Fifty Consecutive Hemispherectomies

Fifty-five Consecutive Laparoscopic Appendectomy Procedures Without Conversion

BACKGROUND In patients with suspected appendicitis, laparoscopic appendectomy is gaining increasing acceptance primarily because it is associated with less postoperative pain and a shorter hospital stay. Experience with 55 consecutive laparoscopic appendectomies, performed without conversion by the same surgeon, is herein examined and analyzed. METHODS The medical records of 55 consecutive pa...

A Retrospect of a Third Series of Fifty Consecutive Intra-Abdominal Operations

features are perhaps to be found in the variety of some {e.g. cases 24, 30, etc.) conditions, and the complexity of others (e.g. cases 28, 37, etc.): at all events there was more than sufficient provision for such diagnostic acumen and manipulative dexterity as one might possess; and if the number of cases quoted is large, I trust that the notes will contain enough of value to render an apology...

Early rotational stability of the longer Staar toric intraocular lens: fifty consecutive cases.

PURPOSE To determine whether rotational stability is improved with the longer Staar toric intraocular lens (IOL). SETTING A private practice, Los Altos, California, USA. METHODS Staar Surgical manufactures toric plate-haptic IOLs under +24.0 diopters (D) in 2 lengths. Fifty consecutive eyes requiring toric IOL spherical powers less than +24.0 D received the longer toric IOL (TL; 11.2 mm) us...

Fibrosarcoma of bone. Review of fifty consecutive cases from the Bristol Bone Tumour Registry.

Fire forbids fifty-fifty forest

Recent studies have interpreted patterns of remotely sensed tree cover as evidence that forest with intermediate tree cover might be unstable in the tropics, as it will tip into either a closed forest or a more open savanna state. Here we show that across all continents the frequency of wildfires rises sharply as tree cover falls below ~40%. Using a simple empirical model, we hypothesize that t...