Publications by authors named "T Neufang"
Background: Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) has been proposed as a useful alternative to conventional laparoscopic and open surgery. As compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery, it offers the advantages of tactile feedback, better exposure, and a shorter learning curve. There is increasing evidence that HALS retains the advantages of minimal-access surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Pre-operative magnetic resonance tomography (MR) and MR-angiography (MRA) have rendered favorable results for the assessment of renal anatomy preceding living-related kidney transplantation. However, limited value of MRA in the detection of accessory renal vasculature is reported.
Methods: We compared the results of pre-operative contrast-medium-enhanced MRA of the last 30 consecutively performed nephrectomies in living kidney donors with the intraoperative findings of vascular, parenchymal, and ureteral anatomy.
Background: Almost half the patients who undergo hernia repair with mesh report a feeling of stiffness and a foreign body in the groin. This study evaluated whether patients noticed any difference between lightweight and standard polypropylene mesh for the repair of inguinal hernia.
Methods: Patients scheduled for elective repair of unilateral or bilateral, primary or recurrent inguinal hernia by the Lichtenstein technique were randomized to receive either a conventional densely woven polypropylene mesh (100-110 g/m(2)) or a lightweight composite multifilament mesh (polypropylene 27-30 g/m(2)).
Objective: In experimental studies of capillary blood flow that use intravital video microscopy, organs are exposed in observation chambers implanted into the animal. In this article we describe an abdominal cavity chamber for intravital video microscopy of gut mucosa microcirculation during increased intra-abdominal pressure.
Design: Prospective, experimental animal study.