Abdominal Injuries – Surgical Aspects: A Review

Abdominal injuries.

hospitals realized which cases they should transfer immediately. In most cases it takes no more than two hours to move a patient from any hospital to a major centre, and it is in this area of improved transport of a patient to the major centres that the greatest improvement in our treatment could be achieved. A railway ambulance car would help more than any other single thing in an island such ...

Surgical and Dysmorphological Aspects of Abdominal Wall Defects

An increase in the incidence of gastroschisis has been noted worldwide. Currently, the reported incidence ranges from one in 10,000 to 15,000 live births.10-13 Much of the increase was detected earlier, in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but similar trends exist for more recent years.14 Suita et al studied the incidence of the malformation in Japan between 1975 and 1997. They found a more than threefold...

SURGICAL ASPECTS OF PEDIATRIC COCHLEAR IMPL A NTATION

Since 1991,90 cochlear implantations have been performed in the " cochlear center" of our department, including 57 children. This paper presents the results of 57 children who underwent cochlear implantation in the Iranian pediatric cochlear implant program. The surgical technique is described below. No flap problems were encountered, and no cholesteatoma or other complication was seen. In...

Abdominal Injuries of Warfare

Surgical treatment results of acute acromioclavicular injuries

  Abstract   Background: Different methods of surgical treatment for acromioclavicular(AC)   joint injury were considered in the literature. The purpose of the study was to compare intra- articular AC repair technique with the extra-articular coracoclavicular repair technique for the patients with Rockwood type III and VAC joint injury when indicated.   Methods: Nineteen consecutive patients wi...