Background: Colon cancer has become a common malignant neoplasm in Tunisia. Patients with negative lymph node have a 5 years recurrence rate of 21.1%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Groin hernia repair is a common intervention and reoperation rate for recurrence reachs 15%. Recurrence can be attributed to patients related factors or influenced by the surgical technique. Furthermore, treating recurrence can be challenging with the risk ratio of developing a second recurrence equal to 2,7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Laparoscopic complete mesocolon excision (LCME) for right colonic cancer improves oncological outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare intraoperative, postoperative, and oncological outcomes after LCME and open total mesocolon excision (OCME) for right-sided colonic cancers.
Methods: Literature searches of electronic databases and manual searches up to January 31, 2019, were performed.
Background: The ideal mini-invasive management of common bile duct stones (CBDS) with concomitant gallbladder stones is debatable. This article aims to review the management of this condition during the last decade using the mini-invasive approach.
Methods: A database research in Medline, Embase, Cochrane and Google Scholar during the period between January 2009 to December 2018 was performed.