AIM To investigate the long-term effect of the number of resected lymph nodes (LNs) on the prognosis of patients with node-negative gastric cancer. METHODS Clinical data of 211 patients with gastric cancer, without nodal involvement, were analyzed retrospectively after D2 radical operation. We analyzed the relationship between the number of resected LNs with the 5-year survival, the recurrenc...

Infrainguinal arterial reconstruction increases limb salvage rates, however, the factors that predict time to graft failure remain ill-defined. The aim of this study was to define such predictors. A retrospective analysis of infrainguinal arterial reconstructions performed for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease refractory to medical/interventional therapies over a 6 year period was perform...

Background: Modified radical mastectomy is commonly performed surgery for breast carcinoma. The present study was conducted to compare intra-operative and post-operative surgical outcomes by using monopolar electrocautery ultrasonic shears in MRM. Methods: A randomized prospective with a sample size of 60 patients who were into two groups. One group underwent MRM (Group A) the other one B). Int...

background: the aim of this prospective, randomized, single-blinded study was to compare the effects of a carbohydrate drink 400 ml given 2 h before the surgery with preoperative overnight fasting on the gastric ph and residual volume, postoperative nausea and vomiting (ponv) and antiemetic consumption in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. materials and methods: forty american so...

At present main methods of assessing quality of surgical results & audits are mortality and morbidity. In 1992 Pierre Alain Clavien proposed a therapy oriented classification of post-operative complication. This grading system is well accepted worldwide as it is simple, reliable and valid. Our objectives are to assess and categorize urological operative complications as per Clavien-Dindo classi...

OBJECTIVES Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been shown to reduce blood loss, peri-operative complications and length of stay when compared to open radical prostatectomy (ORP). We sought to determine whether the reported benefits of RARP over ORP translate to obese patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS We utilized the 2009-2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample to identify all obese men wi...

Visual field deficits due to optic radiation injury are a common complication of temporal lobectomy in epilepsy surgery. In this prospective study, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based fiber tracking was performed on 48 patients who had temporal lobectomy for pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. Pre- and intra-operative DTI based fiber tracking was used to visualize the optic radiation and to predict t...

Secondary SBV occurs generally in the presence of predisposing factors such as anatomic disorders, malrotations, or postoperative adhesive bands. Post-operative adhesive bands are major problems for all surgeons due to their morbidity (1-3). Post operative adhesive small bowel obstruction is a rare but documented complication of appendectomy. The frequency of this condition has been reported be...

Excess absorption of liquid distending media is one of the most frequent complications of operative hysteroscopy. Although most women recover uneventfully, we are seeing cases of permanent morbidity or death resulting from this complication.

Background and Aim: Surgical site infection is an important complication after spinal surgery. Prevention and treatment of this complication requires more and reliable information. In this article, we investigated the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of post-operative infection in spine procedures by reviewing previous related studies. Methods and Materials/Patients: In this...