Surgical management of symptomatic benign and malignant effusive pericarditis is often required. Twenty-two patients with medically recalcitrant effusive, nonconstrictive pericarditis underwent pericardial resection by a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgical (VATS) technique (9 malignant, 13 benign). Pericardiectomy, resulting in complete drainage of the pericardial space and control of patient...

Background: The technique of vertical dome division or tip defining, involves incising the lateral crura and vestibular skin at or lateral to the dome or tip defining point. The incision di-vides the lower lateral cartilage into a lateral segment and a medial segment, which are advanced anteriorly and sutured together to increase tip projection. The present study aimed at assessing a new vertic...

This article describes an anterolateral reconstruction procedure that, when used in combination with an intra-articular anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction, restores rotary and anterior knee stability. We believe that failing to recognize lateral instabilities and to perform an extra-articular reconstruction is an under-recognized cause of failure of ACL reconstruction. We also desc...

Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger Dear Sir, I read with interest the beautifully written ‘How I Do It’ article by Dr. Richard Prinz entitled ‘Technique of Lateral Pancreaticojejunostomy’ in the June 1997 issue. While I agree with most all of his technical points, I notice in figure 3 that the Roux limb is brought through the right transverse mesocolon and oriented with the blind...

In this work, in the process of plane-wave ultrasound probing from different angles attainable spatial resolution was estimated on basis previously developed theory Doppler response formation. theoretical calculations coherent compounding signals conducted over period changing steering probing. For case an analytical expression for system sensitivity function field, which corresponds to point s...

Two case reports describing a new technique of creating a repositionable piezoelectric bony window osteotomy during apicoectomy in order to preserve bone and act as an autologous graft for the surgical site are described. Endodontic microsurgery of anterior teeth with an intact cortical plate and large periapical lesion generally involves removal of a significant amount of healthy bone in order...