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Surgical treatment of bulbar urethral strictures: tips and tricks
The surgical treatment of bulbar urethral strictures is still one of the most challenging reconstructive-surgery problems. Bulbar urethral strictures are usually categorized as traumatic and non-traumatic strictures depending on the aetiology.
Guido Barbagli +5 more
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Single center experience with laparoscopic adrenalectomy on a large clinical series [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is considered the gold standard technique for the treatment of benign small and medium size adrenal masses (
Avenia, Nicola +15 more
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Incorrect Surgical Procedures Within and Outside of the Operating Room [PDF]
To describe incorrect surgical procedures reported from Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Medical Centers from 2001 to mid-2006 and provide proposed solutions for preventing such events.Descriptive study.Veterans Health Administration Medical Centers.Veterans of the US Armed Forces.The VHA instituted an initial directive, "Ensuring Correct Surgery ...
Julia, Neily +8 more
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In this paper we present a methodology to address the problem of brain tissue deformation referred to as 'brain-shift'. This deformation occurs throughout a neurosurgery intervention and strongly alters the accuracy of the neuronavigation systems used to
Bucki, Marek +2 more
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Risk of postoperative pulmonary complications in adult surgical patients with metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol [PDF]
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is defined as an accumulation of risk factors that include chronic hypertension, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance and obesity and leads to an increased risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Gow, Jeffrey +4 more
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Background Trainers in surgery have an educational obligation to train trainees in performing operative procedures. Objective We hypothesized that poor concordance manifests as discrepancies between the trainee and the trainer, with an associated reduction in satisfaction with the training experience, perception of training quality, and completion of ...
Jayaraju, Ullas +6 more
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Bilateral lingual lipoma: a case report
Lipoma of the tongue is an uncommon benign tumor, being even more rare when there are multiple lesions. Lipoma accounts for 1-5% of all oral neoplasms. Lipoma occurs predominantly in males over the age of forty, although, in rare cases, children can be ...
Edson Martins de Oliveira Junior +4 more
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Tertiary blast injury to the intestines [PDF]
Background. To present the first case of the tertiary blast injury to the intestine, and the tertiary blast injury in general. Case report. A parachutist of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro was injured when descended from the 1 200m height by parachute ...
Ignjatović Dragan +2 more
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Pain management in surgical patients [PDF]
Acute post-operative pain is a major problem which is not well addressed clinically; with patients regularly reporting significant pain following surgery (Clark, 2006). The possible harmful effects of untested surgical pain include: deep vein thrombosis,
Bonnell, Shanna R.
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A prospective analysis of sleep deprivation and disturbance in surgical patients [PDF]
Introduction: Sleep deprivation has a potentially deleterious effect on postoperative recovery. The aim of our prospective study was to identify the factors contributing to postoperative sleep deprivation and disturbance in order to recommend ...
Camilleri-Brennan, John +4 more
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