Optic disc pit: a review
Interchangeability of macular t ...
Backgrounds To evaluate in healthy eyes the interchangeability of retinal thickness measurements resulting from different protocols of Spectralis op ...
Long-term visual course after a ...
Background In phase III trials, the therapeutic efficacy of anti-VEGF therapy with ranibizumab (Lucentis) in patients with choroidal neovascularizat ...
Recent studies provide an updat ...
Background Recent reviews of blue light-filtering intraocular lenses (IOLs) have stated their potential risks for scotopic vision and circadian phot ...
The parameters of the porcine e ...
domestica) is an ex vivo animal model often used in vision sciences research (retina studies, glaucoma, cataracts, etc.). However, only a few papers ...
Subfoveal choroidal thickness i ...
Purpose To investigate the subfoveal choroidal thickness in eyes with typical age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and polypoidal choroidal vascul ...
Optic disc pit: a review
Background Since Wiethe first described the clinical presentation of two optic disc depressions in a 62-year-old woman in 1882, there have been many ...
Rosai-Dorfman disease mimicking ...
Rosai-Dorfman disease is rare and typically presents with cervical lymphadenopathy. The disease is generally indolent and self-limited, but it carri ...
Unusual metastasis to all the d ...
Metastatic malignancies to the hand, although rare, usually develop from lung, breast, and kidney tumors. Very rarely the origin is the gastrointest ...
Successful management of severe ...
Although many reports have shown that mediastinoscopy is an extremely safe procedure, the most serious complication that can occur is hemorrhage fro ...
Non-small-cell lung cancer: unu ...
Lung cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in both men and women worldwide. It is also one of the most common forms of cancer in Ire ...
Esophageal ruptures: triage usi ...
Esophageal rupture is a rare entity. Delay in the diagnosis and treatment may threaten the patient’s life. The decision for surgical or nonsurgical ...
Simultaneous double thymic carc ...
A 53-year-old man was referred to our hospital for treatment of two anterior mediastinal tumors. The anterior mediastinal tumors were resected by th ...
Suitable device for thoracoscop ...
Chemical pleurodesis is widely used in symptomatic patients with malignant pleural effusion to relieve symptoms, prevent fl uid recurrence, and impr ...
Use of contrast-enhanced comput ...
This is a rare case of a 68-year-old woman who was rehospitalized after uneventful redo double-valve surgery. An 8.3 × 12.9 × 16.4 cm tense right ch ...
Bronchial and cardiac ruptures ...
Tracheobronchial and cardiac injuries following blunt thoracic trauma are uncommon but can be lifethreatening. We report a case in which the patient ...
Surgically treated aggressive m ...
True sarcoma of thymus has no epithelial component. This tumor behaves aggressively with invasion of adjacent structures. Only a few anecdotal case ...
Total aortic arch replacement f ...
A 66-year-old man who had previously undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was admitted to our institution for surgical treatment of a r ...
Papillary muscle approximation ...
Undersized mitral annuloplasty alone is not always suffi cient to repair functional mitral regurgitation resulting from left ventricular enlargement ...
Three-dimensional computed tomo ...
Some variations in pulmonary vein anatomy can have serious consequences in patients undergoing lung surgery, but clinicians rarely encounter patient ...
Technical tips for concomitant ...
Combination of off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and epicardial pulmonary vein (PV) isolation is a less-invasive option to treat atrial fi br ...
Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule tha ...
Umbilical metastasis of cancer, known as Sister Mary Joseph’s nodule (SMJN), is a rare phenomenon. It is usually due to intraabdominal malignancies ...
Delayed cardiac rupture occurri ...
We describe a rare case of successful repair of delayed cardiac rupture due to blunt chest trauma; the cardiac rupture occurred 74 days after the tr ...
Castleman’s disease along the l ...
A 39-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of an asymptomatic middle mediastinal tumor. A preliminary histological diagnosis of the tumo ...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy wit ...
This is a case study of a 58-year-old patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, mid-ventricular obstruction, and apical aneurysm who had an episode ...
Multiple aneurysm repair: hybri ...
The present case report details our experience with the hybrid approach for multiple aneurysms in the aortic arch, thoracoabdominal aorta, and aroun ...