OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate risk factors of vaginal cuff dehiscence or evisceration according to the type of operation. METHODS Medical records of 604 women who underwent hysterectomies at Korea University Anam Hospital between June 2007 and June 2011 were reviewed. They were allocated to six groups. The six types of hysterectomies included robotic hysterectomy (n = 7)...

INTRODUCTION Peritoneal cavity drainage is not riskless and several publications reported drain induced complications. However, till this day, abdominal drainage is still a subject of divergence between necessity and usual operative practice. We describe in this publication an exceptional complication of drainage, which is the drain site evisceration of the appendix. CASE PRESENTATION We repo...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of sympathetic ophthalmia following evisceration for penetrating eye injuries and to assess whether evisceration is safe in this setting. METHODS Data were obtained retrospectively from patients who were admitted to a tertiary hospital following penetrating ocular trauma over a 10-year period. RESULTS A total of 1392 patients...

The influence of portal blood factors on canine liver regeneration was studied with graded nonhepatic splanchnic evisceration, coupled with 44 and 72 per cent hepatectomies. In one type of experiment, the pancreas was retained while the rest of the intra-abdominal gastrointestinal tract was removed. In a second variety, total pancreatectomy was performed with preservation of the intra-abdominal...

OBJECTIVES To report an important complication of ocular evisceration therapy for blind, painful eyes that has been unreported in the literature, and to stress the need for careful preoperative evaluation to exclude occult neoplasms prior to therapy. DESIGN Multicenter, retrospective, nonrandomized clinicopathological case series of patients found to have previously unsuspected uveal malignan...

PURPOSE To assess the results and long-term prognosis of evisceration with primary porous implant placement in patients with endophthalmitis. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted to review the files of 27 patients (29 eyes) with endophthalmitis who underwent evisceration with primary porous implant placement from January 1997 to December 2007 at St. Mary's Hospital and Kangnam St. Mary...

BACKGROUND The optimal management of hemodynamically stable asymptomatic patients with anterior abdominal stab wounds (AASWs) remains controversial. The goal is to identify and treat injuries in a safe cost-effective manner. Common evaluation strategies are local wound exploration (LWE), diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL), serial clinical assessment (SCAs) and computed tomography (CT) imaging. ...

This study analyzed risk factors for extrusion of orbital implants after evisceration by comparing patients with and without implant extrusion. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records who underwent primary placement a single surgeon from January 2005 to December 2019 at Chungnam National University Hospital. Age, sex, underlying systemic diseases, axial length fellow eye, cause...

background the optimal management of hemodynamically stable asymptomatic patients with anterior abdominal stab wounds (aasws) remains controversial. the goal is to identify and treat injuries in a safe cost-effective manner. common evaluation strategies are local wound exploration (lwe), diagnostic peritoneal lavage (dpl), serial clinical assessment (scas) and computed tomography (ct) imaging. ...

Small bowel evisceration through the vagina is a rare condition, which tends to affect post-menopausal women who have undergone vaginal hysterectomy. It is a surgical emergency with a favourable outcome if diagnosed and treated in a timely fashion. Delay in diagnosis can precipitate infarction of small bowel loops with associated morbidity and mortality. Treatment involves laparotomy, reduction...