Materials & Methods; Retrospective evaluation of selected cases operated by the same surgery team between 2000 and 2008. A total of 307 patients with a tympanic membrane perforation or retraction due to chronic otitis media were treated surgically with tympanoplasty with or without mastoidectomy. From these 96 cases who had primary repair of tympanic membrane perforation or retraction with inta...

Objective: To evaluate factors affecting the perforation closure rate for perforated otitis media. Methods: Between 2008 and 2012, a total of 118 patients with perforated chronic otitis media underwent tympanoplasty at Hyogo College of Medicine Hospital by a single surgeon. Prognostic factors were analyzed using multivariate analysis with logistic regression. Results: The success rate for tympa...

Spontaneous perforation of the colon is rare and is classified as "Idiopathic" and "Stercoral." Four patients with a total of 5 episodes of spontaneous perforation of the large bowel treated at the department of surgery, Rustaq hospital over the past 5 years are presented in this study as well as a literature review of clinical and pathological characteristics of each case. Spontaneous perforat...

BACKGROUND Thyroidectomy is considered a low-risk operation. The authors report a case of tracheal necrosis after total thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter with bilateral adenomas, and a case of oesophageal fistula after total thyroidectomy for papillary cancer. METHODS AND RESULTS The patient with tracheal perforation was treated by a non operative management after clinical stabilization. ...

introduction: adequate seal of iatrogenically perforated area within the root canal system can improve the long term treatment prognosis. this in vitro study evaluated the sealing ability of mineral trioxide aggregate (mta), calcium-enriched mixture (cem) cement and biodentine in repair of furcation perforation in primary molars. methods and materials: a total of 61 freshly extracted primary ma...

Ascites, oliguria and increasing serum creatinine levels are often noted in patients with acute kidney injury. However, these presentations are also observed in patients with intraperitoneal urinary leakage. Bladder perforation without obvious trauma is sometimes mistaken for acute kidney injury. We report two cases of bladder perforation resembling acute kidney injury. The first case was a 37-...

We aimed to present our experience on the gastrointestinal (GI) perforations and the factors affecting the outcome. A retrospective study carried out at a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. A total of 38 neonates with GI perforation managed in our neonatal intensive care unit during 2005 to 2011 were included into the study. The patients were grouped as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and n...

The aim of this study was to analyze the risk factors and prognosis for patients with esophageal perforation occurring during or after radiotherapy for esophageal carcinoma. We retrospectively analyzed 322 patients with esophageal carcinoma. These patients received radiotherapy for unresectable esophageal tumors, residual tumors after operation, or local recurrence. Of these, 12 had radiotherap...