Here, we report the successful treatment of a 40-year-old man with mucoepidermoid carcinoma that originated in the proximal end of the left main bronchus close to the carina. He underwent wide and deep airway wedge resection, including the distal trachea and part of the carina via left postero-lateral thoracotomy. He has demonstrated neither anatomic complications nor disease recurrence 2 years...

Benign bronchial stenosis is managed by surgical or bronchoscopic methods. Although surgical approach is definitive, it is technically demanding and is costlier than bronchoscopic treatment. Here, we report the case of a 27-year-old female patient with symptomatic benign bronchial stenosis of the left main bronchus. The stenosis was dilated successfully through a fibreoptic bronchoscope by elec...

BACKGROUND Insertion of an External Ventricular Drain (EVD) is arguably one of the most common and important lifesaving procedures in neurologic intensive care unit. Various forms of acute brain injury benefit from the continuous intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion provided by an EVD. After insertion, EVD monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting ess...

FOR as lonig as operative interferenice is necessary in glaucoma, so I suppose w,ill ophthcaliic surgeons try to devise newx ways of reducinig intra-ocular tension by drainage. Recently the reading of an article (Bick, 1949) oni the use of tantalum metal in drainage of the eve, lhas tenmpted imie to submit thils brief account of some efforts on my own part over the last fewx years to achieve su...

Retained intraperitoneal Penrose drain secondary to fracture and adhesions in the immediate postoperative period happens on occasion. Most are unreported because of the fear of medico-legal problems. Previous management of such iatrogenic complications requires repeated laparotomy or wound exploration. Two patients who underwent appendectomy for ruptured appendicitis, with retained intraabdomin...

Formation of a seroma most frequently occurs after mastectomy and axillary surgery. Prolonged drainage is troublesome as it increases the risk for infection and can significantly delay adjuvant therapy. Seroma has been defined as serous fluid collection under the skin flaps or in the axillary dead space following mastectomy and/or axillary dissection. Because the true etiology of a seroma is un...

There are nearly 43,000 hip replacements and 33,000 knee replacements performed each year in the United Kingdom. Many of these require a blood transfusion. However, there has been increased public concern about the safety of blood transfusion and various techniques are used to decrease the need for allogenic transfusion. Postoperative blood salvage and reinfusion is one of them. We studied 186 ...

In over 90% of healthy people, the dorsal and ventral endodermal pancreatic buds fuse to form the adult pancreas. However, in about the remaining 10% of the population where the fusion does not occur, pancreatic divisum (PD) results. This indeed is the commonest congenital anomaly of pancreas. The dorsal root usually drains a part of pancreatic head, the body and tail of the pancreas via a mino...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Insect growth regulators (IGRs) offer alternatives to conventional chemical larvicides that pose problem of resistance and environmental safety. However, only a limited number of IGRs have been approved for use in mosquito control. In the present study, two new formulations of the IGR diflubenzuron, 2 per cent granular (GR) and 2 per cent tablet (DT) were tested for its ...

1 Ahmed Emam, MRCS Khurram Khan, FRCS Elena Prousskaia, FRCS, EBOPRAS Department of Plastic Surgery Southmead Hospital Northbristol NHS Trust Bristol, United Kingdom Sir: B reconstruction with autologous free tissue transfer is a widely established technique considered to be the “gold standard.”1,2 The leading cause of return to theater after deep inferior epigastric flap reconstruction is hema...