5 LIST OF ORIGINAL PAPERS 6 ABBREVIATIONS 9 DESCRIPTION OF CONTRIBUTION 0 INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND 3 Historical Background 3 Anatomical Background 3 Health before surgery 5 Tonsillitis 5 Obstruction 5 Consequences 6 Well-being in the context of surgery 7 Preoperative Anxiety 7 Preoperative preparation 8 Anaesthesia 9 Surgical techniques for tonsil surgery 20 Tonsillectomy/TE 20 Tonsillotomy/TT 2...

The clinical evidence for the harmful effect of cortisone on patients infected with tubercle bacilli (American Trudeau Society, 1952; Fred et al., 1951; Traut and Ellman, 1952) has been supported by a series of laboratory studies on mice (Hart and Ress, 1950), rats (Cummings et al., 1952; Michael et al., 1950), guinea pigs (Spain and Molomut, 1950), and rabbits (Lurie et al., 1951). In the prec...

Background: for advance grades of symptomatic hemorrhoids (grade III and IV) the author has innovated a procedure called radiofrequency ablation and fixation of hemorrhoids. The procedure is performed as a day care surgery. Patients and methods: the surgical technique and clinical follow-up of patients operated by this technique are presented. An Ellman dual frequency radiofrequency generator w...

Rheumatoid disease is a systemic disorder, the widespread extra-articular manifestations of which have been reviewed by Dudley Hart (1969, 1970) in his Ellman and Davidson lectures. The tissues clinically involved are those not usually associated with disturbances of metabolism, so that abnormalities of serum chemistry might not be anticipated. Increased use of biochemical investigations in mod...

ion and Decomposition in Hillclimbing Design Optimization Thomas Ellman Mark Schwabacher Department of Computer Science Hill Center for Mathematical Sciences Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 (908) 932 4184 fellman,[email protected] CAP-TR-14 Abstract The performance of hillclimbing design optimization can be improved by abstraction and decomposition of the design space....

BACKGROUND A number of techniques have been described for treatment of patients with sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus disease. The author reports his experience in the surgical management of pilonidal sinus using radiofrequency sinus excision technique. The results are compared with those obtained after excision and marsupialization procedure. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen patients were opera...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to analyze the results of treatment of anal fistulas using a radiowave device retrospectively. METHODS Between 2000 and 2008, 976 patients were operated on for perianal fistula. A Ellman radiowave generator was used to carry out the complete surgical procedure. In the follow-up period 155 patients were lost, remaining 821 patients were analyzed in the study...

Prior to 1972, a variety of operations were performed to treat rotator cuff pain. Neer in 1972 recommended an anterior acromioplasty, which quickly became the standard of care based on Level IV and Level V evidence. In 1987, Ellman offered an arthroscopic approach to performing the acromioplasty; since then Level I studies have been conducted to assess the success of the arthroscopic approach. ...

1. A rapid colorimetric and apparently specific micromethod for the determination of total glutathione in small amounts of tissue is described. Generally, less than 30mg. of tissue is sufficient and this is homogenized in ice-cold 3% metaphosphoric acid. The product is filtered through sintered glass and neutralized or diluted before being added to a cuvette containing phosphate buffer, pH7.1, ...