Increased numbers of nerve fibres staining positively for neuron specific enolase, substance P and 5-HT (but not calcitonin gene-related peptide) have been demonstrated in biopsies from the terminal ...

Nerve-sparing surgical removal is important to preserve as much function as possible. Transurethral resection of the prostate, or TURP, which also involves removal of part of the prostate gland, is an ...

Introduction Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) is described as disordered bowel function after rectal resection that leads to a detriment in quality of life, and affects the majority of ...

The European Study Group on Cystic Tumours of the Pancreas Correspondence to The European Study Group on Cystic Tumours of the Pancreas, Pancreatic Surgery Unit, Division of Surgery, Department of ...

with the majority on the left side (22 cases), and the approach to the rectosigmoid in 45 patients, which included segmental resection, discoid resection, and shaving. Regarding postoperative ...

Sometimes they use a laser to do this. What is an endoscopic resection and transoral laser microsurgery (TLM)? Before an endoscopic resection and transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) Having an ...

There is increasing agreement that synchronous PDAC and liver metastasis resection may benefit highly selected patients. Thus, the Chinese Study Group for Pancreatic Cancer (CSPAC)−1 trial is being ...

Background Lung cancer resection rates are low in England, but reports have indicated an increase in recent years. We analysed the recent trends in surgical resection by age, sex, socioeconomic ...

Today, laparoscopic liver resection is a standard of care in many occasions, yet specific operations remain particularly challenging and generally performed in open surgery. In particular, SVIII ...