Modified method for bronchial suture by Ramirez Gama compared to separate stitches suture: experimental study.

Objective: To experimentally compare two classic techniques described for manual suture of the bronchial stump.

Methods: We used organs of pigs, with isolated trachea and lungs, preserved by refrigeration. We dissected 30 bronchi, which were divided into three groups of ten bronchi each, of 3mm, 5mm, and 7mm, respectively.

Sonographic aspects and anatomy of the aponeurosis of transversus abdominis muscle.

Background: Ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging of abdominal wall has increasingly been used for hernia diagnosis when clinical examination is uncertain. Anatomical study of abdominal wall along with the ultrasound of transversus abdominis muscle aponeurosis can help identify a Spigelian hernia in this region, a disease of difficult diagnosis.

Aim: To compare the ultrasound findings of anterolateral wall of the abdomen, focusing on Spigelian aponeurosis, to the anatomy of abdominal wall studied in cadavers.