Items tagged “general surgery”
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Acute traumatic mesenteric bleed
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22 Jun 2015
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Pilonidal sinus
Pilonidal sinuses result from skin and subcutaneous tissue infections, typically occurring at or near the upper part of the natal (gluteal) cleft of the buttocks. As such it is often also termed an intergluteal pilonidal sinus. While it can also occur at other sites (see location section), this ...
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Circumferential resection margin
Circumferential resection margin (CRM) is a term used to denote the standard plane of excision of total mesorectal excision, used for resection of rectal cancers. The anatomic correlate is the mesorectal fascia. The distance between tumor tissue or satellite tumor deposits and the mesorectal fas...
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Internal hernia following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
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24 Jun 2015
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Calculous cholecystitis
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01 Jul 2015
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Acute appendicitis
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01 Jul 2015
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Jejunoileal bypass
Jejunoileal bypass is an older form of bariatric surgery that was developed to be an improvement on jejunocolic bypass. It is no longer performed due to severe side effects.
For this bypass, the proximal small bowel (jejunum) is divided ~35 cm past the ligament of Treitz, and the proximal end i...
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Biliopancreatic diversion
Biliopancreatic diversion was a development on the jejunoileal bypass type of bariatric surgery. It can be performed with or without a duodenal switch.
Biliopancreatic diversion was originally described by Scopinaro in 1979 as an alternative to jejunoileal bypass surgery for morbidly obese pati...
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Roux limb
A Roux limb may be formed in multiple different gastrointestinal surgeries, including
bariatric surgery, e.g.
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
biliopancreatic diversion
partial gastrectomy
total gastrectomy
partial pancreaticoduodenectomy (Whipple procedure)
In these procedures, the small bowel i...
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Urinary diversion
Urinary diversion is created after the removal of the urinary bladder (radical cystectomy or cystoprostatectomy, usually done to treat invasive bladder cancer).
There are three main varieties:
neobladder formed from a segment of ileum (i.e. ileal conduit, also known as a "Bricker conduit")
th...
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Esophageal myotomy
Esophageal myotomy (or Heller myotomy) is a procedure that can be performed to treat a lower esophageal sphincter that fails to relax (e.g. achalasia). The procedure involves a longitudinal incision of the distal esophageal musculature to break the sphincter tone.
A fundoplication wrap can be p...
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Rectal foreign body - wooden stick
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10 Aug 2015
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Gallstone ileus
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07 Nov 2016
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Small bowel obstruction from ileocecal valve adenocarcinoma
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18 Aug 2015
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Small bowel intussusception
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21 Aug 2015
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Active diverticular hemorrhage
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03 Sep 2015
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Seroma
Seromas are collections of serous fluid that usually occur as a complication of surgery, but can also be seen post-trauma. They are commonly seen as an early complication of breast surgery, where a potential space is left.
Terminology
Seromas are distinct from hematoma as they contain almost n...
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Ischemic gut
Published
09 Sep 2015
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Midgut volvulus - ischemic
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15 Nov 2015
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Traumatic bowel and abdominal aortic injuries
Published
27 Sep 2015
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