Introduction: Facial melanocytic nevi whether acquired or congenital may pose an aesthetic problem for many patients, especially women. There are many methods of removal of melanocytic nevi including surgical and non-surgical. However, surgical excision by classical fusiform excision remains the most widely used and one of the best methods taking all perspectives into consideration. Aim: To eva...

This study was undertaken to analyze and evaluate the diagnosis and principal treatment methods for congenital choledochal cyst, focusing on various surgical procedures and clinical outcome. A comprehensive, retrospective study was conducted on 72 adult patients who presented with choledochal cyst from 1985 to 2002. Surgical procedures were cyst excision with hepaticojejunostomy in 25 cases for...

Eumycetoma is a progressive and destructive chronic granulomatous subcutaneous inflammatory disease caused by certain fungi, the most common being Madurella mycetomatis. The host defence mechanisms against fungi usually range from an early non-specific immune response to activation and induction of specific adaptive immune responses by the production of Th-1 and Th-2 cytokines. The aim of this ...

OBJECTIVE To determine in patients with localized primary melanoma of the trunk or extremities the optimal excision margin that achieves the highest disease-free survival and overall survival and the lowest local recurrence rate. DATA SOURCES Trials comparing 2 different excision margins were identified by searching MEDLINE from 1966 to May 2002 using the term "melanoma," subheading "surgery,...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study of intradural extramedullary tumor. OBJECTIVE To compare the treatment results in the different surgeries of spinal intradural extramedullary tumor. METHODS The study retrospectively reviewed 122 patients. The minimally invasive surgery (MIS) group was divided into Group A (hemilaminectomy + tumor microscopic excision) and Group B (laminectomy + tumor micr...

Basal cell carcinoma is a common condition facing the plastic surgeon. When formally excised, a surrounding margin of normal skin is included in an attempt to ensure complete excision. We set out to investigate our excision margins in a prospective study of 100 basal cell carcinomas in 86 patients treated by conventional surgical excision. The edge of each lesion was delineated, an excision mar...

Peripheral nerve tumours are rather rare soft tissue tumours. In the present article, results of surgical treatment of the peripheral nerve tumours have been presented. Clinical material consisted of 34 patients (16 females aged 19-55 years and 18 males aged 17- 75 years). The following surgical procedures were performed: excision of the tumour without damaging the structure of fascicles - 6 ca...

BACKGROUND Cutaneous melanoma is one of the fastest rising cancer diagnoses in recent years. Melanoma in situ (MIS) constitutes a large proportion of all diagnosed melanomas. While surgical excision is considered the standard of therapy, the literature is not clear on which surgical technique minimizes local recurrence. A common technique is serial staged excision (SSE), in which a series of ma...

Objective Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common malignancy on lower lip. Surgical excision, standard treatment for SCC, requires full-thickness excision. However, no consensus exists about appropriate surgical margin. Therefore, we investigated margin and excision technique by analyzing 23 years of experience with lower-lip SCC. Methods We reviewed 44 patients SCC who underwent surge...

Introduction: Castleman's disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder which may be confused with other causes of lymphadenopathy. Case Report: Here we report a case of unicentric Castleman's disease presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy. The patient was treated with complete surgical excision of lesion and was disease free at the time of reporting this article. This case has been reported...