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Meet the executive... Antonino Spinelli

Antonino Spinelli

22 April 2021

Antonino Spinelli is ESCP's General Secretary and newly elected President in Waiting. He is Director of the Colon and Rectal Surgery Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital and Full Professor of Surgery at Humanitas University.

Methods of colostomy construction: no effect on parastomal hernia rate

8 April 2021

Paper of the Month for April looks at a trial comparing the parastomal hernia rates one year after the construction of an end colostomy by three surgical techniques: cruciate incision, circular incision in the fascia and using prophylactic mesh.

Global Reach webinar preview - Per Lindnér on SECA and SOULMATE

Cristián Gallardo and Per Lindnér 

18 March 2021

Cristián Gallardo interviews Per Lindnér ahead of his talk at ESCP’s upcoming Global Reach Webinar: 'Translating Evidence into Practice'.

Transanal rectal transection with a single‐stapled (TTSS) anastomosis

Miguel Cunha and Antonio Spinelli

18 March 2021

In Episode 2 of our Colorectal Cutting Edge series, Miguel Cunha interviews Professor Antonino Spinelli about TTSS, a new anastomotic technique.

Widespread anorectal lymphovascular networks and tissue drainage: analyses from submucosal India ink injection and indocyanine green fluorescence imaging

17 March 2021

March's Paper of the Month looks at a study aimed to analyse the functional lymphovascular network and tissue drainage in the anorectal region.