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Abstracts of presentations to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Canadian Association of General Surgeons Canadian Society of Surgical Oncology Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons1. AUDIT OF PATHOLOGY REPORTING FOR RECTAL CANCER IN BC2. VITAMINS AND MINERALS FOR THE PREVENTION OF COLORECTAL ADENOMAS AND CANCER3. IMPROVED LOCAL REGIONAL CONTROL OF RECTAL CANCER WITH TME AND ADJUVANT CHEMORADIATION4. NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (NSAIDS) AND ASPIRIN FOR THE PREVENTION OF COLORECTAL ADENOMAS AND CANCER5. THE ROLE OF HOME TPN IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULAE: A PARADIGM SHIFT6. THE ARTIFICIAL BOWEL SPHINCTER — A PROCEDURE WITH A STEEP LEARNING CURVE, AND SATISFACTORY PATIENT OUTCOMES7. THE IMPACT OF MEDICAL THERAPY AND PELVIC POUCH SURGERY ON REPRODUCTIVE ABILITY IN WOMEN WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS8. ACCURACY OF LOCOREGIONAL STAGING OF RECTAL ADENOCARCINOMA AT LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE9. A POPULATION-BASED SURVEY OF PATTERNS OF CARE FOR COLORECTAL CANCER — PRELIMINARY FINDINGS10. PREFERENCES AND ATTITUDES OF COLORECTAL SURGEONS TOWARDS OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING11. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MLH1 MISSENSE MUTATIONS USING SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISAE12. POUCH–VAGINAL FISTULA AFTER ILEAL POUCH–ANAL ANASTOMOSIS13. PREFERENCES AND PRACTICE FOR COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING14. OBESITY AND SEVERE OBESITY IS NOT A BARRIER FOR COLORECTAL SCREENING OR DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES15. PATIENT’S PREFERENCES FOR ADJUVANT POSTOPERATIVE CHEMORADIATION THERAPY IN RECTAL CANCER16. INCREASED COLORECTAL CANCER RISK IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA17. RECTAL CANCER SURGERY IN BC — OUTCOME IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES18. BREAST RECONSTRUCTION AFTER MASTECTOMY: A SURVEY OF CANADIAN GENERAL SURGEONS19. CURRENT OPINION ON INCIDENTAL CHOLECYSTECTOMY: FINDINGS FROM A PROVINCIAL SURVEY20. PREDICTORS OF REFERRAL FOR ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY FOR COLORECTAL CANCER21. OLDER PATIENTS TOLERATE ADJUVANT THERAPY FOR COLORECTAL CANCER WELL22. PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY: A PROSPECTIVE AUDIT23. ALTERED FURIN PROFILE IN SPECIFIC SUBTYPES OF NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOURS OF THE PANCREAS (NETs)24. UNILATERAL EXPLORATION FOR PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM IN THE ERA OF SESTAMIBI SCANS25. LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY FOR COMPLICATED APPENDICITIS: A PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF POST-OPERATIVE FACTORS26. REASSESSING THE INDICATIONS FOR APPENDECTOMY IN THE LAPAROSCOPIC ERA27. THORACOSCOPIC SPLANCHNICECTOMY FOR PAIN CONTROL IN CHRONIC PANCREATITIS28. CHANGING SCENARIO IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE EARLY GASTRIC CANCER: LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY29. APPENDICITIS IN THE ELDERLY PATIENT: A LENGTHY ORDEAL30. THE EFFECT OF EVIDENCE ON ABDOMINAL FASCIAL CLOSURE PRACTICE31. TRANSFER OF LAPAROSCOPIC SKILLS FROM A VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) SIMULATOR TO THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT32. PREDICTORS OF WOUND INFECTION FOLLOWING APPENDECTOMY33. PREDICTING THE BENEFIT OF SUPPLEMENTAL CHEMOTHERAPY USING THE CLINICAL RISK SCORE34. ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERE OBESITY: A CANADIAN EXPERIENCE35. PENETRATING THORACOABDOMINAL INJURIES IN QUEBEC: IMPLICATIONS FOR SURGICAL TRAINING AND MAINTENANCE OF COMPETENCE36. CHARACTERIZATION OF RESIDENT OPERATIVE EXPERIENCE: ACADEMIC VERSUS COMMUNITY CENTRES37. CHOOSING A CAREER IN SURGERY: TIMING AND RELATIONSHIP TO THE CaRMS MATCH38. UNDERSTANDING NEUTROPHIL ACTIVITY IN PLASMA FOLLOWING TRAUMA AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH PLASMA FREE RADICAL PRODUCTION39. IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES FOR SEMI-PERMANENT CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS (PORTS AND TUNNELLED LINES)40. MANAGEMENT OF HEPATIC COLORECTAL METASTASIS: A SURVEY OF ONTARIO PRACTITIONERS41. MELANOMA PROGNOSIS: SHOULD THE INDICATION FOR SENTINEL NODE BIOPSY BE DIFFERENT IN WOMEN?42. OMISSION OF MECHANICAL BOWEL PREPARATION (MBP) IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ILEOPOUCH–ANAL ANASTOMOSIS (IPAA) AND CLOSURE OF LOOP ILEOSTOMY (CLI)43. A GENDER BIAS EXISTS IN THE CHOICE OF OPERATIVE APPROACH IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING APPENDECTOMY44. OUTCOMES FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY45. A COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS OF LIVER RESECTION FOR MALIGNANT TUMOURS: A PILOT PROJECT46. TEN-YEAR EXPERIENCE WITH COLON ISCHEMIA COMPLICATING CARDIAC SURGERY47. THE EFFECT OF INTRAPERITONEAL ARGININE ON END ORGAN INFLAMMATION IN ENDOTOXIN-INDUCED SEPSIS IN MICE48. SINGLE VERSUS SEQUENTIAL FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THYROID NODULAR DISEASE49. THE DECLINING POPULARITY OF GENERAL SURGERY IN CANADA: 1993–200350. ANALYSIS OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-α mRNA IN ARCHIVAL PRIMARY HUMAN BREAST CANCERS51. SENTINEL LYMPH-NODE BIOPSY IN BREAST CANCER: ANTIMONY VERSUS TECHNETIUM-99 FILTERED SULFUR COLLOID52. THE INVOLVEMENT OF PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE (PI3-K)/AKT PATHWAY IN OXIDATIVE-INDUCED REPROGRAMMING OF LPS SIGNALLING53. THE EFFECT OF ACIDOSIS ON THE MYOGENIC RESPONSE IN RAT CORONARY ARTERIES54. THE ADVANCED BREAST BIOPSY INSTRUMENTATION (ABBI) AT McGILL: MORE THAN JUST A DIAGNOSTIC TOOL?55. PRELIMINARY RESULTS USING A DYNAMIC METHOD FOR DELAYED PRIMARY SKIN CLOSURE OF ABDOMINAL WOUNDS56. EVALUATING META-ANALYSES IN THE GENERAL SURGICAL LITERATURE: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL57. NEEDS ASSESSMENT: CONCORDANCE OF PERCEIVED AND OBJECTIVELY ASSESSED LEARNING NEEDS58. GROIN SOFT-TISSUE TUMOURS — A CHALLENGE FOR LOCAL CONTROL AND RECONSTRUCTION: A PROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS59. HAS THE INTRODUCTION OF LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY ALTERED THE TREATMENT PARADIGM OF ACHALASIA?60. LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTIONS FOR COLORECTAL CANCER: CONVERSION ADVERSELY IMPACTS OUTCOMES61. LONG-TERM SURVIVAL AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION FOR CURABLE COLORECTAL CANCER62. RESULTS OF COMBINED RADIATION AND RESECTION FOR RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA63. The ICOS-B7H PATHWAY AND ITS TOLEROGENIC POTENTIAL IN EXPERIMENTAL ISLET TRANSPLANTATION64. HYPERPARATHYROIDISM: A RISK FACTOR FOR THYROID CANCER65. ASSESSMENT OF PERSISTENT ADENOPATHY: PREDICTORS OF A MALIGNANT DIAGNOSIS66. RATE OF ELECTIVE CHOLECYSTECTOMY AND THE INCIDENCE OF SEVERE GALLSTONE DISEASES67. INCIDENCE OF PERIOPERATIVE STROKE FOLLOWING NECK DISSECTION FOR HEAD AND NECK CANCER: A REGIONAL OUTCOME ANALYSIS68. MEDICAL STUDENT CONTACT WITH PATIENTS