... period, they are followed up for any symptom and/or need forrevisionsurgery In our series, patients (36%) had previous surgery (one Caldwell-Luc and endoscopic ethmoid surgery) , besides this patients ... Malhotra R, Selva D, Wormald PJ: Efficacy of endoscopic sinus surgeryfor paranasal sinus mucocele including modified endoscopic Lothrop procedure for frontal sinus mucocele The Journal of Laryngology ... clinical presentation, endoscopic surgical treatment and differential diagnosis of maxillary mucocele with other cystic expansile masses of the maxilla and need forrevisionsurgery with review...
... QoL assessment for patient selection for laparoscopic surgery in specific diseases This is especially true for GERD, for example, when deciding on surgeryfor depressed patients [55] Evidence ... Millat B, Schwenk W (2002) The European Association forEndoscopicSurgery clinical practice guideline on the pneumoperitoneum for laparoscopic surgery Surg Endosc 16:1121±1143 87 In: Neugebauer ... follow-up for years is necessary The details of different laparoscopic (endoscopic) techniques are beyond the scope of this article Nephrectomy for Malignancy Key Points and Suggestion for QoL...
... GW (1987) Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes Oxford University Press, Oxford 76b Educational Committee of the European Association forEndoscopicSurgery and other ... include pH monitoring [9, 69] For diagnostic workup prior to surgery endoscopy, 24-h pH monitoring and manometry are important for the optimal selection for patients For the surgically relevant ... Need for mobilization of the gastric fundus (7/4) Need for dissection of the crura (11/0) Need for identification of the vagus truncs (7/4) Need for removal of the esophageal fat pad (2/9) Need for...
... sigmoid colectomy for recurrent diverticulitis As care after surgeryfor cancer of the sigmoid colon is similar, multimodal rehabilitation, i.e fasttrack surgery after sigmoid colectomy for recurrent ... and the information culled from the systematic review as outlined above formed the basis for the formulation of the draft consensus document, which was reviewed by the experts weeks before the ... ileo-cecal valve, which forms a clear landmark during colonoscopy [62] Special equipment is needed for clip placement Before surgery, plain abdominal radiography is performed to exclude the migration...
... Society for Bariatric Surgery (1997) Guidelines for reporting results in bariatric surgery Obes Surg 7:521±522 11 American Society for Bariatric Surgery, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic ... LD, Rhode BM, Forse RA (1990) Late results of vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid and super obesity Surgery 107:20±27 196 MacLean LD, Rhode BM, Forse RA, Nohr R (1995) Surgeryfor obesity7an ... (1989) Antibiotic prophylaxis forsurgery in morbidly obese patients Surgery 106:750±757 106 Forsell P, Hellers G (1997) The Swedish Adjustable Gastric Banding (SAGB) for morbid obesity: year experience...
... other endoscopic procedures, there is a potential for better cosmetic results The long-term recurrence rate forendoscopic hernia repair is not known Question Who Is a Potential Candidate forEndoscopic ... prospective randomized trials comparing preoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiography(ERC) /endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) with open surgery alone for CBDS Surgery 302 275 (91%) 283 15 (5%) 233 (82%) ... is not yet known LA is not contraindicated for perforated appendicitis However, more data for this subgroup of patients is needed LA may be attempted for an appendiceal abscess by an experienced...
... Laparoscopic repair of perforated ulcer was first reported in 1990 by Mouret et al [188] In two randomized trials, laparoscopic surgery was found to be superior to open surgeryfor perforated ulcers (EL ... Emergency surgeryfor severe acute cholangitis ± the high risk patients Ann Surg 211:55±59 79 Lai ECS, Mok FPT, Tan ESY, Lo C-ML, Fan S-T, You K-T, Wong J (1992) Endoscopic biliary drainage for severe ... European Association forEndoscopicSurgery Surg Endosc 9:550±563 112 Neuhaus H, Feussner H, Ungeheuer A, Hoffmann W, Siewert JR, Classen M (1992) Prospective evaluation of the use of endoscopic retrograde...
... article as: Neelapala et al.: Revision hip replacement for recurrent Hydatid disease of the pelvis: a case report and review of the literature Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010 5:17 ... acetabular component 80 months after index surgery having a hemi pelvic resection or an acetabular reconstruction leaving the hydatid cysts She opted for the acetabular reconstruction option due ... bipolar head articulated with existing femoral component She was given Praziquental for days and Albendazole for 28 days based on the advice from the infection and tropical medicine team Post...
... of the foraminal and extraforaminal area by forcing dorsolateral extension of the lower back, was positive in most patients Radiologically, parasagittal MRI at the foramen was useful for assessing ... approaches for performing intraforaminal and extraforaminal nerve root compression at the lumbar spine These include the interlamina approach [8], translamina approach [6,7] and extraforaminal ... caused by the foraminal stenosis It is not easy to differentiate intraforaminal and extraforaminal stenosis, or to determine whether there is a combination of intraforaminal and extraforaminal compression...
