Bypass Surgery: Nutritional Palliation for Alimentary Tract Cancer

The Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

Bypass laparoscopic procedure for palliation of esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is a devastating disease with rapidly increasing incidence in Western countries. Dysphagia is the most common complication, causing severe malnutrition and reduced quality of life. A 69-year-old male with persistent esophageal cancer after radiation therapy was subjected to palliative by-pass surgery using a laparoscopic approach. Due to the advanced stage at diagnosis, pallia...

Are young surgeons competent to perform alimentary tract surgery?

BACKGROUND Assessment of competency during residency training has received increased attention recently. There has been less attention given to the competency of residents after training. HYPOTHESIS Patient outcomes for alimentary tract surgery (ATS) should be similar for surgeons who recently completed their residency training compared with more experienced surgeons, indicating that the youn...

Alimentary Tract: Intestine

While tremendous advances have improved the understanding of inflammatory bowel disease, with regard to environmental risk factors as well as the biochemical nature of the inflammatory process, a determination of primary etiology remains elusive. Numerous theories have been proposed in the past century concerning the cause of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis with implications for specific...

Alimentary Tract Motility

Alimentary/Tract/Motility/ 1 SMOOTH MUSCLE Smooth muscle lines the walls of hollow organs (eg. intestine, uterus), the circulatory system (arteries and veins), and ducts of secretory glands. The primary role of smooth muscle is to regulate the diameter of the organ lumen which it surrounds. Although "smooth muscle" is used to categorize muscle components of these various tissues, there is a lar...