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P Wind

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PubMed1999

Contribution of endoscopic retrograde pancreatography in management of complications following distal pancreatic trauma.

Pancreatic trauma is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Treatment of this condition is controversial. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate the management of distal pancreatic trauma and its complications, assessing the role of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The clinical course and surgical management of 38 patients with distal pancreatic trauma were analyzed in a university hospital in Paris, France. Twenty-five patients were referred after initial treatment elsewhere. As initial treatment, patients underwent external drainage (n = 25), pancreatic resection (n = 6), laparotomy alone (n = 5), and no surgery (n = 2). Nineteen patients with pancreatic duct injury and no pancreatic resection developed fistulae (n = 14) or pseudocysts (n = 5). Only four of these patients recovered without a subsequent pancreatic resection or internal drainage procedure. In the absence of duct injury, patients recovered without the need for pancreatic resection. ERCP was performed in 16 cases and provided critical information on duct status influencing surgical management. We conclude that the presence of pancreatic trauma duct injury is a major determinant of complications and outcome after pancreatic trauma. It is optimally managed by pancreatic resection. ERCP is valuable in providing a definitive diagnosis of duct injury, thereby directing treatment.

Abdominal Injuries↗
PubMed1999

[Selective segmental colectomy in diverticular sigmoiditis. The surgical risk is not increased after 70 years of age].

UNLABELLED: Segmental colectomy for complicated diverticulitis is often indicated, between attacks, in elderly patients. We report a retrospective study of operated patients over the age of 70. The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the age risk of consecutive patients operated between diverticular attacks by segmental colectomy, and whether such a surgical procedure is justified, as the life expectancy of these patients was 74 years for men and 81.9 years for women in 1996. PATIENTS AND METHOD: From January 1990 to December 1996, 117 patients were operated, between attacks, for complicated sigmoid diverticulitis; 31% (n = 37) were over the age of 70 years. They were 16 men and 21 women with an overall mean age of 77 (range: 70-85 years). Indications for surgery were repeated attacks (n = 17), large bowel stenosis (n = 14) and colovesical fistula (n = 6). The operation was performed an average 8 weeks after the last infectious episode (3-10 weeks). RESULTS: Among patients over the age of 70 years, the postoperative morbidity rate was 40% and there was no mortality. One patient was reoperated for an anastomotic abscess and was managed by protective colostomy and pelvic drainage with conservation of the anastomosis. CONCLUSION: This retrospective study shows that in our experience, one third of patients operated for a complication of diverticulitis were over the age of 70 years. In this subgroup, left colectomy, when performed between attacks carries an acceptable specific morbidity and no mortality. A further study could compare the percentage and outcome of operated patients with those who were denied surgery.

Adult↗
PubMed1998

Anatomy of spontaneous splenorenal and gastrorenal venous anastomoses. Review of the literature.

Portal hypertension is characterised by the development of a collateral portocaval circulation. Among these venous reroutings, some are situated posteriorly in the left subphrenic compartment. These are the spontaneous splenorenal and gastrorenal anastomoses. Their incidence is estimated at around 16%. On the one hand, there are the direct shunts, which anastomose the spelling v. to the left renal v., of an anecdotal nature, and on the other the spontaneous indirect splenorenal shunts, characterised by the presence of a complete neurovascular pedicle traversing the gastrophrenic ligament. This relates to the gastric collateral v., which is connected to the left renal v. via the inferior v. of the left crus of the diaphragm and the middle capsular v., hence the name "gastro-phreno-capsulo-renal shunt". At an advanced stage of portal hypertension these splenorenal shunts may acquire a major caliber and behave like actual surgical shunts.

Collateral Circulation↗
PubMed1998

[Evaluation and interest in new molecular markers in colon cancer].

The presence of colonic tumor cells in the circulation may predict colorectal carcinoma recurrence and metastases. We have developed a highly sensitive nested RT-PCR assay, with primers derived from the cytokeratin 20 (CK20) and the carcinoembryonic gene CGM2, to detect occult microdisseminated enterocytes in blood of colorectal cancer patients. Among 82 healthy controls analyzed, 40.2% (33/82) have a positive expression of CK20 mRNA which is not statistically different from the 45.5% (15/33) of positive results found in colon cancer patients. This sensitive method may detect non-tissue specific constitutive low level (illegitimate) expression of CK20 mRNA in peripheral nucleated blood cells (PNBC) of a significant number of healthy control as well as in a number of normal bone marrow. The low specificity of this assay therefore hampers its value to detect blood colon cancer dissemination. In 47 patients with colorectal carcinoma, CGM2 primers detected circulating enterocytes in 25 of them (53%). In disseminated Dukes' stage C disease patients, 17 out of 29 (59%) were found positive whereas in localized adenocarcinoma (Dukes's stage A and B), CGM2 primers detected enterocytes in 44% suggesting that an hematogenous spillage of colonic cells may be a relatively early event in colon cancer. None of the patients suffering from benign colonic pathologies or from diverticulitis were found positive for this assay. The analysis of 56 healthy individuals without known colorectal cancer, of 20 non-colorectal cancer patients and of 6 normal bone marrows provide evidence that this assay is highly specific and may predict an hematogenous spread of colonic cells in patients with organ-confined disease. Nevertheless, the clinical significance of enterocyte detection and the potential applications of this molecular tool merit longer term follow-up.

