The presented observation describes an example of effective treatment the patient with disseminated destructive pulmonary tuberculosis preXDR. included staged surgery using original method anterior mediastinum plasty a mesh implant. resulted in following outcomes: stabilization tuberculous disease, persistent sputum conversion, minimization overdistension only lung, absence mediastinal hernia a...

Study Design Retrospective case series from one institution with a comparison control group. Objective To evaluate the safety of concomitant tethered cord release and growing-rod insertion in individuals with early onset scoliosis. Methods We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent concurrent tethered cord release and growing-rod insertion. We compared our data to a comparison control g...

Synchronous lung cancer is considered one of the most difficult resection presentations. Bilateral staged thoractomy still exists as the gold standard, as few cases are reported by using median strenotmy. Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has gained an important role in routine thoracic surgical practice, and staged VATS resection of bilateral lung cancer has been reported with satisfactor...

BACKGROUND Anterior segment imaging using fluorescein angiography is only suitable in lightly pigmented irides as the brown pigmentation of the iris masks fluorescein transmission. Indocyanine green (ICG) angiography has excellent penetration of pigment epithelium and, therefore, has potential application in detecting perfusion changes of dark irides after strabismus surgery. METHODS A prospe...

Patients with coronary artery disease associated with malignancy are a difficult group of patients to treat. The ideal approach to manage them is still controversial. Both problems can be manage by either a combined or staged operation. The use of CPB during revascularization of the myocardium among patients with malignant disease, may have an effect on dissimination of malignant cells. This wa...

Corrected text: (Page 5: Results Revision surgery) Revision surgery of either hip after the second THA surgery was slightly more common in simultaneously operated patients compared to the patients operated with a staged procedure (Simultaneous surgeries 240 [7.1 %], surgeries within6 months n 495 [5.1 %], surgeries between 7 and 12 months n 828 [5.3 %] and second surgery after >12 months n 3,57...