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1: History of the Division of Coloproctology
- Chapter 1: History of the Division of Coloproctology
2: Anatomy of the colon, rectum, anus, and pelvic floor
- Chapter 2: Anatomy of the colon, rectum, anus, and pelvic floor
- Selected meeting presentation on this topic
- Suggested reading and educational material
- International standardization and optimization group for intersphincteric resection (ISOG-ISR): modified Delphi consensus on anatomy, definition, indication, surgical technique, specimen description and functional outcome (2023)
- Surgical anatomy of the rectum: a series of video tutorials - a video vignette (2022)
- Anatomy of the smooth muscle structure in the female anorectal anterior wall: convergence and anterior extension of the internal anal sphincter and longitudinal muscle (2019)
- Anatomical aspects of a SPECC of the colon and rectum (2019)
- Systematic review of the applications of three‐dimensional printing in colorectal surgery (2019)
- Variation in landmarks for the rectum: an MRI study (2018)
3: Physiology of Colon, Rectum, and Anus
- Chapter 3: Physiology of Colon, Rectum, and Anus
- Selected meeting presentation on this topic
- video Management of syndromes of disordered defecation: New developments in anorectal function testing (2023)
- video Management of syndromes of disordered defecation: New insights into the physiology of continence and evacuation (2023)
- video Toward precision diagnosis and precision treatment: New technical guidance and disease classification for anorectal physiology. Results of UEG-funded international working group (2019)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Clinical utility of trans-sacral magnetic stimulation-evoked sphincter potentials and high-density electromyography in pelvic floor assessment: Technical evaluation (2023)
- Physiological changes after colorectal surgery suggest that anastomotic leakage is an early event: a retrospective cohort study (2019)
- The puborectal continence reflex functions independently of the pudendal nerve (2019)
- Isolation of internal and external sphincter progenitor cells from the human anal sphincter with or without radiotherapy (2019)
- Preoperative bowel stimulation prior to ileostomy closure to restore bowel function more quickly and improve postoperative outcomes: a systematic review (2019)
4: Haemorrhoids
- Chapter 4: Haemorrhoids
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Coloproctology surgical video: Preliminary results of transanal hemorrhoidal dearterialization (THD) anolift (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Examination under anaesthetic of the anus (basic proctology) (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video For Trainees: Haemorrhoidectomy - the traditional way (ESCP meeting 2020)
- video Trainee Video Session: Fergusson for haemorrhoidal disease (ESCP meeting 2017)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Emergency Proctology: Acute haemorrhoids (2024)
- video Haemorrhoidal Disease: Should we send it? Evaluating the need for routine pathologic evaluation of haemorrhoidectomy specimens (2024)
- video Haemorrhoidal Disease: Patient reported outcomes after excisional vs non-excisional techniques for the treatment of symptomatic hemorrhoidal disease: an interim analysis of a prospective, multicenter, cohort study (2024)
- video Haemorrhoidal Disease: Complication management post surgery (2024)
- video Haemorrhoidal Disease: Laser haemorrhoidopexy - just a hype? (2024)
- video Haemorrhoidal Disease: Do we still need a Doppler-guided strategy for treating hemorrhoids (2024)
- video Haemorrhoidal Disease: In the post eTHoS era: is the conventional approach better? (2024)
More presentations on haemorrhoids>
- Guidelines
- ESCP guideline for haemorrhoidal disease (Europe 2020)
- ESCP core outcome set for haemorrhoidal disease (Europe 2019)
- ASCRS guidelines for haemorrhoidal disease (USA 2018)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- A cost-utility study of elective haemorrhoidectomies in Canada (2024)
- Seamless open excisional haemorrhoidectomy - six faces of surgical technique: a video vignette (2024)
- SHAPE - Skin-sparing haemorrhoidectomy and pexy: a video vignette (2024)
- Global treatment of haemorrhoids - a worldwide snapshot audit conducted by the International Society of University Colon and Rectal Surgeons (2024)
- The efficacy of laser haemorrhoidoplasty (LHP) in the treatment of symptomatic haemorrhoidal disease: An observational cohort study (2023)
- English translation and cross-cultural validation of the patient-reported outcome measurement-haemorrhoidal impact and satisfaction score (PROM-HISS) (2023)
- Responsiveness of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measure-Haemorrhoidal Impact and Satisfaction Score in patients with haemorrhoidal disease (2023)
5: Anal fissure
- Chapter 5: Anal fissure
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Botox injection for anal fissure (2024)
- video Surgical approach to fissures (ESCP meeting 2015)
- Selected meeting presentation on this topic
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Efficacy and safety of Propionibacterium extract gel versus glyceryl trinitrate ointment in the treatment of chronic anal fissure: a randomized controlled trial (2023)
- Lateral internal sphincterotomy (LIS) using endoanal ultrasound - a video vignette (2021)
- Health and quality of life among a cohort of patients having lateral internal sphincterotomy for anal fissures (2020)
- Psychometric properties of a questionnaire (HEMO-FISS-QoL) to evaluate the burden associated with haemorrhoidal disease and anal fissures (2019)
- Botulinum toxin injection vs topical nitrates for chronic anal fissure: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2018)
- A novel method for treatment of chronic anal fissure: adipose-derived regenerative cells - a pilot study (2017)
6: Anorectal abscess and fistula
- Chapter 6: Anorectal abscess and fistula
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Emergency Proctology: Case presentation (ESCP meeting 2024)
- video Surgical treatment of horseshoe fistula: a video vignette (ESCP meeting 2024)
- video Coloproctology surgical video: Robotic trans anal minimally invasive surgery. Rectovaginal fistula repair (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Coloproctology surgical video: Ligation of the intersphincteric fistula tract (LIFT procedure) - steps description, based on a case of a multioperated patient with an anterior transsphincteric fistula (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Coloproctology surgical video: Sinus-fistula ablative contraction intracavity laser (S-FACIL technique): technical description (ESCP meeting 2023)
More procedures/techniques for anorectal abscess and fistula>
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Anal Fistula MDT: Dealing with the horseshoe fistula (2024)
- video Anal Fistula MDT: Dealing with the multi-recurring fistula (2024)
- video Anal Fistula MDT: Case presentation and discussion (2024)
- video Anal Fistula MDT: Dealing with the (high) rectovaginal fistula (EU view) (2024)
- video Anal Fistula MDT: Dealing with the (high) rectovaginal fistula (US view) (2024)
- video Anal Fistula MDT: Case presentation and discussion (2024)
- video CRAFT: Cryptoglandular Anal Fistula Treatment (2024)
More presentations on anorectal abscess and fistula>
- Guidelines
- ESCP Guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of Cryptoglandular Anal Fistula (Europe 2023)
- SNFCP consensus for management of anoperineal lesions in Crohn’s disease (France 2019)
- ESCP consensus on perianal fistula (Europe 2016)
- ASCRS guideline for the management of anorectal abscess, fistula-in-ano, and rectovaginal fistula (USA 2016)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- The use of core descriptors from the ENiGMA code study in recent literature: a systematic review (2024)
- Exploring methods of improving patient understanding and communication in a complex anal fistula clinic: results from a randomized controlled feasibility study (2024)
- Implementation of video-assisted anal fistula treatment (VAAFT) for complex fistulas - a video vignette (2024)
- The development of a cryptoglandular anal fistula quality of life scale (AF-QoL) (2024)
- Protocol of the LATFIA trial (Laser Assisted Treatment of Fistula in Ano): a multicentre, prospective, randomized controlled trial comparing fistula-tract laser closure (FiLaC™) with rectal advancement flap for high trans-sphincteric fistulas (2024)
- Subtotal fistulectomy and sliding anoderm flap: a new sphincter-sparing technique for anal fistula (2024)
- The amount of laser energy used during fistula tract laser closure (FiLaC) is a relevant determinant of surgical outcome (2024)
- Rectovaginal fistula: Which surgical technique do I choose? - a video vignette (2024)
- Endorobotic repair of high rectovaginal fistula - a video vignette (2024)
- The utility of the Martius flap to treat an anovaginal fistula secondary to anal cancer - a video vignette (2024)
7: Perianal skin conditions
- Chapter 7: Perianal skin conditions
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Perianal hidradenitis excision: flaps (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Risk of developing high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions or anal cancer after anal condylomata treatment in people living with HIV (2024)
