Objectives: The umbilicus is often used as a port insertion site during laparoscopic surgery because the wound invisible after surgery. However, its concave shape makes postoperative treatment difficult, resulting in umbilical keloids due to infection. Current study reports four cases of excision with satisfactory results following full-thickness skin grafts and radiation therapy.

Osteoid osteoma of the scapula is a rare benign lesion. This is a case report of a subchondral osteoid osteoma that involved the anterior rim of glenoid. Surgical approach in this atypical area may seem difficult. The excision of the lesion and grafting was performed by a deltopectoral approach. One year after the surgery, the patient remains pain free and has full range of motion with no recur...

Tönnis triple pelvic osteotomy is an accepted technique to correct acetabular dysplasia and degenerative labral pathology. A series of 409 consecutive patients who underwent a triple pelvic osteotomy between 1987 and 1999 were followed for a mean of 7.1 years (2 to 15). Five patients (1.2%), all women, developed a double nonunion and required revision, which involved excision of the pseudarthro...

  This is the early results of 20 cases of massive osteoarticular allograft performed for reconstruction of lower limb s after resection of bone tumors. These cases include 7 distal femur and hemiarticular ,6 proximal tibio and hemiarticular, 3 total knee joints and 4 proximal femur with total hip replacement. Bone allografts were taken at steril condition from early postmortum cadavers and st...

introduction: fibrolipoma, a subtype of lipoma is painless, well-circumscribed, slow-growing, submucosal benign adipocyte tumour. it is uncommon in the oral cavity and oropharyngeal region, with rare incidence in the retropharynx even rarest in pediatric age group.   case report: a very unusual case of fibrolipoma is presented in a pediatric patient, who had a huge retropharyngeal fibrolipoma a...

Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is the one of the most effective revascularization strategies for patients with obstructive coronary artery disease. Total arterial revascularization using one or both internal thoracic and radial arteries has been shown to improve early outcomes and reduce long-term cardiovascular morbidity. Although CABG has evolved from an experimental procedure in the ...

BACKGROUND: Bone tumours involving hands are usually benign but can be locally aggressive. Several treatments have been described. Usual modalities of treatment include curettage and bone grafting. In more advanced stages when short bones the hand involved with than 70% cortical destruction, or such option is not possible (as non-contained breaches, pathological fracture), only resection amputa...

BACKGROUND Significant blood loss continues to plague early tangential excision of the burn wound. Although various techniques to reduce intraoperative blood loss have been described, there is an absence of uniformity and consistency in their application. Furthermore, it is unclear whether these techniques compromise intraoperative tissue assessment and wound outcome. The purpose of this study ...