Publications by authors named "Panayiotis Tsatsoulis"
Introduction: Hepatic abscesses have been reported as a rare complication of diverticulitis of the bowel. This complication is recognized more commonly at the time of the diagnosis of diverticulitis, or ruptured diverticula, but also can be diagnosed prior to surgery, or postoperatively.
Case Presentation: This report describes a man who developed an hepatic abscess within a simple hepatic cyst, two months after operation for ruptured diverticula of the sigmoid colon.
Background/aims: Blunt trauma to the extrahepatic biliary tract is a rare and challenging injury The purpose of this paper is to review our experience of these injuries, with special reference to their clinical presentation.
Patients And Methods: In a retrospective multicenter study of the records of a trauma-admitting in three hospitals, seven patients with blunt extrahepatic biliary tract trauma were identified, one with combined gallbladder and common bile duct injuries and six with a ruptured gallbladder.
Results: Except for the patient with the common bile duct injury developing peritoneal signs during observation and being operated 24 hours post-admission, all other patients underwent early laparotomy for shock, peritonitis or positive diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) caused by associated injuries.
For 5 years (January 1998 to November 2002) our department has applied the Marlex Mesh Perfix Plug hernioplasty. This article demonstrates the experience gained in operative and postoperative aspects, costs, and outcome along with the results of a follow-up analysis. Altogether, 801 patients (749 males, 52 females) were operated on Sixty-four males had bilateral groin hernias, so the total number of hernioplasties amounted to 865.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare two modem mesh-based "tension free" hernioplasties, laparoscopic repair and mesh plug technique.
Design: Prospective, non-randomised study.
Setting: Two major medical centres, Greece.