Visible And Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Spectrometry During Thyroid And Parathyroid Surgery
R.m. Schols, MD, N.d. Bouvy, MD, PhD, F.p. Wieringa, PhD, L. Alic, L.p.s. Stassen, MD, PhD Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Van ‘t Hoff Program on Medical Photonics, TNO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Objective of the technologySurgery of the thyroid and parathyroid is an advanced procedure, requiring a high level of… Continue Reading
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Video-assisted anal fistula treatment (VAAFT) – A day care, painless procedure for treatment of anal fistula
Manash R Sahoo, MS, Anil Kumar, Post, Graduate Department of Surgery, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India Objective: To assess the feasibility of VAAFT as a day care procedure. Description: Twenty one patients of age ranging from 18- 40 years presented with a fistula in ano, out of which six were female and fifteen male.… Continue Reading
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Validation of a 3-D Surgical Navigation System for Laparoscopic Liver Ablation Procedures using a Human Cadaver Model
Chet W Hammill, MD, Maria A Cassera, Logan W Clements, PhD, Prashanth Dumpuri, PhD, James D Stefansic, PhD Liver and Pancreas Surgery Program, Providence Medical Center, Portland, OR and Pathfinder Technologies, Inc., Nashville, TN Objective The Explorer™ Minimally Invasive Liver (MIL) device is a 3-D image guidance system that is intended to be used as… Continue Reading
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Using Open Source Technologies to develop low cost Surgical Simulators
Shamyl B Mansoor, Zohaib Amjad, Asif Zafar, Dr National University of Sciences and Technology, Holy Family Hospital IntroductionMinimal Invasive Surgery, (MIS), is an advanced method performed by using instruments inserted through small keyhole incisions. In countries like Pakistan who have not completely adopted MIS, surgeons are trained for open surgery. In open surgery surgeons are… Continue Reading
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Two trocar laparoscopic repair of Morgagni hernia in infant and childhood: simplified technique.
Medhat Ibrahim, MD, Assistant, prof, paediatric, surgery Pediatric Surgical Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt, 11884 Purpose: Morgagni hernia is a rare entity that accounts for less than 6% of all surgically treated diaphragmatic hernias in pediatric age group. They are mostly asymptomatic and discovered incidentally. Open surgical repair has been… Continue Reading
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TroSim: New Haptic Simulator for Trocar Insertion Procedure
Yong Won Seo, Ashirwad Chowriappa, PhD, Khurshid Guru, MD, Thenkurussi Kesavadas, PhD University at Buffalo Introduction & ObjectiveTrocar insertion is one of the most cited causes of surgical injuries when performing laparoscopic procedures. Between 1997 and mid-2002, the FDA received about 1,300 laparoscopic trocar-associated injury reports, including reports of 30 fatalities. This process is highly… Continue Reading
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Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS) Using Ethicon(tm) Single Site (SSL(tm)) Disposable Device. Initial Experience.
Gustavo Seva-Pereira, MD, Vilmar L Trombeta, MD, Luis Gustavo C Romagnolo Instituto Pro-Gastro Although Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEM) has been in use for more than 20 years, it has been slow to become universally adopted by colorectal surgeons, in part because of a long learning curve, but also because of the significant cost of the… Continue Reading
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Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS): An Early Experience
Mark A Casillas, Jr., MD, MS University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Surgery BACKGROUND:Transanal endoscopic microsurgical (TEM) resection is associated with improved outcomes compared to transanal excision of rectal lesions. However, TEM equipment requires additional startup cost. Transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) was first reported in 2010. The purpose of this study… Continue Reading
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Totally stapled gastrojejunal anastomosis using hybrid NOTES ? single 12 mm trocar approach
Lino Polese, MD, PhD, Stefano Merigliano, MD, Gianfranco Da Dalt, MD, Roberto Luisetto, BD, Lorenzo Norberto, MD Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padova University, Italy Objective of the technology or deviceTo perform a totally stapled gastrojejunal anastomosis using hybrid NOTES –single 12-mm trans-abdominal trocar approach. Description of the technology and method of its use… Continue Reading
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Totally Robotic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch
Ranjan Sudan, MD Duke University Medical Center Objective of the technology or device: To demonstrate the feasibility of a totally robotic biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal (BPD/DS). Description of the technology and method of its use or application switch: BPD/DS involves operating in three different abdominal quadrants. This has traditionally been difficult without undocking and repositioning… Continue Reading
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Totally Endoscopic Gastric Plication Using A Novel Endoscopic Stapler
Santiago Horgan, Alejandro Grigaites, Pablo Omelanczuk, Veronica Gorodner, Rudolf Buxhoeveden, Rodrigo Ongay UCSD, Hospital Aleman de Buenos Aires, Hospital Italiano de Mendoza. Programa Unidades Bariatricas Objective: to date, bariatric surgery has proven to be the most effective treatment for obesity. Even though Roux -en- Y gastric bypass is considered the gold standard, investigation is focused… Continue Reading
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The Use of the Handheld USB Microscope for High Resolution Anoscopy
Jacob Eisdorfer, DO, Suraj Alva, MD, Bertram T Chinn, MD, Theodore E Eisenstat, MD, Nitin Mishra, MD, Gregory C Oliver, Kirsten B Wilkins, MD, Joseph R Notaro, MD Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey Objective: High… Continue Reading
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The use of electrostatic precipitation as a new means of maintaining visual field clarity during laparoscopic surgery
James Ansell, BSc, MBBCh, MRCS, Neil Warren, BSc, PhD, Pete Wall, BSc, MSc, PhD, Stuart Goddard, BSc, PGCE, Kim Cocks, PhD, CStat, CSci, Paul Sibbons, FIBMS, PhD, FRCPath, Jared Torkington, MS, FRCS Welsh Institute for Minimal Access Therapy, Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, University Hospital of Wales Objective of the technology or device Electrosurgical… Continue Reading
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The new space creator for hepatectomy
Chung-Wei Lin, MD Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center Background: Full mobilization of the right liver is crucial for resection of tumors located in right posterior segments and segment VIII. Surgeons usually put their left hand into the space between right diaphragm and liver to tilt and rotate liver toward left for full exposure of… Continue Reading
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The Application of Collaborative Cloud to the 3D Vision System: Opening Up a New Horizon in Healthcare
Jadong Kim SOMETECH. Inc. 1. Objective of the technology or device The concept of telerobotic surgery with the use of medical robotic system was born thanks to the United States Department of Defense's desire to decreae war casualities. However, the cost of the currently available medical robotic system (i.e. the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System)… Continue Reading
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