A novel approach to surviving an acute aorto-oesophageal fistula: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Acute aorto-oesophageal fistula poses a significant mortality risk, requiring immediate and decisive medical intervention. This report highlights the critical need for innovation in emergency surgical responses.

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old male, with a history of aortic repair, presented with chronic anaemia and dysphagia.

Single port thoracoscopic diaphragm plication: A novel treatment approach to bilateral phrenic nerve palsy and diaphragm paralysis.

Introduction And Importance: The diaphragm is the primary muscle of respiration. Bilateral paralysis of the diaphragm due to phrenic nerve palsy causes severe dyspnoea and is life threatening. Diaphragmatic Plication has shown great promise in treating diaphragm paralysis and has evolved as operative treatment from an open thoracotomy to multiport and robotic video assisted thoracoscopic surgery.

Thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer in the elderly: A meta-analysis.

Thyroid cancer, the most common endocrine malignancy, has patients who generally have excellent prognosis. It has been shown that elderly patients are more likely to undergo sub-therapeutic management, despite having more aggressive disease, resulting in increased mortality and morbidity. The present study aimed to quantitatively investigate the risks of elderly patients who underwent thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer regarding mortality/survival, recurrence of disease, and complications arising from thyroidectomy.

Multifocality as a prognostic factor in thyroid cancer: A meta-analysis.

Background: Thyroid cancer is one of the most common endocrine cancers whose incidence has been steadily increasing. Previous studies have suggested that multifocality in thyroid cancer is associated with poor prognosis. The present study aims to quantify the data on multifocality as a factor indicating poor prognosis by meta-analysis.

The association between breast cancer and thyroid cancer: a meta-analysis.

Previous studies have suggested an association between breast cancer and thyroid cancer; however, there has not been a formal meta-analysis which collates the existing evidence supporting the hypothesis that breast cancer or thyroid cancer predisposes an individual to developing the other. A systematic search was carried out using PubMed and Medline. We searched for articles containing epidemiological evidence of breast cancer following thyroid cancer and vice versa.

On the superhydrophobic properties of nickel nanocarpets.

A surface formed by dense, aligned nickel nanowires (a "nanocarpet") was prepared by electrodeposition through an alumina membrane template, followed by dissolution of the membrane. The nickel nanowires forming the nanocarpet have a very high aspect ratio ( approximately 250), with a diameter of 200 nm and a length of several tens of micrometers. The nickel nanowires are highly rigid, perpendicularly aligned in the nanocarpet with respect to the substrate, and they touch each other at the tips, forming microscale "tepee"-shaped aggregates.