Nature

Laparoscopic bowel resection: comparable efficacy to that of open surgery in patients with colon cancer

Initial results of the CLASICC trial have recently been presented in the Lancet by Guillou and co-workers. This study aimed to compare the short-term outcomes of laparoscopic resection with those of ...
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Short- and long-term outcomes in simultaneous resection of colorectal cancer and liver metastasis with minimally invasive or open surgery.

Impact of nutrition status and systematic inflammation on patients with colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full ...
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Impact of inflammatory bowel disease on outcomes of colorectal cancer patients undergoing open resection.

Prognostic factors of survival and recurrence after liver transplantation for unresectable colorectal liver metastases: Results from the TransMet trial. A multicenter randomized phase II trial ...
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Comparison of Surgery and Medicine on the Impact of Diverticulitis (COSMID) trial: a protocol for a pragmatic randomised study of diverticulitis treatment in the USA

Introduction Each year, millions of people experience recurrent diverticulitis episodes. Elective sigmoid colon resection reduces the risk of recurrence, but The American Society of Colon and Rectal ...