Appendicitis during the COVID-19 lockdown: results of a multicenter analysis in Germany.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed medical care worldwide. General surgery has been affected in elective procedures, yet the implications for emergency surgery are unclear. The current study analyzes the effect of the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020 on appendicitis treatment in Germany.

[Diverticular disease - timing of surgery in demand].

In preparation for operations of patients with diverticular disease an adequate medical indication has to be performed. The new classification of sigmoid diverticulitis corresponding to the German guidelines for diverticular disease classification (GGDDC) enables an appropriate strategy for evaluating the indications and selection of the time for surgery. New is, that the uncomplicated form of diverticulitis indicates an operation in exceptional case only.

Real-time lymphography by indocyanine green fluorescence: improved navigation for regional lymph node staging.

Objectives: Lymphatic imaging is an important step for the identification of lymphonodal positive disease in solid malignancies. Various methods have been established to detect positive lymph nodes, but the available diagnostic tools leave some inherent drawbacks. The aim of this study was to validate the indocyanine green (ICG) guided approach for transcutaneous and transmesenterial navigation with accurate lymph vessel and node identification for regional lymph node staging in solid malignancies.