4th international congress of minimally invasive surgery-iran

Hypervelocity collisions with space debris (SD, natural meteoroids and man-made artifacts) can significantly affect the performance of spacecraft. Here, I use an adaptivemesh Eulerian hydrodynamic code, Mie-Grüneisen solid-mechanics, and a simple material-failure model, running on a modern PC, to analyze the protection afforded by a nominal two-plate aluminum shield to hypervelocity collisions ...

Abstract Aim Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is considered the optimal approach for most lesions. Various subsets of minimally invasive are practiced in UK, including trans-abdominal (TLA), hand-assisted (HLA) and retroperitoneal (RLA) laparoscopic procedures. We aimed to examine relative operative outcomes between 3 techniques. Methods performed a retrospective observational review contemporaneousl...

During the last two decades laparoscopic surgery has become the standard care for the management of various emergent and elective surgical pathologies. Well-known advantages of laparoscopy include faster recovery, less postoperative pain, lower perioperative complications, and improved cosmesis. Recent development of laparoscopy was represented with introduction of the concept of scarless surge...

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Cervical cancer is the second most common type of cancer among women in spite of the fact that it through screening easily can be detected and cured before it becomes invasive. Current screening procedures are too complex and costly for use in developing countries. The CerviSCAN project is an attempt to create a automated cervical cancer screening system that will lower the cost and increase th...

OBJECTIVE This study aims at determining if a collection of 16 motor tests on a physical simulator can objectively discriminate and evaluate practitioners' competency level, i.e. novice, resident, and expert. METHODS An experimental design with three study groups (novice, resident, and expert) was developed to test the evaluation power of each of the 16 simple tests. An ANOVA and a Student Ne...