included all patients operated on between January 2018 and September 2021. Three groups were compared: A (before CR period: 01/01/18-03/16/20), B (CR period: 03/17/20-05/03/20), and C (post CR period: 05/04/20-09/30/21).

MSI-High RAS-BRAF wild-type colorectal adenocarcinomas with MLH1 loss have a high frequency of targetable oncogenic gene fusions whose diagnoses are feasible using methods easy-to-implement in pathology laboratories.

Targetable kinase fusions are extremely rare (<1%) in colorectal cancers (CRCs), making their diagnosis challenging and often underinvestigated. They have been shown particularly frequently among MSI-High, BRAF/KRAS/NRAS wild-type CRCs with MLH1 loss (MLH1 MSI-High wild-type). We searched for NTRK1, NTRK2, NTRK3, ALK, ROS1, BRAF, RET, and NRG1 kinase fusions in CRCs using methods easy-to-implement in pathology laboratories: immunohistochemistry (IHC), fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), and fully automated real-time PCR targeted analyses.

Laparoscopic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: a matched-pair comparative study.

Background: Only a few series have demonstrated the safety of laparoscopic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and the benefits of this approach. Moreover, these studies reported mostly minor and nonanatomic hepatic resections. This report describes the results of a pair-matched comparative study between open and laparoscopic liver resections for HCC in a series of essentially anatomic resections.

[Primary leiomyoma of the liver: a rare benign tumor].

Primary hepatic leiomyoma is a very rare tumor secondary to benign smooth muscle proliferation. The primary location in the liver is usually found in adult women. A 36-year-old woman with right upper quadrant abdominal pain had primary hepatic leiomyoma.

Mesenteric adenitis and portal vein thrombosis due to Fusobacterium nucleatum.

We report the first description of portal and mesenteric vein thrombosis associated with suppurative mesenteric adenitis in a 71-year-old woman. The bacterium detected in mesenteric lymph nodes was Fusobacterium nucleatum, an anaerobic Gram-negative bacillus. Our patient had a clinical syndrome of pharyngitis and fever preceding portal vein thrombosis.

Traumatic duodenal necrosis with peri-ampullary duodenal detachment.

Isolated duodenal injury in blunt abdominal trauma is unusual. Diagnosis requires a complete exploration of the abdominal cavity. The authors present a rare case of disruption and necrosis of the second duodenum with periampullary duodenal detachment.

Caustic burns of rectum and colon in emergencies.

Background: Because of their rarity, chemical burns of rectum and colon have been poorly studied. This clinical report studies the epidemiologic, diagnostic, and therapeutic features of rectal and colonic burns after enema with caustics.

Methods: This is a retrospective clinical report of a personal series of 21 patients admitted in our hospital from January 1990 to January 2000 for an acute chemical colitis after enema.