Imaging assessment of the postoperative spine is complex and depends on many factors. Postoperative imaging studies evaluate the position of implants, adequacy of decompression, fusion status, and potential complications. This article provides a review of various imaging techniques, with their advantages and disadvantages, for the evaluation of the postoperative spine. It also gives an overview...

The authors report the use of a low-cost method of providing prolonged patient controlled anesthesia at the surgical site following elective forefoot surgery performed in ambulatory surgical settings. In this series of 54 patients there were no postoperative complications and 95.92% of patients believed the device helped to control their post-operative pain. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights rese...

Various operative techniques are available for the treatment of craniosynostosis. The patient's age at presentation is one of the most important factors in the determination of the surgical modality. Minimally invasive suturectomy and postoperative helmet therapy may be performed for relatively young infants, whose age is younger than 6 months. It relies upon the potential for rapid brain growt...

abstract   background: hysterectomy is the second most common major surgery procedure done after cesarean section by gynecologists in many countries and the most common procedure is total abdominal hysterectomy (tah). the incidence of laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (lavh) performed for benign lesions has progressively increased in recent years. our objective was to compare the r...

This article [1] has been retracted by the authors due to significant overlap with a previous publication [2]. Giuseppe Rengo and Gennaro Pagano were not involved in the study and were introduced into the author list by the corresponding author. All authors, including Giuseppe Rengo and Gennaro Pagano, have subsequently agree that they did not qualify for authorship. The remaining authors apolo...

Pleuropneumonia in children with heavy complications often requires surgical treatment. In the accessible literature a couple of cases with pneumonectomy in children of different ages are described. Procedure is not often done because of intervention difficulty and the high risk of intra and postoperative complications. A clinical case of one-year old child with left-sided pneumonectomy because...

Vesna Marjanović1, Ivana Budić1,2, Andjelka Slavković2,3, Vladimir Radlović4, Dušica Simić4,5 1Clinical Centre of Niš, Center for Anesthesiology and Reanimatology, Niš, Serbia; 2University of Niš, Faculty of medicine, Niš, Serbia; 3Clinical Centre of Niš, Clinic for Child Surgery and Orthopaedics, Niš, Serbia; 4University Children’s Hospital, Belgrade, Serbia; 5University of Belgrade, School of...

BACKGROUND Temporary epicardial pacing wires are routinely used during cardiac surgery; they are dependable in controlling postoperative arrhythmias and are associated with low morbitity. CASE REPORT We report a case of sternobronchial fistula formation induced by the existence of retained epicardial pacing wires in a patient who underwent coronary surgery ten years ago. CONCLUSION Reported...