A decade-long national audit of total abdominal colectomy (TAC) for ulcerative colitis in the Republic of Ireland showed no 30-day mortality and an increased adoption of laparoscopy and identified ...

May 3, 2009 — New research has confirmed that short-term complications are less likely in patients who undergo laparoscopic colectomy compared with open colectomy. The finding was announced at the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO — Segmental and total abdominal colectomy followed by active surveillance appears to be a safe and ...

Colectomy has its origins in the late 19 th century when it was championed by the Victorian surgeon Arbuthnot Lane on an unfortunate series of women for a variety of ailments loosely aligned to poor ...

boxed-textThe Clinical Outcomes of Surgical Therapy Study Group (2004) A comparison of laparoscopically assisted and open colectomy for colon cancer. N Engl J Med 350: 2050–2059. Minimally invasive ...

Response to the combination of cetuximab, bevacizumab and irinotecan (cetux/bev/iri) in patients (pts) previously treated with 3rd-line panitumumab, following disease progression on oxaliplatin, ...