BACKGROUND Haemorrhoid disease has become more and more frequent during the past years among western populations. Great attention has been paid in development of surgical procedures, in order to reduce post-operative pain (the main adverse effect of surgical treatment for haemorrhoids) and shorten execution time and hospital stay. This randomised clinical study compares the results obtained usi...

Introduction: Endoscopic submucosal dissection has been widely accepted as a standard treatment for early gastric cancers. However, endoscopic submucosal dissection for an early gastric remnant cancer post-proximal gastrectomy with jejunal interposition is not yet widespread. Case Series: A large, flat, elevated lesion was detected in an 83-year-old male (Case 1), whereas two separate flat, ele...

A 50-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of epigastralgia for one week. He had eaten grilled mackerel before symptom onset. Physical examination showed mild tenderness in the epigastric region without peritoneal signs. Laboratory data demonstrated marked inflammation. Abdominal computed tomography revealed thickening of the gastric wall and an intramural foreign body (Fig. 1). End...

Thermal diffusivity measurements of samples transmitting thermal radiation require adjustments to the data treatment procedures in laser flash analysis. Conventionally, an unconstrained diathermic model is used. Current results show that alternative coupled radiative-conductive models produce substantially different -- for instance, at high temperatures oxide ceramics. However, care must be tak...

Endoscopic management of malignant biliary stricture after hepaticojejunostomy is challenging. Although balloon enteroscopy-assisted endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has been developed, dedicated devices are still insufficient. We present a case of successful enteroscopic dilation using a wire-guided diathermic dilator [1–5], and placement of a novel, ultra-slim, uncovered,...

OBJECTIVE To report the first case of using the insulation-tipped diathermic knife 2 (IT knife-2) for the treatment of postintubation tracheal stenosis. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 71-year-old female patient with a history of endotracheal intubation 3 years earlier presented with throat discomfort, gross wheezing and dyspnea. Chest imaging and bronchoscopy demonstrated a strand-l...

There are several artists that have suffered rheumatic diseases. Even then, they continued their creative activity. Paul Klee suffered from systemic sclerosis, Dufy and Renoir suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and Gaudí and Boticelli had systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The famous noucentism sculptor, Manolo Hugué, presented chronic polyarthritis that suggested rheumatoid arthriti...

Conization as a surgical technique is perhaps one of the interventions in Gynecology which has remained almost unchanged, not only technical, but its application and foundations over time. Excision of a conical part of the cervix which includes the exocervix as base of the cone, and a segment of endocervical canal as axis and vertex, allows a detailed histopathological evaluation of the entire ...