Colorectal Surgeon at @BaptistOnline Memphis. @VUMCSurgRes Gen Surg & @AdventHealth CRS trained. Winner of marriage & nugget lottery. Tweets are my own.
With watch and wait and non-operative management of rectal cancer becoming more widely adopted, are recent colorectal fellow graduates comfortable w/ the mgmt? https://t.co/BRVGlrk0n7…
@JuinBradyMD @KarimAlavi@TimXuSurg@JoshSmithMDPhD
A skyrizi commercial was on TV.
8 yr-old: What is Skyrizi?
Me: It’s a medicine for guts. A lot of my patients take that medicine for their colons.
8 yr-old: Oh. I thought it gave you more Rizz.
@ASCRS_1@ASGEendoscopy
First experience sp robotic #TAMIS@IntuitiveSurg IM dissection for early rectal cancer. 38 mins operating time. ✨Ability to adjust the 📷to the lesion. ✨Perfect optics and ergonomics for clear dissection ✨simplistic suturing. 💰aside= game changer in endoluminal surgery
Colonic stenting is an excellent option for an obstructing left sided primary in the setting of metastatic disease where primary goals are prompt chemotherapy initiation. But when tumor growth persists, the stent can become obstructed and resection required.