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Polipectomía colonoscópica monitorizada por laparoscopia (PCML)

Rev. venez. cir; 68 (1), 2015
En pacientes con adenomas del colon, la polipectomía con asa puede ser técnicamente imposible debido a factores como la angulación del colon, imposibilidad de ver la base del pólipo, pólipos ocultos detrás de un pliegue de mucosa, o debido a cirugías previas. Para estos pacientes, la resección ...

Hyperplastic polyposis: a case report

OBJECTIVE: The authors present a case report of hyperplastic polyposis syndrome from the Coloproctology Service, Vitória Apart Hospital, Vitória-ES. CASE STUDY: Our case is a 24-year-old man who suffered from fatigue, malaise and microcytic and hypochromic anemia, whose upper digestive endoscopy presen...

Cell therapy in experimental model of inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory bowel disease, which mainly involves Crohn's disease and ulcerative rectocolitis, is an inflammatory condition of the mucosa that can afflict any segment of the gastrointestinal tract. Despite the fact that the existing therapies result in improvement in patient's symptomatology and quality ...

Colonic complications following human bone marrow transplantation

BACKGROUND: Human bone marrow transplantation (BMT) becomes an accepted treatment of leukemia, aplastic anemia, immunodeficiency syndromes, and hematologic malignancies. Colorectal surgeons must know how to determine and manage the main colonic complications. OBJECTIVE: To review the clinical features, c...

Surgical complications and metachronous rectal cancer risk in patients with classic familial adenomatous polyposis

INTRODUCTION: Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), an autosomal dominant disease characterized by development of numerous adenomatous polyps in the colon and rectum, is caused by germline mutations in the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene. METHODS: To determine the surgical morbidity in patients wit...

Diagnostic difficulty in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome

A case of diagnostic difficulty facing the patient with colonic polyposis secondary to Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, but without family history and pathognomonic clinical features of the disease, is illustrated. The exams, including biopsy, led to diagnostic uncertainty and the definitive diagnosis was charact...

Colite isquêmica após colonoscopia de rotina: relato de dois casos

Objetivo: colite isquêmica após colonoscopia é evento raro. Vamos relatar dois pacientes que tiveram esta evolução. Apresentação - Caso 1: paciente do sexo feminino, 67 anos de idade, DPOC compensado, foi submetida à colonoscopia para prevenção de CCR. Tinha relato de cirurgia pélvica prévia,...

Clinical and epidemiological evaluation of patients with sporadic colorectal cancer

Background: This study aims to perform a survey on clinical data, sociodemographic and risk factors from patients with sporadic colorectal cancer (SCRC) treated between 2004 and 2008 in the Coloproctology Service of a teaching hospital in the North-western region of São Paulo. Methods: We analyzed 749 m...

Role of preoperative retrograde enema on inflammatory and healing parameters in colonic anastomosis: experimental study in dogs

Objective: The purpose of this experimental study was to compare the inflammatory and wound healing response of dogs submitted to colonic anastomosis with and without preoperative retrograde enema. Methods: The study included two groups of 31 female dogs (Canis familiaris). G-I (control): no preoperative...

Melanose coli

Paciente do sexo feminino, de 60 anos, portadora de constipação intestinal crônica, com evolução desde a sua adolescência, tendo realizado tratamento com inúmeros laxantes. Recentemente teve piora do quadro intestinal, associado à presença de dor abdominal e, por vezes, secreção mucosanguinole...