Senior Consultant - Lead Clinician of the Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit - Department of General Surgery, Fatebenefratelli Oftalmico Hospital, Piazzale Principessa Clotilde 3, 20121 Milan (Italy)
Paraganglioma surgery may require different approaches, depending on the different relationships of the paraganglioma with the surrounding vascular structures. The paraganglioma receives numerous collaterals from the blood vessels with which it comes into contact...
In 2015 I went to Prof. Walz in Essen, to learn the posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy technique. I had always performed laparoscopic adrenalectomy via the anterior transabdominal route, but when I was able to see the retroperitoneoscopic technique I was fascinated by it.
One of the most valuable tips that I feel I can give to surgeons in training is to learn how to perform an ultrasound examination. It is important that the surgeon himself perform the ultrasound examination, as an integral part of the patient's clinical examination. Many reasons for doing it...
In 2020, serving at the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo (the Italian District most affected by the "first wave" of the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic) and, subsequently, at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Milan (the Italian District most affected by the "second wave"), I got to know and treat many people hospitalized for COVID-19.
The LE-HIPEC technique was invented by Dr. Marco Lotti, who developed it in 2013-2014 and published it in 2015-2016 (J Min Access Surg 2016;12:86-9), [J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech Part B, Videoscopy 2016;26(3)].
The Advanced Surgical Oncology Unit of the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital in Bergamo was created in January 2014 and entrusted to Dr. Marco Lotti, who was its Director until October 2020, the date of his transfer to the Fatebenefratelli Oftalmico Hospital of Milan.
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