Abstract Background It is challenging to proceed thoracoscopic anatomic resection when encountering severe pleural adhesion or calcified peribronchial lymphadenopathy. Compared with multiple-port video-assisted surgery (MP-VATS), how overcome these challenges in single-port (SP-) VATS still an intractable problem. In the present study, we reported surgical results of chronic inflammatory lung d...

Carotid stump syndrome is a well-documented embolic source for ischemic stroke. However, few cases have been reported of a similar condition - termed vertebral artery stump syndrome - which affects the posterior circulation after vertebral artery origin occlusion. We herein report a case of infarction of the right superior cerebellar artery and left posterior inferior cerebellar artery territor...

Of 106 African patients undergoing appendicectomy, 56 patients had stump invagination and 50 had simple ligation. The two groups were similar with respect to age, duration of symptoms, incision, degree of appendix inflammation and post-operative antibiosis. Patients whose wounds were drained were excluded. The frequency of wound infection was 8.9% in stump invagination and 6% in simple ligation...

years of operation in patients whose initial lesion was malignant. In gastrectomy for peptic ulcer disease the peak incidence occurred around the fourth decade after operation 9. Gastric stump cancer surgically treated has bad prognosis. Was observed lower five-year survival in patients with gastric stump cancer than those with primary gastric cancer 10. The treatment of choice is surgical D2 r...

PURPOSE To determine whether stump pressure changes significantly over time during temporary internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion via an endovascular balloon, and to examine correlations between stump pressure changes and cerebral blood flow (CBF) as measured by xenon CT. METHODS Seventy candidates for ICA sacrifice were evaluated preoperatively with a test occlusion of the cervical ICA us...

BACKGROUND Stump appendicitis is defined by the recurrent inflammation of the residual appendix after the appendix has been only partially removed during an appendectomy for appendicitis. Forty-eight cases of stump appendicitis were identified in the English literature. DATABASE The institutional CPT codes were evaluated for multiple hits of the appendectomy code, yielding a total of 3 patien...

BACKGROUND Thrombus in the stump of the pulmonary vein (PV) is not a well-known complication after lung resection, and it has the potential to cause embolism to vital organs. To clarify the frequency, risk factors, and cause of this complication, a retrospective clinical study of patients who underwent lobectomy was performed. METHODS The study evaluated 193 patients with primary lung cancer ...

Interface stresses and stump shape were measured during sessions over a two-month interval on a trans-tibial amputee subject. Results from thirteen transducer sites monitored during four sessions showed greater interface pressure changes over time at anterior sites than at lateral or posterior locations. There was a trend of decreased pressure with stump swelling and increased pressure for stum...