Validity of current experimental evidence on laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer

Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancers: Current status

Laparoscopy was introduced more than 15 years ago into clinical practice. However, its role in colorectal surgery was not well established for want of better skills and technology. This coupled with high incidences of port site recurrences, prevented laparoscopic surgery from being incorporated into mainstream colorectal cancer surgery. A recent increase in the number of reports, retrospective ...

Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery

Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery

Laparoscopic techniques have been introduced into the colorectal field since the beginning of the last decade of the last millennium. The main purpose of this minimally invasive approach is to minimise the trauma of access associated with a large abdominal incision in colorectal resection. The less traumatic approach to surgery hopefully would lead to less wound pain, hasten return of intestina...

Advances in laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer: fluorescence- guided surgery

Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) has been thoroughly investigated in a multitude of studies and has proved to have equivalent oncologic outcomes to open surgery, yet with the advantages of minimal tissue trauma, shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery. Recent advances in laparoscopic surgical treatment of CRC have been introduced in attempt to enhance the technique and improv...

Impact of conversion on outcome in laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery

INTRODUCTION Long-term results after laparoscopic surgery with conversion to open surgery for colorectal cancer are seldom published. AIM The study analysed the impact of conversion of laparoscopic surgery to open resection for colorectal cancer on short- and long-term results. MATERIAL AND METHODS The prospectively collected data of 469 patients with colorectal cancer in the period from 1 ...