Coracoclavicular ligament repair and screw fixation in acromioclavicular dislocations.

Objectives: We evaluated the long-term results of acromioclavicular dislocations treated with coracoclavicular fixation using a cancellous screw.

Methods: Coracoclavicular fixation was performed using the modified Bosworth technique in 32 patients (24 males, 8 females; mean age 35 years; range 19 to 58 years) with acromioclavicular dislocations. According to the Rockwood classification, seven patients had type III, nine patients had type IV, 13 patients had type V, and three patients had type VI dislocations.

Reconstruction of shoulder abduction and external rotation with latissimus dorsi and teres major transfer in obstetric brachial plexus palsy.

Objectives: We evaluated the results of latissimus dorsi and teres major tendon transfer to the rotator cuff together with musculotendinous lengthening of the subscapularis and/or pectoralis major muscles in patients with internal rotation contracture and decreased external rotation and abduction secondary to obstetrical brachial plexus palsy.

Methods: Thirty patients (18 boys, 12 girls; mean age 9 years; range 4 to 15 years) with internal rotation contracture and loss of external rotation and abduction of the shoulder secondary to obstetrical brachial plexus palsy underwent transfer of the latissimus dorsi/teres major tendons to the rotator cuff. In addition, musculotendinous lengthening of the subscapularis and pectoralis major (n=15), pectoralis major (n=9), and subscapularis (n=6) were performed.

The relationship between morphometric parameters and Trendelenburg sign following the Hardinge incision.

Objectives: We evaluated the relationship between morphometric parameters such as height, weight, and body mass index with the development of the Trendelenburg gait following the Hardinge approach, which is one of the most commonly used approaches in total hip arthroplasty.

Methods: The study included 59 patients (43 women, 16 men; mean age 55 years; range 37 to 74 years) who underwent total hip arthroplasty via the Hardinge approach for primary coxarthrosis. The patients were examined postoperatively at 15 days, and at the end of the first and third months.

A comparison of endonasal with external dacryocystorhinostomy in revision cases.

The objective is to compare the success rates of revision endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (END-DCR) with revision external dacryocystorhinostomy (EXT-DCR). The present retrospective study was conducted between January 2002 and July 2009. Seventy-four consecutive patients (17 males, 57 females) who had epiphora or recurrent dacryocystitis after a previous failed EXT-DCR procedure were enrolled in the study.

Corticosteroid treatment and timing of surgery in idiopathic granulomatous mastitis confusing with breast carcinoma.

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is an uncommon chronic inflammatory lesion of the breast with an uncertain optimal treatment regimen, the physical examination, and radiologic features of which may be confused with breast carcinoma. In this study, we aimed to describe the clinicopathologic characteristics of 33 patients who admitted to our breast policlinic and took the diagnosis of granulomatous (idiopathic and non-idiopathic) mastitis, and report the place of corticosteroids and the timing of surgery in the treatment of patients with IGM. The clinical features of 33 patients who presented to our breast policlinic with the complaint of breast mass and reached the final diagnosis of GM between March 2005 and October 2009 were reported.

Risk factors for complex regional pain syndrome in patients with traumatic extremity injury.

Background: It is not clear why complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) develops in some patients but not in others, despite similar initiating events. The aim of this study was to investigate risk factors for CRPS in cases who had suffered traumatic upper extremity injury.

Methods: One hundred sixty-five patients who had suffered a mechanical traumatic injury isolated to their hand or forearm were included in this study.

A randomised prospective trial of trans-septal suturing using a novel device versus nasal packing for septoplasty.

Background: Nasal packing or trans-septal sutures are used to prevent postoperative complications in septoplasty. Trans-septal suturing is not commonly used, since it takes time and is technically difficult with the available devices following septoplasty.

Methods: This study included 64 patients who underwent septoplasty.

Comparison of two dermoscopic techniques in the diagnosis of clinically atypical pigmented skin lesions and melanoma: seven-point and three-point checklists.

Background: Over the past decade, many dermoscopic criteria and algorithmic methods have been developed for the early diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma.

Objective: To compare the sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of the seven-point and three-point checklist methods in a series of dermoscopic images. The diagnostic value of dermoscopic criteria was also determined on the basis of their frequency.

Pharyngeal packing is a predisposing factor for postoperative aphthous stomatitis in nasal surgery.

Objective: To evaluate whether pharyngeal packing is a predisposing factor for the development of postoperative aphthous stomatitis in nasal surgery.

Study Design: A prospective, randomized, controlled trial.

Setting: A tertiary referral center.

[Our results with respect to uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in patients with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome].

Objectives: In this study we evaluated the results of modified uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in patients with snoring and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.

Patients And Methods: Twenty patients (9 females, 11 males; mean age 44.4 years; range 31 to 67 years) who were diagnosed to have obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and snoring and who underwent modified uvulopalatopharyngoplasty were evaluated prospectively.

Tubulovillous adenoma in the common bile duct causing obstructive jaundice.

