BACKGROUND: With steep posterior anorectal angulation, transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) may have a risk of dissection in the wrong plane or starting higher up, resulting in leaving distal mesorectum behind. Although the distal mesorectal m...
OBJECTIVES: This study aims to analyze factors associated with positive surgical margins following cold knife conization (CKC) in patients with cervical high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) and to develop a machine-learning-based risk pr...
Physical and engineering sciences in medicine
May 21, 2024
Surgical excision is the most effective treatment of skin carcinomas (basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma). Preoperative assessment of tumoral margins plays a decisive role for a successful result. The aim of this work was to evaluate the...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 20, 2024
PURPOSE: Preventing positive margins is essential for ensuring favorable patient outcomes following breast-conserving surgery (BCS). Deep learning has the potential to enable this by automatically contouring the tumor and guiding resection in real ti...
International journal of surgery (London, England)
Apr 1, 2024
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed malignancy and the second leading cause of mortality worldwide. A positive resection margin following surgery for colorectal cancer is linked with higher rates of local recurrence and...
A total of 739 patients underwent RARP as initial treatment for PCa from November 2011 to October 2018. Data on BCR status, clinical and pathological parameters were collected from the clinical records. After excluding cases with neoadjuvant and/or a...
Complete endophytic renal tumors (CERTs) are the most challenging for robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN). This study aimed to determine the impact of CERT on outcomes of RAPN. All RAPN cases for localized renal tumor undertaken at Yokohama C...
European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology
Feb 8, 2024
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study is to compare key outcomes of Single-Port (SP) and Multi-Port (MP) robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN).
BACKGROUND: The KangDuo surgical robot (KD-SR-01) was recently developed in China. This study aims to evaluate the short-term outcomes of KD-SR-01 for colorectal cancer surgery.
The British journal of oral & maxillofacial surgery
Jan 3, 2024
Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound can assess the margins of resected tongue carcinoma during surgery. Manual segmentation (MS) is time-consuming, labour-intensive, and subject to operator variability. This study aims to investigate use of a 3D deep l...
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