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Principles of Wound Management and Soft Tissue Repair II

    • Vascularized composite allotransplantation has emerged as an option for challenging defects.

Liver Tumors

T Peter Kingham, Michael E Lidsky, Kevin C. Soares

    Principles of Wound Management and Soft Tissue Repair I

      • Maintaining a moist environment promotes healing of open wounds
      • Advanced dressings or topical agents have failed to provide any significant improvement over standard saline-soaked gauze

    Principles of Wound Management and Soft Tissue Repair I

      • Maintaining a moist environment promotes healing of open wounds
      • Advanced dressings or topical agents have failed to provide any significant improvement over standard saline-soaked gauze

    Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Advanced Endoscopic Techniques

    Boxiang Jiang, MD, Jeffrey Marks, MD, FACS, Hahn Soe-Lin, MD
      • Endoluminal lumen apposing metal stents have been utilized to create palliative fistula formation.
      • The submucosal space originally investigated and utilized in POEM has become the new space for further endoluminal therapies.
      • Closure of fistulas are being developed with the use of suturing and over the scope clip technologies.

    Management of Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas

    Daniel E Abbott, MD, Adam M Awe, BS, Walker A Julliard, MD, Victoria R Rendell, MD, Sean M Ronnekleiv-Kelly, MD, Sharon M Weber, MD, Emily R Winslow, MD
      • Updated guidelines for pancreatic cyst management have recently been released, including the 2018 European Consensus Guidelines, the 2017 American College of Radiology Guidance, and the 2016 Revisions to the International Consensus Guidelines.
      • Epithelial histologic subtypes of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms have been shown to have important implications for prognosis.
      • Pancreatic cyst fluid analysis for DNA biomarkers has shown promise for cyst diagnosis and detection of malignancy in the PANDA clinical trial and other studies although utility in clinical practice has not been demonstrated.
      • A multidisciplinary team at Johns Hopkins Hospital published details of their multidisciplinary pancreatic cyst clinic outcomes, the first of its kind reported in the literature.

    Colon and Rectum

    Brian Bednarski, MD, George Chang, MD, MS, Travis Grotz, MD, Terry P. Nickerson, MD

      Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Basic Upper Endoscopy

      Boxiang Jiang, MD, Jeffrey Marks, MD, FACS, Hahn Soe-Lin, MD
        • Endoluminal lumen apposing metal stents have been utilized to create palliative fistula formation.
        • Endoluminal primary and secondary bariatric procedures are being developed and utilized.
        • Endoluminal full thickness resection and mucosal resection techniques are being developed to allow for organ sparing therapy.
        • The submucosal space originally investigated and utilized in POEM has become the new space for further endoluminal therapies.
        • Closure of fistulas are being developed with the use of suturing and over the scope clip technologies.
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