Acute infection of surgical incision sites often requires specialized wound care in preparation for surgical closure. Optimal therapy for preparing such wounds for a secondary closure procedure remains uncertain. The authors report wound outcomes after administering acoustic pressure wound therapy in conjunction with negative pressure wound therapy with reticulated open-cell foam dressing chang...

Introduction: Since surgical treatment for tumorous lesions does not always lead to complete patient recovery, it is possible for the attacks to continue. To help plan for the patients' health, this study aimed to compare the therapeutic effects of adjuvant therapy and surgery in controlling seizure of low-grade glioma (LGG) patients in Firoozgar Hospital in 2013-2014. Methods: In this analyti...

Thyroid tissue located within the upper airway has received only sparse attention in the English literature. Aberrant benign thyroid masses may present as either an unrelated autopsy finding or with symptoms such as dyspnea, hemoptysis or adult -onset asthma. There is no place for medical management in the therapy of these lesions, although the appropriate surgical procedure is not clearly ...

There are several studies that evaluate the use of lasers in periodontal treatment non-surgical or surgical therapy. However, while showed clinically beneficial effects some treatment, there few clinical reports additional advantages as adjunctive treatments periodontology. The aim this paper is to demonstrate and critically analyze level scientific evidence low-level high-power A narrative rev...

a uterocutaneous fistula is a rare clinical presentation that occurs following cesarean section and other pelvic operations. there are only a few reports discussing the treatments. we describe a patient with successful surgical management and review the literature. a 25-year-old woman referred to our department 13 months after her first cesarean section. she had a history of an abdominal mass a...

objective in the majority of patients with intractable epilepsy, seizures can be well controlled with appropriate medication. however, current estimates indicate that some of patients with epilepsy are refractory to all forms of medical therapy. the surgical treatment of intractable epilepsy in children has  evolved with advances in technical innovations. these medically intractable patients ar...

 Background: The most common laryngeal mass in children is recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP).  Studies have attempted to correlate viral typing and its aggressiveness. Method: 29 patients with histologically confirmed RRP enrolled in adjuvant therapies. Patients underwent several surgical interventions. Results: HPV genotyping demonstrated 45% HPV-6 and 55% HPV-11. The mean age at the ...

Aim To determine variables associated with hyperglycemia and insulin therapy in postoperative inpatients with diabetes mellitus following a quality-improvement initiative. Materials & methods Patients with diabetes mellitus following an elective surgical procedure (n = 782; 877 surgical procedures) were selected. Results Age, hemoglobin A1c corticosteroids, insulin therapy and year of surge...