BACKGROUND Lung tumors showing ground-glass opacities on high-resolution computed tomography indicate the presence of inflammation, atypical adenomatous hyperplasia, or localized bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. We adopted a two-staged video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy strategy involving completion lobectomy for localized bronchioloalveolar carcinoma with an invasive component according to po...

Weight recidivism after primary bariatric procedures is an important issue and concern for many bariatric patients. Regardless of the specific type of bariatric surgery, long term weight regain will occur to a small but significant proportion of patients [1]. Weight regain is especially prevalent in the restrictive bariatric procedures, operations that limit the amount of oral intake compared t...

The technology of flap prefabrications is a new, powerful tool in plastic and reconstructive surgery. It is based on an old idea, while applying the latest innovations in surgery. It involves any modification of a surgical flap done before its transfer to the final donor site, including surgical delay, pre-expansion, pre-grafting, the use of tissue engineering, biomaterials and perforators surg...

BACKGROUND We compared a hybrid approach combining staged percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and minimally invasive valve surgery with concurrent valve surgery plus bypass via a median sternotomy approach. METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 65 consecutive patients with coronary disease and surgical valvular heart disease who underwent planned PCI followed within 60 days by minimally i...

A case of a fistula running from the pulmonary vein to the esophagus after a staged hybrid procedure combining total thoracoscopic ablation and percutaneous radiofrequency catheter ablation has not been reported previously. We describe such a case in a 37-year-old man who was successfully treated by surgery.

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective matched cohort analysis. OBJECTIVE The majority of the literature on venous thromboembolism (VTE) after spine surgery is limited to studies of thoracolumbar surgery. Less is known regarding the incidence of VTE and associated risk factors following cervical spine surgery. METHODS A total of 5,405 patients at our institution underwent cervical diskectomy, laminecto...

AIM To see how patterns of care changed over time, and how institution type effected these decisions. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed using the National Cancer Database, looking at all patients that were diagnosed with rectal cancer from 1998 to 2011. We tested differences in rates of treatment and stage migration using χ2 tests and logistic regression models. RESULTS A revie...

Unilateral and bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) in Parkinson's disease (PD) result in weight gain in the initial postoperative months, but little is known about the changes in weight following unilateral and staged bilateral STN DBS over longer time intervals. A case-control comparison evaluated weight changes over 2 years in 43 consecutive unilateral STN DBS patie...

Treatment of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) is complicated because of many factors including increasing size, eloquent location, and risk of unacceptable neurological deficits. Each of the treatment modalities, microsurgery, embolization, and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), has its pros and cons. Surgery and embolization are limited by location, size, and afferent and efferent vessel anato...