Browsing all posts in August, 2007.

Damn Racists

The english organization Marie Stopes International maintains a campaign to alert british citizens on the risks of acquiring venereal diseases or non-wished pregnancies when traveling to Mexico.
“What is more embarrassing, his hat or what he might give you? Make sure don’t come home with any unwanted holiday souvenirs”
This poster is very offensive and annoying. It’s [...]

SurgeXperiences 1.03

Welcome to the third edition of SurgeXperiences, the first carnival of surgery. I’m honored to bring you this surgical carnival.
This will be a practical and concise edition. The objective of blogs (in my point of view) is to answer questions as quickly as possible, so lets start with the HOW-TOs. Enjoy.

How to classify fingertip [...]

Next week’s SurgeXperiences

I am pleased to announce that the new edition of SurgeXperiences is going to be hosted here at Unbounded Medicine next week. I’ll be accepting ALL your submissions.
Please feel free to post about anything related to surgery, like surgical procedures, mistakes during surgery of your training, lessons learnt, and tips, first operation done solo, memorable [...]

The appeareance of Crohn’s disease

This is how a Crohn’s disease looks in colonoscopy.

Hemorrhoidal prolapse & PPH procedure

This is a case of a 67 years old male with history of chronic constipation (20 years) and chronic hemorrhoidal disease came to the office with rectal bleeding and a non-redicible anal mass.
On physical examination we found Grade IV hemorrhoidal disease.

We decide to perform a PPH procedure with an hemorrhoidal circular stapler (33 mm) kit.

Note [...]