Ten-year outcomes after primary vertical sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity: a monocentric cohort study.

Objective: To assess the 10-year outcomes after sleeve gastrectomy (SG). Primary end-points were the long-term weight loss and the need for conversion and one of the secondary end-points was the incidence of gastroesophageal reflux (GERD).

Materials And Methods: Between 2006 and 2008, 40 consecutive patients had a primary SG.

Early surgical treatment for collateral ligament rupture of metacarpophalangeal joints of the fingers.

Purpose: Thumb metacarpophalangeal (MCP) collateral ligament ruptures are well-known injuries but those occurring in the other fingers seem to be infrequent according to the literature. We undertook this study to evaluate the real incidence of this type of injury and the results of surgical treatment.

Method: During a 2-year period care was taken to detect all the patients presenting to our emergency unit with a complete rupture of a collateral ligament of a finger and to perform surgery on them as soon as possible.

Laparoscopic treatment of a gastric outlet obstruction caused by a gallstone (Bouveret's syndrome).

Duodenal impaction of a gallstone after its migration through a cholecystoduodenal fistula is an uncommon cause of gallstone ileus described as Bouveret's syndrome. Surgical treatment is recommended, but the morbidity and mortality rates are nearly 60% and 30%, respectively. To reduce these rates using improved endoluminal surgery, a laparoscopically assisted intraluminal gastric surgery could be considered.