OBJECTIVES This paper discusses the influence of a para-areolar incision in the upper outer quadrant of the breast on the location of the sentinel lymph node in a canine model. METHODS The sentinel lymph node was marked with technetium-99, which was injected into the subareolar skin of the cranial breast. After the marker had migrated to the axilla, an arcuate para-areolar incision was perfor...

Introduction: Endonasal septoplasty is almost no effect on the tip support mechanism. However, it has the difficulties in exfoliation of muciperichondrial flap and narrow view of the surgical area. Therefore, Author have devised incision method that can more easily exfoliate and more effectively expose the nasal septum that the existing approach method and I am making report of the comparison o...

Objective: To show utility of small incision (4 cm or less) in parotidectomy where incision is purely cervical. Study design: Prospective study. Setting: Tertiary care centre. Materials and Methods: In the study period of 7 years, from July 2008 to June 2015, 40 patients were included in this study, and were considered pre-operatively for possible attempt to perform minimally invasive small inc...

background: regardless of numerous advances in surgical techniques, selection of the best technique to sew up wounds and the best suture material are still controversial. several postoperative complications, including wound infection, stitched wound, chronic incision pain, wound dehiscence and hernia stitches result from many factors such as used suture material. objectives: the aim of the pres...

OBJECTIVES De Quervain disease is a mechanical tenosynovitis due to inadequacy volume between abductor pollicis longus, extensor pollicis brevis and their tunnel. Treatment methods include immobilization, steroid injections, and operation. For the first time Fritz De Quervain described surgical treatment of this disease. Since then, various ways of treatment have been reported. The purpose of t...

OBJECTIVES To compare the use of an electrosurgical device with traditional cold instruments (scalpel and scissors) for midline celiotomy incision. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized controlled clinical trial. SAMPLE POPULATION One hundred and twenty client-owned dogs undergoing abdominal surgery. METHODS Dogs were prospectively recruited and randomized to receive electroincision or cold...

BACKGROUND Three principal techniques exist with which to create the Asian double eyelid: the suture, partial-incision, and full-incision methods. The partial-incision method is reliable and long-lasting without many of the drawbacks of the full-incision method. OBJECTIVE The surgical technique of the partial-incision method is reviewed in a stepwise fashion so that the reader can reproduce t...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the effectiveness of minimally invasive surgery total hip arthroplasty (THA) using the two-incision technique as described by Mears. METHODS From January 2003 to December 2006, sixty-four patients underwent total hip arthroplasty using the one-incision (group I) and two-incision (group II) technique by one surgeon. There were 34 hips in group I and 30 hips in group II. ...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the safety of fetal delivery through placental incision in a placenta previa pregnancy. METHODS We examined the medical records of 80 women with singleton pregnancy diagnosed with placenta previa who underwent cesarean section between May 2010 and May 2015 at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chungbuk National University Hospital. Among the women with place...