BACKGROUND Effective and reliable venous access is one of the cornerstones of modern medical therapy in oncology. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a prospective observational study, which collected data of patients who require "PORT" catheter insertion for any cancer, at a tertiary care oncology hospital in Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India, during a 2-year period. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The main objecti...

The feasibility of a transvaginal hybrid natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) nephrectomy has already been demonstrated using standard laparoscopic ports through the abdominal wall. We evaluated the feasibility of a transvaginal NOTES-assisted minilaparoscopic nephrectomy (mLN). The patient is positioned in a semilumbotomy position with legs separated to allow for vaginal acc...

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have become a necessity in computer security systems because of the increase in unauthorized accesses and attacks. Intrusion Detection is a major component in computer security systems that can be classified as Host-based Intrusion Detection System (HIDS), which protects a certain host or system and Network-based Intrusion detection system (NIDS), which protect...

An 84-year-old woman with significant medical comorbidities presented with obstructive jaundice and radiographic evidence of choledocholithiasis. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was attempted but was unsuccessful owing to a duodenal diverticulum. The patient was referred for laparoscopic common bile duct exploration. After consultation by the Minimally Invasive and Robotic...

OBJECTIVES To explore the effects and feasibility of single-port video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) on lobectomy for pulmonary carcinoma. METHODS A total of 67 patients were enrolled in this study, in which 21 patients were treated by single-port VATS (Sing-port Group) and 46 patients by double-port VATS (Double-port Group). Blood loss, duration of thoracic drainage, length of post-operat...

Port as one of the key hubs of international logistics, which has become the main part and the base of global logistics management. The port enterprises, plays an important role in the global supply chain. However, due to the lack of understanding in port supply chain management, coordination between the port enterprises, the integration of business process is not perfect, the lack of informati...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to compare the surgical outcomes between two-port access and four-port access laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy. METHODS Four hundred and eighty nine patients who had received two-port access laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (n=175) and four-port access laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (n=314) in Chungnam National University Hospital from January 2009 to August ...

The concept of complete mesocolic excision and central vascular ligation for colonic cancer has been recently introduced. The paper describes a technique of right-sided complete mesocolic excision and intracorporeal anastomosis by using a single-port robotic approach with an additional conventional robotic port. We performed a single-port plus an additional port robotic surgery using the Da Vin...

BACKGROUND Several modifications have been introduced to laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). The three-port technique has been practiced on a limited scale. Our aim was to compare the three-port and four-port LC in acute (AC) and chronic cholecystitis (CC). METHODS The medical records of 495 patients who underwent LC between September 1999 and September 2003 were reviewed. Variables such as co...