intraoperative radiation therapy (iort) is a multidisciplinary approach in which residual tumors or tumor beds are directly irradiated during a surgical procedure. to evaluate its efficacy, from 1985, we conducted a prospective study including non-metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma treated by surgery, iort (15 grays) and postoperative external beam radiotherapy (44 grays). up to 1993, 51 cases o...

conclusions intravenous magnesium reduces postoperative ileus, postoperative severe pain and intra/post operative analgesic requirements in patients after major gi surgery. no side effects of magnesium in these doses were seen, so it seems to be beneficial along with routine general anesthesia in major gi surgeries. patients and methods a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled study was p...

conclusions both dexmedetomidine and esmolol can be used as agents to control hypotension in patients undergoing lumbar spine decompression and fixation surgery; the dexmedetomidine group, however, was associated with better intraoperative hemodynamic stability and reduced intraoperative analgesic and volatile anaesthetic requirement. results the study results showed that dexmedetomidine had lo...

natural rubber latex is the second most implicated agent in intraoperative anaphylactic reactions. this report describes a case of intraoperative anaphylaxis occurring in a non-atopic fourteen-year-old girl undergoing multiple surgical procedures, but without spina bifida, in which latex surgical gloves were the main culprit for the anaphylactic reactions. clinical manifestations of an anaphyla...

introduction: tonsillectomy is one of the most common surgeries all over the world and is performed by various methods. this study aimed to investigate the complications of bipolar electrocautery method of tonsillectomy. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on 234 patients, 114 female and 120 male individuals. the mean age of the patients was 12.2±8.3 (min=3 and max=58.2) years. so...

The aim of the work is to assess the performance and effectiveness of intraoperative cholangiography or choledochoscopy in the prevention of choledocholithiasis oversight. The effectiveness of choledochoscopy was assessed in 50 patients during the years 2001-2002. Since 2000 intraoperative cholangiography has been performed on all patients after classic cholecystostomy in the absence of indicat...

The Taylor Spatial Frame (Smith & Nephew, Memphis, TN) is a powerful tool in providing gradual correction of deformity. The Taylor Spatial Frame has the potential to allow for very accurate corrections achieved over one or more schedules through the use of the software on www.spatialframe.com. The accuracy of the frame is contingent upon the input of precise parameters. The correction occurs ab...

purpose : to determine the incidence and determinants of intraoperative complications of cataract surgeries performed in iran during 2000 to 2005 methods : the iranian cataract surgery survey (icss) is a retrospective study in which random sampling was done from selected centers. one week per season between 2000 and 2005 was assigned to each center and records of cataract surgeries performed du...