RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Abstracts of presentations to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Canadian Association of General Surgeons Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons1. DIETARY FIBRE FOR THE PREVENTION OF COLORECTAL ADENOMAS OR CARCINOMAS2. COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES: THE INFLUENCE OF ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY ON SURVIVAL AFTER RESECTION3. SURGICAL BLOOD USE IN A CANADIAN HOSPITAL — DID KREVER HAVE AN EFFECT?4. OUTCOME OF ILEORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS FOR CROHN’S COLITIS (CC)5. IS EPIDURAL ANALGESIA AND ANESTHESIA SAFE TO BE USED IN LOW COLORECTAL ANASTOMOSIS?6. INTEROBSERVER AND INTRAOBSERVER BIAS VARIABILITY IN GRADING OF ANAL DYSPLASIA7. METALLIC STENT ENDOPROSTHESIS FOR LARGE-BOWEL OBSTRUCTION: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW8. CROHN’S DISEASE AND INDETERMINATE COLITIS AND THE ILEAL POUCH ANAL ANASTOMOSIS: OUTCOMES AND PATTERNS OF FAILURE9. THE LACK OF INFLUENCE OF PUBLICATION OF COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES IN CANADA10. DIFFERENCES IN OPERATIVE APPROACH TO RECTAL CANCER: A COMPARISON OF UNIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY CENTRES11. OUTCOME OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING LIVER TRANSPLANTATION FOR PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS12. HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN CROHN’S COLITIS PATIENTS FOLLOWING COLECTOMY13. IS SURGEON MANUAL DEXTERITY AND TACTILE SENSE COMPROMISED BY DOUBLE GLOVING?14. WHY STUDENTS AREN’T CHOOSING GENERAL SURGERY15. THE SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF BREAST CANCER: CANADIAN PRACTICE PATTERNS16. DOPAMINE-SECRETING PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA — AN EXTREMELY RARE CLINICAL ENITITY17. LAPAROSCOPIC RESECTION OF GASTRIC STROMAL TUMOURS18. MANAGEMENT OF ANAL STRICTURES19. PANCREATIC TRAUMA20. SURGERY VOLUMES AND GASTRIC CANCER SURVIVAL21. OUTCOMES OF SURGICAL RESECTION AND RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION FOR LIVER MALIGNANCIES22. EFFECTS OF ASPHYXIA AND DIFFERENTIAL OXYGEN RESUSCITATION ON INTESTINAL BLOOD FLOW IN NEONATAL PIGLETS23. NEEDLESCOPIC BILATERAL THORACIC SYMPATHECTOMY24. GASTRIC BYPASS FOR MASSIVE OBESITY (BODY MASS INDEX OVER 70)25. CYSTIC TUMOURS OF THE PANCREAS26. MULTIPLE INFARCTIONS IN SICKLE CELL TRAIT: AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF AN ACUTE ABDOMEN27. LAPAROSCOPIC VERSUS OPEN DONOR NEPHRECTOMY: A COST-UTILITY ANALYSIS28. METASTATIC BREAST CARCINOID29. SURGERY ABOARD THE LIFELINE EXPRESS — AN INNOVATIVE SURGICAL SOLUTION TO DISABILITY IN THE THIRD WORLD30. SURGICAL CLINICAL RESEARCH IN THE EVIDENCE-BASED-MEDICINE (EBM) ERA: ARE THERE ADEQUATE RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS (RCTS)?31. A MEDICAL LEGAL SURVEY OF CANADIAN GENERAL SURGEONS32. HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQL) FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC AND OPEN NEPHRECTOMY33. DOES ESTROGEN AFFECT THE BIOLOGIC BEHAVIOUR OF WELL-DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER?34. AXILLARY STAGING FOR EARLY INVASIVE BREAST CANCER: A DECISION ANALYSIS35. ISCHEMIC COLITIS PRESENTING AS PANCOLONIC ISCHEMIA — CASE SERIES AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE36. LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMIES: STAFF VERSUS RESIDENT