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Hybrid Minimally Invasive Resection Spares Bowel in Neurofibromatosis Patient Case

Surgeons demonstrated a hybrid laparoscopic and mini-open technique that successfully resected multifocal duodeno-jejunal ...
BMJ Case Reports

Mechanical strangulation of the transverse colon and small bowel secondary to a ventriculoperitoneal shunt

A woman in her 50s with a ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt placed 18 years prior presented with acute-onset upper abdominal ...
Medical Xpress

Higher vitamin D levels found to cut bowel resection risk with IBD

An increased serum level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25 [OH]D) is independently associated with a lower risk for bowel resection with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), according to a study published ...
Medical Xpress

Study compares surgical techniques for Crohn disease

For patients undergoing open or laparoscopic resection of the small bowel or strictureplasty for Crohn disease (CD), small bowel resection is associated with the longest length of stay and increased ...
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Resection of primary colon cancer with and without resection of liver metastases: Propensity-score matched analysis.

Predictors of response in advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) patients treated with immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICI). Serial ctDNA monitoring to predict response in mCRC patients treated with anlotinib ...
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Anastomotic leakage following bowel resection in radical cytoreductive surgery for ovarian cancer: A subgroup analysis of the prospective AGO-OVAR.OP3/LION.

Germline variants in non-BRCA1/2 homologous recombination-related genes and ovarian cancer: Analysis of tumor phenotype and survival. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting ...