Background: Laparoscopic Surgery (LS) may be associated with many port site complications such as hernia, bleeding, infection, subcutaneous emphysema and ugly scars. Some of these complications are serious such as obstructed port site hernia . Rate of these complications is low depending  on size and site of the port incision, type of the trocar that it is used, the condition of  the patient a...

While a significant amount of work has been carried out on digital receivers to support flexible and adaptive high data rate processing for multiple systems, small interest has been shown on the RF part and especially the advantages of using a broadband RF front end. This paper presents a challenge raised in the design of a single flexible multimode and multiband RF receiver. It proposes a new ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study is to review the long-term oncological outcomes and adverse effects of post-operative radiotherapy (PORT) for Stage I/II seminoma patients in an Australian radiation treatment centre. METHODS This is a retrospective study of 125 patients with Stage I/II seminoma treated with PORT at the Alfred Health Radiation Oncology Service between 1992 and 2013. Patients ...

A 78-year-old man underwent laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy for gastric cancer (pT3N0M0). Multiple port sites were used, including a 10 mm port for a videoscope at the umbilical point and three other working ports. During the six-month follow-up evaluation, a 2 cm enhancing mass confined to the muscle layer was found 12 mm from the right lower quadrant port site, suggesting a metastatic ...

The five-port reflectometer has been recently applied to demodulators and radars, offering an alternative to classic In-Phase/In-Quadrature (I/Q) discriminators. In these applications, calibration of the reflectometer is an important task. Most of the methods developed are suitable for the instrumentation and measurement field and present a high degree of complexity. We propose in this paper a ...

Single-port TULAA was done in eleven patients aged 12 to 56 years (mean 34) with uncomplicated appendicitis. Patients with appendicular mass and overt appendicular abscesses were excluded. A 10-mm operating telescope with a 5-mm telescope and 5-mm working channel was introduced through a single 10-mm umbilical port. The appendix was visualized, and grasped with a non-traumatic grasper and evalu...

Central venous catheter (CVC) removal is indicated when persistent catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) occurs. This is a retrospective study to analyze the use of linezolid as a salvage therapy for CRBSIs due to coagulase-negative Staphylococci in children diagnosed with acute leukemia. Seven treatment courses of linezolid were administrated to six patients with port-type-CRBSI after...