Song Liang, MD, PhD, Morris E Franklin Jr, MD, FACS, Jeffrey L Glass, MD, FACS Texas Endosrugery Institute Introduction: Both diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy had been applied as acceptable approaches to manage intestinal obstruction in the acute setting. This prospective study based on our practice was aimed at investigating the practicability and applicability of laparoscopic […]
Chi Hsiang Wu, MD, Hurng-Sheng Wu, MD, Eugene Lin, MD Changbin Show Chwan Memorial Hospital Purpose: A new image-guided surgical system, with a computer-aided imaging-overlay system between the real-time laparoscopic view and a reconstructed 3D surgical model of the targeted anatomy, named augmented reality (AR), We compare imaging-assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomy (IALA) and conventional laparoscopic adrenalectomy […]
Ashwin Pimpalwar, MD, FRCS, Pediatric, Surgery, Sheena A Pimpalwar, MD 1Division of Pediatric Surgery, Michael E DeBakey Department of Surgery, 2Department of Radiology Baylor College of Medicine and Texas children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas Purpose: Denver shunts are used for palliation of refractory ascites /chylothorax in children. We report our technique using laparoscopic/ thoracoscopic guidance for […]
Ashwin Pimpalwar, MD, FRCS, Pediatric, surgery Division of Pediatric Surgery, Michael E Debakey Department of Surgery, Baylor college of medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas. Purpose: To report our technique of laparoscopic removal of large Trichobezoar in children. Material methods: 9 year old child presented with vomiting and intolerance to oral diet. Upper GI […]
Atul Mishra, MBBS, MS, FRCS, Ashvind Bawa, MBBS, MS, FMAS, Amandeep Singh Nar, MBBS, MS, FMAS DAYANAND MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, LUDHIANA INTRODUCTION Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has been widely used to diagnose and treat patients with intrathoracic pathology, including bullous emphysema. Surgical operation for bullous emphysema is indicated for patients with symptoms related to […]