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SurgeXperiences 3.23
It’s an honor and pleasure to bring you this new edition of The Best Surgical Grand Rounds Carnival.
FIFA WORLD CUP – SOUTH AFRICA 2010
I would like to express my gratitude to Jeffrey Leow of Vagus Surgicalis (Australian medical student with lots of interest and knowledge of surgery) and the creator of this Great Carnival. Australia is [...]
Uric acid nephrolithiasis
Kidney stones (nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis) affect approximately 12% of men and 5% of women during their lifetime. Nearly half of all first time stone formers will have another stone episode within the next four years.
Stones can form when calcium, oxalate, uric acid or cystine are at high levels in the urine.
Uric acid stones represents 5 – [...]
Violinist having surgery while awake and playing
Roger Frisch, a solo violinist and associate concertmaster for the Minnesota Orchestra, and how he came to Mayo Clinic and Dr. Kendall Lee (neurosurgeon) for relief of a career-threatening tremor.
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Effectiveness of vasectomy
Around 42 million couples worldwide rely on vasectomy as a method of family-planning.
Every year 800,000 vasectomies are performed in the US.
Recanalisation: 0.5% of all vasectomies (is defined as the presence of any spermatozoa after one or more previously azoospermic samples were properly collected and documented).
Why are doctors sued following vasectomy?
Failure to be sterile (unwanted pregnancy)
Failure [...]
Carcinophobia
Fear from cancer
One not uncommon indication for prophylactic mastectomy is carcinophobia (a.k.a. cancerophobia).
Cancerophobia or carcinophobia is an active behavior of extreme fear of cancer that can lead to repeated medical examination without giving full reassurance to the patient. Denial is a mechanism of defense that usually helps the patient to cope with painful, threatening, overwhelming, [...]
2009 Best Hospitals in the US
The Best U.S. Hospitals for 2009
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
Cleveland Clinic
Massachusetts General, Boston
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell
University of California-San Francisco Medical Center
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston & Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
University of Washington [...]
Rectal Prolapse – NSFW
As in Marvin L. Corman’s book (Colon & Rectal Surgery) quotes:
Man should always strive to have his intestines relaxed all the days of his life and that bowel function should approximate diarrhea. This is a fundamental principle in medicine, that whenever the stool is withheld or is extruded with difficulty, grave illnesses [...]
Traumatic hand injury
Hand reconstruction
Succesful surgery in a Girl with eight limbs
Lakshmi is the hindu goddess of of wealth, fortune, love and beauty, the lotus flower and fertility. She is represented by an icon of a lady with four arms.
Lakshmi Tatma is a girl who is two years old but she was born with 8 limbs, because she is joined at the pelvis to what is, [...]
Surgical model
This surgical model is made of glass fiber and has abdominal and thoracic compartments separated. A selective bronchial intubation can be done in this model. It also has a structure that simulates a diaphragm. You can perform both laparoscopy and thoracoscopy.
The organs of a pig are placed within the model.
The model is intubated with an [...]
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 [...]
