For about two decades, investigators around the world have been trying to develop a safe, 95 percent effective method of nonsurgical female sterilization that could be performed under local anesthesia on an outpatient basis by nonphysicians, preferably after only a brief training period. Such a method has been called vital for meeting the worldwide demand for voluntary sterilization, since it i...

A 74-year-old man presented with right aural fullness after accidentally administering cyanoacrylate to his EAC. Dissolution acetone and careful removal alligator forceps was successful led complete resolution of symptoms without injury the tympanic membrane or ear canal.

Over the last decade non-thermal non-tumescent (NTNT) methods of truncal reflux elimination in chronic venous disease (CVD) are becoming increasingly popular. The main NTNT modalities mechanochemical ablation and cyanoacrylate adhesive closure (CAC). advantages avoidance tumescent anesthesia, low periprocedural pain bruising, high patient comfort satisfaction rates. CAC method has an additional...

BACKGROUND Circumcision is performed as a routine operation in many countries, more commonly for religious and cultural reasons than for indicated conditions, such as phimosis and balanitis. There are many techniques available, and recently electrocautery and both Nd:YAG and CO2 lasers, instead of blades, have been used for skin and mucosal incisions. However, the infection risk in circumcision...

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy of corneal gluing procedures for corneal perforations of mixed aetiologies in a tertiary eye hospital in Sydney, Australia. Design: Retrospective case series. Methods: Episodes of corneal gluing procedures were identified from the Sydney Eye Hospital surgical database over 42 months from January 2010. All gluing procedures in this study were conducted in the...

Purpose: Several studies have reported the benefits of embolization with N-butyl cyanoacrylate (NBCA); however, few them been prospectively studied. This study aimed to evaluate safety and feasibility NBCA embolization, including cases coagulopathy and/or unstable hemodynamics.

Editor: Large hepatic cysts may cause abdominal distension and tenderness, symptoms that can be relieved by reduction of the cyst volume. Sclerotherapy with absolute ethanol has been widely performed as a minimally invasive treatment for symptomatic hepatic cyst. We report a case of recurrent symptomatic hepatic cyst treated successfully with cyanoacrylate glue as a sclerosing agent. A 59-year-...

PURPOSE To describe symptomatic pulmonary emboli from brain arteriovenous malformation embolization with liquid acrylates and to analyze the reasons for these complications and describe preventive techniques. METHODS The clinical records of 182 patients embolized with acrylate glue since 1978 for treatment of brain AVMs were searched for evidence of symptomatic pulmonary complications. Origin...

BACKGROUND Skin adhesives provide an alternative to sutures for skin closure. The use of octyl-2-cyanoacrylate in blepharoplasty has been reported by some authors, but difficulties in applying the product and the real benefits of its use are still controversial. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to show a simple technique for closing the upper incision in blepharoplasty with octyl-2-cyan...