BACKGROUND Various treatment strategies for low-grade chondrosarcomas with variable outcomes have been reported in the literature. The aim of this study was to assess the oncological and functional outcomes associated with intralesional curettage followed by adjuvant therapy comprising high-speed burring, thermal cauterization, and bone cementation with polymethylmethacrylate. METHODS We perf...

Surgical trauma, which is inevitably associated with the surgical removal of cancer, has been reported to accelerate tumor metastasis. The close association of reactive oxygen species with the trauma and tumor metastasis supports the possibility of using antioxidants for the inhibition of metastasis. To inhibit surgical trauma-enhanced peritoneal dissemination, human catalase (hCAT) derivatives...

Abstract The practice of kaiy is an ancient medical traditional therapy that still used in Africa and the Middle East. Kaiy Arabic word for cautery; a red-hot iron or coal placed to skin. This causes sharp circular, oval linear burns are symmetrical configuration, usually resulting permanent scars. undertaken by healers. A Somali woman was referred her general practitioner dermatology itchy sca...

A technique for isolation of cardiac myocytes and collection of whole heart tissue from individual hearts of adult rats is described in this study. After excision of the apical half of the left ventricle (LV) and cauterization of the cut edge, aortas were cannulated and high-quality isolated cardiac myocytes were collected after collagenase perfusion of the basal portion. Myocyte dimensions fro...

Our aim in this study is to show the efficacy of trichloracetic acid cauterization in the tympanic membrane perforations. Between January 2002 and January 2012 central perforations in 160 ears of 142 cases were tried to be closed by repeated trichloracetic acid cauterization in one week interval followed by the placement of a piece of cigarette paper to the perforation site. In 98 of 137 ears (...

DELAYED re-formation of the anterior chamber is a frequent complication of trephine operations for the relief of glaucoma, especially Elliott's operation. This complication is a very serious one which, if not relieved, leads to loss of the eye. Spaeth (1944) discusses this complication but does not describe a treatment for it. Stallard (1946) recommends injection of normal saline into the anter...

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency (RF) energy has been used for ablation and resection of liver tumors. PURPOSE To present a new technique for the treatment of liver hydatid cyst disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Two patients with liver hydatid disease treated with RF energy cauterization and surgical resection are presented. Cystectomy was performed in a female patient aged 35 years and pericystectomy...

more diseased part of the lung which is in greatest need of collapse. In the earlier years of artificial pneumothorax treatment attempts were made to sever these adhesions by thoracotomy (by the open method). This was attended with many com, plications and the procedure is not now considered justifiable. In 1910 Jacobeus introduced the present method of intrapleural pneumolysis and invented the...

A study was performed in order to compare the efficiency of surgical versus non-surgical treatment in patients hospitalized for epistaxis regarding the source of bleeding, and to identify failure-predicting factors related to specific treatments. 62 patients were included in the study, 36 (58%) of whom suffered from posterior epistaxis and 26 (42%) experienced anterior bleeding. The single fact...