Gossypiboma is a retained surgical cotton matrix material in the body after a surgical procedure. Cases are rarely reported due to medico-legal concerns. Although infrequent, it causes serious morbidity and even mortality if left undiagnosed. We present the case of a trans-mural migration of gossypiboma and a review of the literature. Gossypiboma's trans-duodenal migration is a rare complicatio...

We herein report a case of gastrointestinal bleeding induced by angiodysplasia of the cecum in a case of Bernard-Soulier syndrome with recurrent breast cancer. In spite of endoscopic hemostatic therapy and interventional embolization, she had repeated massive bleeding from the cecal lesion. In addition, she had chronic hepatitis C and progressive liver tumors metastasized from breast cancer, an...

OBJECTIVE To report a new procedure that has been successful in endoscopically treating congenital saccular cysts of the larynx without the need for a tracheostomy or an external incision. DESIGN Retrospective chart review of a case series involving 4 patients who underwent a single endoscopic procedure for the treatment of their congenital saccular cysts. SETTING Two pediatric tertiary car...

Endonasal endoscopic sinus surgery is the standard procedure for surgery of most paranasal sinus diseases. Appropriate frame conditions provided, the respective procedures are safe and successful. These prerequisites encompass appropriate technical equipment, anatomical oriented surgical technique, proper patient selection, and individually adapted extent of surgery. The range of endonasal sinu...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the standard procedure for biliary drainage (BD) in patients with benign or malignant biliary obstruction. [1] Therapeutic ERCP requires deep cannulation into the common bile duct (CBD), the success rate of deep cannulation is high, but still not perfect, even with the use of advanced cannulation techniques such as precut sphincterotomy.[...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of endoscopic neurosurgery for patients with third ventricular colloid cysts without ventriculomegaly. Methods: Seventy-one patients with third ventricular colloid cysts were identified and recruited to this study. Eighteen of these patients did not have concomitant hydrocephalus and underwent primary endoscopic...

A clinicoradiological presentation of thoracic sarcoidosis requires histopathology in order to establish the diagnosis. Flexible bronchoscopy has a reasonable diagnostic yield and is the procedure of first choice for diagnosis. Endoscopic ultrasound (endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration/endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration) can help in the diagnosis of...

BACKGROUND Surgical management of the frontal sinus can be challenging. Extensive frontal sinus pneumatization may form a far lateral or supraorbital recess that can be difficult to reach by conventional endoscopic surgical techniques, requiring extended approaches such as the Draf III (or endoscopic modified Lothrop) procedure. Rigid endoscopes may not allow visualization of these lateral limi...

Functional endoscopic sinus surgery' (FESS) is a common otolaryngologic procedure, with over 250,000 operations performed annually. Computerized surgical navigation systems are available to assist the rhinologic surgeon in the complex dissection required for FESS. Our objective was to determine whether this system provided quantifiable benefits in FESS. We retrospectively reviewed 203 patients ...

IBDI remain an important problem in gastrointestinal surgery. The most frequently, they are caused by laparoscopic cholecystectomy which is one of the commonest surgical procedure in the world. The early and proper diagnostics of IBDI is very important for surgeons and gastroenterologists, because unrecognized IBDI lead to serious complications such as biliary cirrhosis, hepatic failure and dea...