TREATING VASCULAR ANOMALIES: A TEN-YEAR REVIEW

A Ten - Year Review

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Ten-year retrospective review.

NANCY W. DICKEY, MD A bit more than a decade ago, the country was bombarded by a series of headlines announcing tragic medical errors that caused pain, increased costs, and even death to the patients involved. As president of the American Medical Association (AMA), I was asked repeatedly about how Bthe best health care system in the world[ could allow mistakes like the ones being reported to oc...

Recurrent inguinal hernia: a ten-year review.

BACKGROUND This study evaluates the results obtained in recurrent inguinal hernia repair over the past ten years in a general hospital using laparoscopic (LAP) and open tension-free mesh (Lichtenstein) procedures. METHODS A prospective controlled study with 258 recurrent inguinal hernias in 235 patients over a ten-year period. The main outcome measurements were recurrence rate, operating time...

Hepatic vascular anomalies in infancy: a twenty-seven-year experience.

OBJECTIVE Infantile hemangioma and arteriovenous malformation (AVM) of the liver have a similar presentation but a different natural history, and therefore require different treatment. This study was undertaken to clarify differential diagnosis and management of these two biologically distinct vascular disorders. STUDY DESIGN We retrospectively analyzed the records of 43 children with hepatic...

Pulmonary vascular anomalies in adult; a pictorial review