Introduction: Scalpels have been used to make abdominal surgical incisions by manually cutting through tissue using a sharp blade. Electrosurgery becomes an integral and evolves part of practice but less popular among surgeons. Fear deep burns with electrosurgery resultant scarring continues compared the scalpel, which produces clean, incised wound minimal destruction. Aim The Study: aim this s...

The aim of this study was to re-assess whether the use of a 'one-knife technique' can be considered as safe as the alternative practice of using separate skin and inside knives for elective orthopaedic surgery. A total of 609 knife blades from 203 elective orthopaedic operations, with equal numbers of skin, inside and control blades, were cultured using direct and enrichment media. We found 31 ...

Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) due to stab injuries are relatively rare (< 1.5% of SCIs) [1], and their surgical management is controversial [1-3]. The incidence of vertebral artery injury in penetrating neck trauma is around 7.4% for stab wounds [4]. We report a unique case of upper cervical spine impalement in which the knife tip was lodged in the occipitocervical level and our surgical strategy...

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), such as body gamma knife, was reported to achieve excellent rates of local disease control with limited toxicity in many cases of primary or secondary pulmonary tumor, except osteosarcoma. To confirm the value of SRS in pulmonary metastases from osteosarcoma, we reviewed the experience from our institution (Department of Oncology, Affiliated Sixth People's Hospi...

sage for CICVmanagement. As in the Vortexmodel, this prompts the operator to attempt both supraglottic airway andmask ventilation, then if unsuccessful to move on to surgical intervention. Prompting surgical cricothyroidotomy over cannula cricothyroidotomy is consistentwith the 4thNational Audit Project’s finding of high failure rates for cannula cricothyroidotomy in adults. The summary phrase ...

OBJECTIVE To review our experience with the surgical treatment of orbital meningiomas. METHODS A retrospective review of all patients presenting to the author for treatment of orbital meningiomas over a 5 year period with a minimum of 1 year follow-up were included in this review. Demographic data, surgical approaches, and recurrence rates were documented. RESULTS A total of seven patients ...

Background: Sachse cold knife is conventionally used for optical internal urethrotomy to manage urethral strictures. In this procedure, the complications and recurrence rates are relatively high. We suggest combined electro cutter and cold knife as a success alternative in the management of intractable anterior urethral strictures. Methods: In this prospective...

gamma knife is a new noninvasive method for treatment of patient with brain tumors. ‎another name of this procedure is steriotatic radiosurgery.‎‏ ‏this computerized advanced ‎technique was implicated by a team including neurosurgeon, neuroradialogist, oncologist, and ‎a nurse. this method is used for treatment of certain brain tumors and lesions. the benefits are ‎low risk of postoperative com...

Image guided brain surgery became a reality in the mid-1970s after the introduction of the fi rst methods to obtain axial imaging using computed tomography (CT) [9]. The recognition of cranial disease much earlier in its clinical course prompted the need for concomitant minimally invasive technologies to both diagnose and to treat the newly recognized brain tumors and vascular malformations. Su...

Although the experiences of ear nose throat physicians in tonsil surgery is considerable, there is no consensus about optimal surgical procedure. There are various surgical procedures; cold knife tonsillectomy, monopolar and bipolar electrocautery excision, cryosurgery, diathermy, bipolar scissors tonsillectomy, KTP-532 laser, ultrasonic excision and the newest procedures of radiofrequency tons...