Radiographic techniques for the ...
Purpose/background Acute gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) is an emergency with high mortality rates, which requires a quick localization and treatmen ...
Nutritional support in patients ...
Gastrointestinal fistulas (GIFs) arise as a complication of the surgical treatment of a number of malignant and non-malignant diseases. Fluid loss a ...
Accuracy of CT-assisted pedicle ...
Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of pedicle screw placement after computed tomography (CT)-assisted positioning of gu ...
Therapeutic and interventional ...
Introduction Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding remains a common clinical problem encountered by every emergency room and trauma physician. Endoscopy re ...
Metabolic consequences of patie ...
Methods and Materials The historical highlights of the management of fistulas of the gastrointestinal tract during the past century are presented br ...
3D-based navigation in posterio ...
Introduction Navigated procedures in spinal surgery have been established due to an increasing demand for precision. Especially, 3D C-arms connected ...
O-arm-based spinal navigation ...
Since the first use of instrument-tracking techniques in the early 1990s, image-guided technologies became a leading topic in all branches of spine ...
Resuscitation and monitoring in ...
Introduction Gastrointestinal bleeding is a common lifethreatening problem, causing significant mortality, costs and resource allocation. Its manage ...
The surgical anatomy and etiolo ...
Background Fistulas are abnormal communications between two epithelial surfaces, either between two portions of the intestine, between the intestine ...
Postoperative wound manipulatio ...
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental illness with a prevalence of 1.5% in Western countries. One of the major characteristics of patien ...
Evaluation of biocompatibility ...
Although a wide range of materials has been used as implants in reconstructive or cosmetic surgery, many implant materials proved to be of limited u ...
Antiseptic sutures: clinical ev ...
The use of antiseptic sutures may constitute an interesting way to prevent early contamination of surgical wounds by microorganisms found in the env ...
Use of fibula pedicle as a comp ...
We report a case of free fibula osteomyocutaneous flap whose skin paddle had a dominant blood supply from a soleus musculocutaneous perforator which ...
Mutaf procedure: expanding the ...
Depressed scars may be congenital or acquired. Different methods have been widely used for the correction of these deformities. The Mutaf procedure ...
Squamous cell carcinoma of the ...
In Nigeria, Tanzania and Togo, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the commonest skin malignancy. This is in contrast with the Caucasians in Europe, No ...
Deep sternal wound infection af ...
The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the results of reconstructing infected poststernotomy wounds, with either sternal plating and/ ...
Gynaecomastia: considerations a ...
The body habitus, age and expectations of men presenting with gynaecomastia are changing. Formerly, gynaecomastia presented mainly as a problem of p ...
A fifteen-year experience of bu ...
Buttock augmentation is one of the most popular procedures to shape and augment the gluteal region. The major literature regarding this topic accent ...
The versatility of the hatchet ...
The Hatchet flap is a well-known flap used to cover round defects with primary closure of the donor sites in a V–Y fashion. This provides a stable c ...
Deepithelialized reverse pedicl ...
Reverse pedicled forearm flap is a reliable and easy option for hand and wrist reconstruction. Between 2000 and 2009, eight patients underwent elect ...
Pedicled vertical myocutaneous ...
Management of the complex abdominal wall defect after tumour extipiration represents a challenge and requires careful planning. We report a case of ...
Macrolane™ complications after ...
Macrolane™ (Q-Med AB, Uppsala, Sweden), an injectable preparation of stabilised hyaluronic acidbased gel of non-animal origin (NASHA-based gel), is ...
Tuberculous tenosynovitis of ha ...
Tuberculous tenosynovitis of the wrist and hand is a rare condition that presents as chronic painless swelling, tenosynovitis and occasional compres ...
Versatility of perforator spari ...
Eleven perforator-sparing gluteal fasciocutaneous rotation flaps were used for coverage of pressure sores in 10 patients with mean age 38.4 years. N ...
The open sky approach to brow s ...
This study was conducted to review the results of the open sky approach to frontalis suspension surgery for upper eyelid ptosis and reduced levator ...