Degenerative Spine Surgery: Our Experience

Role of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery in Adults with Degenerative Lumbar Scoliosis: A Narrative Review

Background and Aim: Degenerative lumbar scoliosis is a spinal deformity resulting from advanced disc degeneration and facet arthropathy. Given the inconclusive available literature and lack of high-quality data supporting the role of minimally invasive surgical management of degenerative lumbar scoliosis, this review intends to highlight and compare the various viable minimally invasive surgica...

Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery for Degenerative Disease: A Review

Anterior cervical spine surgery is an established surgical intervention for cervical degenerative disease and high success rate with excellent long-term outcomes have been reported. However, indications of surgical procedures for certain conditions are still controversial and severe complications to cause neurological dysfunction or deaths may occur. This review is focused mainly on five widely...

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