Large-bowel cancer after previous surgery.

Emergency surgery for large bowel obstruction caused by cancer.

There are several options for surgical treatment of large bowel obstruction caused by cancer, depending on location of obstruction, intraoperative local findings (perforation, peritonitis, bowel dilatation proximal to obstruction) and patients' condition. Resection and anastomosis as one stage surgery would be prefered procedure. Anastomotic leakage, on the other hand, highly elevates risk of m...

Total knee arthroplasty after previous knee surgery

Synchronous small and large bowel cancer developing after pelvic irradiation.

This case report supports the belief that there is a causal relationship between therapeutic radiation and subsequent bowel malignancy.

Endoscopic mitral and tricuspid valve surgery after previous cardiac surgery.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a right video-assisted approach for atrioventricular valve disease after previous cardiac surgery. METHODS AND RESULTS Between December 1st 1997 and May 1st 2006, 80 adults (mean age 65+/-12 years; 56% female) underwent reoperative surgery using a video-assisted approach without rib spreading. Previous c...

Preparation of the Large Bowel for Surgery

The advances of surgical science and technique in the last decade have influenced all branches of surgery,. and that of the large bowel is no exception. From the early days of abdominal surgery until a few years ago, the hazards of sepsis dominated the techniques of colon surgery. Thus the staged extra-peritoneal technique of colectomy first described by Paul in I895 and modified by Miltulicz (...