PURPOSE We investigated early postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients with liver cirrhosis who had undergone radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 41 patients who underwent radical gastrectomy at the Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital (Hwasun-gun, Korea) between August 2004 and June 2009. There were ...

Massive fourth ventricle hemorrhage obstructs cerebrospinal fluid pathways and can also cause compression of the brain stem. In this report, a 5-year-old girl with fourth ventricle haemorrhage compressing the brain stem is presented. The fourth ventricle haemorrhage was evacuated surgically and the patient showed significant postoperative improvement. Massive fourth ventricle hemorrhage can dir...

Cerebellar hemorrhage occurs mainly due to hypertension. Postoperative cerebellar hemorrhage is known to be associated frequently with frontotemporal craniotomy, but quite rare with spine operation. A 56-year-old female received spinal fixation due to continuous leg tingling sensation for since two years ago. Twenty-one hours after operation, she was disoriented and unresponsive to voice. Perfo...

OBJECTIVE To review our experience with intracapsular tonsillectomy using powered instrumentation in the management of tonsillar hypertrophy causing obstructive sleep-disordered breathing in children. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Intracapsular tonsillectomy, a form of partial tonsillectomy performed with an endoscopic microdebrider, preserves the tonsillar capsule as a ba...

We report the first case of postoperative acute subdural hemorrhage following extended transsphenoidal surgery (TSS). The patient was a 74-year-old woman with a cystic suprasellar craniopharyngioma with panhypopituitarism. Extended TSS resulted in complete tumor removal. However her consciousness did not recover well. Emergent computed tomography demonstrated a right acute supratentorial subdur...

The LigaSure vessel-sealing system (VSS) represents a new approach to intraoperative ligation. This clinical study retrospectively examined the utility of the VSS in thyroid surgery. In this study, we analyzed 56 consecutive patients who underwent thyroid surgery. Characteristics such as operative duration, the volume of intraoperative hemorrhage, and postoperative course were analyzed and comp...

CONTEXT The absence of a definition and a widely accepted ranking system to classify surgical complications has hampered proper interpretation of the surgical outcome. PATIENTS Sixty-one patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The complications were classified according to the Clavien-Dindo classification; each grade was evaluated regarding the length of the postope...

AIM We aimed to evaluate the hemostatic effects and the clinical outcomes of preoperative and postoperative cryoceutical treatment (C-tx) following total knee arthroplasty. PATIENTS AND METHOD 42 patients received C-tx both preoperatively, and postoperatively. In the control group, 45 patients did not receive any C-tx. Amount of bloody drainage and verbal rating pain scores were noted. RESU...

At the happy ending of vitreoretinal surgery for proliferative diabetic retinopathy, when all proliferative fibrovascular tissues have been successful ly removed, panret ina l photocoagulation is completed and there is no iatrogenic break, the surgeon may wonder whether to consider any other intervention before closing the case. This question arises in microincision vitrectomies as well as with...

Post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage is a relatively common complication but life-threatening bleedings are rare. In this paper, we present a case who had undergone tonsillectomy with bipolar diathermy in an another hospital and who was referred to our clinic following a massive hemorrhage from the tonsil bed on the 27th postoperative day. Upon determining that the bleeding was caused by the necrosis ...