Many of the general principles that have been learned from open colon and rectal surgery can be applied to laparoscopic and robotic surgery. Patients undergoing minimally invasive colorectal surgery need a full history and physical exam, with particular attention paid to the number and types of previous abdominal surgeries, as well as any history of any signifi cant abdominal infection. This sh...

Surgical residents face significant demands to obtain the requisite skills and knowledge for their specialty by time they graduate. Structured, guided, deliberate learning in a manner that is reproducible crucial surgical resident success ensuring will be able meet increasing of clinical practice. Use an organized planning tool, such as PERFECT (Position, Exposure, Reduction, Fixation, Evaluati...

(57) ABSTRACT Preoperative resection planning is assisted by a computer. Rather than rely on interpolation of the user input, a graph of interconnections is used. The user inputs one or more polylines on one or more two-dimensional vieWs. The polylines are used to assign resection and remnant seeds With a band of unassigned locations. The 2D seeds are used With the graph of interconnections to ...

BACKGROUND In total hip arthroplasty (THA), tilting of the pelvis alters the cup placement angles. Thus, the cup angles need to be planned with consideration of the effects of pelvic tilt. In the present study, we evaluated the efficacy of preoperative planning for implant placement with consideration of pelvic tilt in THA, and the accuracy of a CT-based computer navigation for implant position...

PURPOSE To explore the role and usefulness of preoperative breast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in surgical planning and to determine whether routine use of preoperative breast MR imaging benefits patients. METHODS Searches were conducted to locate literature, specifically clinical studies, discussing the effect preoperative breast MR imaging has on altering surgical plans. Selected article...

conclusions the case illustrates that transnasal videolaryngoscopy conducted in the preoperative anesthesia clinic is capable of providing key information to guide airway management in patients with significant upper airway pathology. case presentation a 68-year-old man presented to the preoperative anesthesia clinic for work-up before anticipated removal of infected total knee arthroplasty har...

The introduction of virtual reality techniques in medicine opens up new possibilities for the planning of interventions. The presented software system for virtual operation planning in orthopaedic surgery (VIRTOPS) enables the virtual preoperative 3D planning and simulation of pelvis and hip operations. It is used to plan operations of bone tumours with endoprosthetic reconstruction of the hip ...