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Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy
Surgical Clinics of North America, 2012Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) has become an established approach for the treatment of esophageal carcinoma. In comparison with open esophagectomy MIE reduces blood loss, respiratory complications, and length of hospital stay. At the University of Pittsburgh, the authors now predominantly perform a laparoscopic-thoracoscopic Ivor Lewis ...
Ryan M, Levy +2 more
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Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2017
Uterine fibroids can significantly impact a woman’s health, fertility, and quality of life. When medical therapy fails, surgery is recommended; the gold standard in uterine-sparing surgery is myomectomy. The evidence-based benefits of minimally invasive myomectomy are detailed in this manuscript.
Rebecca, Flyckt +2 more
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Uterine fibroids can significantly impact a woman’s health, fertility, and quality of life. When medical therapy fails, surgery is recommended; the gold standard in uterine-sparing surgery is myomectomy. The evidence-based benefits of minimally invasive myomectomy are detailed in this manuscript.
Rebecca, Flyckt +2 more
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Minimally invasive thyroidectomy
Current Opinion in Oncology, 2002Background: Conventional thyroidectomies by a direct approach through the neck require long incisions in the neck that can result in prominent scars, hypesthesia, and paresthesia. Minimally invasive procedures have recently been adopted for the surgical treatment of thyroid disease as a means of preventing such problems.Methods: In the present paper ...
Hiroshi, Takami, Yoshifumi, Ikeda
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Minimally invasive esophagectomy
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2000Open esophagectomy can be associated with significant morbidity and delay return to routine activities. Minimally invasive surgery may lower the morbidity of esophagectomy but only a few small series have been published.From August 1996 to September 1999, 77 patients underwent minimally invasive esophagectomy.
J D, Luketich +7 more
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Annual Review of Medicine, 1995
▪ Abstract With the widespread introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in late 1989, the practice and expectations of general surgery were changed forever. The techniques of laparoscopy were not new—they had been adopted by gynecologists and orthopedic surgeons at least a decade before—but it was laparoscopic cholecystectomy that captured the ...
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▪ Abstract With the widespread introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in late 1989, the practice and expectations of general surgery were changed forever. The techniques of laparoscopy were not new—they had been adopted by gynecologists and orthopedic surgeons at least a decade before—but it was laparoscopic cholecystectomy that captured the ...
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Minimally Invasive Osteotomies
Foot and Ankle Clinics, 2014As orthopedic surgery continues to head in the direction of less invasive surgical techniques, this article explores the application and evolution of minimally invasive/percutaneous techniques in the surgical correction of hallux valgus deformities. Modern techniques are described and available literature is reviewed.
David, Redfern, Anthony Michael, Perera
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MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1996Background: The philosophy and practice of minimally invasive surgery have fundamentally altered the practice of general and gynaecological surgery, and are currently transforming the practice of neurosurgery. The goal of minimally invasive surgery is to reduce tissue disruption and thus morbidity. This is a review of the development, applications, and
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Minimally invasive endodontics.
Quintessence international (Berlin, Germany : 1985), 2016Minimally invasive endodontics (MIE) aims to preserve the maximum of tooth structure during root canal therapy. In the last 15 years there has been rapid progress and development in endodontics, making treatment procedures safer, more accurate, and more efficient. Meanwhile, reproducible results can be achieved even in difficult root canal morphologies
Sebastian, Bürklein, Edgar, Schäfer
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Minimally Invasive Pyloroplasty
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2010A vagotomized, tubularized gastric conduit is the most commonly used conduit for reconstruction of the thoracic esophagus at esophagectomy. However, the gastric conduit is an imperfect esophageal replacement. The conduit has no receptive relaxation and has a reduced capacity compared with the native stomach.
Thomas J, Murphy +3 more
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Current Opinion in Cardiology, 2001
For more than three decades, conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (full sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass, and cardioplegic arrest) has been the treatment of choice for patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease. However, neurologic injury secondary to ascending aortic manipulation and systemic inflammatory reaction related to ...
F, Filsoufi, L, Aklog, D H, Adams
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For more than three decades, conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (full sternotomy, cardiopulmonary bypass, and cardioplegic arrest) has been the treatment of choice for patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease. However, neurologic injury secondary to ascending aortic manipulation and systemic inflammatory reaction related to ...
F, Filsoufi, L, Aklog, D H, Adams
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