- Perianal extramammary Paget disease: our experience of two cases - a video vignette (2024)
- Perianal Paget's - an aggressive disease (2023)
- Anogenital symptoms and lesions in a series of 20 patients infected with monkeypox virus (2023)
- A technical note on the treatment of large perianal condylomata acuminata - a video vignette (2022)
8: Pilonidal disease
- Chapter 8: Pilonidal disease
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Trainee Video Session: Pilonidal sinus (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Trainee Video Session: Pilonidal disease: Limberg flap (ESCP meeting 2016)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video My Most Challenging Case: Perianal hidradenitis suppurativa (2024)
- video A step-by-step protocol for applying laser 1470nm in treating sinus pilonidalis, based on the experience of 1000 cases (2024)
- video ActiGraft treatment in pilonidal sinus: interim results of a 3-arm randomised controlled study (2024)
- video Bridging the gap with observational data: Pilonidal Disease: Proposal for a new ESCP pilonidal audit (2023)
- video Guideline for management of Pilonidal Disease (2023)
- video PITSTOP - PIlonidal sinus treatment: studying the options: An observational cohort with nested mixed methods and qualitative design to investigate surgical options for the treatment of pilonidal sinus disease (2023)
- video Reporting outcomes in common colorectal diseases: Outcomes and PROMs in pilonidal disease (2023)
- video Complex Proctology: Minimally invasive treatment of pilonidal disease (2022)
- video Pilonidal sinus disease (2018)
- video Common problems in proctology: Recurrent pilonidal sinus (2015)
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Decision regret following surgical management of pilonidal disease (2024)
- Closed-incision negative-pressure wound therapy after Bascom's cleft lift surgery for pilonidal sinus disease: a randomized study comparing healing (2024)
- Long-term outcomes after cleft lift surgery for pilonidal sinus disease in post-pubertal adolescents: data from a prospective Danish cohort (2024)
- Classification and stratification in pilonidal sinus disease: findings from the PITSTOP cohort (2024)
- Research and practice priorities in pilonidal sinus disease: a consensus from the PITSTOP study (2024)
- Endoscopic pilonidal sinus treatment: tutorial with tips and tricks - a video vignette (2024)
- T-plasty for recurrent pilonidal cyst with one-side lateral cavity - a video vignette (2024)
- An international survey exploring the management of pilonidal disease (2023)
- Cleft closure (the Bascom cleft lift) for 714 patients - treatment of choice for complex and recurrent pilonidal disease (a cohort study) (2023)
9: Fecal incontinence
- Chapter 9: Fecal incontinence
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Virtual Operating Room: Trans-perineal surgeries for pelvic floor disorders (2024)
- video Standardised Trainee Video: Sacral nerve modulation (ESCP meeting 2020)
- video Trainees Video Session: Sphincteroplasty (ESCP meeting 2015)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Intra-rectal botox in incontinence and LARS (2024)
- video Cohorts and Audits: Faecal incontinence (2024)
- video Core outcome set for faecal incontinence: an international DELPHI study among patients and healthcare professionals (2024)
- video Faecal Incontinence and Obstructed Defecation Series Webinar 01: Physiology and Diagnostics (2023)
- video Faecal incontinence: knowledge gaps (2022)
- video Faecal incontinence: launch of the new ESCP audit programme (2022)
More presentations on fecal incontinence>
- Guidelines
- Guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of Faecal Incontinence (ESCP 2022)
- ICS best practice for use of sacral neuromodulation (International 2018)
- Consultation on incontinence (International 2018)
- Sacral nerve stimulation for faecal incontinence and constipation (ESCP 2015)
- ASCRS guideline for the treatment of fecal incontinence (USA 2015)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- One-stage implant in sacral neuromodulation for faecal incontinence - short-term outcome from a prospective study (2024)
- Risk factors for complications following sacral neuromodulation for faecal incontinence: long-term follow-up (2024)
- Toward a core outcome set for faecal incontinence - a systematic review of outcomes reported in the literature (2024)
- Irritable bowel syndrome worsens faecal incontinence after primary repair of major obstetric anal sphincter injuries (2024)
- Innovative home-based anal biofeedback application in faecal incontinence treatment - a video vignette (2024)
- Prospective cohort study of high-volume transanal irrigation in patients with constipation and/or faecal incontinence (2023)
- Long-term cost-effectiveness analysis of sacral neuromodulation in the treatment of severe faecal incontinence (2023)
10: Constipation
- Chapter 10: Constipation
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video My most challenging case: Slow transit constipation and outlet problem (2023)
- video State-of-the-Art for Management of Syndromes of Disordered Defaecation: Patient selection for biofeedback in the conservative management constipation (2022)
- video Functional Disorders and the Pelvic Floor: The neuro-entreric axis (2021)
- video Functional Disorders and the Pelvic Floor: Constipation - definitions and syndromes (2021)
- video Core Subject Update: Surgery for constipation (2019)
- video Toward precision diagnosis and precision treatment: Surgical options for constipation (2019)
- video Benign Chronical Abdominal Diseases for the Colorectal Surgeon: Surgery for slow transit constipation (2017)
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness of sacral neuromodulation for idiopathic slow-transit constipation: a systematic review (2024)
- Grossi U, Piccino M, Sarli L. Single-incision laparoscopic Sarli procedure: subtotal colectomy with antiperistaltic caecorectal anastomosis for slow-transit constipation - a video vignette (2024)
- Habit training versus habit training with direct visual biofeedback in adults with chronic constipation: a randomized controlled trial (2023)
- Long-term outcomes of total colectomy for severe constipation (2023)
- Habit training versus habit training with direct visual biofeedback in adults with chronic constipation: a randomized controlled trial (2023)
- Prospective cohort study of high-volume transanal irrigation in patients with constipation and/or faecal incontinence (2023)
- Transanal irrigation is a better choice for bowel dysfunction in adults with Spina bifida: a randomised controlled trial (2023)
- The application of a robotic single-incision plus one-port laparoscopic total colectomy with fascia space priority for slow-transit constipation - a video vignette (2022)
- Ileostomy for chronic constipation: a good idea or just asking for more trouble? (2021)
- Long-term outcome of intractable constipation treated by sacral neuromodulation: a comparison between children and adults (2018)
- Surgery for constipation: systematic review and practice recommendations: Results V: Sacral Nerve Stimulation (2017)
- Surgery for constipation: systematic review and clinical guidance: Paper 1: Introduction & Methods (2017)
11: Defecation disorders
- Chapter 11: Defecation disorders
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video A new minimally invasive transanal surgery: a TAMIS mucosectomy approach for obstructed defecation syndrome (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: Surgery for ODS abdominal approach (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: Surgery for ODS perineal (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Virtual Operating Room: Trans-perineal surgeries for pelvic floor disorders (2024)
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The three 'I's': Indications, Investigations, Interventions (Rectopexy Webinar 2022)
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The Ins and Outs of Ventral Mesh Rectopexy, how to do it (Rectopexy Webinar 2022)
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Avoiding Problems (Rectopexy Webinar 2022)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Pelvic floor and dyssynergia (2024)
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Patient with previous anorectal malformations (2024)
- video Management of pelvic floor conditions: what every trainee should know (2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: ODS indications for surgery (2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: ODS - anorectal intussusception (2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: ODS - in LARS (2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: ODS - with anismus (2024)
More presentations on defecation disorders>
- Guidelines
- ESCP, UEG, ESGAR, EAGEN, ESGENA, ESNM and ESPCG Consensus: Development of the guideline on multidisciplinary management of obstructed defecation syndrome (Europe 2024)
- NIHR Surgery for constipation: guidance (UK 2017)
- NIHR surgery for constipation: recommendations I (UK 2017)
- AIGO/SICCR consensus on chronic constipation and obstructed defecation (Italy 2012)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- video Faecal Incontinence and Obstructed Defecation Series Webinar 01: Physiology and Diagnostics (2023)