DURING A SURGERY CLERKSHIP — CONTRAST BETWEEN A CANADIAN AND AN AMERICAN MEDICAL SCHOOL69. COMORBIDITY AND AGE ARE BOTH INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS OF LENGTH OF HOSPITAL STAY AMONG TRAUMA PATIENTS70. SENTINEL LYMPH-NODE BIOPSY FOR CUTANEOUS MELANOMA OF THE HEAD AND NECK71. THE MISTELS PHYSICAL LAPAROSCOPIC SIMULATOR IS AN EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL TOOL72. THE EFFECT OF LONG OPERATING TIMES ON LAPAROSCOPIC COLON RESECTION FOR CANCER73. OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY: AN ANTIREFLUX PROCEDURE IS REQUIRED74. OXIDANTS IN HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK INDUCE LIPID RAFT RECRUITMENT OF TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR-4 (TLR-4)75. ANASTOMOTIC LEAK: CAN WE PREDICT IT?76. THE NEED FOR SEQUENTIAL FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSIES IN THE DETECTION OF CANCER IN THYROID NODULAR DISEASE SURVEILLANCE77. A SURVEY OF COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING PRACTICES IN A LARGE CANADIAN URBAN CENTRE78. BARRIERS TO OPTIMIZING LYMPH-NODE RETRIEVAL AND ASSESSMENT IN COLORECTAL CANCER79. EVALUATING LEARNING IN A TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION (TME) COURSE FOR SURGEONS80. BREAST CONSERVATION FOLLOWING A BREAST CANCER DIAGNOSIS IN THE MANITOBA POPULATION81. MESORECTAL EXCISION: A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE TREATMENT OF RECTAL CANCER82. PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF PATIENT EXPERIENCES IN EXTENDED PELVIC RESECTIONS FOR RECTAL CANCER83. SPONTANEOUS HEPATOMAS AND DEFECTIVE POST-HEPATECTOMY CELL CYCLE REGULATION IN SAK+/− MICE84. BLOOD TRANSFUSION IN CRC PATIENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED DISEASE-SPECIFIC MORTALITY85. ADDITIONAL IMPACT OF ULTRASTAGING LYMPH NODES IN STAGE II COLORECTAL CANCER86. DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU IN CORE BIOPSIES CONTAINING INVASIVE BREAST CANCER: CORRELATION WITH EXTENSIVE INTRADUCTAL COMPONENT AND LUMPECTOMY MARGINS87. DEVELOPMENT OF A GENE THERAPY MODEL USING MYCOBACTERIAL Ag85A PLASMID DNA TO TREAT MALIGNANT MELANOMA88. PREDICTING THYMOMA INVASIVENESS: THE ROLE OF CT SCAN89. IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF N2 MEDIASTINAL LYMPH NODES90. IMPORTANCE OF NODAL STATUS AND IMPACT OF MEDIASTINOSCOPY IN PREOPERATIVE STAGING OF PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA91. 15 YEARS’ SINGLE-CENTRE EXPERIENCE WITH SURGICAL RESECTION OF THE SUPERIOR VENA CAVA FOR NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER92. MINI-INVASIVE TRANSAXILLARY UPPER LOBECTOMY FOR LUNG CANCER PATIENTS93. A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO MAXIMIZING UTILIZATION OF SURGICAL RESOURCES FOR ELECTIVE OPERATIONS94. CASPASE INHIBITION DECREASES APOPTOSIS AND LEADS TO IMPROVED LUNG FUNCTION IN A RAT MODEL OF LUNG TRANSPLANTATION95. LEVELS OF EVIDENCE AND GRADES OF RECOMMENDATIONS IN GENERAL THORACIC SURGERY96. A PHASE II TRIAL OF INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY FOLLOWED BY EXTRAPLEURAL PNEUMONECTOMY AND HIGH-DOSE HEMITHORACIC RADIATION FOR MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA97. A TWELVE-YEAR EXPERIENCE WITH ESOPHAGEAL RESECTION FOR MALIGNANT DISEASE OF THE ESOPHAGUS IN THE REGINA HEALTH DISTRICT98. CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT OF RUPTURE OF THE DESCENDING THORACIC AORTA99. VATS SYMPATHECTOMY AND SYMPATHICOTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY PALMAR HYPERHIDROSIS
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