{"title":"Expert Commentary on Management and Survivorship Considerations in Early-Onset Rectal Cancer.","authors":"Josh Sommovilla","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004405","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2429-2430"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148590767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chris Varghese, Ashok Choudhary, Ellen L Larson, Frank G Lee, Michele C Baier, Cody L Glabe, Jora N Just, Stacy A Friedrich, Amit Merchea, Justin T Brady, Jody L Selig, Cornelius A Thiels, Hojjat Salehinejad, William R G Perry
{"title":"Computer Vision Approach to Triaging Patient-Submitted Photos of Intestinal Ostomies.","authors":"Chris Varghese, Ashok Choudhary, Ellen L Larson, Frank G Lee, Michele C Baier, Cody L Glabe, Jora N Just, Stacy A Friedrich, Amit Merchea, Justin T Brady, Jody L Selig, Cornelius A Thiels, Hojjat Salehinejad, William R G Perry","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004366","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004366","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Surgeons and ostomy nurses receive a high volume of stoma photos from patients.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This study aimed to develop and validate an automated and scalable artificial intelligence pipeline for identification and triage of patient-submitted intestinal ostomy photos.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This was a retrospective derivation and validation study with stakeholder engagement to guide model design. Clinical teams reviewed photos in duplicate and categorized them into: 1) obstructed view, 2) healthy stoma, 3) suitable for conservative management, or 4) requiring in-person review. Pretrained neural networks, including MobileNetV4, ResNet50, vision transformer, and contrastive language-image pretraining vision transformer, were fine-tuned with 5-fold cross validation.</p><p><strong>Settings: </strong>Nine Mayo Clinic hospitals (2019-2022).</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Adult patients (age 18 years or older) undergoing surgery who submitted images within 30 days after surgery were included in the study.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Model performance was evaluated with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, precision, recall, and F1 scores.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In this study, 538 photos of abdominal ostomies were sent in by 191 patients (median age 52 years; interquartile range, 40-63; 60.4% women). Expert consensus triaged 236 photos (43.9%) as having an obstructed view, 30 photos (5.6%) as healthy, 177 photos (32.9%) for conservative management, and 95 photos (17.7%) for in-person review. All models achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve greater than 0.97 for identifying stomas. The contrastive language-image pretraining vision transformer model performed best at triage (macro-area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.94 ± 0.06; F1 score 0.77 ± 0.10). End-to-end detection and triage using contrastive language-image pretraining vision transformer achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.99 ± 0.01, precision of 0.87 ± 0.08, recall of 0.93 ± 0.04, and F1 score of 0.89 ± 0.07. Attention maps showed that the models focused on stomas to determine classification.</p><p><strong>Limitations: </strong>Low sample size and lack of prospective validation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A vision-language model pipeline accurately detected and triaged patient-submitted ostomy photos. Prospective evaluation is now needed to support integration into multidisciplinary digital workflows. See Video Abstract .</p><p><strong>Enfoque de visin artificial para la clasificacin de fotografas de ostomas intestinales enviadas por los pacientes: </strong>ANTECEDENTES:Los cirujanos y el personal de enfermería especializado en ostomías reciben un gran volumen de fotografías de estomas de los pacientes.OBJETIVO:Este estudio tuvo como objetivo desarrollar y validar un sistema automatizado y escalabl","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2521-2530"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148469391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kwabena Agbedinu, Antoinette Afua Bediako-Bowan, Samuel Gyasi Brenu, Cynthia Akli-Nartey, Joseph Yorke, Lyen C Huang, Ann C Lowry, Gifty Kwakye
