Intermittent Exotropia, When to Recommend Glasses and When to Perform Surgery?

Bleeding from the Liver Capsule – When to Perform Surgery

When to perform surgery in stage IV melanoma patients?

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com nal, adrenal and splenic metastases are known examples in melanoma patients which can lead to signs of obstruction, bleeding and/or pain and good palliation has been described in these patients [4–6]. Also patients with metastases that may cause significant symptoms before the patient die...

Labral Reconstruction: When to Perform and How

Over the past decade, the understanding of the anatomy and function of the hip joint has continuously evolved, and surgical treatment options for the hip have significantly progressed. Originally, surgical treatment of the hip primarily involved resection of damaged tissue. Procedures that maintain and preserve proper hip anatomy, such as labral repair and femoroacetabular impingement correctio...

The distance angle to target in surgery for intermittent exotropia.

BACKGROUND Patients with intermittent exotropia may have an increase in their angle of strabismus in the distance when the angle is measured either after 1 hour of monocular occlusion or while the patients fixate on a distant target outdoors. The hypothesis that surgery should be performed for this larger deviation has been suggested but not tested. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that surg...

Should we recommend PEC and when?

Percutaneous endoscopic colostomy (PEC) was first described in 1986, by Jeffrey Ponski [1], who had invented percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy a few years before that [2]. Performed by 2 operators, PEC consists of placing a tube in the colon during colonoscopy in order to provide antegrade colonic enemas (ACE) in severe constipation or fecal incontinence [3,4]. The PEC tube can also be used a...