BACKGROUND Technological advances in thyroid surgery have included various "minimally invasive" thyroidectomy techniques, both open and endoscopic. These include not only minimally invasive video-associated approaches but also variations of the transaxillary approach. More recently, a transoral technique using video assistance has been reported for thyroidectomy. Use of the robot was also recen...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic and robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy have started utilization tentatively; however, the clinical benefits are still controversial. This study aims to evaluate the safety and efficiency of minimally invasive pancreaticoduodenectomy. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed through PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library database without restriction to regions, p...

Earlier research on problem solving suggested that including a diagram in a physics problem brings little, if any, benefit to students’ problem solving success. In 6 AB experiments conducted in our MOOC, we tested the usefulness of problem diagram on 12 different physics problems, collecting over 8000 student responses in total. We found that including a problem diagram that contains no additio...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare outcomes separation surgery for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) in patients undergoing minimally invasive (MIS) versus open surgery. METHODS A retrospective MIS or standard MESCC between 2009 and 2019 performed. Both groups received circumferential decompression via laminectomy a transpedicular approach partial corpectomy debulk...

We report a case of a 72-year-old patient considered unfit for open surgery, presenting with paraanastomotic aneurysms of all three anastomoses, 13 years after an open aortobiiliac reconstruction for abdominal aortic aneurysm. This patient was successfully treated with an endovascular approach using a left aortouniiliac endograft and a right iliac tubular endograft, followed by crossover femoro...

This clinical study prospectively compares the results of open surgery to minimally invasive fusion for degenerative lumbar spine pathologies. Eighty-two patients were studied (41 minimally invasive surgery [MIS] spinal fusion, 41 open surgical equivalent) under a single surgeon (R. J. Mobbs). The two groups were compared using the Oswestry Disability Index, the Short Form-12 version 1, the Vis...

OBJECTIVE We sought to describe the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following hysterectomy for benign conditions and to estimate if VTE incidence differs for abdominal and minimally invasive hysterectomy. STUDY DESIGN Data for patients who underwent hysterectomy for benign conditions from 2010 through 2012 were abstracted from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quali...