objectives to develop a guide to estimate blood absorbed by surgical gauze. materials and methods a clinical experiment was conducted using aspirated blood and common surgical gauze to create a realistic amount of absorbed blood in the gauze. different percentages of staining were photographed to create an analogue for the amount of blood absorbed by the gauze. results a visual analogue scale w...

chylothorax in adult occurs most commonly in the wake of cardiac and thoracic procedures. injuries to the  common thoracic duct in the thorax or its branches in the mediastinum, injuries to the thymus tissues, dissection of the superior vena cava or ascending aorta, dissection of the aortic arch, disruption of the accessory lymphatics in the left or right thorax, and increased pressure in the s...

primary cardiac sarcomas are rare clinical entities with an incidence rate of 0.0001% in collected autopsy series and are regarded as very aggressive tumors. we herein describe a 21-year-old woman presenting with syncope, dyspnea, and abdominal distention. she suffered from massive ascites, plural effusion, and liver congestion demonstrated by abdominal sonography and chest x-ray. transthoracic...

ntroduction: electrocautery device is one of the most widely used electronic devices in operating rooms despite its advantages in operations, production risks such as the halo of smoke above the operating position. the smoke with hazardous substances,cause to transmitting hiv, hpv and hepatitis and complications such as respiratory distress, nausea and vomiting, eye irritation, headache, and so...

there are many techniques for reconstruction after total pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy. the use of a transposed stomach to restore gastrointestinal continuity, and this combined cervical and abdominal approach for pharyngolaryngoesophagectomy and gastric pull up has become one of the most popular. this retrospective study is a review of 50 consecutive iranian patients who underwent pharyngolaryn...

introduction:surgical treatment of diseases in cervicothoracic, thoracic and thoracolumbar regions can be a challenging issue. cooperation of the thoracic surgeons and spine surgeons can improve the outcomes and decrease the complications of patients who underwent these approaches.materials & methods: the participants of this study consisted of seventeenpatients suffering from different types o...

conclusions by using the normal angle kappa determined in this study, pseudodeviations can be identified more precisely in those who might undergo keratorefractive surgery. results a total of 977 healthy participants who aged 18 to 45 years were included consecutively. the study population consisted of 614 females and 363 males. the average angle kappa was 5.00º ± 1.36º at 240.21º ± 97.17º in m...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the surgical approach in post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted in the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, sher-i- kashmir institute of medical sciences (skims), kashmir, india. we included all patients with post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia undergoing operation in our ...

conclusions surgical wound infections are less common by using reusable retrieval bag during laparoscopic appendectomy procedure. also, using reusable retrieval bag has less cost. patients and methods one hundred twenty laparoscopic appendectomies performed over one year, were included in this retrospective study. the patients were divided into 2 group; group a was the one in which la was done ...