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Laparoscopic Colorectal Resection for Bowel Endometriosis—Invited Critique
Susan Galandiuk, MD
Arch Surg. 2009;144(3):239.
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Minelli et al report a large series of 357 patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal resection for endometriosis during a 5-year period with a median follow-up of 19.6 months. One should consider that colonic involvement of endometriosis occurs in roughly 10% of patients and does not require surgery in all of these patients.
There are several additional points to be made:
- Notwithstanding specialty turf and related issues, if one does a lot of something and does it well, one gets very good results and helps patients, no matter what the field or area of interest. This applies to turf issues between and among all specialists.
- Despite "salami slicing" and serial publication of slowly growing clinical series that add a few cases at a time to each serial publication, there is merit to publication of substantial increases in clinical series, with longer-term follow-up and other valuable clinical data that give . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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