Rathke's cleft cysts are benign cystic lesions of the sellar region, which may cause headache, pituitary deficiencies and visual disturbances from mass effect. Their management is not standardized yet. This study about establishing a consensus for medical care RCC. We performed retrospective observational all patients that were diagnosed or followed RCC between 2008 2018 (11 years), in neurosur...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this paper is to report the long-term results of surgery without bowel resection in patients suffering from deep infiltrating endometriosis with rectovaginal or colorectal involvement. METHODS This retrospective observational study identified 42 patients suffering with deep infiltrating endometriosis who underwent surgery. Conservative surgery was performed in 23 wom...

The trigger thumb is an uncommon condition in infants and children which occurs due to pathology of flexor pollicis longus or A1 pulley. The objectives in our study were to determine the treatment outcome of trigger thumb. The study included total of 45 patients (24 males and 21 females) with trigger thumb. The mean age of onset was 28.5 months (3 months -7 years). There was overall success rat...

BACKGROUND/AIM Recently, surgery during admission has been advocated for acute cholecystitis, rather than delayed surgery after conservative treatment. This study was designed to perform early surgeries and analyze the criteria used for conservative management followed by delayed surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS After implementation of a study with the aim of performing early surgery, a retrosp...

Our objective was a retrospective assessment of the management modalities that provided the most beneficial treatment in hemorrhagic moyamoya disease during the last 13 years at our institution. The clinical results of 44 patients with hemorrhagic moyamoya disease were investigated, comparing revascularization surgery (direct, indirect, and combined bypass) or conservative treatment. Angiograph...