- Habit training versus habit training with direct visual biofeedback in adults with chronic constipation: a randomized controlled trial (2023)
- The influence of defaecating proctograms on clinical decision-making in pelvic floor disorders (2023)
- Nerve stimulator guided block for anorectal surgery - a video vignette (2022)
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the outcome of puborectalis division in the treatment of anismus (2022)
- X-ray video defaecography is superior to magnetic resonance defaecography in the imaging of defaecation disorders (2022)
- Laparoscopic Frykman-Goldberg procedure for internal rectal prolapse and chronic constipation - a video vignette (2022)
12: Rectal prolapse, intussusception, solitary rectal ulcer
- Chapter 12: Rectal prolapse, intussusception, solitary rectal ulcer
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Colon MDT Session: Altemeier technique for repairing incarcerated rectal prolapse (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Rectocele repair: vaginal approach (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Virtual Operating Room: Trans-perineal surgeries for pelvic floor disorders (2024)
- The three 'I's': Indications, Investigations, Interventions (Rectopexy Webinar 2022)
- The Ins and Outs of Ventral Mesh Rectopexy, how to do it (Rectopexy Webinar 2022)
- Avoiding Problems (Rectopexy Webinar 2022)
- video Trainee Video Session: Rectal prolapse: Delormes (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Trainee Video Session: Rectal prolapse: Altemeier (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Trainee Video Session: Rectal prolapse: lap ventral mesh rectopexy (ESCP meeting 2019)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Outcomes of laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy (LVMR) for internal rectal prolapse (IRP) (2024)
- video Multifaceted Obstructive Defecation Syndrome: ODS - anorectal intussusception (2024)
- video Breakthrough improvement collaborative for ventral mesh rectopexy (BIC4VMR) (2024)
- video Management of syndromes of disordered defecation: Mesh, pain and recurrence - preventing the unholy trinity (2023)
- video The Big Debates: Ventral mesh rectopexy - is an overrated operation? (2023)
- video The Nordic Rectal Prolapse Study - a multicenter international cohort study (2023)
- video Core Subject Update: Rectal prolapse (2022)
- video Mesh for internal prolapse and/or rectocele: evidence and case (2021)
- video Mesh in pelvis, what we know and learned (2021)
- video Functional Disorders and the Pelvic Floor: Functional Results after Ventral Rectopexy and overcoming challenges (2021)
More presentations on rectal prolapse, intussusception, solitary rectal ulcer>
- Guidelines
- Guidelines webinar: Mesh in Pelvis (2022)
- Guidance on the use of mesh in the pelvis in colorectal surgery (ESCP 2021)
- SICCR consensus on management and treatment of complete rectal prolapse (Italy 2018)
- ASCRS guidelines for the treatment of rectal prolapse (USA 2017)
- NIHR surgery for constipation: recommendations II (UK 2017)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Could robotic-assisted surgery reduce mesh-related complications after ventral mesh rectopexy? Experience of a tertiary centre and systematic review of the literature (2024)
- Perineal rectosigmoidectomy (Altemeier) with colonic J pouch and levatorplasty: a technical demonstration - a video vignette (2024)
- Treatment of complete rectal prolapse using the TEO® platform (transanal endoscopic operation) - a video vignette (2024)
- Outcomes for men undergoing rectal prolapse surgery - a systematic review (2023)
- Laparoscopic modified mesh rectopexy: medium-term results of a novel approach for external rectal prolapse (2023)
- Simplified perineal approach for rectal prolapse - video correspondence (2023)
- Delorme's procedure for urgent rectal prolapse - a video vignette (2023)
- Are rectal prolapse repairs too diverse and complex for simple database analysis? (2023)
- Robotic mesh rectopexy for rectal prolapse: the Geneva technique - a video vignette (2023)
More suggested reading on rectal prolapse, intussusception, solitary rectal ulcer>
13: Irritable bowel syndrome
- Chapter 13: Irritable bowel syndrome
- Selected meeting presentation on this topic
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Irritable bowel syndrome worsens faecal incontinence after primary repair of major obstetric anal sphincter injuries (2024)
- The monkey chased the weasel: is it irritable bowel syndrome or faecal incontinence we find following obstetric anal sphincter injuries? (2024)
- Increased incidence and recurrence rates of acute diverticulitis in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (2020)
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of sacral nerve stimulation as treatment for severe irritable bowel syndrome (2018)
- Three-year follow-up of sacral nerve stimulation for patients with diarrhoea-predominant and mixed irritable bowel syndrome (2017)
- Irritable bowel syndrome and chronic constipation in patients with endometriosis (2011)
14: Inflammatory bowel disease: Ulcerative colitis
- Chapter 14: Inflammatory bowel disease: Ulcerative colitis
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Acute Severe Colitis: Revisional ileoanal pouch surgery with in situ pouch augmentation for recurrent pouch inlet stricture (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Fascia latae graft in colorectal surgery: a new practical and aesthetic way of fixing ileal pouch prolapse (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Robotic proctectomy and ileoanal pouch with SST anastomosis after open total colectomy: how and why we do it? (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Robotic ventral mesh placement for external prolapse of ileoanal pouch (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video My most challenging case: Ileoanal pouch excision: how multiple technical failures can lead to pouch dysfunction (ESCP Meeting 2023)
- video Tips and tricks in ileoanal pouch creation (ESCP Meeting 2015)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Acute Severe Colitis: Effects of rectal stump proctitis on long-term outcomes after proctectomy and IPAA for ulcerative colitis (2024)
- video Acute Severe Colitis: Surgical management of acute severe ulcerative colitis (ASUC): case report (2024)
- video Acute Severe Colitis: QoL with severe UC (surgery vs medical treatment) (2024)
- video Acute Severe Colitis: Surgery for acute colitis (2024)
- video Acute Severe Colitis: Medical rescue for acute colitis (2024)
- video Acute Severe Colitis: Different types of severe colitis (UC, immunomediated, ischemic, infectious) (2024)
More presentations on IBD: ulcerative colitis>
- Guidelines
- ECCO guidelines on therapeutics in ulcerative colitis: medical treatment (Europe 2022)
- ECCO guidelines on therapeutics in ulcerative colitis: surgical treatment (Europe 2022)
- ACPGBI consensus guidelines on surgery for inflammatory bowel disease (UK 2018)
- ECCO consensus for diagnosis and management of ulcerative colitis: part 1 (Europe 2017)
- ECCO consensus for diagnosis and management of ulcerative colitis: part 2 (Europe 2017)
- ECCO consensus for surgery for ulcerative colitis (Europe 2014)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Laparoscopic intracorporeal Kono-S anastomosis for Crohn's disease: is it feasible, safe and profitable? - a video vignette (2024)
- Transanal ileal pouch - anal anastomosis for inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of short-term outcomes (2024)
- Short-term outcomes of surgical treatment for primary ileocaecal Crohn's disease: results of the Crohn's(urg) study, a multicentre, retrospective, comparative analysis between inflammatory and complicated phenotypes (2024)
- Impact of Kono-S anastomosis on quality of life after ileocolic resection in Crohn's disease: an analysis from the SuPREMe-CD trial (2024)
- Bowel-preserving surgery for stricturing jejunoileal Crohn's disease, part 2: step-by-step Finney strictureplasty - a video vignette (2024)
- Bowel preserving surgery for stricturing jejunoileal Crohn's disease, part 1: Heineke–Mikulicz strictureplasty, a step-by-step video vignette (2023)
- Laparoscopic completion proctectomy and J-pouch formation: how we do it - a video vignette (2023)
- Ten steps for ileoanal pouch anastomosis (2023)
- Predictors of pouch failure: a tertiary care inflammatory bowel disease centre experience (2023)
15: Crohn's disease
- Chapter 15: Crohn's disease
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Bowel sparing laparoscopic approach in penetrating Crohn's disease (ESCP meeting 2024)
- video Tips and tricks during minimally invasive ilecolic resection for Crohn's (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Trainee Video Session: Ileocolic handsewn anastomosis (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Trainee Video Session: Ileocolic extracorporal stapled anastomosis (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Trainee Video Session: Ileocolic intracorporal stapled anastomosis (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Dissection for ileocolic Crohn's (ESCP meeting 2018)
- video Injection of freshly collected autologous adipose tissue for treatment of perianal fistula (ESCP meeting 2019)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Ileocolic resection with temporary ileostomy for Crohn's disease: does it affect long-term disease recurrence compared with primary anastomosis? (2024)
