Microsurgery demands significant preclinical training, often hampered by the high costs of the required microsurgery instruments. We hypothesized that recently available disposable microsurgery instruments provide sufficient quality and significantly reduced costs. In a comparative analysis with standard reusable instruments, participants performed equally with both instrument sets and recommen...

results the mean follow-up duration was 34 ± 23 months. the q-dash scores improved from 70 ± 6 points preoperatively to 13 ± 15 points at final follow-up (p < 0.01). the preopetative range of motion (rom) was 101 ± 26 degrees; whereas the final forearm rom was 140 ± 17 (p = 0.01). all non:union:s united uneventfully (range 3-6 months). at the last follow-up, the grip force was 83% of uninjured ...

INTRODUCTION Clinicians are regularly confronted with difficult choices. Should a tooth that has not healed through nonsurgical root canal treatment be treated through endodontic microsurgery or be replaced using a single implant? Acquiring complete, unbiased information to help clinicians and their patients make these choices requires a systematic review of the literature on treatment outcomes...

background: musculoskeletal symptoms are the main cause of loss of working time, and increase in labor costs. poor posture is the most important risk factor for work-related musculoskeletal symptoms. this study aimed at evaluating the role of ergonomic risk factors in different surgical (open surgery, laparoscopy, and microsurgery) in the frequency or resonance frequency of musculoskeletal symp...

1 Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery, County Emergency Hospital, Ploiesti, Romania 2 „Carol Davila” Universiy of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 3 Department of Dermatovenerology, Elias Emergency Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4 Department of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Emergency County Hospital Constanta, Romania 5 Department of ...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of chemoradiotherapy (CRT) with transoral debulking microsurgery for T2N0 glottic cancer. METHODS Thirty patients with T2N0 glottic cancer treated with concurrent hyperfractionated radiotherapy (RT) and carboplatin were retrospectively analyzed. Median total dose of RT was 72 Gy. Nineteen of 30 patients also received transoral debul...

several factors including cancer, malformations and traumas may cause large facial mutilation. these functional and aesthetic deformities negatively affect the psychological perspectives and quality of life of the mutilated patient. conventional treatments are prone to fail aesthetically and functionally. the recent introduction of the composite tissue allotransplantation (cta), which uses tran...

PURPOSE Transanal endoscopic microsurgery provides a minimally invasive alternative to radical surgery for excision of benign and malignant rectal tumors. The purpose of this study was to review our experience with transanal endoscopic microsurgery to clarify its role in the treatment of different types of rectal pathology. METHODS A prospective database documented all patients undergoing tra...

The widespread use of microsurgery in numerous surgical fields has increased the need for basic microsurgical training outside of the operating room. The traditional start of microsurgical training has been in undertaking a 5-day basic microsurgery course. In an era characterised by financial constraints in academic and healthcare institutions as well as increasing emphasis on patient safety, t...

The initial reports of robotic assisted microsurgery began to appear in the early 1990s. Animal and early human studies were the initial publications. Larger series papers have recently been published from a few institutions. The field of robotic assisted microsurgery is still in evolution and so are adjunctive tools and instruments. It is clearly a different and unique skill set-is it microsur...