Extracorporeal Pringle maneuver in robot-assisted liver surgeryAlberto Patriti
Department of Surgery, Division of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Hospital San Matteo degli Infermi, Spoleto, Italy
Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech 21:e242-4. 2011
..The assistant was able to apply consecutive clampings whereas the console surgeon proceeded in parenchyma transection. Robot-assisted liver surgery can be made safer by the use of the extracorporeal Pringle maneuver...
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic total and partial gastric resection with D2 lymph node dissection for adenocarcinoma
Alberto Patriti
Department of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, San Matteo degli Infermi Hospital Spoleto, Via Loreto, 3, 06049, Spoleto, Perugia, Italy
Surg Endosc 22:2753-60. 2008
..Lymph node dissection and esophageal anastomosis, considered the more demanding steps of laparoscopic gastrectomy for gastric adenocarcinoma, can be performed with the use of a remote-controlled robot...
- Successful palliation of malignant ascites from peritoneal mesothelioma by laparoscopic intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy
Alberto Patriti
Section of General and Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech 18:426-8. 2008
..LHIPEC could be a good therapeutic option to palliate malignant ascites from mesothelioma in cases not eligible for a radical treatment. Further studies are needed to standardize dosage and perfusion parameters...
- [Postoperative follow-up of gastric adenocarcinoma with neoplastic markers and 18-FDG-PET/TC]
Alberto Patriti
Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Radiologiche ed Odontostomatologiche, Sezione di Chirurgia Generale e d Urgenza
Ann Ital Chir 78:481-5. 2007
..The usefulness of tumour markers CEA, CA19.9 and CA72.4 in association with FDG-PET/TC were prospectively evaluated in the post-operative follow-up of gastric cancer patients...
- How the hindgut can cure type 2 diabetes. Ileal transposition improves glucose metabolism and beta-cell function in Goto-kakizaki rats through an enhanced Proglucagon gene expression and L-cell number
Alberto Patriti
Department of Surgery, Section of General and Emergency Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Surgery 142:74-85. 2007
..Ileal transposition (IT), an operation that permits L-cell stimulation by undigested food, was employed to verify this theory...
- Short- and medium-term outcome of robot-assisted and traditional laparoscopic rectal resection
Alberto Patriti
Department of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Hospital San Matteo degli Infermi Spoleto PG, Italy
JSLS 13:176-83. 2009
..The aim of this study was to verify whether robot-assisted anterior rectal resection (RLAR) could overcome limitations of the laparoscopic approach...
- Perspective of robotic rectal surgery
A Patriti
Division of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, San Matteo degli Infermi Hospital, Spoleto, Perugia, Italy
Minerva Chir 65:153-9. 2010
..A better local disease control and a reduced surgical trauma will be the conceivable benefit of this surgery...
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic management of cardia carcinoma according to Siewert recommendations
Alberto Patriti
ASL3 Umbria, Department of Surgery, Division of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Hospital San Matteo degli Infermi, Spoleto, Italy
Int J Med Robot 7:170-7. 2011
..Robotics could aid laparoscopic dissection of the oesophago-gastric junction and oesophageal anastomosis, enlarging indications for a minimally invasive approach to these tumours...
- Laparoscopic and robot-assisted one-stage resection of colorectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases: a pilot study
Alberto Patriti
Department of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, San Matteo degli Infermi Hospital, Via Loreto, 3, 06049, Spoleto, Perugia, Italy
J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 16:450-7. 2009
..A laparoscopic approach may represent a safe and advantageous choice for selected patients with the aim of improving the early outcome...
- A modified umbilical incision for specimen extraction after laparoscopic abdominal surgery
L Casciola
Department of General, Vascular and Mininvasive Surgery, Spoleto Hospital, Roma, Italy
Surg Endosc 22:784-6. 2008
..One advantage of laparoscopic surgery over open surgery is the absence of laparotomic incisions. This advantage is reduced when an auxiliary incision is performed to remove surgical specimens larger than the trocar...
- Intraoperative and postoperative outcome of robot-assisted and traditional laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication
G Ceccarelli
Department of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, San Matteo degli Infermi Hospital, ASL 3 dell Umbria, Spoleto, Italy
Eur Surg Res 43:198-203. 2009
..Robotics has been proposed as a tool to improve laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. However, a clear benefit of this technology for minimally invasive antireflux surgery has not been demonstrated...
- Early improvement of glucose tolerance after ileal transposition in a non-obese type 2 diabetes rat model
Alberto Patriti
Department of Surgery, Section of General and Emergency Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Obes Surg 15:1258-64. 2005
..This study was designed to evaluate the role of the distal ileum in the improvement of glucose control in type 2 diabetic patients who underwent bariatric surgery...
- Laparoscopic resection with intracorporeal anastomosis for colon carcinoma located in the splenic flexure
Graziano Ceccarelli
Division of General, Minimally Invasive, and Robotic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hospital San Matteo degli Infermi, Via Loreto, 3, 06049, Spoleto, PG, Italy
Surg Endosc 24:1784-8. 2010
..Treatment of splenic flexure (SF) colon cancer is not standardized. A laparoscopic approach is considered a challenging procedure...
- Laparoscopic treatment of liver hemangioma
Alberto Patriti
Department of Surgery, Section of General and Emergency Surgery, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech 15:359-62. 2005
..No outflow occlusion is needed, and the intraoperative bleeding is easily controlled. Technical aspects of laparoscopic enucleation are described and a review of the literature is also provided...
- The enteroinsular axis and the recovery from type 2 diabetes after bariatric surgery
Alberto Patriti
Department of Surgery, University of Perugia, Policlinico Monteluce, Via Brunamonti, 06122 Perugia, Italy
Obes Surg 14:840-8. 2004
..In conclusion, the early arrival of a meal in the terminal ileum seems to be the common feature of both operations that leads to an improvement in glycemic metabolism and to resolution of type 2 diabetes...
- Laparoscopic treatment of a solitary fibrous tumor of the greater omentum presenting as spontaneous haemoperitoneum
Alberto Patriti
Universita degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Sezione di Chirurgia Generale e d Urgenza
Ann Ital Chir 77:351-3. 2006
..This is the first case of a solitary fibrous tumor presenting as haemoperitoneum and the first time it was removed laparoscopically. The patient is disease-free at the 2-year follow-up...
- Comparing fibrin sealant with staples for mesh fixation in laparoscopic transabdominal hernia repair: a case control-study
Graziano Ceccarelli
Department of General, Vascular and Mininvasive Surgery, Spoleto Hospital, Spoleto, PG, Italy
Surg Endosc 22:668-73. 2008
..To prevent recurrences we fix the polypropylene mesh with staples. The use of fibrin glue for graft fixation is a possible alternative...
- Laparoscopic incisional hernia mesh repair with the "double-crown" technique: a case-control study
Graziano Ceccarelli
Department of General, Vascular, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, San Matteo degli Infermi Hospital, Spoleto, Italy
J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A 18:377-82. 2008
..However, the mesh fixation method is, to date, a matter of debate, and there are few clinical studies evaluating a single technique. This was a case-control study to assess the "double-crown" fixation method...
- Effect of duodenal-jejunal exclusion in a non-obese animal model of type 2 diabetes: a new perspective for an old disease
Alberto Patriti
Ann Surg 240:388-9; author reply 389-91. 2004
