Aim: To review nine-year experience in managing jejuno-ileal atresia (JIA) by primary resection and anastomosis and identify factors associated with reoperations. Methods: From April 2006 to May 2015, all consecutive neonates who underwent bowel resection and primary anastomosis for JIA were analyzed retrospectively. Patients with temporary enterostomy were excluded. Patient demographics, types...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to assess the short-term outcome of intraoperative colonic irrigation and primary anastomosis and to suggest the usefulness of the procedure when a preoperative mechanical bowel preparation is inappropriate. METHODS This retrospective study included 38 consecutive patients (19 male patients) who underwent intraoperative colonic irrigation and primary anastomos...

Primary colonic lymphoma is an increasingly recognised complication of ulcerative colitis. We report the first known case of rectal lymphoma occurring after colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis in ulcerative colitis.

UNLABELLED The AIM of this retrospective study was to evaluate the emergency surgical treatment of life-threatening complications of colonic diverticula. MATERIAL AND METHOD In the last 11 years, 22 of 101 patients with colonic diverticula (22.1%) underwent urgent surgery for acute complications: perforated gangrenous diverticulitis with generalized peritonitis (n=8) or pericolic abscess (n=8...

BACKGROUND Strategies for the surgical management of necrotising enterocolitis are various and controversial. OBJECTIVE To characterise variation in surgical management of this disease across the United Kingdom. METHODS Postal survey of 104 consultant paediatric surgeons with a 77% response rate. RESULTS Duration of antibiotic treatment (median 10 days, range 6-14), time until the start o...

The conventional elective open procedures for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair are reliable and yield durable results. The aortoaortic tube graft has the lowest morbidity incidence when compared with different techniques. Albeit infrequent, thrombosis can be present in the first 30 days. Its treatment consists in thrombectomy and anastomosis evaluation, but with an increase in morbidity, especi...

A postintubation tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) complicated with subglottic laryngotracheal stenosis (SLTS) is a challenge to surgical repair. Laryngotracheal resection and primary reconstruction could result in treatment failure. In this report, we describe the successful management of two cases of postintubation TEF complicated with SLTS using a Montgomery T-tube because of the patients' con...

In April, 1959, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Hood and Sloan presented an analysis of all cases of injuries of the trachea and major bronchi since the review by Kinsella in 1947. They noted that pulmonary resection had been utilized far too often in recent years and emphasized that repair of such injuries without sacrifice of lung tissue is feasible in ...

Mesenteric venous thrombosis has been described to occur in cases where there has been no apparent cause. The diagnosis is usually delayed because the signs and symptoms are non-specific. A case of primary mesenteric venous thrombosis is reported below. Its presentation and pathology are discussed. Treatment is surgery with resection of gangrenous bowel and primary anastomosis. Post-operative a...