Publications by authors named "Elkaim D"
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate videothoracoscopic procedures in the setting of chest trauma.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed our experience of videothoracoscopy in patients with either blunt trauma or penetrating thoracic injuries.
Results: Forty-three procedures involving 42 patients were performed between July 1990 and April 1996.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax: technique and results of one hundred cases.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
August 1996
Objective: This article describes the technique and results for an initial series of 100 pneumothoraces treated by video-assisted thoracoscopy.
Methods: From May 1991 to November 1994, 97 patients (78 male and 19 female patients) aged 37.2 +/- 17 years (range 14 to 92 years) underwent video-assisted thoracoscopy for treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax (primary in 75 patients, secondary in 22 patients).
Should cavitated bronchopulmonary cancers be considered a separate entity?
Ann Thorac Surg
February 1996
Background: This study was designed to identify any clinical, histologic, and prognostic features specific to cavitated bronchopulmonary tumors.
Methods: A total of 353 patients with lung cancer were categorized in two groups on the basis of chest radiograph and computed tomographic findings: 35 patients with cavitated cancers (group I) and 318 patients with noncavitated neoplasms (group II). Cavitation was defined as the presence of air in the tumor at the time of diagnosis and before any treatment or aspiration biopsy.
From January 1979 to May 1995, 18 patients (4 men, 14 women) with a mean age of 75.4 +/- 12.5 yr underwent surgery for a complicated paraesophageal hiatus hernia.
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- 42 patients (11 males, 31 females, mean age 72.8 years) underwent surgery for paraoesophageal hiatal hernia, with a majority experiencing digestive, respiratory, and cardiac symptoms over an average of 64 months.
- Complications occurred in 18 patients, including acute obstruction and hemorrhage, with no postoperative deaths recorded and a total complication rate of 14.9%.
- After a mean follow-up of 40.5 months, 87.5% of patients had very good functional outcomes, particularly those who underwent elective or deferred emergency surgeries; the Nissen-Rossetti procedure was found to be effective with no long-term issues.
Three cases of symptomatic pleuro-pericardic cysts were treated with video-assisted surgery. Complete exercises of the cysts was possible in all cases. The follow-up was uneventful and hospitalization was 4 to 5 days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe immediate infectious pancreato-biliary complications of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) warranting transfer to a surgical unit are analyzed, in order to evaluate their frequency and severity as well as means of treatment and prevention. Thirty complications of this type were observed in a series of 3226 ERCP performed with or without endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) over a six year period (0.9%).
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