OBJECTIVE Although radiological imaging modalities like barium enema and computed tomography provide some clues, endoscopic methods still maintain superiority in assessment and differential diagnosis of large intestinal symptoms and complaints that require biopsy. We aimed to present the results of colonoscopic procedures performed in our general surgery clinic in detail. MATERIAL AND METHODS...

Objective: To evaluate the intrauterine pathologies using office-based hysteroscopy (OH) in patients scheduled for assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Materials and Methods: This study was conducted at the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Unit of Firat University Hospital, between March 2010January 2012. The 219 patients with no OH within the previous 6 months were enrolled the study with rig...

Before we are able to communicate evidence and evidence results to patients we must first be familiar with the common ways by which results may be presented to our patients. We describe five approaches (relative risk, risk reduction, odds ratio, absolute risk difference and number needed to treat) of transforming the results of an orthopaedic study for communication with patients.

Several errors in Refs. [1, 2] are corrected related to the optical trapping potentials for a stateinsensitive, compensated nanofiber trap for the D2 transition of atomic Cesium. Section I corrects our basic formalism in Ref. [1] for calculating dipole-force potentials. Section II corrects erroneous values for a partial lifetime and a transition wavelength in Ref. [1]. Sections III and IV prese...

PURPOSE We present long-term surgical experience of 102 chordee without hypospadias cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 102 chordee without hypospadias cases who were surgically treated between 1999 and 2012. Range of patients' age was from 1 month to 31 years. Seventy-two patients were adult, and 30 were children. Mean duration of follow up was 49.3 months. The pat...

OBJECTIVE Robotic adrenalectomy is one of the minimally invasive surgical methods gaining wide acceptance due to the three-dimensional imaging system and ergonomics of the equipment. We aimed to present the early data on patients who underwent robotic adrenalectomy due to adrenal masses in our hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS The records of eight cases, in which a unilateral robotic trans-perit...

OBJECTIVE Atrial septal defect is one of the most commonly encountered congenital heart diseases in adults. The effect of age of the patient to the surgery is disputable. The purpose of this report was to evaluate surgical repair in patients with ASD who are operated in our clinic. METHODS Total 40 patients were subjected to surgical repair due to ASD in Van Yuksek Ihtisas Education and Resea...

Schematic networks are linear abstractions of functional networks, such as route networks. Lines in the original network are modified in order to produce a schematic network which satisfies a set of constraints chosen to design the network. A method is described which accomplishes this line transformation using an iterative improvement technique driven by design constraints. The method maintain...

Infection control education has been a core component of infection control programs since they were established (Scheckler et al., 1998; Department of Health and Ageing, 2004) and remains a constant feature in the modern healthcare context. Education is a pivotal strategy used to address problems identified through surveillance of infection or to improve infection control practice.(Dubbert et a...

BACKGROUND Biliopancreatic diversion (BPD) has been an excellent operation for morbid obesity to achieve long-term weight reduction. We present our laparoscopic BPD protocol, which includes laparoscopic BPD with or without gastrectomy. METHODS Our two interventions are: 1) BPD (Scopinaro) by laparoscopy in patients with findings on gastroscopy; 2) BPD by laparoscopy with proximal gastric divi...