Strabismus surgery using the intraoperative adjustable suture method under anesthesia with propofol.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of using the intraoperative adjustable suture method with anesthesia induced by intravenously administered propofol for strabismus surgery.

Methods: Seven adult patients (mean age, 29.7 +/- 18.

Pyloric motor abnormality in patients with infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.

There are no published data of manometric studies of pyloric motor function in patients with infantile hypertropic pyloric stenosis (IHPS). The present study attempted to examine the characteristics of motor abnormality of the pylorus in five children with IHPS. Using a transducer-built-in manometric catheter cannulated through the pylorus under fluoroscopy, the pressure in the pyloric canal was recorded continuously over 3 h during fasting.

Influence of local recurrence on the prognosis of soft-tissue sarcomas.

We have investigated the significance of local recurrence on survival in 173 patients with localised soft-tissue sarcomas of the limbs and of the trunk. The overall survival rates at five and ten years were 75.2% and 68.

Skeletal metastases from soft-tissue sarcomas. Incidence, patterns, and radiological features.

We reviewed 277 patients with soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) treated between 1975 and 1995 to study the incidence, distribution, time of appearance, and radiological findings of skeletal metastases. Of these, 28 (10.1%) had metastases within a mean period of 18.