SURGEONS37. CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF GENERAL SURGEONS’ QUESTIONNAIRE ON SURGICAL TRAINING38. MOST CHRONIC ANAL FISSURES RESPOND TO MEDICAL SPHINCTEROTOMY39. POTENTIAL REDUCTION IN PERIOPERATIVE MORTALITY DUE TO REGIONALIZATION OF FIVE MAJOR SURGICAL PROCEDURES TO HIGH-VOLUME HOSPITALS IN ONTARIO40. PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN RESECTED PANCREATIC ADENOCARCINOMA: ANALYSIS OF 5-YEAR SURVIVORS41. REASSESSING THE ROLE OF AXILLARY LYMPH-NODE DISSECTION (ALND) IN EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER42. N,O-CARBOXYMETHYL CHITOSAN (NOCC) REDUCES ADHESION FORMATION AND REFORMATION43. MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES IN PERIAMPULLARY TUMOURS: DO ELEVATED LEVELS AFFECT PATIENT OUTCOME?44. EMPIRIC ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY IN CRITICAL ILLNESS: A PHYSICIAN SURVEY45. COLORECTAL CANCER (CRC) SCREENING: DO WE PRACTISE WHAT WE PREACH?46. LAPAROSCOPIC ADRENALECTOMY: PATHOLOGY DETERMINES OUTCOMES47. LYMPH-NODE SAMPLING IN THE MANAGEMENT OF WELL-DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CARCINOMAS48. THE IMPACT OF EPIDURAL VERSUS INTRAVENOUS ANALGESIA IN OPEN BARIATRIC SURGERY49. THE EFFECT OF TRAUMA ON PLASMA OXIDATIVE HOMEOSTASIS50. CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTES MEDIATE ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY THROUGH DIRECT CYTOLYTIC AND INDIRECT EFFECTOR MECHANISMS51. 25% ALBUMIN PREVENTS LUNG INJURY BY SUPPRESSING CHEMOKINE EXPRESSION AND ADHESIVE INTERACTION BETWEEN NEUTROPHILS AND THE ENDOTHELIUM52. RELEVANCE OF VASCULAR INVASION IN PAPILLARY AND FOLLICULAR THYROID CARCINOMAS WITH REGARD TO TREATMENT AND PROGNOSIS53. RECEPTOR STATUS IN BREAST CANCER: FAMILIAL VERSUS SPORADIC AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ANTESTROGEN CHEMOPREVENTION54. PATIENT-BASED OUTCOMES AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC TREATMENT FOR ACHALASIA55. TREATMENT WITH ANTI-ICOS ANTIBODY AND SIROLIMUS LEADS TO PROLONGED ISLET ALLOGRAFT SURVIVAL56. DIFFUSE SPASTIC GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER — A POTENTIALLY LIFE-THREATENING VARIANT OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME57. RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF 243 MAJOR HEPATIC RESECTIONS: INDICATIONS, MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY58. LAPAROSCOPIC HELLER MYOTOMY: AN ANTIREFLUX PROCEDURE IS NOT A PREREQUISITE59. WAITING LIST MANAGEMENT IN GENERAL SURGERY60. WHAT IS THE TRUE INCIDENCE AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS (SSI) IN OPEN BARIATRIC SURGERY?61. MINIMALLY INVASIVE THYMECTOMY FOR MYASTHENIA GRAVIS: A 5-YEAR SINGLE-INSTITUTION EXPERIENCE62. SYMPTOMS, ACID EXPOSURE AND MOTILITY IN PATIENTS WITH BARRETT’S ESOPHAGUS63. IS THERE A ROLE FOR INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY FOR LARGE (> 5 CM) EARLY STAGE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER?64. THE RISK OF RIGHT PNEUMONECTOMY65. THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF THORACIC TRAUMA66. 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A1 Do, M.T. A1 Bukhari, M. A1 Shamji, F.M. A1 Darling, G. A1 Ginsberg, R. A1 Johnston, M. A1 Waddell, T. A1 Keshavjee, S. A1 Charyk-Stewart, T. A1 Inaba, K. A1 Malthaner, R. A1 Gray, D. A1 Girotti, M. A1 Tutton, S.M. A1 Sichlau, M.J. A1 Pozdol, C. A1 McDonough, T.J. A1 Masters, G.A. A1 Ray, D.W. A1 Liptay, M.J. YR 2002 UL http://canjsurg.ca/content/45/Suppl_3/3.abstract