Publications by authors named "Tudor Frunza"
Aim: The aim of this work is to describe a protocol and assess the feasibility of harvesting and analysing the mesocolic apical fragment (MAF) for the presence of central lymph node (LN) metastasis and extra lymphatic free tumour cells in a random subgroup extracted from a cohort of complete mesocolic excision colectomies with central vascular ligation.
Method: Forty-seven patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer were included. A 2/2 cm pyramid of tissue was cut around the central tie and sent for pathological examination.
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- Seroma is a common issue after mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection, and quilting sutures (QS) may help reduce its occurrence.
- A systematic review analyzed 21 studies with over 3,400 patients, comparing QS to conventional closure methods.
- The findings showed that QS significantly lowered seroma rates, drainage volume, days until drain removal, and hospital stay length, while maintaining comparable wound complication rates.
Background: Quality control in colon cancer surgery is an ongoing debate ever since standardization proved to be highly efficient in improving survival in rectal cancer. Complete mesocolic excision (CME) is widely acclaimed as the new gold-standard in colon cancer resections, thus it is imperative to establish quality criteria of CME in order to make it easily understood and verified by surgeons worldwide. One simple and reproducible tool could be the measurement of arterial stumps postoperatively and a straightforward way to test its reliability is to test it in a comparative study between CME and non-CME surgery.
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