RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Abstracts of presentations to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons and the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons9. MRI FOR THE PREOPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SACRAL RESECTION FOR PELVIC TUMOURS10. EXTENDED RESECTIONS FOR PRIMARY RECTAL CANCERS INVOLVING ADJACENT ANTERIOR STRUCTURES11. A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS (RCTS) COMPARING STRAIGHT COLOANAL (SCA) TO J-POUCH ANASTOMOSIS (JPA) FOR LOW RECTAL CANCER12. CONFORMAL PREOPERATIVE ENDORECTAL BRACHYTHERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH LOCALLY ADVANCED RESECTABLE RECTAL CANCER: PRELIMINARY RESULTS13. STENTING FOR MECHANICAL LARGE-BOWEL OBSTRUCTION — A NEW TREATMENT OPTION14. WOULD THE IMMUNE ESCAPE MECHANISM OF FAS LIGAND BE A PROGNOSTIC MARKER FOR DUKES’ STAGE B COLONIC CARCINOMA?15. DISTAL ADENOMAS MANDATE TOTAL COLONOSCOPY16. RISK OF SMALL-BOWEL OBSTRUCTION (SBO) FOLLOWING THE PELVIC POUCH PROCEDURE (PP)17. COMPARISON OF QUALITY OF LIFE 5 AND 10 YEARS AFTER THE PELVIC POUCH (PP) PROCEDURE18. IS IT SAFE TO BEGIN DOING LAPAROSCOPIC COLON SURGERY (LAP) WITH ILEOCOLIC RESECTIONS FOR CROHN’S DISEASE (CD)?204. PREOPERATIVE TECHNETIUM-99M-SESTAMIBI (MIBI) SCANNING AND INTRAOPERATIVE GAMMA-PROBE LOCALIZATION FOR MINIMALLY-INVASIVE PARATHYROIDECTOMY (MIP)205. PROBE-GUIDED PARATHYROID ADENECTOMY PERFORMED WITH LOCAL ANESTHESIA206. A DECADE OF LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL SURGERY: REVIEW OF 554 PROCEDURES207. A SIMPLE CLINICAL MODEL FOR PREDICTING THE RISK OF CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY IN LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL RESECTIONS208. EFFECT OF LAPAROSCOPIC FAILURE ON THE OUTCOME OF LAPAROSCOPIC NISSEN FUNDOPLICATION209. LAPAROSCOPIC VERTICAL BANDED GASTROPLASTY: EARLY RESULTS WITH THE JOVO PROCEDURE210. QUALITY OF LIFE AFTER THE PELVIC POUCH PROCEDURE211. ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS IN ELECTIVE COLORECTAL SURGERY: THE COST OF IGNORING THE EVIDENCE212. REPLICATION OF HUMAN HEPATITIS C VIRUS IN MICE WITH CHIMERIC HUMAN LIVERS213. LOCAL RECURRENCE AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC MESORECTAL RESECTION FOR RECTAL ADENOCARCINOMA214. FACTORS ASSOCIATED IN RECTAL CANCER RECURRENCE215. THE ROLE OF CHOLECYSTECTOMY IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS AFTER ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY216. THE LEARNING CURVE FOR LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY217. GALLSTONE PANCREATITIS: IS DISCHARGE AND READMISSION FOR LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY SAFE?218. THE ASSOCIATION OF PERFORATION OF THE APPENDIX AND FEMALE TUBAL INFERTILITY219. TIMING OF OPERATIVE REPAIR OF TRAUMATIC RUPTURE OF THE THORACIC AORTA220. THE IDEAL SURGICAL AIRWAY: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF PERCUTANEOUS AND OPEN TRACHEOSTOMY PERFORMED IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT221. STAT6 UPREGULATION BY FK506 IN THE PRESENCE OF IL4222. INTERCELLULAR AND VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE LEVELS IN ENDOSCOPIC AND OPEN SAPHENOUS VEIN HARVESTING FOR CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY223. PLASMA-LYTE AND PAPAVERINE IN HUMAN SAPHENOUS VEIN HARVESTING: PRELIMINARY TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC REPORT224. RESECTIVE LIVER SURGERY: A REVIEW OF INFLOW AND OUTFLOW OCCLUSION225. EMPHYSEMATOUS PERITONITIS — A CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE226. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF BOVINE ERYTHROCYTES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CROSS-SPECIES TRANSFUSION TO HUMAN RECIPIENTS227. ACQUISITION OF LAPAROSCOPIC SKILLS: THE VALUE OF INANIMATE TRAINING SYSTEMS228. USE OF A PREOPERATIVE ACTH-STIMULATION TEXT TO PREDICT ADRENAL SUPPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE229. DOES EXPERIENCE WITH ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPY IMPROVE OUTCOME IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS?230. THE DOMINIC EXPERIENCE: EVOLUTION OF AN EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE COMPUTER DATABASE FOR STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF CLINICAL DATA IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY231. LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL RESECTIONS RESULT IN A 41% DECREASE IN HOSPITAL STAY WITH NO DIFFERENCE IN OPERATIVE TIME232. MODIFICATION OF LAPAROSCOPIC MANAGEMENT OF PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA IN PREGNANT PATIENTS233. ACROMEGALY DUE TO CARCINOID CURED WITH THORACOSCOPIC LOBECTOMY234. THE UMBILICUS IN LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY235. OUTPATIENT LAPAROSCOPIC SPLENECTOMY236. ATTENUATED FEBRILE RESPONSE TO ENDOTOXIN IN RATS WITH BILIARY OBSTRUCTION237. ETIOLOGY AND OUTCOME OF READMISSION FOR SMALL-BOWEL OBSTRUCTION IN THE EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD238. IS VIDEO-ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY SUPERIOR TO LIMITED AXILLARY THORACOTOMY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX?239. ENUCLEATION OF GIANT CYSTADENOMAS OF THE LIVER240. HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA IN ALBERTA: A POPULATION BASED REVIEW241. AN ESTIMATE OF THE APPROPRIATE RATE OF BREAST-CONSERVING THERAPY IN A POPULATION242. ENDOTHELIAL ACTIVATION RESULTS IN UPREGULATION OF INTERLEUKIN-1α AND ENDOTHELIN-1 MRNA IN PIG-TO-HUMAN LIVER XENOTRANSPLANTATION243. EXPRESSION OF POLO-LIKE KINASES IN HUMAN COLORECTAL CANCER LINES EXHIBITING GENOMIC INSTABILITY244. 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