INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
FOR DIGESTIVE SURGERY
an Integrated Society of the International Society of Surgery ISS/SIC
​NEWS & EVENTS​
International Surgical Week 2021, Kuala Lumpur, Malayisa
The World's Congress of Surgery
49th Congress of the International Society of Surgery (ISS/SIC)
48th World Congress of Surgery (WCS) 2019, Krakow, Poland
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Prize Winners 2019
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ISDS Kitajima Prize (2 Prize Winners - ex aequo)
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Presenting Author: Ippei Matsumoto
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THE FEASIBILITY AND EFFICACY OF NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY FOR RESECTABLE PANCREATIC CANCER: A RANDOMIZED PHASE II/III TRIAL FROM JAPAN
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Ippei Matsumoto 1 2 3 4,*, Michiaki Unno 3, Fuyuhiko Motoi 3, Sohei Satoi 1, Suefumi Aosasa 1, Hirofumi Shirakawa 1, Keita Wada 1, Yutaka Matsuyama 2
1Prep 02/JSAP 05 Group, Sendai, 2Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 3Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, 4Surgery, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan
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ISDS Kitajima Prize (2 Prize Winners - ex aequo)
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Presenting Author: Vignesh Narasimhan
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OUTCOMES FOLLOWING CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY AND HIPEC FOR PERITONEAL SURFACE MALIGNANCIES AND THE EFFECT OF THE LEARNING CURVE: AN ANALYSIS OF 362 CONSECUTIVE CASES
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Vignesh Narasimhan 1,*, Toan Pham 1, Satish Warrier 1, Rob Ramsay 1, Michael Michael 1, Craig Lynch 1, Alexander Heriot 1
1Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia
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ISDS Grassi Prize
Presenting Author: Bharadhwaj Ravindhran
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DO ICE PACKS REDUCE POSTOPERATIVE MIDLINE INCISION PAIN, NSAID OR NARCOTIC USE?
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Bharadhwaj Ravindhran 1,*, Sendhil Rajan 1, Gayathri Balachandran 2, Himagirish K. Rao 1, L.N. Mohan 1
1Surgery, St.John‘s Medical College Hospital, 2Surgical Gastro-Enterology, Sakra World Hospital, Bangalore, India
47th World Congress of Surgery (WCS) 2017, Basel, Switzerland
of the International Society of Surgery (ISS/SIC)
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Prize Winners 2017
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ISDS Kitajima Prize (ex aequo)
PROGNOSTIC IMPACT OF NEUTROPHIL-TO-LYMPHOCYTE RATIO IN PATIENTS WITH RECTAL CANCER AFTER PREOPERATIVE CHEMORADIOTHERAPY
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Masaaki Nishi 1,*, Mitsuo Shimada 1, Tetsuya Ikemoto 1, Jun Higashijima 1, Kozo Yoshikawa 1
Hideya Kashihara 1, Chie Takasu 1, Daichi Ishikawa 1
1Department of Surgery, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan
DEFINING BENCHMARK OUTCOMES FOR ALPPS – AN ANALYSIS OF LOW RISK PATIENTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ALPPS REGISTRY
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Dimitri Aristotle Raptis 1,*, Michael Linecker 1, Patryk Kambakamba 1, Henrik Petrowsky 1, Pierre-Alain Clavien 1 and the International ALPPS Registry Group
1Department of Surgery and Transplantation, Swiss HPB Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
ISDS Grassi Prize
DEFINING OPTIMAL SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR RECURRENT HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA. A PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHED ANALYSIS
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Ka Wing Ma 1,*, Kenneth Siu Ho Chok 1, James Yan Yue Fung 2, Albert Chi Yan Chan 1, Wong Hoi She 1, Wing Chiu Dai 3, Chung Mau Lo 1
1Department of Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, 2Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 3Surgery, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China