Endoscopic pilonidal sinus treatment versus excision with wound closure: a systematic review of the literature.

Introduction: The aim of this systematic review was to compare minimally invasive procedures versus excision and wound closure for the treatment of pilonidal disease (PD) in terms of perioperative outcomes.

Evidence Acquisition: Search was performed in PubMed, Embase and Web of Science, founding 581 articles.

Evidence Synthesis: Six articles published between 2018 and 2023, including 595 patients were included in the present systematic review.

Inferior mesenteric artery preservation techniques in the treatment of diverticular disease: a systematic review of the literature.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of different surgical techniques used to preserve the inferior mesenteric artery on patient outcomes following left colonic resection.

Methods: A search was conducted in PubMed, Embase and Web of Science, founding 4795 articles. The review was registered on PROSPERO (registration number: CRD42024572291).

Effect of in-hospital delay on acute appendicitis severity: does time really matter?

Appendicitis is one of the most common abdominal emergencies. Evidence is controversial in determining if the in-hospital time delay to surgery can worsen the clinical presentation of appendicitis. This study aimed to clarify if in-hospital surgical delay significantly affected the proportion of complicated appendicitis in a large prospective cohort of patients treated with appendectomy for acute appendicitis.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma complete regression after preoperative chemotherapy: Surgical results in a small series.

Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) becomes a systemic disease from an early stage. Complete surgical resection remains the only validated and potentially curative treatment; disappointingly only 20% of patients present with a resectable tumour. Although a complete pathological regression (pCR) after the preoperative chemotherapy could intuitively lead to better outcomes and prolonged survival some reports highlighted significant rates of recurrence.

Early Gastric Cancer: Update on Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment.

Gastric cancer (GC) is a relevant public health issue as its incidence and mortality rates are growing worldwide. There are recognized carcinogen agents, such as obesity, tobacco, meat, alcohol consumption and some dietary protective factors. Strategies of early diagnosis through population-based surveillance programs have been demonstrated to be effective in lowering the morbidity and mortality related to GC in some countries.

The prognostic role of metastatic lymph node ratio in colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study on 241 patients in a single center.

Background: The detection of nodal status is based on examination of lymph nodes (LN) after the tumor surgical resection and the current guidelines recommend examining at least 12 regional LN. An inadequate number of examined LN may lead to a lower N stage or to a false-negative nodal disease. To overcome these issues, many authors proposed to consider the metastatic lymph node ratio (mLNR).

Growth and renal function dynamics of renal oncocytomas in patients on active surveillance.

Objectives: To study the natural history of renal oncocytomas and address indications for intervention by determining how growth is associated with renal function over time, the reasons for surgery and ablation, and disease-specific survival.

Patients And Methods: The study was conducted in a retrospective cohort of consecutive patients with renal oncocytoma on active surveillance reviewed at the Specialist Centre for Kidney Cancer at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (2012 to 2019). Comparison between groups was performed using Mann-Whitney U-tests and chi-squared tests.

Cytoreductive Nephrectomy in Metastatic Patients with Signs or Symptoms: Implications for Renal Cell Carcinoma Guidelines.

The role of cytoreductive nephrectomy (CN) patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is unclear. To define the proportion of symptomatic mRCC, to investigate the impact of CN on symptomatic improvement and perioperative morbidity, and to elucidate the trade-off between such benefit and harm, an observational study of 317 mRCC patients treated with CN was performed. Symptomatic mRCC was defined as the presence of any sign or symptom causally related to the disease.