HYPOTHESIS A remote-controlled robot can be used to perform computer-enhanced major digestive laparoscopic surgery. DESIGN Cases series for assessment of the feasibility and safety of this technology in major digestive surgery. SETTING Tertiary care referral center. PATIENTS Between September 5, 2001, and December 20, 2001, 5 patients (4 men and 1 woman; mean +/- SD age, 66 +/- 5 years) u...

biliary papillomatosis is a disorder characterized by numerous adenomatous polyps of variable distribution and extent in intrahepatic bile ducts. it should be considered as a premalignant condition because a high proportion of the lesions undergo malignant transformation. in this report, we present a patient with abdominal pain and jaundice. according to his presenting signs and symptoms, ercp ...

We undertook a long term project, DIRECT, to obtain the direct distances to two important galaxies in the cosmological distance ladder – M31 and M33, using detached eclipsing binaries (DEBs) and Cepheids. While rare and difficult to detect, detached eclipsing binaries provide us with the potential to determine these distances with an accuracy better than 5%. The massive photometry obtained in o...

Summary. The aim of the study. Pancreatoduodenal resection (PDR) is one most traumatic cases, and in post-operative period, patients can develop complications, which often lead to poor results surgical excision. rate postoperative mortality who have undergone PDR 5 10 %, complication blamed on 20-60 %.
 method this work led development clinical indications rehabilitation ailments early as ...