Awais Malik

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What is the minimum number of cases and minimum training duration needed for starting a colorectal fellowship program?

Pakistan doesn’t have a dedicated colorectal program or dedicated units exclusively doing colorectal. However there are centres who are doing a lot of colorectal work? What should be the minimical...

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How do you confirm a diagnosis of abdominal tuberculosis (TB) in an endemic country like pakistan?

With pulmonary TB so prevalent in our part of the world we seen a lot of cases of acute abdomen, or abdominal ascitis or strictures where our suspicion is high for abdominal TB but diagnosing it...

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Is high grade dysplasia from a rectal biopsy (repeated twice) a good enough reason to start neoadjuvant therapy???

I have a young female patient with a rectal mass 3cm from anal verge. Biopsy has been done twice and both times showed only high grade dysplasia. MRI shows it to be a T3 lesion. No lymph nodes....

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