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Stenotic Crohn's disease: surgery vs endoscopic dilatation (2024)
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Medical prevention of recurrence: pros and cons (2024)
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Type of anastomosis (2024)
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Close bowel vs central ligation (2024)
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Timing of surgery in Crohn's disease (2024)
- video Current Debates in IBD: Crohn's disaster (2024)
More presentations on Crohn's disease>
- Guidelines
- ECCO guidelines on therapeutics in Crohn’s disease: surgical treatment (Europe 2020)
- ECCO guidelines on therapeutics in Crohn's disease: medical treatment (Europe 2020)
- ASCRS guidelines for surgical management of Crohn's disease (USA 2020)
- ACPGBI consensus guidelines on surgery for inflammatory bowel disease (UK 2018)
- ECCO-ESCP consensus on surgery for Crohn’s disease (Europe 2017)
- ECCO consensus for diagnosis and management of Crohn’s disease: part 1 (Europe 2016)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Temporary diverting stoma in therapy-refractory luminal colonic Crohn's disease: an alternative to immediate colorectal resection? (2023)
- Step by step surgical technique for robotic Kono-S anastomosis after small bowel resection for Crohn's disease - a video vignette (2023)
- Is early bowel resection better than medical therapy for ileocolonic Crohn's disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
- Pregnancy outcomes after stoma surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: the results of a retrospective multicentre audit (2022)
- Childhood appendicitis and future risk of inflammatory bowel disease - a nationwide cohort study in Sweden 1973-2017 (2022)
- Injection of mesenchymal stem cells (darvadstrocel) into Crohn's perianal fistula - a video vignette (2022)
16: Indeterminate colitis
- Chapter 16: Indeterminate colitis
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Difference in the frequency of pouchitis between ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis: is the explanation in peripouch fat? (2019)
- Patient decision‐making in severe inflammatory bowel disease: the need for improved communication of treatment options and preferences (2019)
- The extent of inflammation is a predictor for pouch-related complications in ileal pouches in patients with ulcerative or indeterminate colitis (2014)
- Do preoperative factors predict subsequent diagnosis of Crohn's disease after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative or indeterminate colitis? (2010)
17: Diverticular disease
- Chapter 17: Diverticular disease
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Core subject update: Medical treatment of IBD (2023)
- video Reporting outcomes in common colorectal diseases: Young patients with diverticulosis have the highest 10-year risk of diverticulitis; a Swedish retrospective observational study (2023)
- video Core Subject Update: Acute diverticulitis (2022)
- video Diverticular disease: DAMASCUS (2022)
- video Diverticular disease: SCANDIVII (2022)
- video My Most Challenging Case: Complicated diverticular disease - fistulas abscesses (2022)
- video My Most Challenging Case: Emergency Hartman operation (2021)
- video Diverticulitis (2021)
More presentations on diverticular disease>
- Guidelines
- ESCP guidelines for the management of diverticular disease of the colon (Europe 2020)
- ASCRS guidelines for left-sided colonic diverticulitis (2020)
- JGA guidelines for colonic diverticular bleeding and diverticulitis (Japan 2019)
- Systematic review of international guidelines on diverticular disease (International 2018)
- ASCP position statement on complicated diverticular disease (Spain 2017)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Treating acute diverticulitis in pre- and post-solid-organ transplant patients: a single-institution cohort study (2023)
- Robotic reversal of open Hartmann's procedure for Hinchey 3 diverticulitis: a video vignette (2023)
- Exploring ethnic differences in post-discharge patterns of surgical care for older adults admitted with diverticulitis (2023)
- Risk of colorectal advanced neoplasia in patients with acute diverticulitis with and without previous colonoscopy (2023)
- Laparoscopic repair of a colovesical fistula secondary to diverticular disease - a video vignette (2022)
- Laparoscopic anterior resection after failure of non-operative management in acute diverticulitis - a video vignette (2022)
- Recurrence of diverticulitis after prophylactic sigmoidectomy: an underestimated problem? (2022)
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of robotic resections for diverticular disease (2022)
18: Other colitides
- Chapter 18: Other colitides
- Selected meeting presentation on this topic
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Microscopic colitis: a population-based case series over a 9-year period in Northern Ireland (2018)
- Differences in the socio-economic distribution of inflammatory bowel disease and microscopic colitis (2017)
- Risk factors for severity and relapse of pseudomembranous colitis in an elderly population (2007)
- The outcome of surgery in fulminant Clostridium difficile colitis (2006)
19: Medical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
- Chapter 19: Medical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Abdominal Crohn's Disease: Medical prevention of recurrence: pros and cons (2024)
- video Peri-operative optimisation of patients with IBD: what is the evidence? (2024)
- video Challenging scenarios within IBD: Management of primary ileocaecal Crohn's - surgery vs medical therapy (2023)
- video IBD (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) (2018)
- video Screening and Surveillance: Dysplasia in IBD - implications for the surgeon (2017)
- video Controversies in Crohn's disease management: Medical therapy after 'curative' ileocaecal resection: what’s new? (2015)
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Financial toxicity among patients undergoing resectional surgery for inflammatory bowel disease in the United States (2024)
- A survey of patient informational preferences when choosing between medical and surgical therapy for ulcerative colitis: a sub-study from the DISCUSS project (2023)
- Is early bowel resection better than medical therapy for ileocolonic Crohn's disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
- Prospective and multicentre study of radiofrequency treatment in anal fistula (2022)
- Identification of the optimal medical and surgical management for patients with perianal fistulising Crohn's disease (2022)
- A phase IB/IIA study of remestemcel-L, an allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell product, for the treatment of medically refractory ulcerative colitis: an interim analysis (2022)
- Tumour necrosis factor inhibitors in Crohn's disease and the effect on surgery rates (2022)
- Perioperative safety of tofacitinib in surgical ulcerative colitis patients (2021)
More suggested reading on medical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease>
20: Endometriosis
- Chapter 20: Endometriosis
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- Videos on the surgical procedures and techniques for this topic will be added soon
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Management of Bowel Endometriosis: Bowel endometriosis as seen from a gynaecologist (2021)
- video Management of Bowel Endometriosis: Bowel endometriosis as seen from a general surgeon (2021)
- video Discoid resection of rectal endometriosis (2021)
- video Core Subject Update: Endometriosis (2018)
- video Benign Chronical Abdominal Diseases for the Colorectal Surgeon: Endometrioses (2017)
- Guidelines
- CNGOF/HAS guidelines for management of endometriosis (France 2018)
- Comparison of guidelines for surgical treatment of different types of endometriosis (International 2018)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Excision of anterior abdominal wall endometriotic nodule and reconstruction - a video vignette (2022)
- Evaluation of functional outcomes after disc excision of deep endometriosis involving low and mid rectum using standardized questionnaires: a series of 80 patients (2020)
- Evaluation of functional outcomes after disc excision of deep endometriosis involving low and mid rectum using standardized questionnaires: a series of 80 patients (2020)
- Discoid resection for colorectal endometriosis: results from a prospective cohort from two French tertiary referral centres (2019)
- Transanal minimally invasive rectal resection for deep endometriosis: a promising technique (2017)
- Irritable bowel syndrome and chronic constipation in patients with endometriosis (2011)
- The early outcome of laparoscopic sigmoid and rectal resection for endometriosis (2010)
21: Appendicitis
- Chapter 21: Appendicitis
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Trainee Video: Tips and tricks in appendicectomy (ESCP meeting 2022)
- video The ideal lap appendectomy: sometimes, not always! (ESCP meeting 2018)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Role of preoperative antibiotic treatment on appendiceal perforation while awaiting appendicectomy (perfect antibiotics): pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, randomised, non-inferiority trial (2024)
