Minimally invasive surgery (MIS), or laparoscopic surgery, plays a vital role in residency training in a number of surgical disciplines including general surgery, surgical oncology, colorectal surgery, pediatric surgery, and thoracic surgery. The tremendous patient demand for MIS over the past 2 decades has resulted in surgeons rapidly embracing this technique. Many general surgery residencies ...

With new therapies and interventions in the ischemic stroke realm leading to improved outcomes, attention is turning to treatment of hemorrhagic stroke therapies that strive to improve both morbidity and mortality. The thought that “time is brain” likely also applies to damage to neural structures neighboring hemorrhagic clots and efforts to create a method for hemorrhagic clot evacuation while...

During the last 20 years minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has replaced many open, conventional operations and is now important in almost every facet of abdominal surgery (Harrell & Beniford, 2005). Benefits regarding postoperative pain, convalescence, return to normal activities, and cosmetic results have been proven for a wide range of MIS procedures. Within the field of transplantation, lapar...

T morbidity of surgical approaches in Scoliosis are also decreasing with the technological advances for improving surgical procedures similar to every field of surgery. Incapacitating spinal deformities were previously inevitable or possible with challenges at high surgical risks. During the time, evolvings in the implant industry with supports of visual and navigation technologies easened furt...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the associated morbidity and patient comfort of the 'minimally invasive, no scalpel' (MINS) vasectomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Eighty-nine consecutive patients presenting for vasectomy underwent a MINS procedure. Post-operatively, the pain experienced, recovery time and complication rate were assessed using a postal questionnaire. The questionnaire was also used to assess a...

Since the first report of endoscopic subtotal parathyroidectomy in 1996, a variety of endoscopic surgical approaches has been reported. These endoscopic approaches include the minimally-invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy (MIVAT), the endoscopic lateral approach, the lateral mini-incision approach, the anterior/chest (hybrid) approach, the transaxillary approach, the axillobreast approach, th...

EDITORIAL BOARD Ivan Goldberg MBBS, FRANZCO, FRACS. Head, Glaucoma Unit, Sydney Eye Hospital & Discipline of Ophthalmology, University of Sydney. Remo Susanna MD, Professor and Head of Department of Ophthalmology, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Glaucoma Now is a continuing medical education publication. Distributed worldwide, our goal is to educate and update general ophthalmologists, glaucom...

FIG lo-Erect chest radiograph showing a large pneumoperitoneum with air under both diaphragms. The right hemidiaphragm is raised. Dilated air filled loops of bowel are projected overthe liver (arrows)-both sides ofthe bowel wall can be seen (Rigler's sign). Summary Diagnostic quality Alignment of bones Bone margins and density Cartilage and joints Soft tissues Bowel gas pattern Pneumoperitoneum...

aheadofprint 29 October 2012 Ann. Ital. Chir. 1 Pervenuto in Redazione Settembre 2012. Accettato per la pubblicazione Settembre 2012 Correspondence to: Giovanni Docimo M.D., Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Second University of Naples, Via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples, Italy. (e-mail: [email protected]) Giovanni Docimo, Salvatore Tolone, Simona Gili, A. d’Alessandro, G. Ca...