BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Earlier exposure to laparoscopic techniques is thought to be beneficial for medical students. Reports have demonstrated that practice improves performance in laparoscopies. In this study, we intended to evaluate whether medical students' interest in surgery is affected by the amount of practice and the performance on a laparoscopic simulator. METHODS A laparoscopic si...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has become the first-line therapy for bile duct drainage. In the hands of experienced endoscopists, conventional ERCP results in a failed cannulation rate of 3% to 5%. This failure can occur more commonly in the setting of altered anatomy or technically difficult cases due to either duodenal or biliary obstruction. In cases of ERCP failure, ...

This text will be a helpful resource for any practitioner of dental implant surgery. It is concise, heavily illustrated, and full of practical examples of computer-guided surgery. At times, the reader may find the captioning of figures to be sparse, but there is certainly no shortage of figures themselves. The book is structured as two chapters of high-level description of the use of computergu...

Image-guided surgery and therapy is assuming an increasingly important role, particularly considering the current emphasis on minimally-invasive surgical procedures. Volumetric CT and MR images have been used now for some time in conjunction with stereotactic frames, to guide many neurosurgical procedures. With the development of systems that permit surgical instruments to be tracked in space, ...

INTRODUCTION Parallel to the advances in diagnostic imaging using positron emission tomography (PET), and availability of new systemic treatment options, the treatment paradigm in oncology has shifted towards more aggressive therapeutic interventions to include cytoreductive techniques and metastasectomies. Intraoperative localization of PET positive recurrent/metastatic lesions can be facilita...

UNLABELLED Intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG) has been in clinical use for many decades, yet the validity of this procedure in guiding resective surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is still uncertain, especially in tailored temporal lobectomies in cases of TLE with hippocampal sclerosis. METHODOLOGY Using a case-control design combined with descriptive and comparative analyses we...

background the incidence of prostatic abscess (pa) has markedly declined with the widespread use of antibiotics and the decreasing incidence of urethral gonococcal infections. objectives to evaluate different treatment methods for prostatic abscess and to describe technical points that will improve the outcome of transurethral (tur) drainage of prostatic abscess. patients and methods we perform...

Mediastinal epidermoid cyst is a rare condition that is considered as a congenital disorder. Various manifestations from asymptomatic cases to serious symptoms may be found in these patients. However, some cases may be diagnosed incidentally. Here, we report an old man with recurrent pneumonia who demonstrated symptoms of respiratory distress and chest pain. The high resolution computed tomogra...

CONTEXT Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the procedure of choice for biliary decompression in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer. However, it may be unsuccessful in 3 to 10% of cases. When ERCP is unsuccessful, the usual alternatives are percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage or surgery. Recently, several authors have reported the use of EUS-guided biliary ...

Background: Differences in blood pressure can influence the risk of brain ischemia, perioperative complications, and postoperative neurocognitive function patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA). Methods: In this single-center trial, scheduled for CEA under general anesthesia were randomized into an intervention group receiving near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-guided management during...