Molecular Testing for Selection of Patients With Lung Cancer for Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors: American Society of Clinical Oncology ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Laparoscopic colectomy has shown superiority in clinical trials to open colectomy, but most physicians still ...

For patients with colon cancer, laparoscopic colectomy has been associated with early recovery and quality-of-life benefits compared with open colectomy; however, long-term outcome data on tumor ...

June 28, 2007 — Laparoscopic colectomy has evolved as a technical option in the treatment of both benign and malignant colonic diseases. Although it is still not widely used and accounts for only a ...

What Is a Laparoscopic Ileocolectomy and Right Colectomy? A laparoscopic ileocolectomy is an operation that removes a diseased section of the ileum (last segment of the small bowel) and ascending ...

This study of immediate outcome after a commonly performed surgical gastrointestinal procedure showed no early advantage for robotic compared with laparoscopic surgery. The study was performed in the ...

The large intestine, which consists of the colon and rectum, is a long, tunnel-like organ at the end of the digestive system. Here, waste products form into feces before passing through the rectum and ...

Recent years have seen rapid development of minimally invasive techniques. Due to its doubtless benefits, laparoscopy is applied more and more broadly in abdominal surgery. Its advantages include not ...

Show More All authors: Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Emerging evidence supporting the use of laparoscopic colectomy in patients with cancer has led to ...