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Endoscopic stapedectomy our experience

, 2012
Stapedecomy traditionally is performed using operating microscope. Eventhough it is a time tested procedure, it had its own draw backs. In patients with excessive bony overhang it would bedifficult to access the middle ear cavity using operating ...
Thiagarajan, Balasubramanian; Stanley Medical College, Ulaganathan, Venkatesan; Meenakshi Medical College   +1 more
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A diminutive perivascular epithelioid cell tumor in the colon

DEN Open
Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is a rare mesenchymal tumor. Some papers have reported that colonoscopy could be used to treat PEComa with a predominantly pedunculated polyp, whereas surgical intervention is often required for cases with ...
Naoki Sugimura, Daizen Hirata, Mineo Iwatate, Santa Hattori, Mikio Fujita, Wataru Sano, Takahiro Fujimori, Yasushi Sano   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF ULTRASOUND WITH ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY AND SURGERY IN THE DETECTION OF SITE AND CAUSE BILE DUCTS DILATATION [PDF]

background and Objectives: Ultrasound (US) is the initial imaging test used in the evaluation of patients with biliary tract disease. Our retrospective study was designed to evaluate the capacity of ultrasound to determine the cause and site of bile ...
مصباحی, سپیده, رفاهی, سهیلا, پورعیسی, مسعود, تبرائی, یاسر   +3 more
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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive feature importance analysis of surgical site infection following colorectal cancer surgery

Scientific Reports
Surgical site infection (SSI) after colorectal cancer (CRC) surgery is still a significant healthcare issue. This study aimed to analyze risk factor associated with SSI.
Marzieh Rahimi, Majid Ansari, Abbas Abdollahi, Ahmad Gholinezhadan, Mohammadhossein Taherynezhad, Mahdieh Zarif-Sadeghian, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Fatemeh Shahabi   +7 more
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Double-Balloon Enteroscopy following Capsule Endoscopy in the Management of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Outcome of a Combined Approach

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2008
BACKGROUND: There is no consensus on the relative accuracy of capsule endoscopy (CE) versus double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) to investigate obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB).
Patarapong Kamalaporn, Sarah Cho, Nancy Basset, Maria Cirocco, Gary May, Paul Kortan, Gabor Kandel, Norman Marcon   +7 more
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Clostridium difficile Infection and Colorectal Surgeries: A Narrative Review [PDF]

Reviews in Clinical Medicine
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a significant health-related infection rarely seen in colorectal patients after surgery. However, over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the incidence and severity of CDI.
Abbas Abdollahi, Ala Orafaie, Fatemeh Shahabi, Majid Ansari   +3 more
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Utility of EUS following endoscopic polypectomy of high-risk rectosigmoid lesions

, 2015
BACKGROUND: The utility of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) compared with standard white light endoscopy (WLE) following recent polypectomy of high-risk colorectal polyps is unknown.
McHenry, Lee, LeBlanc, Julia K., El Hajj, Ihab I., Sherman, Stuart, Al-Haddad, Mohammad Ali, DeWitt, John, McGreevy, Kathleen, Cote, Gregory A., Luz, Leticia P., Moreira, Daniel M.   +9 more
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