Annals of surgery
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Intermittent Pneumatic Compression in Addition to Standard Prophylaxis of Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism in Extremely High-risk Patients (IPC SUPER): A Randomized Controlled Trial.
To assess the efficacy of adjunctive IPC to standard prophylaxis of postoperative VTE in patients at extremely high-risk. ⋯ Among patients with a Caprini score of ≥11 who received standard prophylaxis for VTE, adjunctive IPC resulted in a significantly lower incidence of asymptomatic venous thrombosis.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Feasibility and Safety of Laparoscopic Complete Mesocolic Excision (CME) for Right-Sided Colon Cancer: Short-Term Outcomes. A Randomized Clinical Study.
The aim of this prospective clinical study is to compare short-term outcome of laparoscopic right hemicolectomy using the Complete Mesocolic Excision (CME group) with patients who underwent conventional right-sided colonic resection (NCME group). ⋯ In this study laparoscopic CME were a safe and feasible technique with improvement in lymph nodes harvesting and length of surgical specimens with no increase of surgical intraoperative and postoperative complications.