Not just a BLiP: early experience with a novel multidisciplinary case conference for benign hepatopancreatobiliary disease at a tertiary Canadian healthcare center.

Background: Benign Liver and Pancreas (BLiPs) rounds, implemented in 2022 at our Canadian tertiary care center, are a novel concept of a multidisciplinary case conference (MCC) for discussion of benign hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) disease. BLiPs Rounds are a monthly virtual meeting of surgeons, gastroenterologists, and interventional radiologists experienced in biliary and pancreatic disease.

Methods: This case series was completed to review the patient cases discussed over the first year of BLiPs rounds, and to evaluate the effect of the multidisciplinary discussion on patient management plans.

Laparoscopic right colectomies with intracorporeal compared to extracorporeal anastomotic techniques are associated with reduced post-operative incisional hernias.

Background: Owing to important differences in surgical technique, laparoscopic right colectomy with intracorporeal (ICA) compared to extracorporeal (ECA) anastomotic technique may result in improved patient outcomes. We aimed to compare both techniques according to incisional hernias and other pertinent perioperative characteristics, post-operative complications, and oncologic quality markers.

Methods: All adult patients undergoing laparoscopic right colectomies between 2015 and 2020 at a single institution were included.