Challenges During Baha Surgery: Our Experience

Minimally invasive pediatric surgery: Our experience

AIM Departmental survey of the pediatric laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS It is a retrospective study from January 1999 to December 2007. The various types of surgeries, number of patients, complications and conversions of laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures were analyzed. RESULTS The number of minimally invasive procedures that had been performed over ...

Rectal surgery in octogenarian patients: our experience

Introduction Colo – rectal cancer is one of the most common tumors, especially in elderly patients; surgical procedures with curative or palliative intention in colo-rectal neoplasm in elderly patients due to the issue they raise: benefits versus increased mortality [1]. The aim of our study is to analyze patient’s outcome after surgery for rectal cancer and compare morbidity rate with a popula...

Body Contouring Surgery: Our 5 Years Experience

Submandibular Gland Surgery: Our Clinical Experience.

Objective The aim of this study was to assess the demographic findings and surgical results of patients who underwent submandibular gland excision at a tertiary care center. Methods The clinical characteristics and histopathological results of 45 patients who had undergone submandibular gland excision between 1997 and 2014 were evaluated in detail. Results Twenty-eight (62.2%) and 17 (37.8%...

Continuity care in surgery: our experience

Background For many years some demographic changes have been taking place that means also a constant growth of the elderly population. These changes cause an increase of “frail” patients, affected by chronic and degenerative diseases, often associated and affected by functional limitations and/or disabilities [1]. That has lead to an increasing demand for long term social and medical services w...