The Mount Sinai Health System has earned a prestigious three-star rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) for its outstanding patient care and surgical outcomes in lung cancer and ...

Patients in the study also had a low rate of anastomotic leak, a serious complication of the surgery that occurs when the surgical area between the stomach and remaining esophagus does not heal ...

Dr Shweta Kumari (Consultant - Paediatric Surgery) and her team faced a critical challenge: performing a complex four-hour surgery, (Thoracotomy and Primary Esophageal Anastomosis), on a mere ...

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan, China 2 Department of Medical Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan ...

In our recent publication in Gut,1 we showed that preoperative gut microbiota was causally linked to the development of anastomotic leak (AL) after colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery. AL results from ...

1 Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China 2 Department of General Surgery, ...