Welcome to the final installment of Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today’s three-part series highlighting corneal ectasia. This article discusses corneal collagen cross-linking with riboflavin, the latest addition to our armamentarium for the treatment of keratoconus and for stabilizing corneal ectasia after keratorefractive surgery. Internationally, cross-linking is widely becoming an accepted ...

conclusions previous abdominal surgery, including previous colonic surgery, confers no added risk of conversion to an open operation, morbidity or mortality for patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. the operative time however is longer (30 minutes) for patients with previous colonic surgery. results out of 718 patients 476 had no previous abdominal surgery (group a), whilst 190 p...

the results of standard and augmented surgical treatment of partial accommodative esotropia have been compared in this study.in this sequential matched randomized double blind clinical trial, we studied 48 patients (96 eyes) with partial accommodative esotropia between the ages of 13 to to 144 months, referring to strabismus clinic of farabi eye hospital between 1999-2000. these patients were g...

mediastinal tracheostomy is a complex surgical procedure for the management of airway reconstruction in patients whose distal trachea is not sufficiently long to be reconstructed as cervical tracheostomy after tracheal resection for malignant diseases. in this article (study), we present our 10 year experience of this uncommon procedure in thoracic surgery ward of imam khomeini's hospital, tehr...

abstract background: the incidence of early wound related complications is assessed in laparoscopic versus open abdominal surgeries. complications of surgical wounds (esp. wound infections) are considered as a major problem in surgery wards. complications of surgical wounds are classified as early and late. common and early complications are hematoma, seroma and wound infection. methods: the me...

for the first time we have used eyelid skin expansion to facilitate reconstruction of selected patients with shortage of lid skin (e.g. for burn scar and after excision of tumors). this method allows for a controlled increase in skin, need for reconstruction, and offers many advantages over grafted skin transfered from a distance. color, texture, thinness, delicacy and adnexal structures are ae...

conclusions sils appendectomy can be successfully performed by trainees on all-comers with comparable resource utilisation and clinical outcomes to those achieved by junior trainees performing a conventional three-port laparoscopic approach. results seventeen patients had sils operations: 15 appendectomies, one resection of inflamed meckel’s diverticulum and one appendectomy with oophorectomy. ...

phyllodes tumors are biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasms of the breast. while the surgical management of these relatively uncommon tumors has been addressed in the literature, few reports have commented on the surgical approach to tumors greater than ten centimetres in diameter – the giant phyllodes tumor. we report a case of giant breast tumors and discuss the techniques utilized for pre-operat...

to evaluate results of concurrent functional endoscopic sinus surgery (fess) and nasal plastic surgery in terms of safety, efficacy and patient satisfaction, and compare them with the results of single procedures. we conducted a prospective case control study in three groups of patients with chronic sinusitis and nasal deformity; 25 cases had concurrent fess and rhinoplasty, 25 controls had fes...