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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Research interests

Perioperative risk stratification
Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS)
Natural history of colorectal disease

Personal interests

Music
Cricket

Publications

The Prevention and Treatment of Complications in Proctology (Book chapter)
Thorn CC and Warusavitarne JH
Treatment of Postoperative complications after Digestive Surgery 2013: 267-287

The Waterlow Score for risk assessment in surgical patients
Thorn CC, Smith M, Aziz O, Holme T
Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2013; 95(1): 52-56

Utility of the Surgical Apgar Score in a District General Hospital
Thorn CC, Chan M, Sinha N, Harrison RA
World J Surg 2012 May; 36(5):1066-73

Oligonucleotide microarray expression profiling of contrasting invasive phenotypes in colorectal cancer (Book chapter)
Thorn CC, Williams D, Freeman TC.
Methods Mol Biol. 2011;755:203-21.

Giant cystic lymphangioma in childhood: a rare differential for the acute abdomen
Talukdar S, Alagaratnam S, Sinha A, Thorn C, Elton C
BMJ Case Reports 2011; DOI: 10.1136/bcr.04.2011.4105

Pancreatic and peri-pancreatic somatostatinomas
Williamson JML, Thorn CC, Spalding D, Williamson RCN
Ann R Coll Surg Engl 2011; 93: 356-60

The feasibility and role of laparoscopic surgery in rectal cancer
Thorn CC, Mathur P, Elton C
Current Colorectal Cancer Reports 2011;7(1): 80-88.

Laser microdissection expression profiling of marginal edges of colorectal tumours reveals evidence of increased lactate metabolism in the aggressive phenotype
Thorn CC, Freeman TC, Scott N, Guillou PJ, Jayne DG
Gut 2009; 58: 404-412

The impact of spontaneous tumour perforation on outcome following colon cancer surgery.
Abdelrazeq AS, Scott N, Thorn C, Verbeke CS, Ambrose NS, Botterill ID, Jayne DG.
Colorectal Disease 2008 Oct;10(8):775-80

Which factors affect lymph node yield in surgery for rectal cancer?
Thorn CC, Woodcock NP, Scott N, Verbeke CS, Scott SB, Ambrose NS
Colorectal Disease 2004 Sep;6(5):356-61

Lymph node retrieval after neoadjuvant radiotherapy for rectal adenocarcinoma.
Scott NS, Thorn CC, Jayne DJ
Journal of Clinical Pathology 2004 Mar;57(3):335-6.

Courses offered to GPs

Colorectal and General Surgical Diseases on request.