Thoracic sympathectomy for upper extremity ischemia.

Introduction: Thoracic sympathectomy is performed in the management of a variety of disorders of the upper extremity. To evaluate the contemporary results of thoracic sympathectomy for upper extremity ischemia a systematic review of the literature was conducted.

Evidence Aquisition: We performed a PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane search of the literature written in the English language from January 1975 to December 2015.

Arterio-ureteral fistula: 11 new cases of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Purpose: We provide insight into the presentation, diagnostics, treatment, and accompanying clinical difficulties and complications of an arterio-ureteral fistula and add 11 patients with arterio-ureteral fistula to the 90 described in the literature.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective search was done for confirmed cases of arterio-ureteral fistula that were treated at 3 medical centers.

Results: A total of 11 cases of arterio-ureteral fistula were reviewed from 1980 to 2006.

Repeated arterial thrombosis as a complication of carboplatin-based chemotherapy.

We describe a case of a 57-year-old woman with repeated acute arterial thrombosis of the femoral arteries following intravenous carboplatin-based combination chemotherapy for metastatic ovarian carcinoma. By extensive workup, no other known causes of arterial thrombosis were found. To our knowledge, this is the first case describing arterial thrombosis occurring as a complication of carboplatin therapy.