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)....

background the benefits of laparoscopy over laparotomy include lower blood loss, decreased length of hospital stay, and decreased postoperative pain. it is unknown, however, whether patients with previous surgeries are good candidates for laparoscopic surgery. objectives to determine whether the location and type (laparoscopic surgery vs. laparotomy) of previous abdominal surgery is associated ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to provide the anatomic rationale for a transnasal approach to the orbital apex and cavernous sinus, and to evaluate its applicability and efficiency. METHODS One hundred patients with lesions of the orbital apex, cavernous sinus, optic nerve, clivus, parapharyngeal space, infratemporal fossa, or pterygopalatine fossa were reviewed over a 10-year period. A...

BACKGROUND Regional anaesthesia has been proposed to reduce intraoperative blood loss, duration of hospital stay and in-hospital complications with improved postoperative pain control. General anaesthesia is advantageous for prolonged surgeries. We hypothesized that combined regional and general anaesthesia would offer advantages of both in pelvi-acetabular fracture surgeries. METHODS We iden...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : coblation tonsillectomy is a new surgical technique and demands further research to be proven as a suitable and standard method of tonsillectomy. this study compares coblation and traditional tonsillectomy techniques in view of their advantages and complications. methods : in a prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial inform...

Background and Objectives Many risk factors have been identified in minimally invasive cholecystectomies that lead to higher complications and conversion rates. No study that we encountered looked at nonvisualization of the gallbladder (GB) during surgery as a risk factor. We hypothesized that nonvisualization was associated with an increased risk of complications and could be an early intraope...