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Recent developments in vitreoretinal surgery have increased the need for suitable vitreous substitutes. A successful substitute should maintain all the physical and biochemical properties of the original vitreous, be easy to manipulate, and be long lasting. Substitutes can be gaseous or liquid, both of which have associated advantages and disadvantages related to their physical properties and u...

82 M. Muharrem Erol1, Hakan Salcı2, A. Sami Bayram3 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, 2Department of Surgery, Faculty of Veterinary, Medicine, Uludag Universit, Bursa, 3Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Uludag University, Bursa, Türkiye. Trakeabronşial Cerrahi / Tracheabronchial Surgery Trakeabronşial Cerrahide Tek Ak...

Received: October 24, 2007 Accepted for publication: March 6, 2008 From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Jane-Yi Hsu Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Forces General Hospital 2 Zhongzheng 1st Road, Lingya District, Kaohsiung City 802, T...

Postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing robot-assisted thoracic surgery: a comparison between epidural and intercostal nerve block combined with intravenous patient-controlled

Cardiac surgery has been at the forefront of healthcare quality measurement and improvement for ore than 2 decades. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons STS) Adult Cardiac Surgery Database was introduced in 989 and now enrolls patients from approximately 95% of ardiac surgery programs in the United States. Robust eneral thoracic and congenital cardiac surgery dataases have also been developed and i...

BACKGROUND Thoracic procedures are currently performed by general and thoracic surgeons. Initial clinical outcome after training is a good measure of the quality of the surgical training received. METHODS We examined the morbidity and mortality for pneumonectomy, lobectomy and esophagectomy during one surgeon's first 2 years of practice; we collected data prospectively. The results were based...

To undertake a comprehensive review of such a massive subject as thoracic surgery during the Second World War is, indeed, a Herculean task. The sheer volume of material encompassed in such a study would tend to make the final result merely a list of statistical analyses so often encountered in the medical literature of today. Instead, the editors have accomplished a remarkable feat by interpret...

The article presents our own experience of organoprotection during thoracic aortic surgery under circulatory arrest and off ers concept for perfusion organs surgical interventions dissection aneurysms.