Management of the sciatic nerve during transfemoral amputation: a survey of Dutch surgeons.

Background: Neuropathic pain often occurs after leg amputation. It is unclear why some patients suffer from pain and others do not. Intraoperative nerve handling might correlate with these pain syndromes.

[Screening for chronic Q fever in symptomatic patients with an aortic aneurysm or prosthesis].

A 76-year-old man was referred to the Emergency Department because of collapse, epigastric pain and nausea. The patient had been diagnosed with an infrarenal aneurysm of the abdominal aorta nine years earlier. His symptoms were attributed to an aortic-duodenal fistula originating from the aneurysm.

[Treatment of acute aortic dissection type B].

Four patients presented with an acute type B aortic dissection. All were managed medically. However, three of the four patients needed additional invasive treatment.

Inferior caval vein thrombosis owing to compression of focal nodular hyperplasia: surgical resection after shrinkage by hepatic artery embolization.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the results of a staged treatment of symptomatic focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH), consisting of first embolization and then resection. A 36-year-old woman presented with pulmonary embolism caused by an inferior caval vein thrombosis owing to external compression by FNH in liver segment I (5.2 x 6.