Biomarkers↗
PubMed1997

[2-stage surgery of neoplastic left colonic obstruction remains the safest procedure].

From January 1989 to December 1996, 56 consecutive patients underwent emergency surgery for occlusive cancer of the left colon. Excepting 12 patients whose symptomatology and radiographic presentation required medial laparotomy, the elective procedure was initial colostomy. There were 11 men and 33 women, mean age 76 years (range 50-97). Two patients in poor general status (ASA III) died during the postoperative period. Among the 42 survivors, the second procedure was not performed because of poor general status or disease progression in 6. Mean delay to the second procedure for resection was 11.5 days; during the same hospitalization for 32 out of 36 patients. The second procedure was segmentary colectomy in 34 cases and limited to exploratory laparatomy because of inextricable lesions in 2. Among the 34 re-operations with segmentary colectomy, the ostomy was removed in 28 at the second procedure and a third procedure was required in 6 cases. All the anastomoses in this series were sutured manually. Mortality for re-operation was nil. Pathology results (Duke's classification) in the 36 reoperated patients was: stage B = 3, stage C = 19, stage D = 14. In this series, operative mortality only concerned those patients whose condition was incompatible with selective surgery for colostomy. This risk cannot be lowered by any, other surgical approach. For the 34 resection-anastomosis elective operations, no major complications or deaths were observed. These results led us to recommend two stage surgery as routine strategy since survival of all those patients capable of sustaining an elective colostomy in an emergency setting can be assured.

Aged↗
PubMed1997

[Treatment of congenital dilatation of the bile ducts. Apropos of 3 cases].

Congenital dilatation of the bile duct is an uncommon lesion requiring surgical treatment. Complete excision of the diseased bile duct prevents development of carcinoma of the bile duct. We report three cases of congenital dilatation of the biliary three, each illustrating a particular aspect of the therapeutic strategy. One patient had an unusual anomaly of the pancreaticobiliary junction that required pancreaticoduodenectomy. Another patient developed carcinoma of the bile duct 15 years after an internal derivation of a choledochal cyst. The last patient had dilatations of the common and intrahepatic bile ducts associated with congenital hepatic fibrosis.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1996

Anatomic basis of mesenteric elongation for ileo-anal anastomosis with J-shaped reservoir: comparison of two techniques of vascular section.

Total proctocolectomy followed by ileo-anal anastomosis with a reservoir is the operation of choice for the treatment of familial adenomatous polyposis and of certain forms of hemorrhagic proctocolitis. Vascular section is sometimes necessary to enable the extremity of the reservoir to reach the anal sphincter without traction. The aim of this study was to compare the gain in length obtained by two different techniques of vascular section and to assess in terms of the vascular anatomy of the last small intestinal loop which technique best preserved the vascularisation of the reservoir as a whole. Twenty-two fresh cadavers had an ileal J-shaped reservoir of 18 cm fashioned from the last loop of small intestinal loop after section of the root of the mesentery. The gains in length so obtained were measured after section of the ileocolic a. at its origin (group A) or section between the two vascular arches of the last small intestinal loop (group B); the superior mesenteric vessels were then injected with colored resin. The gain in length obtained by these two methods was identical (2.3 +/- 1.1 cm for group A as against 2.18 +/- 0.9 cm for group B), but only if the section of the ileocolic a. was accompanied by section of the mesenteric peritoneum up to the vascular arch formed by the anastomosis between the terminal branch of the superior mesenteric a. and the ileocolic a. The constancy of this anastomosis always allowed section of the ileocolic a. while preserving good vascular distribution to the entirety of the reservoir. Section between the two arches was difficult when the distance separating them was small.

Anal Canal↗
PubMed1996

[Damage to the inguino-femoral nerves in the treatment of hernias. An anatomical hazard of traditional and laparoscopic techniques].

