Effects of postoperative parenteral nutrition with different lipid emulsions in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.

Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the effects of total parenteral nutrition (PN) using different lipid emulsions in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.

Methods: Fifty-two patients were randomized to receive soybean oil + medium chain triglycerides (MCT) (group I), soybean oil + olive oil (group II), soybean oil + olive oil + fish oil (group III) as a lipid source. PN was started on postoperative day 1 and patients were maintained on PN for a minimum period of 4 days.

Evaluation of entomopathogenic nematodes and the supernatants of the in vitro culture medium of their mutualistic bacteria for the control of the root-knot nematodes Meloidogyne incognita and M. arenaria.

Background: The suppressive effects of various formulations of four entomopathogenic nematode (EPN) species and the supernatants of their mutualistic bacteria on the root-knot nematodes (RKNs) Meloidogyne incognita and M. arenaria in tomato roots were evaluated. The EPNs Steinernema carpocapsae, S.

Gastric metastasis of ectopic breast cancer mimicking axillary metastasis of primary gastric cancer.

Ectopic breast tissue has the ability to undergo all the pathological changes of the normal breast, including breast cancer. Gastrointestinal metastasis of breast cancer is rarely observed and it is very difficult to differentiate gastric metastases from primary gastric cancer. We present a case of 52-year-old female, who suffered from abdominal pain.

Prevalence of pelvic floor disorders in the female population and the impact of age, mode of delivery, and parity.

Purpose: Dysfunction of pelvic floor may cause many different symptoms, such as urinary and anal incontinence, obstructed defecation and constipation. No previous studies have examined all of these symptoms together. The purposes of the present study were to determine prevalence of pelvic floor disorders among the female population and to evaluate the impact of age, parity, and mode of delivery on these disorders.

Tuberculosis of the breast in a patient undergoing hemodialysis.

A 61-year-old female patient with diabetes undergoing maintenance hemodialysis presented with fever and swelling of her right breast. She had been unresponsive to nonspecific antimicrobial therapies. Breast tuberculosis and tuberculous lymphadenitis were diagnosed by excision biopsy and tissue culture.

Partial cholecystectomy is a safe and efficient method.

Aim: When there is excess inflammation, fibrosis and portal hypertension around gall bladder or in presence of Mirizzi syndrome, bile ducts and hepatic artery may be possibly damaged during dissection of Calot triangle. In this study, we examined safety and efficiency of partial cholecystectomy operation which we perform when dissection of Calot triangle is challenging.

Method And Material: Eighteen patients who were undergone partial cholecystectomy in our clinic between 1996 and 2008 were retrospectively evaluated.

Colon perforation caused by migration of a bone graft following a posterior lumbosacral interbody fusion operation: case report.

Study Design: This is a case report.

Objective: The purpose was to report a patient whose migrated L4-S1 femur graft led to perforation of the cecum.

Summary Of Background Data: Autograft bone use during spinal surgery is quite commonplace nowadays.

Occlusion of the celiac trunk, the inferior mesenteric artery and stenosis of the superior mesenteric artery in peripheral thrombangiitis obliterans.

Buerger's disease is an inflammatory occlusive disease which commonly involves medium-sized or smaller vessels of extremities. Mesenteric involvement in Buerger's disease is very rare. It can occur at any time during the course of the disease and presents with acute mesenteric ischaemia.

Unroofing and curettage for the treatment of acute and chronic pilonidal disease.

Background: Various surgical techniques are available in the management of pilonidal sinus, but controversy concerning the optimal surgical approach persists. The present study analyzes the outcome of unroofing and curettage as the primary intervention for acute and chronic pilonidal disease.

Methods: A total of 297 consecutive patients presenting with chronic disease, acute abscess, or recurrent disease were treated with unroofing and curettage.

Intussusception in adult and pediatric patients: two different entities.

Purpose: Intussusception is one of the most common abdominal emergencies in pediatrics, but adult intussusception is an uncommon entity and most surgeons have only limited experience in treating this disease. The purpose of this study was to highlight the differences between pediatric and adult intussusception.

