The application of nutrition support in conservative treatment of chylous ascites after abdominal surgery.

Background: Chylous ascites is the pathologic leakage of triglycerides-rich lymphatic fluid into the peritoneal cavity. Chylous ascites is a rare complication in abdominal surgery. This study aimed to find a relatively better method for nutrition support in the treatment of chylous ascites after abdominal surgery.

[Use of inflammatory factors combined with multi-slice spiral computer tomography for preoperative staging and operative strategy in colon cancer].

Objective: To determine the clinical value of C-reactive protein(CRP), fibrinogen (FIB), or serum amyloid A protein (SAA) combined with 64 multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) for preoperative staging and operative strategy in colon cancer.

Methods: Patients with colon cancer were prospectively enrolled at the West China Hospital of Sichuan University from November 2007 to July 2009,and were equally randomized into 3 groups undergoing different preoperative evaluation: MSCT combined with CRP(CRP group), MSCT combined with FIB (FIB group), and MSCT combined with SAA (SAA group). The agreement between preoperative staging and postoperative pathologic staging and that between expected surgical procedure and procedure adopted were compared.