[Analysis of postoperative complications following acute surgery for colorectal cancer].

Our aim was to improve the outcome of emergency surgeries for colorectal cancer (CRC). Authors compared two periods: 2004-2006 and 2007-2011. Targeted cases were emergency admissions, in which the diagnosis of colorectal cancer is only revealed during work-up or during surgery.

[Topics in the surgical treatment of acute calculous cholecystitis].

A point is made in this paper in favour of early surgical action on cases of acute calculous cholecystitis, following an analysis of 140 patients who had undergone such operations through the past 13 years. Immediate surgery is a way to remove an obstructed inflammatory gallbladder even before severe complications can develop. Early cholecystectomy (within four days) was possible in 113 cases.