Subfascial Port Placement in Ga ...
Background In some bariatric patients with predominantly intra-abdominal fat a shallow fat layer separates the gastric band access port from the ski ...
Silicone-Ring Roux-en-Y Gastric ...
Background The objective of this study was to compare the effects of silicone-ring Roux-en-Y gastric bypass carried out by laparoscopy versus that a ...
Physical Fitness in Morbidly Ob ...
Background There is a growing consensus that bariatric surgery is currently the most efficacious and long-term treatment for clinically severe obesi ...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pati ...
Background The patient population that is evaluated for bariatric surgery is characterized by a very high body mass index (BMI). Since obesity is th ...
Development of a Group Therapy ...
Background The prevalence rate of mental disorders in severely obese patients appears to be high. In the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Heide ...
Determination of the Relationsh ...
Background The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between gastric wall thickness and BMI. Methods Bariatric surgery patients underg ...
Psychiatric Factors and Weight ...
Background Although pre-surgical psychological evaluations are commonly administered to patients considered for weight loss surgeries, the value of ...
Patients’ Experience of Surplus ...
Background Previous studies have described that many obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery develop surplus skin. However, there is a lack of ...
Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass as ...
Background Transoral gastroplasty (TOGA) has been offered as an investigational alternative restrictive procedure in our hospital for the last 3 yea ...
Occurrence and Care of an Obese ...
Propofol is a widely used, short-acting intravenous anesthetic agent which has a barbiturate-like and benzodiazepinelike suppressing effect via the ...
Inhibition of autophagy by 3-MA ...
Cisplatin (DDP)-based adjuvant chemotherapy is widely used for the treatment of esophageal cancer. However, DDP resistance has become more common an ...
May metaplastic breast carcinom ...
Metaplastic breast carcinoma (MBC) encompasses a heterogeneous group of tumors. Based upon the microarray of MBCs, these tumors showed features of b ...
FRAT1 expression and its correl ...
FRAT1 was originally characterized as a protein frequently rearranged in advanced T-cell lymphoma, which inhibits GSK-3-mediated phosphorylation of ...
Laparoscopic management of a pe ...
Leiomyomas are benign tumors frequently found in the fourth and fifth decades of life. Although the uterus is the most common site of origin of leio ...
Laparoscopic management of corn ...
Heterotopic pregnancy is the simultaneous coexistence of both intrauterine and extrauterine pregnancies. Cornual heterotopic pregnancies can cause c ...
Live twin birth after successfu ...
We report a case of a live twin birth after laparoscopic treatment of a ruptured heterotopic pregnancy. A 29-year-old woman, with a history of right ...
Appendicular desmoid tumour, an ...
This case report refers to a 17-year-old woman who was admitted to a gynaecological ward with severe lower abdominal pain. She underwent an explorat ...
A case report of incisional her ...
We report a case of postoperative bowel obstruction with early onset hernia presenting through a 5-mm port. A 43-year-old woman having undergone lap ...
Inadvertent insertion of a Fole ...
We report a case of inadvertent insertion of a 14-Fr Foley's catheter through the orifice of one branch of a previously unrecognised duplex ureter. ...
Early postoperative discharge f ...
Currently, no robust evidence exists for the optimal period for maintaining the suction drainage in the groin incisions for women who undergo inguin ...
Cardiac and gingival metastasis ...
Uterine epithelioid angiosarcomas are extremely rare; only 24 cases have been documented worldwide. We present a unique case of cardiac and gingival ...
Carcinosarcoma of the breast: r ...
Carcinosarcoma (CS) of the breast is a rare, poorly differentiated, malignant tumor which represents less than 0.1% of all breast cancers. It is str ...
Ovarian cancer and Mayer–Rokita ...
48-year-old woman with Mayer–Rokitansky– Kuster–Hauser (MRKH) syndrome, right kidney aplasia, a pelvic-abdominal mass, and an elevated CA-125 level ...
Laparoscopic management of urac ...
Symptomatic urachal cysts are very infrequently encountered in women affected of pelvic pain and uterine myomas. We report on two female patients ag ...
Mucinous cystadenoma of the ret ...
Big cystic lesions of the retroperitoneum are rare entities. Most of the cases involved females of reproductive age and were related to ovarian stru ...