- video PERFECT - Role of delay on PERForation rate while waiting appendicECTomy: a randomized non-inferiority trial (2023)
- video My Most Challenging Case: Acute appendicitis - challenges in appendicular abscess (2021)
- video Malignant appendix - how to handle? (2017)
- Guidelines
- WSES Jerusalem Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Appendicitis (International 2016)
- EAES Consensus on Diagnosis and Management of Acute Appendicitis (Europe 2016)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- The other colon cancer: a population-based cohort study of appendix tumour trends and prognosis (2023)
- Risk of colorectal cancer in patients with appendicitis over the age of 40 years (2022)
- Childhood appendicitis and future risk of inflammatory bowel disease - a nationwide cohort study in Sweden 1973-2017 (2022)
- Caecal diverticulitis can be misdiagnosed as acute appendicitis: a systematic review of the literature (2021)
- Elevated prevalence of nodal positivity in carcinoid tumours of the appendix smaller than 2 cm has a negative impact on overall survival (2020)
- What is a ‘mucocele’ of the appendix and how are these lesions best managed? Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing (2019)
- Diagnosing acute appendicitis: surgery or imaging? (2016)
- Patient and surgeon factors are associated with the use of laparoscopy in appendicitis (2012)
- Appendicitis in pregnancy: an ongoing diagnostic dilemma (2009)
22: Benign tumours
- Chapter 22: Benign tumours
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Hybrid endoscopic - laparoscopic excision colonic polyps (ESCP meeting 2019)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- The impact of a multidisciplinary team approach on the management of patients diagnosed with complex colorectal polyps (2024)
- Adenoma characteristics in the English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (2024)
- Robotic and transvaginal excision of rectal leiomyoma - a video vignette (2023)
- Nano-carbon guided robotic local resection for colonic laterally spreading tumour - a video vignette (2023)
- Robotic posterior pelvic exenteration for a huge rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumour - a video vignette (2023)
- Management of rectal neuroendocrine tumours by transanal endoscopic microsurgery (2023)
- The protective role of phosphodiesterase inhibitors in preventing colorectal cancer and advanced colorectal polyps: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
- Regular endoscopic surveillance and polypectomy is effective in managing rectal adenoma progression following colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (2021)
- Long-term outcomes of open versus closed rectal defect after transanal endoscopic microscopic surgery (2021)
- Linked colour imaging versus white-light colonoscopy for the detection of flat colorectal lesions: a randomized controlled trial (2021)
- Combined surgical approach for retrorectal tumours with intra-operative CT guidance: sacral chordoma - a video vignette (2020)
- Hormone replacement therapies, oral contraceptives, reproductive factors and colorectal adenoma risk: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of observational studies (2019)
- Clinicopathological features of colorectal polyps: evaluation of the 'predict, resect and discard' strategies (2013)
23: Principles of tumour classification
- Chapter 23: Principles of tumour classification
- Guidelines
- CAP Protocol for the examination of resection specimens from patients with primary carcinoma of the colon and rectum (USA 2020)
- AJCC 8th Edition: Colorectal Cancer (Europe 2018)
- AJCC Cancer Staging Manual 7th Edition - PDF (USA 2010)
- UICC TNM Classification of Malignant Tumors 7th Edition - PDF (International 2009)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Validation of the German classification system for quality assessment of right-sided colon cancer specimens (2023)
- The neoadjuvant rectal score and a novel magnetic resonance imaging based neoadjuvant rectal score are stage independent predictors of long-term outcome in locally advanced rectal cancer (2023)
- Development and validation of a novel prognostic score to predict survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: the metastatic colorectal cancer score (mCCS) (2019)
- Prognostic value of tumour regression grade in locally advanced rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2018)
- Colon cancer with unresectable synchronous metastases: the AAAP scoring system for predicting the outcome after primary tumour resection (2016)
- Clinicopathological differences between familial colorectal cancer type X and sporadic cancer in an isolated area of Spain (2016)
24: Genetics
- Chapter 24: Genetics
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Controversies in Colorectal Cancer Surgery: What is new in hereditary cancer predisposition? (2024)
- video Core Subject Update: GRC genetics (2024)
- video My Most Challenging Case: Inherited polyposis (2024)
- video A Lynch odyssey: 30 years, 13 tumours (2023)
- video Biology of colorectal cancer: Postoperative serum vascular endothelial growth factor and recurrence after curative colon cancer surgery. A multicenter study (2023)
- video Biology of colorectal cancer: Liver oligometastatic disease: a curable condition (2023)
- video Biology of colorectal cancer: ctDNA: a guide for management in neo-adjuvant, adjuvant and follow-up settings (2023)
- video Fate of the rectum or pouch and ATZ after surgery in FAP (2023)
- video Genetic testing and surgical recommendations: where is the problem? (2023)
- video Rationale for a required revised edition of the Spigelman criteria (2023)
More presentations on genetics>
- Guidelines
- EHTG/ESCP: Updated European guidelines for clinical management of familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP), gastric adenocarcinoma, proximal polyposis of the stomach (GAPPS) and other rare adenomatous polyposis syndromes (Europe 2024)
- ESCP Lynch syndrome, based on gene and gender (Europe 2020)
- ASCRS Guidelines for the Management of Inherited Polyposis Syndromes (USA 2017)
- ASCRS Guidelines for the Surgical Treatment of Patients with Lynch Syndrome (USA 2017)
- ASCO/ESMO Guideline for Familial Risk Colorectal Cancer (USA/Europe 2015)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Tumour genotypes account for survival differences in right- and left-sided colon cancers (2022)
- Young-onset colorectal cancer: Insights from an English population-based study (2022)
- Implications for the colorectal surgeon following the 100 000 Genomes Project (2021)
- Timing of prophylactic colectomy in familial adenomatous polyposis (2020)
- MUTYH-associated polyposis – colorectal phenotype and management (2020)
- Urinary volatile organic compounds and faecal microbiome profiles in colorectal cancer (2019)
- Experience of the implementation and outcomes of universal testing for Lynch syndrome in the United Kingdom (2019)
- The PTPN13 Y2081D (T>G) (rs989902) polymorphism is associated with an increased risk of sporadic colorectal cancer (2017)
- Translating colorectal cancer genetics into clinically useful biomarkers (2016)
25: Colon cancer
- Chapter 25: Colon cancer
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Ureter identification strategies in complex colorectal surgery (ESCP meeting 2024)
- video Abdominal surgical video: Mechanical intracorporeal ileocolic anastomosis: how we do it (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Abdominal surgical video: Preoperative planning of D3 right colectomy with 3 dimensional vascular reconstruction (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Abdominal surgical video: Laparoscopic splenic flexure mobilisation (ESCP meeting 2023)
More procedures/techniques for colon cancer>
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Laser speckle contrast imaging for intraoperative assessment of anastomotic perfusion (2024)
- video CME versus standard right hemicolectomy for potentially curable right colon cancer: a comparison of survival outcomes against known pathological prognostic factors (2024)
- video Cohorts and Audits: Update about results from completed ESCP studies: CORREA (2024)
- video Colon MDT Session: DT 1 - Standardised staging of colon cancer (2024)
More presentations on colon cancer>
- Guidelines
- Localised colon cancer: ESMO clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (Europe 2020)
- JSCCR Guidelines for the treatment of colorectal cancer (Japan 2019)
- Synopsis of Guidelines on Follow-up after Treatment of Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer (Europe 2019)
- Follow-up treatment for non-metastatic colorectal cancer (ESCP 2018)
- Comparison of Western and Asian Guidelines Concerning the Management of Colon Cancer (International 2018)
- ACPGBI Guidelines for the Surgical Management of Cancer of the Colon, Rectum and Anus (UK 2017)
- ASCRS Guidelines for the Treatment of Colon Cancer (USA 2017)
- ESMO Guidelines for Early Colon Cancer (Europe 2013)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- The risk of lymph node metastasis in patients with T2 colon cancer (2023)
- Association between plane of mesocolic dissection and recurrence after complete mesocolic excision for right-sided colon cancer: a cohort study (2023)
