BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the second most common cause of brain metastases in the United States. Although breast cancer induced brain metastases represent an incurable condition, some patients experience prolonged survival. In this retrospective study, we examine a cohort of patients with brain metastases from breast cancer treated with Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery to identify factor...

Robotic cutting of soft materials is critical for applications such as food processing, household automation, and surgical manipulation. As in other areas robotics, simulators can facilitate controller verification, policy learning, dataset generation. Moreover, differentiable enable gradient-based optimization, which invaluable calibrating simulation parameters optimizing controllers. In this ...

We would like to present a case report of a very unusual suicide attempt. A 48-year-old female patient tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself with a kitchen knife into her neck. Suicide by self-stabbing is uncommon, constituting only 1-3% of suicide attempts. Patients with self-inflicted stab wounds may have a higher incidence of surgical interventions based on the stab location. Surprisin...

Penetrating neck injuries can be a fatal event and they are difficult to manage for both surgeons and anesthesiologists. So, adequate preoperative evaluation is important to improve the patients' outcomes, but this can not be done for hemodynamically unstable or uncooperative patient. Here we present our clinical experience with a patient with a penetrating neck injury and who was hemodynamical...

Lumbar diskectomy is a common procedure in neurosurgery, besides the common complications broken scalpel blade during disc removal is a rare event. Usually retrieval of such sharp retained fragments in same sitting is difficult and to prevent further complications another session is warranted [1]. We report a case of broken scalpel blade during L1-L2 lumbar intervertebral disc removal and succe...

Cancer treatment generally comes in four modalities.' Traditionally, surgery of tumours was the most important, while radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy were introduced as new forms of treatment in the course of the twentieth century. Although chemotherapy and immunotherapy did not become standard until after the Second World War, X-rays and radium were used as alternatives to the sur...

Parotid gland or duct injury can be caused by assault with a knife, bottle, or more rarely, gunshot. Post-traumatic parotid gland and duct injuries are not common.The low rate of occurence of parotid injury may account for the missed diagnosis of parotid and duct injury on admission and, after a varying period, sialoceles or fistulas. This report describes a case of a post-traumatic sialocele o...

enables resection of large or nonlifting gastrointestinal epithelial neoplasms in an en bloc fashion. However, the high fre− quency of complications and the com− plexity of the procedure need to be im− proved [1±4]. In collaboration with the Pentax Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, we have therefore invented a novel electro− surgical knife for ESD, called the splash needle (DN−2618A; Pentax Corp.), wh...

Ihedioha U, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-219648 DESCRIPTION A 31-year-old man presented to the accident and emergency department with a penetrating injury to his left posterolateral chest wall. He was haemodynamically stable, and there was no significant bleeding from the entry point. Plain anterior radiography (figure 1) of the chest revealed a knife embedded within the extra...