Appendiceal Masses
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hosts:
Scott Steele, MD (@ScottRSteeleMD)
Dan Scheese, MD (@DanScheese13)
Guest:
Michael Valente, MD (@DrMikeValente) is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and Program Director of the colon and rectal residency program. Dr. Valente's specialty and research interests include cancer of the appendix, peritoneum, colon, rectum and anus, cytoreductive surgery/HIPEC, complex re-operative surgery, inflammatory bowel disease, advanced endoscopic techniques, laparoscopic and minimally invasive colorectal surgery, and surgical education. Dr. Valente has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has presented his research interests both nationally and internationally.
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| 0:00.0 | Behind the surgery podcast relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome BTK listeners. My name is Dan Shees and I am one of the surgical |
| 0:26.7 | education fellows. I'm excited to have Scott Steele join me along with our |
| 0:30.8 | guest Dr Michael Valente to discuss the somewhat challenging topic of |
| 0:34.5 | appendicile masses. Dr. Michael Valente is the program director per colonin rectal |
| 0:40.0 | surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He also leads the stage four metastatic |
| 0:43.7 | colorectal cancer program and is a specialist in terms of how we deal with peritoneal |
| 0:47.8 | carcinomatosis. So Dr Valente, welcome to Behind the Knife. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:54.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:55.0 | So super excited to have you here, and you know, Mike, |
| 0:59.0 | I just wanted to start off kind of very high level overview and talk a little bit about |
| 1:04.4 | a pendency on masses and maybe a little bit about the terminology you know |
| 1:08.5 | throughout the time that I've been in practice I've seen so many different changes |
| 1:12.4 | in terms of what the terminology you know what's a what's an adenocarcinoma is pretty straightforward but you know a |
| 1:19.1 | lamin versus you know a mucinous neoplasm all over can you give us a little bit of an overview |
| 1:27.1 | in terms of the terminology and then kind of how you think about things with that? |
| 1:31.7 | Sure absolutely and you're absolutely correct at things. Sure, absolutely. |
| 1:33.0 | And you're absolutely correct that the terminology is very confusing for, you know, not just the |
| 1:39.1 | patients who have to hear about these things, but multiple different surgeons and physicians and |
| 1:44.0 | pathologists all have different years that they train. |
| 1:48.0 | Some people, you know, there's different terminology that comes out kind of often and that this is a good time to talk about you know the NCCN which which is one of my favorite resources for all things cancer of course actually updated in March of this year has a little section section on a penicile and no carcinoma. It's like one or two pages in like the 700 pages of colon cancer, but it does kind of break it down a little bit in how things are kind of broken down. Big, big picture, |
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