- Validation of the German classification system for quality assessment of right-sided colon cancer specimens (2023)
- Survival in relation to time to start of curative treatment of colon cancer: a national register-based observational noninferiority study (2023)
26: Rectal cancer
- Chapter 26: Rectal cancer
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Low tie vs high tie in low anterior sections (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Use of 4K 3D surgical exoscope during transanal transection and single stapled anastomosis: a novel approach for transanal surgery (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Abdominal surgical video: Pelvic phase of robotic TME (ESCP Meeting 2023)
- video Abdominal surgical video: Robotic transanal minimally invasive surgery for local excision of rectal neoplasms: a description of the technique (ESCP Meeting 2023)
More procedures/techniques for rectal cancer>
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Cohorts and Audits: Update about results from completed ESCP studies: CORREA (2024)
- video Comparison of laparoscopic versus robot-assisted surgery for rectal cancers (COLRAR): long-term oncologic outcomes of a prospective, multi-center, randomised controlled trial (2024)
- video Controversies in Colorectal Cancer Surgery: TTSS: transanal transection and single staple for anastomosis (2024)
- video Controversies in Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Palliative and compromised resections: what are the indications (with case examples) (2024)
More presentations on rectal cancer>
- Guidelines
- TaTME: Transanal total mesorectal excision (ESCP 2020)
- ASCRS Guidelines for the management of rectal cancer (USA 2020)
- Follow-up treatment for non-metastatic colorectal cancer (ESCP 2018)
- NCCN Guideline: Rectal Cancer (UK 2018)
- ESMO Guideline for colon and rectal cancer (Europe 2017)
- Organ preservation in rectal cancer: a synopsis of current guidelines (2017)
- National and international guidelines for rectal cancer (International 2014)
- Consensus on the multidisciplinary management of patients with recurrent and primary rectal cancer beyond total mesorectal excision planes (Europe 2013)
- ESMO Guidelines for Management of Patients with Colon and Rectal Cancer (Europe 2012)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Do or doughnut: a systematic review and pooled analysis on the utility of pathological evaluation of the anastomotic doughnut in oncological colorectal operations (2022)
- Empty pelvis syndrome: a systematic review of reconstruction techniques and their associated complications (2022)
- Metabolic positron emission tomography/CT response after induction chemotherapy and chemo(re)irradiation is associated with higher negative resection margin rate in patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer (2022)
- Rectal washout during abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer has no impact on the oncological outcome (2022)
27: Anal intraepithelial neoplasia and anal cancer
- Chapter 27: Anal intraepithelial neoplasia and anal cancer
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Trainee Video Session: High resolution anuscopy (HRA) (ESCP meeting 2019)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Anal melanoma (2023)
- video Core subject update: AIN/Anal cancer (2023)
- video Atypical colitis, proctology and anal neoplasia: Condylomata, HPV, and AIN (2019)
- video Atypical colitis, proctology and anal neoplasia: Personalised anal cancer management in 2020 (2019)
- video Core Subject Update: AIN (2016)
More presentations on AIN and anal cancer>
- Guidelines
- ASCRS Guidelines for Anal Squamous Cell Cancers (USA 2018)
- NCCN Guideline: Anal Carcinoma (UK 2018)
- ESMO/ESSO/ESTRO Guidelines for Anal Cancer (Europe 2014)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Patient reported long-term side effects on bowel function and anal pain in anal cancer survivors – 3- and 6-year results from the Swedish national ANCA study (2024)
- Short- and long-term outcomes of surgical treatment for inguinal lymph node metastasis in rectal and anal canal adenocarcinoma (2024)
- Risk of developing high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions or anal cancer after anal condylomata treatment in people living with HIV (2024)
- High-resolution anoscopy in a patient with a positive HPV DNA test - a video vignette (2023)
- Anal condyloma mimicking lateral spreading tumour removed by loop-clip traction endoscopic submucosal dissection - a video vignette (2022)
- A technical note on the treatment of large perianal condylomata acuminata - a video vignette (2022)
- Long-term bowel function patient-reported outcomes after successful chemoradiation for carcinoma of the anal canal (2021)
- Metformin use and the risk of anal intraepithelial neoplasia in type II diabetic patients (>2021)
- Perineal healing following salvage surgery for anal cancer (2020)
- Exophytic condyloma: are they as benign as we think? (2020)
- Systematic review of outcome measures following chemoradiotherapy for the treatment of anal cancer (CORMAC) (2018)
- Determinants of macroscopic anal cancer and precancerous lesions in 1206 HIV-infected screened patients (2016)
- The rising incidence of anal cancer in England 1990-2010: a population-based study (2014)
28: Peritoneal malignancies and colorectal peritoneal metastases
- Chapter 28: Peritoneal malignancies and colorectal peritoneal metastases
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- Videos on the surgical procedures and techniques for this topic will be added soon
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Improving Outcome in Colon Cancer: HIPEC for CRC: boom or bust and what about prophylactic (2022)
- video Colorectal Cancer: Cytoreduction with or without HIPEC for peritoneal carcinomatosis (2020)
- video What's new in immuno- and chemotherapy for colorectal tumours? Prophylactic HIPEC in high-risk colonic cancer patients (2018)
- video Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC in Colorectal Cancer (2016)
- Guidelines
- SICO Consensus of the peritoneal surface malignancies (Italy 2021)
- SEOM Clinical guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (Spain 2018)
- PSOGI Survey of Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC for Colorectal Peritoneal Metastasis (International 2018)
- ESCP consensus on the treatment of peritoneal metastases of colorectal origin (Europe 2017)
- ASPSM Guidelines for HIPEC in Colorectal Cancer (USA 2014)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Tumour deposits are independently associated with recurrence in colon cancer (2024)
- Laparoscopic peritonectomy with or without rectal resection for peritoneal metastases of colon cancer involving the pouch of Douglas: a video vignette (2024)
- Single-incision laparoscopic surgery for benign peritoneal cystic mesothelioma - a video vignette (2024)
- Robotic anterior resection and partial peritonectomy for rectal cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis - a video vignette (2023)
- Fluorescence ureteral navigation for colorectal cancer invading seminal vesicle with peritoneal dissemination - a video vignette (2022)
- Governance models to support patient safety when undergoing maximal effort cytoreductive surgery for advanced ovarian/fallopian tube/primary peritoneal cancer - a joint statement of ACPGBI, ASGBI, AUGIS and BGCS (2022)
- Laparoscopic cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for peritoneal metastases of colorectal origin - a video vignette (2022)
More suggested reading on peritoneal malignancies and colorectal peritoneal metastases>
29: Retrorectal tumours
- Chapter 29: Retrorectal tumours
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: The battle against a giant recurrent presacral tumour (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- video Trainee Video Session: Retrorectal tumours (ESCP Meeting 2019)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Presacral tumours (2024)
- video Core Subject Update: Retrorectal tumours (2022)
- video Trainee Video Session: Retrorectal tumours (2019)
- video Unusual Anorectal Pathologies: Surgical investigation and management of pre-sacral pathology (2017)
- Guideline
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Laparoscopic resection of presacral tumour - a video vignette (2024)
- Robotic removal of a presacral cyst (2024)
- Bleeding control at the internal iliac vein tributary during laparoscopic resection of presacral schwannoma - a video vignette (2023)
- Laparoscopic-assisted posterior–anterior approach for giant sacral schwannoma - a video vignette (2023)
- Resection of a large sacrococcygeal mass by combining transabdominal and trans-sacrococcygeal approaches - a video vignette (2023)
- Laparoscopic approach for giant pelvic aggressive angiomyxoma - a video vignette (2023)
- Long-term surgical outcomes after resection of presacral tumours and risk factors associated with recurrence (2022)
- Evolution of the management of retrorectal masses: a retrospective cohort study (2022)
- Laparoscopic approach for treatment of a retrorectal tumour - a video vignette (2022)
- Robotic abdominal resection of tailgut cysts - a technical note with step-by-step description (2022)
- Risk of malignancy and outcomes of surgically resected presacral tailgut cysts: a current review of the Mayo Clinic experience (2022)
30: Stomas and stomatherapy
- Chapter 30: Stomas and stomatherapy
