Preoperative Embolization of Carotid Chemodectoma: A Technical Challenge that can be Customized According to Angioarchitecture

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Intrathoracic carotid-body tumour (chemodectoma).

Tumours of the chemoreceptor organs of the neck, the carotid bodies, and the glomera jugulare are well-known lesions presenting as swellings in relation to the bifurcation of the carotid artery; by 1959 over 500 such tumours had been described in the world literature (Sessions, McSwain, Carl-son, and Scott, 1959). Similar tumours have, from time to time, been described in other parts of the bod...

O5: Technical Accident Reconstruction-What Can be Learned to Improve Medical Treatment in Trauma Patients

Annually, more than 1 million people were killed in road traffic accidents worldwide every year and an uncounted number were severe injured. In 2012 fatal injuries caused by road traffic accidents are under the top ten lists of causes of death in the world. It´s expected that in the near future road traffic accidents become one of the main causes of death in the world. Most of these fatal injur...

Preoperative embolization of intracranial meningiomas: efficacy, technical considerations, and complications.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Preoperative embolization for intracranial meningiomas offers potential advantages for safer and more effective surgery. However, this treatment strategy has not been examined in a large comparative series. The purpose of this study was to review our experience using preoperative embolization to understand the efficacy, technical considerations and complications of this t...

A Difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy That Requires Conversion to Open Procedure Can Be Predicted by Preoperative Ultrasonography

A prospective study was conducted from March 1999 to April 2000 that included 73 patients who underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy for uncomplicated gallstone disease. The study was conducted at one surgical unit in the Department of Surgery and Department of Radio-diagnosis and one surgical unit in the Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College and the associated Lok Nayak ...