Perforated necrotizing enterocolitis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants, and the optimal treatment is uncertain. We designed this multicenter randomized trial to compare ...

An oncogenetics consultation dedicated to children suffering from cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

Background: Critically ill trauma patients are often too unstable for safe transfer to the operating room. Damage control laparotomy patients frequently require early reoperation and have a reported ...

Exploratory laparotomy is an abdominal surgery that doctors sometimes use to diagnose abdominal issues. While it can be recommended when another testing method has been unsuccessful in diagnosing or ...

Chemotherapy Drug Shortages in the United States: Genesis and Potential Solutions Patients with clinical stages I to IIA disease were randomly allocated (two to one) to laparoscopy (n = 1,696) versus ...

Seven types of emergency general surgeries (EGSs) account for the vast majority of all EGSs (80.0%), deaths (80.3%), complications (78.9%), and inpatient costs (80.2%), according to a retrospective ...

Laparotomy on a 64-year-old dehydrated man showed metastatic carcinoma of the stomach with perforation and gastric-outlet obstruction. Surgical repair of the gastric perforation was performed. To ...

Your surgeon makes a large cut down the middle of your abdomen. They look inside your abdomen and pelvis and take samples of tissue (biopsies). Your surgeon sends the tissue samples to the laboratory.

The standard treatment for early-stage endometrial cancer is total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), generally carried out through laparotomy, with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Although this method is ...