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Prevention and Management of Complications: The wrong way around stoma (2022)
- video Standardised Trainee Video: Continent Kock pouch (ESCP meeting 2020)
- video Ileal pouch options: Kock pouch construction and complication management (ESCP meeting 2019)
- video Trainee Video Session: The perfect stoma - how to avoid parastomal hernia (ESCP meeting 2018)
- video Trainee Video Session: Stoma: do's and don'ts (ESCP meeting 2016)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video The modern colorectal surgeon: Positive healthcare effects of a novel digital leakage notification system for ostomy care to patient QOL and disease burden (2023)
- video Enterostomy (2021)
- video Defunctioning stoma - old problems, new solutions (2016)
- video Core Subject Update: Stoma complications (2015)
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- The effect of preoperative stoma site marking on risk of stoma-related complications in patients with intestinal ostomy - a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
- Pregnancy outcomes after stoma surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: the results of a retrospective multicentre audit (2022)
- The impact of prolonged delay to loop ileostomy closure on postoperative morbidity and hospital stay: a retrospective cohort study (2022)
- Risk factors for readmission with dehydration after ileostomy formation: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
- Ileostomy for chronic constipation: a good idea or just asking for more trouble? (2021)
- High recurrence rate after posterior component separation and keyhole mesh reconstruction for complex parastomal hernia: A case series study (2021)
- Emergency resection or diverting stoma followed by elective resection in patients with colonic obstruction due to locally advanced cancer: a national cohort study (2021)
- Risk and consequences of dehydration following colorectal cancer resection with diverting ileostomy. A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
- Predicting life with a permanent end colostomy: A prospective study on function, bother and acceptance (2021)
- Stop stigmatizing stomas (>2021)
31: Endoscopy: diagnostics, therapeutics, surveillance, new techniques
- Chapter 31: Endoscopy: Diagnostics, Therapeutics, Surveillance, New Techniques
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- Videos on the surgical procedures and techniques for this topic will be added soon
- Selected meeting presentation on this topic
- Guidelines
- BSG Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding (UK 2019)
- ESCP Consensus on Follow‐up After Treatment with Curative Intent of Nonmetastatic Colorectal Cancer (Europe 2018)
- ESGE Guideline for Self-expandable Metal Stents for Obstructing Colonic and Extracolonic Cancer (Europe 2014)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Factors associated with negative colonoscopy in participants with a positive faecal immunochemical test from the Danish Colorectal Cancer Screening Program - a population-based study (2024)
- Safety and feasibility of colonoscopy in nonagenarians: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis (2024)
- Endoscopic repair of ileorectal anastomotic sinus - a video vignette (2024)
- Protocol for a national, multicentre study of post-endoscopy colorectal and upper gastrointestinal cancers: The POET study (2024)
- Endoscopic-assisted sigmoidopexy: a video vignette (2024)
- Precision endoscopic submucosal dissection in the appendix: Navigating complex lesions with high-grade dysplasia - a video vignette (2024)
- Colonoscopic-assisted laparoscopic wedge resection versus segmental colon resection for benign colonic polyps: a comparative cost analysis (2023)
- Associations between patient factors and successful colon capsule endoscopy - a prospective cohort study (2023)
- Study of capsule endoscopy delivery at scale through enhanced artificial intelligence-enabled analysis (the CESCAIL study) (2023)
32: Anal and rectal trauma
- Chapter 32: Anal and rectal trauma
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- Videos on the surgical procedures and techniques for this topic will be added soon
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Core Subject Update: Obstetric injury (2024)
- video Core Subject Update: Pelvic trauma - how to deal with the difficult situations (2024)
- video Emergency Proctology: The role of the gracilis muscle in perineal reconstruction (2024)
- video Emergency Proctology: Obstetric anal sphincter injury (2024)
- video Emergency Proctology: Penetrating anorectal trauma (2024)
- video Emergency Colorectal Surgery: Colon trauma - how to tackle it? (2024)
- video Emergency colorectal surgery: Traumatic sphincter injury: repair now or later (2023)
- video State-of-the-Art for Management of Syndromes of Disordered Defaecation: Obstetric injury and incontinence (2022)
- video Faecal Incontinence: Traumatic sphincter injury: repair now or later (2020)
- video Interactive Trainee Workshop: Colorectal trauma (2016)
- Guidelines
- Review of Guidelines on Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries at Vaginal Delivery (International 2018)
- Review of the Management of Penetrating Rectal and Anal Trauma (International 2017)
- WSES Guidelines on Pelvic trauma (International 2017)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Irritable bowel syndrome worsens faecal incontinence after primary repair of major obstetric anal sphincter injuries (2024)
- The monkey chased the weasel: is it irritable bowel syndrome or faecal incontinence we find following obstetric anal sphincter injuries? (2024)
- Transanal minimally invasive surgery approach for rectal impalement trauma with combined rectal and bladder perforation - a video vignette (2024)
- UK survey of colorectal surgeons on the management of acute obstetric anal sphincter injuries (2023)
- A systematic review and a meta-analysis on the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injuries during vaginal delivery (2023)
- Overlapping sphincteroplasty and perineal repair of an obstetric ano-vaginal cloaca - a video vignette (2023)
- Incidence and risk factors for secondary failure after acute obstetric sphincter injury repair - an audit of 239 women (2022)
- Ano-rectovaginal fistula after obstetrical anal sphincter injury: diverting stoma does not improve the surgical results (2022)
- How to do it: delayed sphincteroplasty for obstetric anal sphincter injury (2022)
- Ano-rectovaginal fistula after obstetrical anal sphincter injury: diverting stoma does not improve the surgical results (2022)
33: Colonic and rectal obstruction
- Chapter 33: Colonic and rectal obstruction
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Sigmoid volvulus (ESCP Meeting 2024)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Colon MDT Session: MDT 3 - Obstructive colon cancer (2024)
- video Emergency Colorectal Surgery: Intestinal obstruction in patients with cancer: to operate or not? (2024)
- video Emergency Colorectal Surgery: Emergency colorectal surgery in low income settings (2024)
- video Innovations in Colon Cancer Treatment: Risk of bowel obstruction in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for high-risk colon cancer: a nested case-control matched analysis of an international, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (FOXTROT) (2024)
- video Emergency colorectal surgery: Volvulus: cecal and sigmoid: when should we refer patient to gastroenterologist and when do we operate? (2023)
- video Emergency Colorectal Surgery: Small bowel obstruction (2022)
- video Core Subject Update: Large bowel obstruction (2019)
- video Core Subject Update: Volvulus (2018)
- video Trainee Round Table Session: Large bowel obstruction (2017)
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Laparoscopic sigmoidectomy for sigmoid volvulus with natural orifice transrectal extraction (puppet-string technique for anvil insertion) - a video vignette (2024)
- Incidence of adhesive small bowel obstruction after surgery for colorectal cancer in Sweden 2007-2016 (2023)
- Development and validation of multivariable predictive models for recurrence and mortality following nonoperative management of sigmoid volvulus (2023)
- Delayed tumour resection after self-expanding metallic stent placement for obstructing colon cancer - a video vignette (2023)
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided colo-colostomy for the treatment of benign complete occlusion of colonic anastomosis: a case series and description of technique (2023)
- Short- and long-term outcomes following bridge to surgery and emergency resection in acute malignant large bowel obstruction (2022)
- A core outcome set for clinical studies of adhesive small bowel obstruction (2022)
- Laparoscopic management of small bowel obstruction after abdominoperineal resection and a unique method to prevent it - a video vignette (2022)
- A core outcome set for clinical studies of adhesive small bowel obstruction (2022)
34: Lower gastrointestinal bleeding: diagnosis and management
- Chapter 34: Lower gastrointestinal bleeding: diagnosis and management
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Emergency Colorectal Surgery: Emergency colorectal surgery in low income settings (2024)
- video SOS acute mesenteric ischaemia: creation of a dedicated stroke to mesenteric ischaemia and prognosis impact (2024)
