Predictors of pouch failure and quality of life following ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis: a retrospective multicenter study.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the causes of failure after the ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) procedure for ulcerative colitis (UC) and to determine the independent risk factors affecting their quality of life.

Methods: This multi-center cohort study included all UC patients who underwent IPAA at nine referral centers in Türkiye from 2010 to 2018. Centers were categorized as high-volume (≥10 cases/year) or low-volume (<10 cases/year).

Management and Morbidity of Major Pelvic Hemorrhage in Complex Abdominopelvic Surgery.

Introduction: Hemorrhage is a challenging complication of pelvic surgery. This study aimed to analyze the causes, management, and factors associated with morbidity in patients experiencing major pelvic hemorrhage during complex abdominopelvic surgery.

Methods: Patients who had major intraoperative pelvic hemorrhage during complex abdominopelvic surgery at 11 tertiary referral centers between 1997 and 2017 were included.

Functional outcomes of intersphincteric resection in low rectal tumors.

Objectives: Currently, sphincter-saving procedures are increasingly performed in the treatment of low rectal cancers. This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of patients who underwent intersphincteric resection.

Material And Methods: This was a single-center, retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Unexpected Benefit of the Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Using F-Fluorodeoxyglucose: Report of a Case.

The positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) has been a new tool utilized in the diagnosis and staging of various cancers. However, common worldwide utilization of the PET/CT includes some economic, legal, and ethic controversies. Although PET/CT scanning can detect colorectal premalignant lesions in an early treatable stage, most governments' health care system does not pay for it as a screening test because of its economic burden.

A rare cause of colonic obstruction "colonic intussusception": report of two cases.

Colocolic intussusceptions are rare clinical entities in adults and almost always caused by a leading lesion which often warrants resection. Mostly being malignant, the leading lesions are rarely benign lesions where intraluminal lipomas are the most frequent among them. Most adult intussusceptions require surgical resection owing to two major reasons: common presence of a leading lesion and significantly high risk of malignancy-reaching as high as 65% regardless of the anatomic site-of the leading lesion.

Mesenteric fibromatosis of the ileocolic area: a case report.

Fibromatosis is a kind of spindle cell tumor which is characterized by the remarkable proliferation and invasive growth of fibrous tissue. It often arises from the abdominal wall or the extremities and rarely from the mesentery and abdominal organs. The patient was 35 year old female whose major complaints were an abdominal mass and pain.

Foreign bodies in the rectum: an analysis of 30 patients.

Purpose: A foreign body in the rectum is a rare clinical entity. These foreign bodies can be classified under two major groups: the ones that are inserted from the anus and the ones that are swallowed and thereafter become stuck in the rectum.

Methods: Data of patients admitted with a foreign body in the rectum between 1988 and 2008 were retrospectively analyzed.

Negative prognostic factors in colorectal carcinoma: An analysis of 448 patients.

Background And Aims: Colorectal carcinoma (CRC) is the most frequent malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract. Prognostic researches are carried out for choosing the optimum therapy, evaluating therapy results and comparing multicentre results for better qualification in the therapy of the disease.

Patients And Methods: In this study, 448 patients, whose surgery and follow-up was performed by the same correspondent surgeon between the years 1995 and 2003, were retrospectively analyzed.

A new extraction technique for rectal foreign bodies with a rubber band ligation device.

Foreign bodies in the rectum are a rare clinical condition that should be noted. The most frequently encountered cause is erotic activity. The first goal of the therapy is extraction of the foreign body using the simplest method possible while protecting the integrity of the intestine.

Dieulafoy's lesion of the anal canal: report of a case.

Background/aims: Dieulafoy's lesion of the anal canal is a very rare clinical case. Although it was first described in the stomach, there has been an increasing frequency, especially in the last decade, of reports of the lesion in the colorectal region.

Methods: Herein, we report one case presenting with massive hematochezia requiring multiple blood transfusions due to a Dieulafoy's lesion in the anal canal.