_ABSTRACT_ Purpose: A prospective work to study and evaluate surgical and endoscopic techniques used in management of post cholecystectomy problems. Patients & Methods: In the period from Mars 2000 to October 2010, a random sample of 630 patients (366 females and 264 males) were enrolled from general surgery department, and gastro-intestinal endoscopy unit, Assuit University hospitals, and managed accordingly using ... إقراء المزيد

EVALUATION OF LAPAROSCOPIC PROCEDURES UNDER LOW-PRESSURE PNEUMOPERITONEUM AND REGIONAL ANESTHESIA Asem Elsani M.A. Hassan1, MD, Omar Abdel-Raheem1, MD, Ahmed Abd-ElMaboud2, MD, Mostafa Abd Allateef1, MS 1 Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University. 2 Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University. BACKGROUND The development of laparoscopic surgery has revolutionized surgical procedures and thus has influenced the practice ... إقراء المزيد

_Abstract_ _Purpose:_ A prospective study to evaluate post cholecystectomy problem management. _Patients & Methods:_ From Mars 2005 - April 2007, 210 patients were managed using endoscopy, percutaneous approaches, and surgery. _Results:_ Endoscopy was therapeutic in 183 cases {stones (81), stricture (55), leakage (35)}, and only diagnostic in 24. Percutaneous approaches were done in 34 cases as diagnostic in 19 cases, ... إقراء المزيد

ABSTRACT ACQUIRED ESOPHAGO-RESPIRATORY FISTULAE are usually esophago-tracheal or esophago-bronchial. Esophagopulmonary fistulae have been rarely described. We report a case of 17-year-old girl with esophago-pulmonary fistula. She experienced a long history of cough and expectoration. CT scans of the chest demonstrated right lower and middle lung lobes multiple cavitary lesions with marked dilatation of the esophagus and a communicating fistula between ... إقراء المزيد

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ABSTRACT _Aim: __To compare the therapeutic effectiveness of ultrasound guided needle as pi fat ion versus open __surgical drainage in treatment of liver abscess._ _Patient and Methods: __Between March 2003 and May 2006, 60 consecutive patients with liver __abscesses were treated with intravenous antibiotics and randomized in two groups: ultrasound guided __intermittent needle aspiration (18G disposable trocar needle); and open ... إقراء المزيد

_ABSTRACT_ _Purpose: to study different techniques in resection of carcinoma of lower esophagus and cardia with regards to techniques, complications, morbidity, mortality, and survival._ _Methods: from Feb. 2005 to Aug. 2006, this study included 33 patients with operable carcinoma of the lower esophagus or cardia as evident by clinical and investigatory tools including endoscopy and biopsy, patients were classified into: ... إقراء المزيد

_Abstract_ _Purpose:__ This prospective study was undertaken to study and evaluate different techniques used in management of post cholecystectomy problems namely surgery, endoscopy, and percutaneous manipulation._ _Patients & Methods:__ In the period March 2005 to April 2006, a randomly selected sample of 210 patients with post cholecystectomy problems (122 females and 88 males) were collected from surgery department, and managed ... إقراء المزيد