TWO CASES OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY--BOTH SURGERY--BOTH.

THE APPENDIX, AN ACCEPTABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR ALL SEGMENTS OF BOTH URETERS: A REPORT OF TWO CASES

There are occasional reports of using the appendix to replace sections of the ureters, and to our knowledge, only a couple of them were in the left side. We used the appendix as a ureteral substitute in two cases in technically difficult parts, the upper left ureter and the first part of the right ureter. Follow-ups of8 years and 6 months in right and left side cases, respectively, are imp...

Evaluation of 228 Cases of Thyroid Surgery

Medical records of 228 patients who had undergone thyroid surgery were studied. There were 179 females and 49 males with mean age of 33-8 years. Pre-op. diagnosis was cold nodule in 4. 4 %. Pathology diagnosis was simple goiter in 54%, adenoma in 23%, thyroid cancer in 15% and colloid cyst in 5.3% of the patients. Among carcinomas 68% were papillary, 29% follicular and 3% medullary. There were1...

Surgery and radiotherapy for retroperitoneal and abdominal sarcoma: both necessary and sufficient.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of surgical resection and radiotherapy (RT) in retroperitoneal or abdominal sarcoma. DESIGN Retrospective cohort. SETTING Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results, 1988-2005. PATIENTS Patients 18 years or older with initial diagnosis of primary retroperitoneal and nonvisceral abdominal sarcoma. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Survival for 2 years after diagnosi...

Some Groups of Interesting Cases of Abdominal Surgery

which only cholecystotomy (or removal of stones from the gall-bladder) was performed, but only those in which the ducts were obstructed by stones. Group B.?Ovarian cysts burrowing deeply into the broad ligament, and therefore without a pedicle. Group C.?Cases in which collections of pus within the peritoneal cavity have been evacuated through that cavity, i.e., cases in which the general cavity...

Abdominal Surgery