- video Emergency colorectal surgery: Lower GI bleeding (2023)
- video Core Subject Update: Management of acute lower GI bleeding (2018)
- video Interactive Trainee Workshop: Rectal bleeding (2015)
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding: are STRATE and BLEED scores valid in clinical practice? (2019)
- A rectal bleeding algorithm can successfully reduce emergency admissions (2014)
- Risk factors for early re-bleeding and associated hospitalization in patients with colonic diverticular bleeding (2013)
- The prevalence of right-sided colonic diverticulosis and diverticular haemorrhage (2013)
35: Chronic pelvic and perineal pain
- Chapter 35: Chronic pelvic and perineal pain
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Patient with chronic anal/pelvic pain (2024)
- video Anodyspareunia: a challenge for modern proctology (2023)
- video Chronic Anal Pain: Diagnosis not Dispair (2021)
- video Simple solutions for challenging perineal problems: How to deal with chronic pain, anal stenosis, and recurrent symptoms post-haemorrhoidectomy (2019)
- video Common problems in proctology: Idiopathic anal pain (2015)
- Guidelines
- Consensus on Chronic Pelvic and Perineal Pain (International 2018)
- Chronic Perineal Pain: Pathophysiological Aspects, Diagnostic Approaches and Treatment (Europe 2011)
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Neuromodulation for the management of chronic pelvic pain syndromes: a systematic review (2023)
- Ninety-day morbidity of robot-assisted redo surgery for recurrent rectal prolapse, mesh erosion and pelvic pain: lessons learned from 9 years’ experience in a tertiary referral centre (2021)
- Chronic pelvic pain and rectal prolapse invite consideration of enterocele (2019)
- Sacral nerve modulation in the treatment of chronic pain after pelvic surgery (2012)
- What causes chronic idiopathic perineal pain? (2011)
- Long-term outcome of the use of botulinum toxin injection for functional anal pain (2011)
36: Perioperative management
- Chapter 36: Perioperative Management
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Challenging Scenarios in Pelvic Floor and Proctology: Evidence of perioperative optimisation in proctology (2024)
- video Cohorts and Audits: WOLVERINE (Wound closure and surgical site infection prevention strategies in abdominal surgery) (2024)
- video Cohorts and Audits: Perioperative optimisation in elective IBD surgery (PREP-IBD) (2024)
- video Controversies in Colorectal Cancer Surgery: Support tools for cancer patients (2024)
- video Core Subject Update: Enhanced recovery after surgery (2024)
- video Elective colorectal surgery system strengthening: measurement of the surgical preparedness index across 332 hospitals in 72 countries (2024)
- video Gastrointestinal stimulation as a treatment of postoperative ileus following cytoreductive surgery (STIMULATE): a clinical feasibility study (2024)
More presentations on perioperative management>
- Guidelines
- UEG/ESCP/EAES/ESPCG/ESPEN/ESNM/ESSO Guideline for the assessment and management of gastrointestinal symptoms following colorectal surgery (Europe 2024):
Part I: Sequelae to oncological diseases
Part II: Good practice guidance: sequelae to benign diseases - EAES, SAGES, and ESCP Rapid guideline: Bowel preparation for minimally invasive colorectal resection (Europe 2023)
- ASCRS Guidelines for the Use of Bowel Preparation in Elective Colon and Rectal Surgery (USA 2019)
- ERAS Guidelines for Perioperative Care in Elective Colorectal Surgery (International 2018)
- ASCRS Guideline for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolic Disease in Colorectal Surgery (USA 2018)
- UEG/ESCP/EAES/ESPCG/ESPEN/ESNM/ESSO Guideline for the assessment and management of gastrointestinal symptoms following colorectal surgery (Europe 2024):
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Current perioperative care in patients undergoing a beyond total mesorectal excision procedure for rectal cancer: What are the differences with the colorectal enhanced recovery after surgery protocol? (2024)
- Implementation of music in the perioperative standard care of colorectal surgery (IMPROVE study) (2024)
- Effects of a perioperative educational pathway on ostomy self-care, level of independence and need for visiting nurse services: a comparative observational cohort study (2024)
- Surgeon factors but not hospital factors associated with length of stay after colorectal surgery - a population based study (2023)
- Preoperative oral antibiotic administration in patients undergoing curative resection with stoma creation for colorectal cancer: effectiveness in preventing surgical site infection and the possibility of peristomal candidiasis induced by enterobacterial alteration (2023)
- Intrinsic predictors of prolonged length of stay in a colorectal enhanced recovery pathway: a prospective cohort study and multivariate analysis (2019)
- Receiver operating characteristic analysis to determine optimal fluid management during open colorectal surgery (2019)
- Prolonged hospital stay and readmission rate in an enhanced recovery after surgery cohort undergoing colorectal cancer surgery (2018)
- Perioperative fluid infusion and its influence on anastomotic leakage after rectal cancer surgery: implications for prevention strategies (2013)
37: Intestinal failure
- Chapter 37: Intestinal failure
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- Videos on the surgical procedures and techniques for this topic will be added soon
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Standardized documentation and synoptic reporting of complex intestinal anatomy in enteric fistulation and intestinal failure (2021)
- How to isolate an enteroatmospheric fistula in the open abdomen – a video vignette (2021)
- Incisional hernia and enterocutaneous fistula in patients with chronic intestinal failure: prevalence and risk factors in a cohort of patients referred to a tertiary centre (2019)
38: Abdominal wall reconstruction
- Chapter 38: Abdominal wall reconstruction
- Surgical procedures and techniques on this topic
- video Coloproctology surgical video: Robotic parastomal hernia repair with modified sugarbaker technique (ESCP meeting 2023)
- video Trainee Video Session: Abdominal wall treatment (ESCP meeting 2016)
- video Trainees Video Session: Laparoscopic incisional hernia repair (ESCP meeting 2015)
- Selected meeting presentations on this topic
- video Abdominal wall closure: Results of cohort study and plans for trial: education platform (2023)
- video Abdominal wall closure: Results of cohort study and plans for trial: trial (2023)
- video Abdominal wall closure: Results of cohort study and plans for trial: cohort study (2023)
- video INVERSE: Incisional hernia rates in midline vs Pfannensteil incisions after robotic colorectal surgery: a protocol for a multi-centre randomised trial (2023)
- video EHS-ESCP-EAES rapid guideline: parastomal hernia profylaxis (2023)
- video Parastomal hernia: knowledge gaps (2022)
- video Parastomal hernia: PROPHER (2022)
More presentations on abdominal wall reconstruction>
- Guidelines
- Suggested reading and educational material
- Step-by-step robotic parastomal hernia repair with retromuscular mesh (Pauli technique): a video vignette (2024)
- "Happy to close?" The relationship between surgical experience and incisional hernia rates following abdominal wall closure in colorectal surgery (2023)
- Full endoscopic minimally invasive extraperitoneal modified Sugarbaker approach for para-colostomy hernia repair: Technical aspects and 2-year follow-up results of a prospective cohort (2023)
- Expanding the concept of laparoscopic intracorporeal rectus muscle aponeuroplasty (LIRA) to parastomal hernia repair - a video vignette (2023)
- Robotic totally extraperitoneal retromuscular repair for parastomal hernia (rPauli repair) - a video vignette (2022)
- The incidence of extraction site incisional hernia after minimally invasive colorectal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
- Excision of anterior abdominal wall endometriotic nodule and reconstruction - a video vignette (2022)
- Radiological incidence of donor-site incisional hernia and parastomal hernia after vertical rectus abdominus myocutaneous flap-based reconstruction following colorectal surgery (2022)
- Addressing the empty pelvic syndrome following total pelvic exenteration: does mesh reconstruction help? (2019)
- Complex abdominal wall reconstruction in the setting of active infection and contamination: a systematic review of hernia and fistula recurrence rates (2017)
Varia
- Selected meeting presentations
- video Cohorts and Audits: Analysis of surgical videos using computer vision (2024)
- video Cohorts and Audits: Head-down tilt lithotomy position and well-leg compartment syndrome (HELP-CS 2023) (2024)
- video T1 cancer guidelines project (2024)
- video Obstructed defecation syndrome guidelines project (2024)
- video Learning from the Experience of Others: Negotiating for what you need (2024)
- video ESCP Research Update (2024)
- video EuroSurg presentation: APOLLO - Acute Presentation of Colorectal Cancer - an international snapshot (2024)
- video Barriers to surgical education for LIC trainees - can we do better? (2023)
- video Can artifical intelligence improve risk prediction and clinical pathways? (2023)
- video Diversity, Equality and Inclusivity working group (2023)
Last update: 27 April 2025