OBJECTIVES To investigate effects of the limited two-port video assisted thoracic surgery on treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 96 patients with spontaneous pneumothorax who underwent video assisted thoracic surgery was conducted in the present study, in which 23 cases underwent the limited two-port video assisted thoracic surgery while 73 cases treated...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of first metatarsophalangeal joint arthroplasty compared with standard, nonsurgical management of wounds at the plantar hallux interphalangeal joint in patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We evaluated 41 patients with ulcers classified as University of Texas Grade 1A or 2A at the plantar aspect of the hallux interphalangeal joint u...

Objective: Laparoscopic surgery is the standard care for early-stage endometrial cancer. We evaluated laparoscopic cancer in our hospital.

purpose : the aim of this study was to compare the rate and location of intraoperatively induced retinal breaks between two techniques of standard 20-gauge vitrectomy and transconjunctival 23-gauge using trocar/cannula methods : in this prospective comparative case series patients having attached retina before surgery who were operated for different vitreoretinal or macular conditions by standa...

introduction : the aim of this study is to define the trend of the orthodontists and the surgeons in the borderline class iii patients and assess their satisfaction after the surgery. materials and methods : the study population consisted of 31 patients (16 female and 15 male) with the average age of 21 years, whose final occlusion 2 months after the surgery was perfect. the amount of reverse o...

fast and holistic access to the patients’ clinical record is a major requirement of modern medical decision support systems (dss). while electronic health records (ehrs) have replaced the traditional paper-based records in most healthcare organization, the data entry into these systems remains largely manual. speech recognition technology promises substitution of the more convenient speech-base...