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Cureus
April 2024
Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TWN.
Anastomotic stricture has an incidence rate of 6-10% and typically manifests three to six months after colorectal surgery. Immediate postoperative stricture is exceedingly rare and underreported in the literature. The possible etiology includes poor circulation, leakage, local inflammation, or infection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe the case of a 66-year-old man with an anastomotic fistula after rectal surgery, which was treated colonoscopically using polyglycolic acid sheets and fibrin glue. Polyglycolic acid sheets and fibrin glue have been used in thoracic surgery and otolaryngology to reinforce sutures and prevent air leakage. There have been recent reports of their use in endoscopic surgery for the closure of intraoperative perforations after endoscopic submucosal dissection and for fistula closure after upper gastrointestinal tract surgery.
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September 2023
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fsurg.2023.
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August 2023
Department of Colorectal and Anal Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
To investigate the feasibility and safety of a robotic surgical system (or laparoscopy) in combination with colonoscopy (combined) for the treatment of stage T1N0M0 colorectal cancer. This was a descriptive case series. Indications for combined dual-scope surgery in this study were as follows: (1) preoperative colonoscopic examination of lesions in the middle and upper rectum and colon with pathologically confirmed high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, intramucosal adenocarcinoma, or adenocarcinoma; (2) no distant or local lymph node metastases; and (3) endoscopic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging evidence of tumor invasion of the mucosal or submucosal, but not the muscular, layer (i.
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July 2023
Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Institute of Hepatobiliology and Pancreaticoenterology of the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China.
The incidence of appendiceal stump leakage (ASL) is extremely low and heterogeneous, which has been reported to be approximately 0.5%-1.0%.
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