Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) allows diagnostic and/or therapeutic surgical procedures to be performed using very small incisions through which a camera and instruments are placed inside body cavities. We can visualise a magnified high quality image of the interior of these body cavities and joints using a highresolution monitor. Video-assisted surgery (VAS) is a surgical modality halfway be...

INTRODUCTION Minimally invasive surgical techniques offer patients the promise of smaller incisions, less pain, and shorter recovery times [4]. New technologies have allowed this rise in minimally invasive surgery making efficient and effective training of the surgical task vital to the continued success of this technique. Due to the challenging visual conditions and the unintuitive nature of t...

HYPOTHESIS In midline incisions closed with a single-layer running suture, the rate of wound complications is lower when a suture length to wound length ratio of at least 4 is accomplished with a short stitch length rather than with a long one. DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled trial. SETTING Surgical department. PATIENTS Patients operated on through a midline incision. INTERVENT...

Negative pressure wound therapy is a concept introduced initially to assist in the treatment of chronic open wounds. Recently, there has been growing interest in using the technique on closed incisions after surgery to prevent potentially severe surgical site infections and other wound complications in high-risk patients. Negative pressure wound therapy uses a negative pressure unit and specifi...

Minimally invasive approach for aortic valve surgery has been developed since 1995, reducing the complications related to the full sternotomy. We have introduced a new method for central cannulation that reduces the length of surgical incision for the aortic valve replacement through upper mini-sternotomy. To improve the surgical view without enlargement of the incision, two small additional in...

Muscle flap transposition is one of the surgical treatment options for empyema with alveolarpleural fistula (APF) or bronchopleural fistula (BPF). This surgical procedure is invasive because it is typically performed by standard thoracotomy. We performed video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) debridement, decortication, and obliteration of an empyema cavity using a pedicled latissimus dors...

Case reports of six patients having pre-existing corneal irregularities were prepared. They included patients with keratoconus, hexagonal keratotomy, corneal transplant, LASIK, ABMD and previous penetrating injury. Pre and postoperative refraction and topography were analyzed. All patients received biaspheric IOLs and some received corneal or limbal relaxing incisions at the time of the surgica...

Anterior shoulder instability is a common problem. The Latarjet procedure has been advocated as an option for the treatment of anteroinferior shoulder instability. The purpose of this paper is to explain our surgical procedure titled "Mini-open Latarjet Procedure." We detailed patient positioning, skin incision, subscapularis approach, and coracoid fixation. Then, we reviewed the literature to ...

BACKGROUND Lateral skin folds or 'dog-ears' are frequent following mastectomy, particularly in patients with large body habitus. METHODS We describe a method of modifying the mastectomy incision and suturing to eliminate these lateral 'dog-ears'. CONCLUSION This surgical technique, as compared to others described in the literature, is simple, does not require additional incisions and is cos...