BACKGROUND Since 1993, we have performed minimally invasive laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) to treat malignant liver cancer, including colorectal liver metastases (CLM). However, further studies are needed to accumulate sufficient evidence on the oncological outcome of LLR for CLM. METHODS To elucidate the efficacy of LLR for CLM, this study comparatively analyzed the invasiveness and shor...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the surgical and oncological outcomes of laparoscopic surgery compared with laparotomy for the treatment of early-stage ovarian cancer. METHODS Data from patients who underwent surgical management for early-stage ovarian cancer between 2006 and 2012 were retrospectively reviewed. All patients presented with stage I or II disease, and underwent comprehensive staging su...

PURPOSE Radical prostatectomy is the standard therapeutic approach for localized prostate cancer. After the implementation of robotic surgery in Romania, the indication extended progressively to locally advanced prostate cancer. Our objective was to evaluate the oncological and functional outcomes in patients undergoing robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP), 5 years after the first inte...

AIM The aim of this study was to compare the safety, the efficacy and the oncologic results in rectal cancer with total mesorectal excision using Ligasure (LS), a modern bipolar vessel sealing system, with monopolar electrocoagulation or stitches (ME). METHODS From July 2005 to December 2007 one hundred twenty-nine patients underwent colon resection for cancer at the San Martino Hospital of G...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide and laparoscopic colectomy has been established as equivalent to the open approach in terms of oncological results and patients' safety. Survival benefits have been reported in favor of laparoscopic colectomy (LC) in stage III CRC patients. Different immune responses after surgery, in terms of in...

BACKGROUND A persistent problem in autologous breast reconstruction in skin-sparing mastectomies is skin restoration after skin necrosis or secondary oncological resection. As a solution to facilitate reconstruction, skin banking of free-flap skin has been proposed in cases where the overlying skin envelope must be resected, as this technique spares the patient an additional donor site. Herein,...

Breast conserving treatment (BCT) combined with radiotherapy have proved the test of time as a sound oncological operation regarding survival and local recurrence. Successful BCT is a balance between adequate surgery and maintaining the breast's appearance. Unsatisfactory outcome reaches 20-30% in standard techniques of BCT. Concepts described to widen the spectrum of BCT, have made an improvem...

Organ preservation surgery in the larynx cancer started with cordectomy technique in 1850s. Leading laryngologists have described alternative techniques to total laryngectomy (TL). But the extent of their indications, resection limits and reconstruction problems led to oncological and functional failure. Therefore, these techniques were forgotten until 1950s. Studies on the embryology, surgical...