Abdominal wall reconstruction for desmoid tumour surgery: Case report.

Introduction: Desmoid tumours are rare benign neoplasms with strong tendency to local invasion and recurrence. They usually rise from muscles and aponeurosis and could be challenging for medical treatment. We here report the case of a patient requiring the excision of part of the abdominal rectus muscle and an abdominal wall reconstruction.

Zenker diverticulectomy: first report of robot-assisted transaxillary approach.

Standard surgical treatment of Zenker's diverticulum consists of open cricopharyngeal myotomy with diverticulectomy. A rigid or flexible endoscopic approach allowing a cricopharyngeal myotomy without diverticulectomy is currently considered as a less invasive alternative to open surgery with reportedly comparable symptom relief at short term follow-up. In recent years, high safety and efficacy of a transaxillary gasless robotic access to the thyroid gland has been shown.

Modified rives technique (double-breasted alloplasty) in the repair of large incisional hernias.

Prosthetic materials in surgery have been widely used to repair incisional hernias thus reducing the recurrence rate. The wrong use of such prostheses has been the cause of serious postoperative complications. We propose a tension-free technique which allows the best abdominal wall reconstruction with correct positioning of the mesh even for large parietal defects.