{"title":"Compliance With the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Preoperative Checklist in Rectal Cancer Care in Ghana: Gaps and Opportunities for Improvement-A Cross-Sectional Study.","authors":"Kwabena Agbedinu, Antoinette Afua Bediako-Bowan, Samuel Gyasi Brenu, Cynthia Akli-Nartey, Joseph Yorke, Lyen C Huang, Ann C Lowry, Gifty Kwakye","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004261","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2418-2424"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148162170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Every Colorectal Surgeon Should Know About Private Equity in Ambulatory Practices: Structure, Practice Models, and Implications for Physicians.","authors":"David E Stein, Anne Fabrizio","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004387","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2413-2417"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148561080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comment on \"Recurrence After Ileocolic Resection for Crohn's Disease: Further Unraveling the Search for Risk Factors\".","authors":"Yi Luo, Chao Chi Yue","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004316","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2548"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148162207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transperineal Coccygeal Muscle-Guided Endoscopic Approach for Early Distal Control of the Internal Iliac Vein in High-Complexity Pelvic Exenteration: Technical Tricks and Initial Experiences.","authors":"Atsushi Ogura, Yuki Murata, Norifumi Hattori, Yusuke Sato, Shinichi Umeda, Tomoki Ebata, Mitsuro Kanda","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000004254","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>High-complexity pelvic exenteration requires extensive lateral dissection and often en bloc resection of the internal iliac vessels to secure margins. However, achieving safe, precise access to the distal pelvic sidewall through a confined operative field is technically demanding and hazardous.</p><p><strong>Impact of innovation: </strong>We developed a transperineal coccygeal muscle-guided endoscopic approach primarily to establish a reliable, anatomically guided pathway to the lateral pelvic compartments. Using the coccygeal muscle as a landmark facilitates precise identification of the distal internal iliac vessels and the lumbosacral trunk, enabling safer sidewall dissection and facilitating an early distal vessel ligation strategy.</p><p><strong>Technology, materials, and methods: </strong>Following the identification of the coccygeal bone, the coccygeal muscle is mobilized off the levator ani fascia. A targeted division of the levator ani at its lateral margin exposes the distal internal iliac vessels for early ligation under direct vision. This access clearly unroofs the lumbosacral trunk and sciatic nerve, permitting precise lateral pelvic sidewall dissection.</p><p><strong>Preliminary results: </strong>In 11 consecutive patients with locally advanced or recurrent rectal cancer who underwent pelvic exenteration with combined resection of the main trunk of the internal iliac vein between January 2023 and December 2025, this method yielded acceptable operative time (median 918 minutes; 579 minutes until completion of resection), blood loss (median 991 mL; 374 mL until completion of resection), R0 resection rate (91%), and severe morbidity rate (18%) comparable to published benchmarks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and future directions: </strong>The transperineal coccygeal muscle-guided route provides a practical, anatomically grounded method for accessing the distal pelvic sidewall. It represents a technically feasible strategy for managing the complex anatomy of high-complexity exenterations, though larger studies are required to confirm its impact on operative hemodynamics and long-term outcomes. See the New Technology Report Video.</p>","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":"69 10","pages":"2540-2545"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148982367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video Demonstration of Single-Port Robotic Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision Using Newly Developed Surgical Robot System.","authors":"Huichao Zheng, Kun Xu, Weidong Tong, Fan Li","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004287","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2536-2537"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148155735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christine Parseghian, Jane E Rogers, Grace Li Smith, Victoria Serpas Higbie, Y Nancy You
{"title":"Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer in Pregnancy and the Peri-Partum Period: A Framework for Developing A Coordinated, Personalized Care Plan.","authors":"Christine Parseghian, Jane E Rogers, Grace Li Smith, Victoria Serpas Higbie, Y Nancy You","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/DCR.0000000000004485","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149105463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anand R Navalgund, Steve Axelrod, Lindsay A Axelrod, Luca Stocchi
{"title":"Reply.","authors":"Anand R Navalgund, Steve Axelrod, Lindsay A Axelrod, Luca Stocchi","doi":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004305","DOIUrl":"10.1097/DCR.0000000000004305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11299,"journal":{"name":"Diseases of the Colon & Rectum","volume":" ","pages":"2547"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148041520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}