European Colorectal Congress

The European Colorectal Congress is dedicated to contemporary practice of colorectal surgery.

Key Topics

• SAFE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSANAL TOTAL MESORECTAL EXCISION
  • Current evidence and open trials
  • Transanal TME - select patients, selective procedure?
  • Specific complications and pitfalls
  • Surgical technique - key steps
  • Functional outcomes
  • Procedure teaching and safe implementation
  • Round table with audience participation
  • Presentation of the St.Gallen Consensus Conference on safe transanalTME
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• COLORECTAL SURGERY
  • Refractory ileocecal Crohn: resection or medication?
  • Anorectal trauma
  • When not to operate in rectal cancer
  • Perfusion angiography in colorectal surgery
  • Interdisciplinary management of colonic volvulus
  • Indications, technique, and long-term results of ventral rectopexy
  • Complications: how can the colonoscopist help the surgeon and the surgeon help the
  • Prevention and treatment of anastomotic stricture
  • Back to the future: mechanical bowel preparation and oral antibiotics revisited
  • Colonoscopist?
  • Improving surgical performance
  • Neuromodulation for fecal incontinence in 2016: sacral, pudendal, or tibial?
  • Treatment of uncommon colorectal tumor
  • Saving the sphincter - a story of surgical evolution
  • Prevention and repair of perineal hernia
  • Pelvic pain: clinical conumdrum or clinician`s nightmare
  • How to deal with a presacral mass
  • Ultralow anterior resection - how far can I go
  • Management
  • Restaging after neoadjuvant chemoradiation for rectal cancer and changes in surgical
  • Induction therapy followed by Dedicated Operation
  • An update on RAPIDO trial - Rectal cancer And Preoperative
  • Laparoscopic lysis of adhesions
• COLORECTAL LIVER METASTASES
  • Two stage hepatectomies
  • Time matters: synchronous vs metachonous liver resection
  • Liver first - evidence vs experience
  • Ablative liver therapies and radioembolization
  • Challenging unresectability - Clinical results from the ALPPS
  • Laparoscopic liver metastases resection
  • The EBSQ Coloproctology examination
  • Complex anal fistula - addressing a vexing problem
  • What your oncologist can do for you - outcomes of contemporary therapies and caveat for the
  • Getting out of troubles: leaking low anastomosis and non healing perineal wound
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  • When and how to perform an (extralevator) abdominal perineal excision for low rectal cancer
  • Diverting ileostomy - when to do it, how to live with it, and when to revert it
  • Pudendal neuropathy revisited - step by step release of the pudendal nerve
  • Established and new prognostic factors in oncologic surgery
  • To resect or to neglect: options for the primary tumor in metastatic colorectal cancer
  • Clinical outcomes and quality of life in complex pelvic surgery
  • Operative strategies for acute diverticular peritonitis