A new clinic was set up to deal with all toenail problems referred to a large general hospital. Ingrowing toenails were the commonest problem dealt with and phenol cauterization, either partial or complete, was the standard form of treatment. Over a 2-year period 1013 phenol cauterizations were carried out on 631 patients. After a minimum of 12 months follow-up, the recurrence rate was 2.96%. A...

Pyriform sinus fistula (PSF) is a rare congenital disease that causes neck abscess and/or suppurative thyroiditis. Complete excision of the fistula is the most common treatment. However, in the last decade, endoscopic cauterization of the opening of the fistula has been reported as a minimally invasive surgery for PSF. Although some studies have suggested that the latter option is reliable and ...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to discuss the management and the follow-up approach in patients with epistaxis. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 367 patients with epistaxis (209 males, 158 females; mean age 52.6±18.3 years; range 18 to 85 years) admitted to the Adult Emergency Department of a university hospital between January 2000 and December 2004 were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS Of pat...

Pyriform sinus fistula (PSF) is a rare congenital disease that causes neck abscess and/or suppurative thyroiditis. Complete excision of the fistula is the most common treatment. However, in the last decade, endoscopic cauterization of the opening of the fistula has been reported as a minimally invasive surgery for PSF. Although some studies have suggested that the latter option is reliable and ...

OBJECTIVE Despite the early introduction of totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass on the beating heart, only a limited number of cases have been performed. The limiting factor has been the concern about safety and graft patency of the anastomosis. This study describes our experience with totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass on the beating heart with robotic assistance and its early and...

AIM The objective of this study was to compare the effects of submucosal cauterization of the inferior turbinate with or without outfracture. STUDY DESIGN Clinical prospective. METHOD Twenty patients with inferior turbinate hypertrophy were randomized and divided into two groups. The first one was submitted to submucosal cauterization associated with outfracture, and the second one without ...

 Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) is a rare, benign, vascular neoplasm that accounts for less than 0.5% of all head and neck tumors. JNAs occur almost exclusively in the nasopharynx of adolescent males.  The site of origin of JNA remains controversial. Some believe that it takes origin from the superior lip of the sphenopalatine foramen at the junction of the pterygoid process of th...

Minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting via left anterior small thoracotomy is routinely performed on patients with single coronary artery disease, but recently has been expanded to a larger population as a part of a hybrid treatment in multivessel coronary artery disease. While the methods of internal mammary artery harvesting used in these operations can be different, the endoscopi...

We report a case of a 53-year-old female patient with isolated left main coronary artery stenosis in whom a completely endoscopic double coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedure was performed. The operation was carried out on the arrested heart. A right internal mammary artery graft was sutured to the left anterior descending artery using the daVinci telemanipulation system. The left in...