CONSEQUENCES OF SPLEEN EXTIRPATION

Extirpation of the Spleen

rest all belong to the present century. If his own case is reckoned as a recovery, the mortality is 73 per cent'.; if otherwise, the mortality is 76; the recoveries being twelve or eleven out of the forty-two cases, according as this is or is not reckoned as belonging to that category. The cause of the eleven deaths was septicemia in one case, peritonitis in one case, and hasmorrhage either dur...

Indirect upstream effects of dams: consequences of migratory consumer extirpation in Puerto Rico.

Large dams degrade the integrity of a wide variety of ecosystems, yet direct downstream effects of dams have received the most attention from ecosystem managers and researchers. We investigated indirect upstream effects of dams resulting from decimation of migratory freshwater shrimp and fish populations in Puerto Rico, USA, in both high- and low-gradient streams. In high-gradient streams above...

The Extirpation of Malaria

Sir,?I have read with much interest Major Ronald Itoss' lecture on The Extirpation of Malaria. There are one or two questions I would like to ask him concerning matters not fully explained in his lecture :? (1) By what method does the Plasmodium malar-ice pass from the mosquito into the blood of man ? (2) Does he deny that there are any ways in which the poison of malaria can be conveycd to man...

Extirpation of the Lachrymal Sac

Robotic extirpation of complex massive esophageal leiomyoma.

Esophageal leiomyomas are the most common benign mesenchymal esophageal tumors, but they occur rarely in the pediatric population. Leiomyomas are conventionally treated with extramucosal enucleation via an open thoracotomy. In this paper, we report a case of a complex massive retrocardiac esophageal leiomyoma that was successfully extirpated by using a robotic-assisted thoracoscopic technique. ...