Early safety data from the RELARC trial showed complete mesocolic excision doesn’t increase intraoperative and postoperative complications of laparoscopic right hemicolectomy compared with D2 ...

For patients with colon cancer, laparoscopic colectomy has been associated with early recovery and quality-of-life benefits compared with open colectomy; however, long-term outcome data on tumor ...

Nowadays laparoscopic right hemicolectomy is widely accepted as the standard of care for benign and malignant colon disease. There are wide variations among laparoscopic techniques. One of the most ...

The last two decades were marked by continuous efforts of surgeons to minimize perioperative trauma. Minimally invasive techniques and the technology attributed to them are quickly gaining a strong ...

This study of immediate outcome after a commonly performed surgical gastrointestinal procedure showed no early advantage for robotic compared with laparoscopic surgery. The study was performed in the ...

Laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder is widely employed, yet the extension of laparoscopic approaches to other intra-abdominal surgeries has been slower. An early surgical case series reported ...

The staged approach to colectomy offers survival benefits, and it may help avoid unnecessary procedures that only require appendectomy. Muhammad Talha Waheed, MD, a postdoctoral research fellow at ...