... of the foraminal and extraforaminal area by forcing dorsolateral extension of the lower back, was positive in most patients Radiologically, parasagittal MRI at the foramen was useful for assessing ... approaches for performing intraforaminal and extraforaminal nerve root compression at the lumbar spine These include the interlamina approach [8], translamina approach [6,7] and extraforaminal ... caused by the foraminal stenosis It is not easy to differentiate intraforaminal and extraforaminal stenosis, or to determine whether there is a combination of intraforaminal and extraforaminal compression...
... giác mạc PresbyLens (ReVision Optics, Lake Forest, Calif.), an ultra-thin lens implanted in the cornea ==> Kỹ thuật thấu kính lão (PresbyLens (ReVision Optics, Lake Forest, Calif.) ), cấy ghéo ... FDA announced approval of the Abbott Medical Optics (AMO, formerly Advanced Medical Optics) and Visx CustomVue excimer laser for performing the monovision procedure ==> Monovision LASIK ban đầu ... special multifocal lenses (bifocal or progressive) for presbyopia But in modern times, surgical remedies for presbyopia also are available for qualified candidates ==> Trong khứ, biện pháp khắc...
... to be helpful in detection of organ of origin for pelvic masses MRI has a sensitivity of 96% while it was only 77% for Ultrasound and 87% for CT for detection of pelvic masses MRI has been shown ... a limited value in differentiating benign from malignant pelvic masses The patient characteristics and radiological information provides crucial additional information on which to base a diagnosis ... discrimination of benign from malignant disease Am J Obstet Gynecol 1988, 159(2):341-6 Chen DX, Schwartz PE, Li XG, Yang Z: Evaluation of CA 125 levels in differentiating malignant from benigntumors in...
... institution performed whole body 18F-FDG PET/CT scans for 142 consecutive patients about three days before surgery These patients had been pathologically diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma by endoscopic ... written informed consent from the patients for preoperative PET/CT, and then collected their preoperative staging data and surgical results for this retrospective study PET/CT imaging Before PET/CT ... analyzed for prediction of curability The mean SUV of the primary tumor in patients who underwent non-curative surgery was significantly higher than that of patients with curative surgery Therefore,...
... statistically significant difference in the false negative rate for frozen section analysis for SLN biopsy for ILC as compared to IDC (33% for ILC, 25% for IDC, P = 0.385) Although this may initially seem ... unknown for that particular case The number of TP, TN, FN, and FP were determined for frozen section analysis compared to permanent section analysis for the finding of a positive SLN for ILC ... false positive (FP) were determined for frozen section analysis compared to permanent section analysis for the finding of positive SLN for ILC versus IDC Then, for both ILC and IDC, the sensitivity...
... account for this result First, these individuals may have had severe forms of OA that affected several joints concurrently To address the question of whether a more severe form of OA could account for ... JD, Peltonen L: Genome scan for predisposing loci for distal interphalangeal joint osteoarthritis: evidence for a locus on 2q Am J Hum Genet 1999, 65:1060-1067 30 Forster T, Chapman K, Marcelline ... them from positive associations due to type I error (for instance, a false-positive result) In the present study, using joint replacement surgeryfor idiopathic OA as a qualitative measure of joint...
... defined as statistically significant All statistical analyses were performed with SPSS for Windows, version 11.5 (Statistical Package for the Social Science, SPSS, Inc., Chicago, Illinois) Results The ... Liu for assistance with data collection and Shu-Fang Huang for superb help with data analysis and preparing the tables and figures The written consent was obtained from the patients' Family for ... for the presence of a squamous element where adenocarcinoma is expected Four theories regarding the histogenesis of adenosquamous carcinoma may be summarized as follows: adenocarcinoma transforming...
... radiation therapy (SBRT) for liver tumours due to CTV to PTV margin reduction Radiother Oncol 2008, 87:432-438 25 Wagman R, Yorke E, Ford E, et al.: Respiratory gating for liver tumors: use in dose ... guide the clinical decision of creating margins for different stages of intra-hepatic tumors Methods Data acquisition Eight patients with unresectable tumors within the liver were planned with non-gated ... isotropic mm expansion for setup error, an inferior margin for the patientspecific range of the diaphragm movement due to breathing, and an addition mm superior expansion for reproducibility of...
... to 10 Gy for early reactions, Gy for late reactions In the group assigned to receive 45 Gy to the whole breast, BED was 55 Gy for early effects, 78 Gy for late effects versus 60 Gy for early ... performed using the collapsed cone convolution algorithm of the treatment planning system, including the correction for tissue heterogeneity For each patient, dosevolume histograms (DVHs) for ... maximum dose 0.0009 Surgery 0.584 IQR = interquartile range KPS = Karnofsky performance status T = tumor N = lymph-node ** > 53.5 Gy for conventional fractionation and > 48.1 Gy for hypofractionation...