New trends in interventional cardiology, e.g. the increasing practice of coronary intervention with stent implantation and the prolonged use of dual antiplatelet therapy--usually a combination of clopidogrel and aspirin--has also increased the number of patients presenting for non-cardiac surgery. The two most commonly used stent types, bare-metal stents (BMSs) and drug-eluting stents (DESs), m...

Sir,?I must plead guilty to having performed many iridectomies unintentionally, and at the same time point out the cause of this little accident in most of my cases. This was a "bellying" of the blade of the Grafe's knife. If instead of the knife being, except at the point, of equal thickness and width there be a " belly " or greater width in the forepart of the blade, leaving the part near the...

introduction:foreign body aspiration is usually a serious condition that is most common among the pediatric population, and rare in adults. in adults, aspiration may be tolerated for a long time.case reports:our first case is a 38-year-old man who presented with a 2-day history of swallowing a foreign body. he was completely asymptomatic. chest x-ray revealed the presence of 5-cm foreign object...

UNLABELLED This study aimed at describing an alternative surgical technique to the insertion of a ventilation tube in the tympanic membrane: myringotomy by radiofrequency alone and associated with mitomycin C. AIM to show a surgical approach that can be simple to execute, not subject to complications arising from the ventilation tube. MATERIALS AND METHODS we compared myringotomy by microkn...

Objectives Hypoglossal schwannomas are rare. Surgical resection has been the standard treatment modality. Radiosurgery has been increasingly used for treatment. Radiation-associated secondary malignancy/malignant transformation has not been documented in the literature for the treatment of nonvestibular schwannomas. Setting The patient was a 52-year-old man with an enlarging high cervical/skull...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) was developed to overcome the limitations of conventional endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), and ESD has been also applied for large colorectal neoplasms. Since colorectal ESD is still associated with higher perforation rate, a longer procedure time, and increased technical difficulty, the indications should be strictly considered. Generally, colorectal t...

INTRODUCTION Schwannoma arising from the glossopharyngeal nerve is a rare intracranial tumor. Fewer than 40 cases have been reported. Accurate pre-operative diagnosis and optimal treatment are still difficult. CASE PRESENTATION We present one case of schwannoma originating from the ninth cranial nerve with palsies of the trigeminal nerve, facial-acoustic nerve complex, and vagus nerve in addi...

Microsurgical resection, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), and conservative management are three methods of treatment for intracranial cavernomas. However if left untreated, cavernomas may lead to intracerebral hemorrhage, seizures, focal neurologic deficits, or headaches. Deciding how to manage a cavernoma patient depends on a multitude factors. While microsurgery is the standard treatment for ...

We reported a young male with knife assault to his chest. He was transferred to the hospital without manipulating the knife. He was completely conscious and had sinus tachycardia and regular breathing. Emergency thoracotomy was performed and the knife was removed. No organ was damaged. This case presentation showed that in this kind of trauma, it is mandatory not to manipulate the penetrating f...

In the course of producing heavyweight lambs (above 35 kg), males need to be separated from females at end fattening period. If not, rams must castrated because they reach sexual maturity, and their activity bothers ewes or unwanted pregnancy may occur. The present study surveys if Hungarian sheep keepers know use non-surgical elastrator method for castration assess effect (surgical non-surgica...