ArticleAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2023
Fallibility of tattooing colonic neoplasia ahead of laparoscopic resection: a retrospective cohort study.
Article in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Compliance and Quality of Endoscopic Tattooing in Colorectal Cancer: A Retrospective Audit.Cureus · 2026Article
- Developments in the Use of Indocyanine Green (ICG) Fluorescence in Colorectal Surgery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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Abstract
introductionPrecise geographical localisation of colonic neoplasia is a prerequisite for proper laparoscopic oncological resection. Preoperative endoscopic peri-tumoural tattoo practice is routinely recommended but seldom scrutinised.
methodsA retrospective review of recent consecutive patients with preoperative endoscopic lesional tattoo who underwent laparoscopic colonic resection as identified from our prospectively maintained cancer database with supplementary clinical chart and radiological, histological, endoscopic and theatre database/logbook interrogation.
resultsSome 210 patients with 'tattooed' colonic neoplasia were identified, of whom 169 underwent laparoscopic surgery (mean age 68 years, median BMI 27.8kg/m
conclusionsTattoo in advance of attempting laparoscopic resection is vital for precision cancer surgery especially for radiologically unseen tumours to avoid adverse clinical consequence.
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