BACKGROUND The lack of standardized reporting of the complications of radical prostatectomy in the literature has made it difficult to compare incidences across institutions and across different surgical approaches. OBJECTIVE To define comprehensively the incidence, severity, and timing of onset of medical and surgical complications of open retropubic prostatectomy (RP) and laparoscopic radic...

conclusions coccygectomy is a successful treatment in patients unresponsive to conservative treatments for coccydynia. results the patients were followed up for an average of 25.7 months. the results were good in 11 patients, excellent in 1, and fair in only 1 patient. the excellent and good rates amounted to 92.2%. no major complication was seen. patients and methods between october 2010 and d...

Sir: We read the article ‘Anatomic characteristics of bileaflet mitral valve prolapse – Barlow disease – in patients undergoing mitral valve repair’ by Rostagno et al. (2014) with great interest. In this article, they shared their surgical observations about bileaflet mitral valve prolapse (MVP) in terms of mitral valve repair. We appreciated their experiences on mitral valve repair in patients...

The timing of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis was determined before and after an intervention programme of education of surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses on the subject of antimicrobial drug prophylaxis, and the subsequent implementation of new protocols of single dose prophylaxis administered within one hour before incision. This prospective study was performed in three surgical department...

In general, spinal cord injury without radiological abnormality (SCIWORA) with spondylosis is considered to be a central cord injury. This article describes the clinical features and surgical outcomes of atypical central cord injury in patients with spondylotic SCIWORA (ACCISS). Fifty-two patients were enrolled in the study from January 2006 to December 2011. Diagnoses were made from imaging (c...

introduction: coverage of bone grafts is very important in reconstructive surgery. in edentulous alveolar ridges this coverage is particularly important for supporting dental prostheses. here we present the case of a patient with a large deficient maxillary anterior region that was reconstructed with a bilateral palatal submucosal periosteal connective tissue flap: a soft tissue reserve for upp...

The dose and timing of antimicrobial agents given for surgical wound prophylaxis should be based on the concentration-time profile of the drug in tissue at the site of contamination. However, concentrations of antimicrobial agents in surgical wounds are difficult to determine accurately. Since a surgical wound is a unique extravascular compartment with increased vascular permeability and a high...

the coverage of soft- tissue defects of the hand specially volar side needs special consideration. although certain local flaps have been described and used for resurfacing the palm, extensive injury requires distant or free flaps for coverage. abdominal pedicle flap has been traditionally used for extensive hand injuries, however there is no doubt that one of the ideal tissues for resurfacing ...

•Increta in a prophylactic hysterectomy specimen for Lynch syndrome is rare.•Individualizing risk-reducing procedures after childbearing is important.•Shared decision making should include the timing of prophylactic surgery.•Minimizing surgical risks in the postpartum period should be discussed.

Introduction: The neural substrates of temporal processing are not still fully known. The majority of interval timing studies have dealt with this subject in the context of “Explicit timing” (computing the time intervals explicitly). The hypothesis “Implicit timing” (implicitly using temporal processing to improve function) has also proposed. This lesion study addressed explicit and implicit ti...