The stomach exposed through the midline incision.
My last video in 2008, this total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction for stomach cancer, was published today on www.oncolex.no. Read more »
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Total gastrectomy video
Posted in Surgery, Videos with tags cancer, gastrectomy, gastric cancer, roux-en-y, stomach cancer on December 17, 2008 by ØysteinInner scents revisited
Posted in Surgery with tags cancer, gastrectomy, gastrointestinal, gist, sarcoma, stomach on May 21, 2008 by Øystein
A while ago I wrote a post about the smell of smoke from electrosurgery, wherein I said:
Opening the abdominal cavity does not emit any smells, unless there’s some infected parts, necrotic tissue, pierced bowels or gas present.
This week I filmed an operation where the bowels, or actually the stomach, was pierced on purpose. Read more »
Plumbing and black nodes
Posted in Surgery with tags cancer, gastrectomy, melanoma, metastasis on February 26, 2008 by Øystein
Postponing is always a factor in my work. Operations are rescheduled all the time for various reasons. Last week I had prepared to film a major amputation, but ended up in the stomach and groin instead.
On this particular day I was originally going to film a hemipelvectomy (or transpelvic amputation, if you like). I’d spent some of the previous day reading up on the subject and was well prepared. Only to find out the next morning that the operation was postponed. The patient had gotten a venous thrombosis and was in no condition for this radical surgery. Must be tough on the patient. He’d probably had some hard nights of mental preparation.
So no amputation, but incidentally a total gastrectomy was on. Read more »
