Surgeons in study were inexperienced at laparoscopic repair

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How Many of the Biopsy Decisions Taken at Inexperienced Breast Radiology Units Were Correct?

OBJECTIVE In this study, we aimed to determine the need for biopsy in patients referred from other clinics for the performance of biopsy with the suspicion of breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS 112 patients were included in the study. It was decided that their biopsies be performed following examinations in other clinics and they presented to the breast radiology unit of our hospital for a ...

Comparison of Surgical Skills in Laparoscopic and Robotic Tasks Between Experienced Surgeons and Novices in Laparoscopic Surgery: An Experimental Study

PURPOSE Robotic surgery is known to provide an improved technical ability as compared to laparoscopic surgery. We aimed to compare the efficiency of surgical skills by performing the same experimental tasks using both laparoscopic and robotic systems in an attempt to determine if a robotic system has an advantage over laparoscopic system. METHODS Twenty participants without any robotic experi...

An unusual pelvic cyst found at laparoscopic hernia repair.

To cite: Sarantitis I, Weerasinghe C, Varia H, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2015210175 DESCRIPTION The finding of unusual contents within hernias merits publication so as to raise surgeons’ awareness of the structures that could be encountered during hernia repair. 2 We describe a case of a 66-year-old man who underwent elective transabdo...

Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a prospective evaluation at Eastern Nepal

INTRODUCTION Inguinal hernias have been treated traditionally with open methods of herniorrhaphy or hernioplasty. But the trends have changed in the last decade with the introduction of minimal access surgery. METHODS This study was a prospective descriptive study in patients presenting to Surgery Department of B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal with reducible inguinal ...