Laparoscopic Colorectal Resection in Patients with Sarcopenia: A Retrospective Case-Control Study.

Background And Objectives: Previous study has reported that sarcopenia increases the risk of postoperative complications following open colorectal resection. The aim of this retrospective case-control study was to evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic colorectal resection in patients with sarcopenia.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 60 patients who underwent laparoscopic colorectal resection for primary colorectal cancer between April 2012 and March 2015 at our institution.

Staple-line recurrence arising 10 years after functional end-to-end anastomosis for colon cancer: a case report.

We report a rare case of late staple-line recurrence arising 10 years after functional end-to-end anastomosis for splenic flexure colon cancer. An 80-year-old man, who underwent partial colectomy with functional end-to-end anastomosis for splenic flexure colon cancer 10 years earlier, presented with a chief complaint of anorexia. Complete blood count showed anemia, and the fecal occult blood test was positive.

Inhibition of Toll-like receptor 4 suppresses liver injury induced by biliary obstruction and subsequent intraportal lipopolysaccharide injection.

The objective of this study was to elucidate the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in liver injury induced by biliary obstruction and subsequent intraportal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) infusion in rats. Biliary obstruction often leads to the development of bacterial translocation. Rats were subjected to either a sham operation (Sham group) or bile duct ligation for 7 days (BDL group).

Impalement injury to the left buttock with massive bleeding: a case report.

A 67-year-old man fell from the second floor of his home and was impaled on an iron pipe used for a garden stake. The pipe was 2 cm in diameter and had entered his left buttock to his anus. A plain abdominal X-ray film showed that the tip of the pipe was located in front of the 4th lumbar vertebra, so the penetration distance was 30 cm.

Early carcinoma of the appendix vermiformis.

It is difficult to preoperatively diagnose early carcinoma of the vermiform appendix because of its rarity and few specific clinical features. In the present study, we report a preoperatively diagnosed mucosal carcinoma of the vermiform appendix.