Laparoscopic techniques currently constitute an alternative proposed for the repair of hernias of the inguinofemoral region. Nerve injuries have led some teams to recommend technical principles based on the anatomical relations of these nerves with the subperitoneal fascia transversalis and inguinal fossae. An anatomical study consisting of dissection of nonembalmed cadavres, allowed, after evisceration, dissection of the lumbar plexus and its terminal branches, particularly those supplying the inguinofemoral region: iliohypogastric and ilio-inguinal nerves, the genitofemoral nerve, the femoral nerve and the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh. Via transperitoneal laparoscopy, the posterior surface of the anterior abdominal wall is centered on the deep inguinal ring, containing testicular vessels and the vas deferens. This deep inguinal ring receives the genitofemoral nerve. Medially, the anterior parietal peritoneum describes three folds formed by the outline of the epigastric artery, umbilical artery and urachus on the midline. The outline of Hesselbach's ligament separates the deep inguinal ring from Hesselbach's triangle, the zone of weakness of direct inguinal hernia. The iliac psoas muscle pass laterally underneath the inguinal ligament, while the external iliac vessels, subsequently becoming the femoral vessels, are located medially. Pectineal ligament lies on the posterior surface of the femoral ring between the umbilical artery and the epigastric artery. Installation of an abdominal wall prosthesis, either transperitoneally or retroperitoneally, must be centered on the deep inguinal ring, and its solid sutures are located medially to the pectineal ligament and anterior abdominal wall. On the other hand, the nerves at risk of being damaged are situated laterally: the ilio-inguinal and ilio-hypogastric nerves in the plane between external oblique and internal oblique above the anterior superior iliac spine, lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh under the inguinal ligament close to the anterior superior iliac spine, genitofemoral nerve with the spermatic cord in the deep inguinal ring and femoral nerve underneath the inguinal ligament with the psoas muscle lateral to the external iliac artery. No stapling must be performed under the plane of the inguinal ligament to avoid damage to the femoral vessels and lateral to the deep inguinal ring to avoid nerve damage.

Femoral Nerve↗
PubMed1995

[Adenocarcinoma on villous tumor of the rectum in an adolescent].

CASE REPORT--A 15-year 6-month-old boy suffered from isolated recurrent rectal bleeding. Rectoscopy and colonoscopy allowed to identify and to excise one large size villous polyp, which was the site of dysplasia and liberkühn adenocarcinoma. Transrectal ultrasonography showed thickened mucosa and submucosa and suspect adenopathy. Proctectomy, ganglionic curage and coloanal anastomosis were then performed; one of the excised adenopathies was metastatic. The patient died twelve hours after surgery from an unexplained cardiovascular collapse. CONCLUSIONS--Unspecific symptoms of colorectal cancer explain that its diagnosis is often delayed. Prognosis is poor related to the advanced stages at diagnosis and mucinous adenocarcinomas. Better knowledge of the clinical presentations and of high risk situations as polyposis, ulcerative colitis, hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer could improve the prognosis.

Adenocarcinoma↗
PubMed1995

[Surgical discovery of parathyroid glands and the recurrent laryngeal nerve. Application of well known embryological concepts in the operating room].

Surgery for thyroid or parathyroid glands has to be logical. It is based upon a precise knowledge of the development of the 3rd and 4th pharyngeal pouches and aortic arches. Pharyngeal pouches are endodermal derivatives of the lateral walls of the early foregut. Parathyroid glands have an ectodermal origin in concert with inductive forces of cells derived from the neural crest (which also creates parafollicular cells secreting calcitonin). From the third pouch thymus and parathyroid III move down together because of the cervical flexure and heart's "descent" (stages 14 to 20 mm). The fourth pouch gives rise to the so called "caudal pharyngeal complex" constituted by parathyroid IV dorsally, a "lateral thyroid" ventrally and an ultimo-branchial body derived from the fifth pouch. The thyroid gland first appears at the 4th week as a thickening of the endoderm of the floor of the pharynx which evaginates as a diverticulum in front of the trachea below. This medial component of the thyroid joins both lateral thyroids derived from the caudal pharyngeal complexes to form a bi-lobed structure with an isthmus. The lateral edge of the adult thyroid lobe has a thickening which is called Zuckerkandl's tuberculum because of the fusion of the ultimobranchial body into the principal médial thyroid process. This tuberculum lies in front of the caudal thyroid artery born from the 4th aortic arch. The recurrent laryngeal nerve courses round the 4th aortic arch: therefore parathyroids IV have to be above and behind the nerve and parathyroids III below and in front of the nerve.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Adolescent↗