Single-port Colectomy VS Multi-port Laparoscopic Colectomy. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of More Than 2800 Procedures.

Objective: Multiport laparoscopic surgery in colon pathology has been demonstrated as a safe and effective technique. Interest in reducing aggressiveness has led to other procedures being described, such as SILS. The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate feasibility and security of SILS technique in colonic surgery.

[Single incision transumbilical laparoscopic appendectomy: initial experience].

Introduction: Appendicitis is the most common abdominal emergency. The treatment is surgical and single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) involves performing laparoscopic surgery through a single transumbilical point, in an attempt to improve the results of laparoscopic surgery.

Material And Method: A total of 73 patients with suspected acute appendicitis were operated on using the SILS technique between June 2009 and August 2010.

[Toward zero mortality in liver resection. Presentation of 200 consecutive cases].

Introduction: Liver resection (LR) morbidity and mortality rates have dropped in recent decades. Mortality is now below 5% and morbidity is less than 30%. Our objective was to present a series of 200 LRs without mortality and to analyze the factors that may be related to complications.

Experience with the circular stapler for the gastrojejunostomy in laparoscopic gastric bypass (350 cases).

Background: The increased incidence of morbid obesity has resulted in an increase in bariatric surgery. The gastrojejunostomy performed during Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGBP) operations has technical variability with different outcomes and complication-rates immediate postoperatively and at long-term follow-up.

Methods: Between Jan 2000 and Feb 2005, 350 laparoscopic RYGBP procedures were performed.

Eversion thromboendovenectomy in organized portal vein thrombosis during liver transplantation.

Portal thrombosis is no longer considered a contraindication for transplantation because of the technical experience acquired in the field of liver transplantation and the development of various surgical techniques. All the same, the results obtained in portal thrombosis patients are at times suboptimal, and the surgical technique used (thromboendovenectomy or veno-venous bypass) is also controversial. Between May 1988 and December 2001, 455 liver transplants were performed, of which 32 (7%) presented portal vein thrombosis.