Villous adenomas are benign epithelial lesions with a malignant potential which can occur at any site in the gastrointestinal tract, usually in the rectum and colon, less frequently in the small bowel and very rarely in the biliary tract. Villous adenomas of the extrahepatic bile ducts are exceptional and only a few cases have been reported. Common bile duct (CBD) adenomas often present in a fashion similar to their malignant counterparts, and adenocarcinoma arising from a villous adenoma of the ampullary biliary epithelium is also extremely rare.

Prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial of Ankaferd Blood Stopper in patients with acute anterior epistaxis.

This is a study evaluating the efficacy of Ankaferd Blood Stopper (ABS) as a hemostatic agent compared to hemostasis by phenylephrine in patients with anterior epistaxis. The study design is a prospective, randomized, controlled, nonblinded, clinical trial. In total, 49 patients were randomly seperated to receive hemostasis technique by means of either ABS wet tampon or phenylephrine impregnated gauze tampon for anterior epistaxis control.

Female urethral malignant melanoma with vesical invasion: a case report.

We report a 75-year-old female with a primary urethral malignant melanoma. Amass protruding from inside the urethra was detected on physical examination. Abdominopelvic magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass extending from the urethra with dimensions of 4x2 cm, and periurethral heterogenous fatty planes consistent with infiltration.

Chorda tympani nerve analysis with electron microscopy in chronic suppurative otitis media.

Conclusion: Chronic suppurative otitis media causes some disturbance to the chorda tympani nerve (CTN), which may affect the facial nerve. It is not possible to perform a biopsy of the main truncus of the facial nerve, therefore studies of the CTN might show possible pathologic or physiologic changes of the facial nerve in the future.

Objectives: The specific aim of this study was to investigate the effects of chronic suppurative otitis media on the CTN.

Shoulder pain and functional consequences: does it differ when it is at dominant side or not?

Purpose: The shoulder complex plays an integral role in the activities of daily living and the limitation of its function can greatly affect the patient. The aim of this study was to research the functional consequences of painful conditions in the shoulder region.

Methods: Sixty five adult patients with shoulder pain for longer than one month in duration were included to the study.

Nonclassical yellow nail syndrome in six-year-old girl: a case report.

Introduction: The yellow nail syndrome is usually described as the combination of yellow nails with lymphoedema and often with respiratory manifestations such as pleural effusions, chronic sinusitis and bronchiectasis. The syndrome is most often seen in the middle-aged individuals.

Case Presentation: We present a 6-year-old girl with yellow nail syndrome having pansinusitis and bronchiectasis.

A rare vascular tumor of the external auditory canal: the capillary hemangioma.

A 32-year-old woman presented to our department with a 10-month history of right-sided intermittant otorrhagia. There was no history of hearing loss or pulsatile tinnitus. Otomicroscopic examination revealed a reddish mass arising from the right antero-superior portion of bony canal wall, which measured about 1 cm in diameter.

Prospective, controlled clinical trial of Ankaferd Blood Stopper in children undergoing tonsillectomy.

Objectives: This is a prospective study evaluating the efficacy of Ankaferd Blood Stopper as a hemostatic agent compared to hemostasis by means of knot-tie after cold knife dissection tonsillectomy.

Methods: Study design was the use of ABS and the KT to reach hemostasis for patients undergoing tonsillectomy. ABS is applied on right side tonsil fossa and KT is used on left side tonsil fossa.

Mechanical lithotripsy and/or stenting in management of difficult common bile duct stones.

Background: Mechanical lithotripsy and/or stent insertion is the alternative therapeutic approach in difficult endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) case. This study was designed to investigate the appropriate treatment for extraction of bile duct stones in difficult cases of ERCP.

Methods: Between 2000 and 2008, 744 ERCP procedures were performed in 592 patients with choledocholithiasis in our endoscopy unit.

[Evaluation of soft tissue reactions to three nonabsorbable suture materials in a rabbit model].

Objectives: We evaluated the inflammatory reactions induced by three commonly used nonabsorbable suture materials in a rabbit model.

Methods: Three suture materials were tested: braided polyester suture (Ethibond), braided blend of polyester and polyethylene suture (FiberWire), and monofilament polypropylene suture (Polypropylene). Thirty-six rabbits were randomly allocated to three suture groups, equal in number.

Is HBOT treatment effective in recovering zone of stasis? An experimental immunohistochemical study.

Studies aimed at recovering the zone of stasis are one of the major issues of experimental burn studies. Hypoxia and oedema at that zone may cause irreversible changes. Due to anti-oedematous and antihypoxic effects of hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT), it may be beneficial in recovering the zone of stasis.

Transscleral fixation of single-piece hydrophilic acrylic lenses with no eyelets.

Scleral fixation ofsulcus intraocular lenses is performed by most surgeons to correct aphakia in eyes with insufficient capsular support in which intraocular lenses cannot be implanted into the bag or sulcus. The implantation of foldable lenses maintains the advantages of small incision surgery, working with a closed system, less astigmatism, faster wound healing, and early visual rehabilitation. The authors describe a technique for using a single-piece hydrophilic foldable acrylic lens with no eyelets for scleral fixation.