Methods: The records of 40 patients during 14 years were reviewed retrospectively.

Applicability of the Gail model for breast cancer risk assessment in Turkish female population and evaluation of breastfeeding as a risk factor.

The Gail model is considered the best available means for estimating risk of breast cancer development, but it has not yet been applied systematically and validated in Turkish female population. This study was designed to evaluate the performance of the Gail model for Turkish female population. Additionally duration of breastfeeding was examined as a possible risk factor.

Suprarenal symplastic leiomyoma of the inferior vena cava.

We report on a case of a leiomyoma in the inferior vena cava that appeared in the image to be located in the adrenal gland. En bloc excision of the tumor with the right adrenal gland and the involved segment of the vena cava was carried out. Histopathological work-up of the tumor revealed smooth muscle fibers and marked nuclear pleomorphism consistent with symplastic leiomyoma.

Evaluation of muscle atrophy after axillary lymph node dissection.

Introduction: Axillary node status is the most important prognostic factor for patients with primary breast carcinoma, making axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) a standard surgical treatment of breast cancer. Postoperative sequelae to ALND is frequently reported. In this study we aimed to find out objectively, how much damage is caused to these nerves during ALND.

Epidermal growth factor-containing wound closure enhances wound healing in non-diabetic and diabetic rats.

Background: This study was designed to elucidate the in vivo efficacy of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on wound healing in non diabetic and diabetic rats.

Methods: Ninety-six male Wistar-Albino rats were randomly divided into six groups. Saline-moistened gauze, pure gelatin or EGF in gelatin-microsphere dressings were used in a dermal excision model in both normal and streptomycin-induced diabetic rats.

Mesh erosion as a complication of laparoscopic fundoplication with prosthetic hiatal closure: report of a case.

Background: Laparoscopic fundoplication has become the standard procedure for surgical management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Simple cruroplasty is associated with a high recurrence rate and most authors recommend the use of prosthetic meshes for crural closure.

Methods: Herein we report a patient who was admitted with the complaint of severe dysphagia a year after laparoscopic fundoplication with prosthetic hiatal closure.

Trocar site hernia after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Aim: The aim of this study was to elucidate the influence of pre and perioperative factors on the development of trocar site hernia after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedure.

Patients And Methods: A total of 776 patients who underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy procedure in our Department of General Surgery between 1999 and 2004 were assigned as the study group. The control group included patients without trocar site hernias after a cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic fundoplication with prosthetic hiatal closure.

Background: Despite the good results reported after laparoscopic fundoplication, failure is still a major problem. Hiatal disruption is one of the common patterns of anatomical failure. The aim of this study was to compare the results of suture repair of diaphragmatic crura with routine polypropylene mesh reinforcement in addition to suture repair.

Effects of basic fibroblast growth factor and phenytoin on healing of abdominal wall fascia and colonic anastomoses.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) and phenytoin on wound healing in rats compromised by methylprednisone. This study was conducted in four groups consisting of 20 male Wistar rats. Rats in groups 2, 3, and 4 had a daily injection of methylprednisolone 5 mg/kg/day for 15 days.

Effects of probiotics on radiation-induced intestinal injury in rats.

Objective: Radiotherapy is an important aspect of multimodal cancer therapy, but radiation-induced acute intestinal injury is a common and serious problem. Disruption of morphologic mucosal integrity and normal bacterial microflora after abdominal radiation leads to malabsorption and bacterial translocation.

Methods: Lactobacillus bulgaricus strain isolated from yogurt was given as a probiotic to rats subjected to radiotherapy.

The effect of polypropylene mesh on ilioinguinal nerve in open mesh repair of groin hernia.

Objectives: Repair of groin hernia is one of the most common operations performed by general surgeons, and mesh repair methods have gained wide acceptance. Chronic pain is the most serious long-term complication that can occur after repair of groin hernia. The development of chronic pain after herniorraphy has been attributed to several mechanisms, including damage to sensory nerves and mesh inguinodynia.