Ali Akdemir, MD, Sevtap Seyfettinoglu, MD, Levent Akman, MD, Fatih Sendag, MD, Mehmet Kemal Oztekin, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ege University School of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey (all authors). ABSTRACT Background and Objectives: Fascial closure of the 10-mm and 12-mm port sites is mostly recommended to avoid port site incisional herniation. However, it is […]
Youzhu Hu, MD, Junjie Liang, MD, Qiang Li, MD, Qiong Zhao, MD Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (Drs. Hu and Liang). Department of Minimally Invasive Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (Drs. Li and Zhao). ABSTRACT With the advancement of minimally invasive technique, laparoscopic
Erin M. Mellano, MD, Christy M. Anthony, BS, Tamara Grisales, MD, Christopher M. Tarnay, MD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA (all authors). ABSTRACT Instances of iatrogenic endometriosis after laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy are uncommon
Olivier Pruszkowski, MD, Jérôme Petit, MD, Sylvie Schlumberger, MD, Marc Fischler, MD Department of Anesthesiology, Hôpital Foch and University Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, 92150 Suresnes, France (Drs. Pruszkowski, Schlumberger, and Fischler). Department of Cardio-Vascular Radiology, Hôpital Marie-Lannelongue, 92350 Le Plessis-Robinson, France (Dr. Petit). ABSTRACT Introduction: Robotic prostatectomy is considered by many urologists as the new
Scott Wessner, DO, Nicholas Houlis, DO, Sathyaprasad Burjonrappa, MD, MS, FRCS(Ed), FACS Department of Surgery, St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, Paterson, NJ, USA (all authors). Department of Surgery, Childrens Hospital of New Jersey, Maplewood, NJ, USA (Dr. Burjonrappa). ABSTRACT Management of intrathoracic foregut duplication cysts has traditionally involved a thoracotomy. Recently thoracoscopic approaches have been
Ornella Sizzi, MD, Matteo Saldari, MD, Alfonso Rossetti, MD, Giuseppe Soda, MD, Francesco Pellegrino, MD, Lucia Manganaro, MD Department of Gynecological Endoscopy and Anatomopathology, Nuova Villa Claudia Hospital, Rome, Italy (Drs. Sizzi, Rossetti, Soda, Pellegrino). Department of Radiological Oncological and Anatomopathological Sciences, Umberto I Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy (Drs. Saldari, Manganaro). ABSTRACT
Gonzalo Vitagliano, MD, Ramiro Castilla, Juan Gonzalo Fernandez Long Department of Urology, German Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina (all authors). ABSTRACT Bladder leiomyomatosis is a rare occurrence. It represents 0.5% of all bladder lesions. An increasing number of these tumors are detected incidentally at an early stage in young women secondary to routine pelvic ultrasonography. Laparoscopic
Brusabhanu Nayak, MS, MCH, Prem Nath Dogra, MS, MCH, Vaibhav Saxena, MS, MCH, Ashis Saini, MS, MCH Department of Urology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Laparoscopic port site metastases are recurrent nodular lesions developing locally in the abdominal wall within the scar tissue of one or more
Valentina Pastore, MD, Angela Basile, MD, Raffaella Cocomazzi, MD, Fabio Bartoli, MD Pediatric Surgery Unit, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy (all authors). ABSTRACT Introduction: Minimally invasive surgery is normally used in children but is not so common in newborns, especially those with very low birth weight, as a consequence of an immature cardiopulmonary system and
S. Papachristos, MD, E. Chrysos, MD, S. Xenaki, MD, K. Lasithiotakis, MD, V. Haniotis, MD, N. Asimakopoulou, MD, P. Papakonstantinou, MD, G. Chalkiadakis, MD Department of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete Greece (Drs. Papachristos, Chrysos, Xenaki, Lasithiotakis, Chalkiadakis). Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine of Heraklion, 71110 Heraklion, Crete Greece
