Social distancing to curb the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical and surgical education. This health crisis led us to raise doubts, controversies, and dilemmas in health care in general, and in surgery in particular, understanding that residents are possibly as or more vulnerable than all health professionals. During the 32nd International Congress of General Surgery in Cordoba, which was the first general surgery congress held in Argentina during 2021; The Association of Residents and Concurrent Surgery of Cordoba presented its official report about the current challenges faced by residents during their surgical training.

Los tumores retroperitoneales primarios pueden ser neoplasias malignas o benignas, de las cuales el quiste mesentérico tiene presentación infrecuente. Su amplia variedad histológica incluye quistes linfáticos simples o linfangiomas, estos últimos congénitos o adquiridos, y de localización intraabdominal excepcional. Su presentación reconoce tres formas clínicas: incidental, inespecífica y aguda; cuyo abordaje terapéutico depende de las características imagenológicas, e implica el drenaje percutáneo preoperatorio en quistes gigantes, a fin de disminuir la volumetría tumoral y garantizar la quistectomía radical sin riesgo de recidiva. Se presentan 2 casos de síndrome de abdomen agudo secundario a masas quísticas retroperitoneales gigantes resueltos a través de abordaje mínimamente invasivo y revisión bibliográfica.

In Argentina, the second wave of COVID-19, which started in May, clearly differentiates us from the rest of the Latin American countries, whose current growth may be the announcement of the expected autumn-winter expansion. There is a lot of uncertainty about how the pandemic will evolve, which contrasts with the expectations that had been generated in society after the end of the confinement, both of the control of the health system and access to effective vaccines. Thus, a group of surgeons in training raised a series of concerns concerning the critical situation that we are facing.

Social distancing to curb the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted medical and surgical education. This health crisis led us to raise doubts, controversies, and dilemmas in health care in general, and in surgery in particular, understanding that residents are possibly as or more vulnerable than all health professionals. During the 32nd International Congress of General Surgery in Cordoba, which was the first general surgery congress held in Argentina during 2021; The Association of Residents and Concurrent Surgery of Córdoba presented its official report about the current challenges faced by residents during their surgical training.