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The Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Serum Iron Level [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nutrition Sciences, 2018
Background: Sleeve gastrectomy surgery is effective in limiting foodintake and sometimes unknown and hormonal causes in weight loss.After the bariatric surgery, patients may be exposed to nutritionaldeficiencies, especially iron deficiency. Regarding the
Masood Amini   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Robotic Oncological Surgery: Technology That's Here to Stay?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2009
A robot functioning in an environment may exhibit various forms of behavior emerge from the interaction with its environment through sense, control and plan activities.
HRH Patel, A Amodeo, JV Joseph
doaj   +1 more source

Case reports of invasive mucormycosis associated neutropenic enterocolitis in leukemic children: diagnostic and treatment challenges and review of literature

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Bacterial enterocolitis is one of the most common neutropenic fever complications during intensive chemotherapy. Despite aggressive antibacterial treatments, this complication usually imposes high morbidity and mortality in cancer patients ...
Ali Amanati   +7 more
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Towards Abdominal 3-D Scene Rendering from Laparoscopy Surgical Videos using NeRFs [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Given that a conventional laparoscope only provides a two-dimensional (2-D) view, the detection and diagnosis of medical ailments can be challenging. To overcome the visual constraints associated with laparoscopy, the use of laparoscopic images and videos to reconstruct the three-dimensional (3-D) anatomical structure of the abdomen has proven to be a ...
arxiv  

Design requirements to improve laparoscopy via XR [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Laparoscopic surgery has the advantage of avoiding large open incisions and thereby decreasing blood loss, pain, and discomfort to patients. However, on the other side, it is hampered by restricted workspace, ambiguous communication, and surgeon fatigue caused by non-ergonomic head positioning.
arxiv  

Laparoscopic partial adrenalectomy for bilateral pheochromocytomas in a boy with von Hippel-Lindau disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Objectives: In adults, increasing numbers of adrenalectomies for pheochromocytomas are performed laparoscopically. We report for the first time laparoscopic bilateral subtotal adrenalectomy for pheochromocytomas in an 8-year-old boy with von Hippel ...
Bartsch, Georg   +4 more
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“Laparoscopic pyeloplasty for treating ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a patient with Fontan physiology: The first case described in literature”

open access: yesUrology Case Reports, 2023
The Fontan procedure is a palliative operation for patients with single ventricle congenital heart disease. In this case-report, we present the case of a 36-years-old man, with Fontan physiology and ureteropelvic junction obstruction, undergoing ...
Theodoros Spinos   +5 more
doaj  

Antitumor activity of celastrol by inhibition of proliferation, invasion, and migration in cholangiocarcinoma via PTEN/PI3K/Akt pathway

open access: yesCancer Medicine, 2020
Aim Cholangiocarcinoma is a malignant tumor originating from bile duct epithelium. Currently, the treatment strategy is very limited and the prognosis is poor.
Biqiang Zhu, Yunwei Wei
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Exploring Deep Learning Methods for Real-Time Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Laparoscopy [PDF]

open access: yesBHI 2021, 2021
Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical intervention used to examine the organs inside the abdomen and has been widely used due to its effectiveness over open surgery. Due to the hardware improvements such as high definition cameras, this procedure has significantly improved and new software methods have demonstrated potential for computer-assisted ...
arxiv  

Adnexal Torsion in Pediatric Age: Does Bolli's Score Work? Report of Two Cases [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Adnexal torsion is a surgical emergency requiring early diagnosis in order to avoid demolitive surgery. Adnexal torsion's diagnosis could be very difficult in pediatric patients because children cannot explain symptoms accurately.
Borriello, M   +6 more
core   +1 more source

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