Anogenital cancers, in particular cancer of the cervix, and common, genital and laryngeal warts are primarily caused by infection with human papillomaviruses. Traditionally, the primary goal of treatment is to remove the neoplasia by various surgical approaches; however, all of these have high rates of recurrence. Only a few non-surgical treatments have found their way into clinical practice, a...

Surgical efficiency is often regarded as a measure of how quickly we surgeons can get inside an eye, remove the cataract, and close the case. We may also consider how quietly we can execute the maneuvers as well. Efficient movements within the surgical field are more likely to affect the safety of an outcome than the total time we are moving around the anterior chamber. In this article, I prese...

Bacteria organized in biofilms are insensitive to the usual treatment with dressings or antibiotics. Most successful is surgical debridement to remove their colonies, but this option may not be possible in all environments. Dressings with silver and other antiseptics are often the only tools available to nurses at patient homes or to dermatologists at outpatient clinics. In our clinical studies...

Casual observation suggests that Internet media firms sometimes allow consumers to pay to remove advertisements from a free advertisement-based product. In this paper I characterize when this business model is optimal and analyze its impact on advertising quantity and the distribution of surplus. The optimality of the business model depends on the relation between product quality, the annoyance...

The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) may be used to remove mucosa of organs of the gastro-intestinal tract. A histological analysis was performed on gallbladders treated with a CUSA-mucosectomy to assess the extent and degree of mucosectomy and to evaluate parietal damage. The histological studies performed on three specimens of chronic cholecystitis revealed a complete mucosectomy...

Injury from sea urchin spines is not rare, especially during summer holidays in the sea side. Failure to remove these spines or inability to remove them completely can lead to long-term squeal of pain and impaired function. Treatment methods include alternative medicine, LASER and surgery. We describe the surgical removal of 102 sea urchin spines from the foot of a 36-year-old man. The wounds h...