Clinical Outcomes of Modified versus Traditional Technique for the Surgery of Hydatid Cyst of the Liver: A Case Control Study.

BACKGROUND is a parasitic infection most commonly involving the liver. Iran is a hyperendemic area for this disease according to WHO. Despite improvements in medical and interventional radiological techniques, surgery remains the gold standard of treatment; however evidence on different surgical modalities were explained.

Corrosive injury of the upper gastrointestinal tract: review of surgical management and outcome in 14 adult cases.

Introduction: Caustic ingestion is responsible for a spectrum of upper gastrointestinal tract injury from self-limited to perforation. This study conducted to evaluate clinical characteristics as well as surgical outcomes in patients with caustic ingestion.

Materials And Methods: Between Nov1993 to march 2011, 14 adults with a clinical evidence of corrosive ingestion were admitted into our institutions (Omid and Ghaem hospitals).