The prospect for non-surgical drainage procedures

Non-Surgical Drainage of the Gall-Bladder.

Early attempts at Duodenal Drainage. In I889 Boas succeeded in massaging the duodenal fluid back into the stomach, whence he recovered it by the stomach tube. In 1904, Boldyreff observed that the introduction of butter oil, etc.; had the effect of opening the pylorus and causing a regurgitation of the contents of the duodenum into the stomach. This discovery led Volhardt to administer a "test m...

Surgical Drainage for Ascites

Transtomography for implant placement guidance in non-invasive surgical procedures.

OBJECTIVES To illustrate the use of transtomography for the placement of implants using a radiopaque radiographic guide and to evaluate the accuracy of transtomography. METHODS The study included 11 implants inserted with minimally invasive procedures. Pre-operative, intraoperative and post-operative examinations were performed with a ProMax panoramic unit implemented with transtomographic te...

Pediatric abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: diagnosis through surgical and non-surgical procedures.

OBJECTIVE To describe the success rate and the complications after procedures to diagnose abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in children and adolescents. METHODS A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted with a population consisting of children and adolescents with abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosed between September 1994 and December 2012. The sample comprised of 100 patients...

Hypnosis for Minor Surgical Procedures.

Patients attending accident and casualty departments often present anaesthetic problems. They are usually unaccompanied, have recently had a meal and may be shocked. A full stomach means a delay of several hours before a general anaesthetic can be administered. Various measures have been used to overcome these difficulties, for example Pearson (1960) advocated the use of intravenous pethidine. ...