background transurethral resection of the prostate (turp) is the most common surgical treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia. objectives the aim of the present study was to compare the conventional bipolar transurethral resection of prostate (turp) with a modified transurethral resection of the prostate (m-turp) in men with mild to moderate symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. patients...

o b jective: to evaluate the accuracy of surgeons’ intraoperative diagnosis in open appendectomy and compare it with the histopathology examination results afterwards. m ethods: this was a cross-sectional retrospective study accomplished in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, in a one-year period from 2007 to 2008. medical charts of all the patients who were ...

Background: Cleft Palate (CP) repair is associated with intense pain, which is difficult to assess and treat; different types of nerve blocks were described to control such pain. Patients and Methods: 40 pediatric patients were divided into 2 groups: 20 patients received bilateral Greater Palatine Nerve block (GPN group) and 20 patients received bilateral Suprazygomatic Nerve block (SMN group)....

Psychogenic dystonia is a challenging entity to diagnose and treat because little is known about its pathophysiology. We describe two cases of psychogenic dystonia who underwent deep brain stimulation when thought to have organic dystonia. The intraoperative microelectrode recordings in globus pallidus internus were retrospectively compared with those of five patients with known DYT1 dystonia u...

We report a case of malignant hyperthermialike syndrome in a living-donor liver transplant recipient with no familial history of malignant hyperthermia or exposure to known triggering drugs. The patient showed many features of a typical malignant hyperthermia episode, and The Clinical Grading Scale defined this case as almost certain to be an episode of malignant hyperthermia (rank 5). However,...

Fluorescence imaging is a powerful technique with diverse applications in intraoperative settings. Visualization of three dimensional (3D) structures and depth assessment of lesions, however, are oftentimes limited in planar fluorescence imaging systems. In this study, a novel Fluorescence Imaging Topography Scanning (FITS) system has been developed, which offers color reflectance imaging, fluo...