Reoperative Gastro-intestinal Surgery

Reoperative Vascular Surgery

that help patients to cope with their disease, and books that the patients can consult to understand it. The danger in attempting to produce a book of such magnitude is the creation of a tedious morass that a reader must wade through to find the useful facts, but the contributors to this book fall into this pitfall only occasionally. On the whole, I found this handbook to be well written, well ...

Complications Due to Round Worms in Gastro-Intestinal Surgery

Use of T-Tube Enterostomy in Neonatal Gastro-intestinal Surgery

Aim: To evaluate the results of the use of the T-tube ileostomy in neonatal intestinal surgery cases. Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of sixty two neonates underwent intestinal obstruction surgery by using T-tube ileostomy was conducted between January 1990 and January 2013.The pathologies of the intestinal obstruction were; thirty four of jejunoileal atresia cases, thirteen case ...

Mini-reoperative mitral valve surgery.

BACKGROUND Reoperative surgery involving the atrioventricular valves places the patient at risk for cardiac or bypass graft injury upon reoperative sternotomy. Standard right thoracotomy can avoid these problems but is associated with a large incision and possibly more pulmonary complications. METHODS AND RESULTS An alternative, minimally invasive approach for reoperative atrioventricular val...

Gastro-intestinal Obstruction

M.D. (Pp. xii + 566; figs. 415. 144s.) London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 1958. THIS work covers every conceivable aspect of obstruction in the gastro-intestinal tract from the cesophagus to the anal canal in a truly encycloprdic manner. The book contains a tremendous amount of information and approximately 1,700 references in the bibliography. It is refreshing here to note that the authors incl...