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Abstracts presented at the 13th European Colorectal Congress (#ECCStGallen), 1-5.12.2019, St.Gallen, Switzerlands presented at the 13th European Colorectal Congress (#ECCStGallen), 1-5.12.2019, St.Gallen, Switzerland M. Adamina • On Behalf of #ECCStGallen Scientific Committee Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 The 13th European Colorectal Congress of St.Gallen took place from Sunday 1.12.2019 to Thursday 5.12.2019. Over 1’050 registered participants from 75 countries enjoyed 46 Expert Lectures for another successful #ColorectalSurgeryWeek. One in ten participants submitted an abstract and 92 submissions were selected for presentation at the congress. The abstracts of all presented posters are printed below. Of those, an international jury (president Justin Davies, Cambridge, UK) selected the 3 best submissions and awarded the Poster Prize of EUR 2’000 on stage to Dr. Min Jung Kim from Seoul, Republic of Korea for her work on ‘‘Oncological Impact of Lateral Lymph Node Dissection After Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer’’. Rosie McDonald, Leicester UK was ranked second with her work on ‘‘In patients undergoing emergency resectional colorectal cancer surgery small bite closure of the midline wound is associated with significantly lower rates of incisional herniae’’, whereas Joseph Borucki, Norwich UK was third with his paper on ‘‘Risk and consequences of dehydratation following colorectal cancer resectino with defunctioning ileostomy. A systematic review and meta-analysis’’. Congratulations to all abstracts authors, in particular to the 3 best submissions and to the Abstract Prize Winner Dr. Min Jung Kim. {Correspondence Author} Michel Adamina, MD, PD, MSc, EMBA HSG, FEBS, FASCRS Chief of Colorectal Surgery Departement of Surgery Kantonsspital Winterthur 8401 Winterthur Switzerland Tel. +41 52 266 20 40 [email protected] www.colorectalsurgery.eu @MichelAdamina Winterthur, Switzerland University of Basel, Faculty of Medicine, Basel, Switzerland 123 Tech Coloproctol (2020) 24:629–662 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10151-020-02193-x