Posts by Robert N. Goldstone, MD
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Answering Research Questions
In this video, Robert Goldstone, MD, of the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses how he tackles research questions that are not easily answered—preferring to review retrospective databases in order to generalize data for the entire community.
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Studies on the Age of Onset of Colorectal Cancer and IBD
Patients with a longer duration of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have higher cancer risk, but the exact operative approach and outcomes of these cancers has yet to be studied extensively. Robert Goldstone, MD, discusses his team's recent findings regarding the age of onset colorectal cancer in patients with IBD.
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Diverticular Disease Increases Risk of Incisional Hernia After Elective Colectomy
Numa P. Perez, MD, a general surgery resident, Paul M. Cavallaro, MD, a research resident, and colleagues have correlated diverticular disease with incisional hernias after elective colectomies, including those performed via laparoscopy.
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Should the Guidelines for Operative Management of Perforated Diverticulitis Be Revised?
For emergent management of diverticulitis, partial colectomy and creation of a primary anastomosis with proximal diversion is substantially more hazardous than creation of an end colostomy (the Hartmann procedure), particularly when performed by non-colorectal surgeons.
Biography
Robert N. Goldstone is a surgeon in the Division of Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Digestive Healthcare at Mass General
The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.