Total laparoscopic restorative proctocolectomy: are there advantages compared with the open and hand-assisted approaches?
There were no significant short-term benefits for total laparoscopic compared with hand-assisted laparoscopic restorative proctocolectomy with respect to early morbidity, operating time, quality of life, costs, and hospital stay.
If, at the time of ultrasound-guided needle core biopsy of BI-RADS assessment category 4 and 5 breast lesions, the radiologist is>90% confident that the lesion has been adequately sampled, a single pass is usually sufficient for diagnosis.