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Liver abscess as a complication of laparoscopic gastric banding bariatric surgery.
Surg Infect (Larchmt)
October 2013
1 University of Miami Miller School of Medicine , JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, Florida.
Background: The World Health Organization has identified the rapidly growing prevalence of obesity as one of today's serious health problems. Various surgical interventions categorized collectively as bariatric surgery now play an ever-increasing important role as the only known effective treatment for severe obesity. Laparoscopic gastric bypass is currently the most frequent bariatric surgical procedure performed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Current aspects of spinal tuberculosis: apropos of 16 case reports].
Ann Med Interne (Paris)
September 1999
Service de Chirurgie ORL, Hôpital Foch, Suresnes.
We retrospectively studied the epidemiological, clinical, histological and evolutive aspects of vertebral tuberculosis diagnosed in all consecutive patients recruited in 2 Parisian hospitals between January 1990 and July 1997. The diagnosis relied on a vertebral involvement associated with evidence of tuberculosis (culture of local puncture yielded Mycobacterium tuberculosis) or presumption of tuberculosis (evidence of other tuberculous focus, histological data, good outcome under specific treatment). Sixteen patients (mean age: 41 years; sex ratio: 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Treatment of osteoid osteoma using laser photocoagulation. Apropos of 28 cases].
Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot
November 1998
Services de Radiologie, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg.
Unlabelled: THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY was to evaluate interstitial laser photocoagulation for local destruction of osteoid osteoma, with computed tomographic (CT) guidance.
Material And Methods: 28 patients (age range from 5 to 48 years) with presumed osteoid osteoma were treated with CT-guided interstitial laser photocoagulation of the nidus. A high power semiconductor diode laser (805 nm) with a 400 microns optical fiber was used.
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