Laparoscopic Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Fig. 37.1 Setting and placement of the various equipment in the operating room. This setting is the same for all procedures of laparoscopic liver resection Fig. 37.2 Trocar placement for…
Pancreatic Advances
Fig. 36.1 (a) MRCP image reveals a dilated duct (long arrow) abruptly terminating as it descends into the pancreatic head. Presence of tumor hinted at by the cluster of minute…
New Minimally Invasive Treatments for Acid Reflux
Fig. 34.1 EsophyX® device. (Reprinted with permission of EndoGastric Solutions, Inc., Redmond, WA. Copyright © 2014 EndoGastric Solutions, Inc.) TIF involves an endoscopically guided transoral insertion of the EsophyX® device…
Artificial Limbs for Upper Extremity Amputation
Fig. 49.1 (a) Humeral osteotomy: a section of humerus is removed and the remaining segments fixated (shown here with fixation screws), shortening the transhumeral limb to make room for a…
Advances in Burn Care
Partial thickness burns greater than 10 % TBSA. Burns involving the face, hands, feet, genitalia, perineum, or major joints. Third degree burns in any age group. Electrical burns including lightning…
Advanced Technologies in Pediatric Critical Care/Surgery and Fetal Surgery
Fig. 50.1 Neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit. The arrows show the direction of blood flow There have been substantial technological improvements in contemporary ECMO support devices. Modern hollow-fiber oxygenators…
Genomics in Surgery, Trauma, and Critical Care: How Do We Control the Future?
Fig. 3.1 Schematic of sample processing to gene chip analysis. A schematic of the methodology involved to process an experimental tissue, hybridize the target cDNA to the gene chip, and…
Tissue Repair and Wound Healing: A Trip Back to the Future
Fig. 46.1 The Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC) from Ancient Egypt (Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PEbers_c41.jpg). By Einsamer Schütze [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Claudius Galenus (better known…
Abdominal Trauma: Not Everything That Bleeds Needs an Operation
Fig. 12.1 Blunt abdominal trauma workup. (Used with permission from van der Vlies CH, Olthof DC, Gaakeer M, Ponsen KJ, van Delden OM, Goslings JC. Changing patterns in diagnostic strategies…
Face Transplant: The Future Is Better Than Current Concepts
1. Gunshot injuries (ballistic trauma) 2. Other posttraumatic injuries 3. Burn deformity 4. Benign tumours (i.e., neurofibromatosis) 5. Post-oncological deformities (tumour free and risk free) The indication of facial transplantation…
