[Relaxation and the electromyographic identification of the recurrent laryngeal nerve].

Introduction: Electromyography for the identification of the recurrent laryngeal nerve is gaining ever more acceptance in thyroid surgery. Relaxation of the patient, e.g.

[Trans-sternal thymectomy. Surgical indications and perioperative management].

Between 1985 and 1998 42 transsternal thymectomies were performed. The median duration of symptoms in myasthenia gravis patients (n = 27, 25/27 patients in stadium I/II of the Ossermann classification) was 40.3 weeks and 70.

[Argon gas embolism in laparoscopic cholecystectomy with the Argon Beam One coagulator].

The report is about argon embolism in a 37-year-old female patient during laparoscopic cholecystectomy and coagulation of a liver bed bleeding with the "Argon Beam One". The presented case report is to show that in spite of technical perfection and correct use of the Argon Beam One coagulator unfavorable anatomical conditions can cause life threatening gas embolism.