Laparoscopic surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: does weight matter?
Patients with IBD who were overweight or obese and who underwent laparoscopic bowel resection had no significant differences in the rates of conversion, major postoperative complications, or length of stay when comparing to patients with normal BMI. Therefore, the benefits of laparoscopic bowel resection should not be denied to overweight or obese patients based strictly on their BMI.
STAS was present in one third of resected lung SCC. In competing risks analysis in a cohort where three fourths of the patients were elderly, STAS was associated with lung cancer-specific outcomes. Our findings suggest that STAS is one of the most prognostically significant histologic findings in lung SCC.