Multidisciplinary approach in the management of advanced ovarian cancer patients: A personalized approach. Results from a specialized ovarian cancer unit.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of a multidisciplinary approach in patients' selection with advanced ovarian cancer (AOC) for different therapeutic strategies.

Methods: Patients referred at our institution between 2009 and 2012 for AOC were included. Primary multidisciplinary evaluation was performed in all patients.

Is ileostomy always necessary following rectal resection for deep infiltrating endometriosis?

Objective: To verify the hypothesis that in most patients bowel segmental resection to treat endometriosis can be safely performed without creation of a stoma and to discuss the limitations of this statement.

Design: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification III).

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

A new technique of laparoscopic intracorporeal anastomosis for transrectal bowel resection with transvaginal specimen extraction.

Study Objective: To show a new technique of laparoscopic intracorporeal anastomosis for transrectal bowel resection with transvaginal specimen extraction, a technique particularly suited for treatment of bowel endometriosis.

Design: Step-by-step explanation of the technique using videos and pictures (educative video).

Setting: Endometriosis may affect the bowel in 3% to 37% of all endometriosis cases.

Laparoscopic sigmoidectomy for endometriosis with transanal specimen extraction.

Study Objective: To describe a more conservative and less invasive surgical approach to laparoscopic colorectal segmental resection for treatment of endometriosis.

Design: Video of elective sigmoidectomy to treat colorectal endometriosis.

Setting: Tertiary referral center for laparoscopic gynecologic surgery at the University Hospitals of Strasbourg, France.