A broken guide wire while operating on hip is one of every surgeon's most dreaded nightmares. We report here a method which was used successfully to retrieve a broken guide wire from a patient who was being operated for core decompression and fibular grafting for avascular necrosis of the femoral head.

Removing a broken guide wire is difficult and challenging. This article reports a method that was used to successfully remove a broken guide wire in 3 patients who underwent operative treatment for intertrochanteric fractures of the femur. Under general anesthesia, the first patient was placed on the orthopedic fracture table, and closed reduction of the hip fracture was performed under the ima...

This document provides a brief Users’ Guide to the KTH-TIPS image database (KTH is the abbreviation of our university, and TIPS stands for Textures under varying Illumination, Pose and Scale). The guide describes which materials are contained in the database (Section 2), how images were acquired (Section 3) and subsequently cropped to remove the background (Section 4), and we also discuss some ...

atic duct stents is a recognized complication that occurs in up to 5.2% of patients [1], and stent retrieval is important to prevent long-term serious ductal damage. Reported techniques to remove proximally migrated pancreatic duct stents include balloon extraction, direct snare or forceps grasp, and wire cannulation with snare capture. We report a novel technique using the SpyGlass Direct Visu...

The paper proposes a novel algorithm to dynamically define the Region of Interest (ROI) videophone application. The algorithm uses the color information Hue and Cr to find the skincolor pixels and also use range of threshold obtained from red and blue components in normalized RGB color space to remove nonskincolor pixels because the human skin tends to have a predominance of red and non-predomi...

Breakage of DHS guide wire during surgery and its migration into the pelvis through the hip joint is a rare complication and its removal can be very challenging for the surgeon. We share our experience of a similar case wherein we used an ‘iliofemoral’ approach to successfully remove the broken transfixing guidewire from the hip joint. Although iliofemoral approach is similar to the lateral win...