내시경 Endoscopic

Endoscopy, which has allowed surgeons to look into the body as never before, has recently been used for breast enlargements, a procedure accomplished through an umbilical approach. Plastic surgical nurses are key members of the surgical tea…

The authors present their experience with breast augmentation using endoscopy. They use an axillary approach to insert inflatable breast implants above the pectoralis muscle. The advantages of this method are that it is more comfortable to …

Initial aesthetic breast augmentation with inflatable saline implants has always had the distinct advantage of insertion through a small breast or axillary skin incision. Adapting established techniques utilized in suction-assisted lipectom…

Five patients with complete posterior urethral obliteration (less than 3 cm.) underwent endoscopic reconstitution of the urethra followed by planned direct vision internal urethrotomy and temporary self-dilation. Of these patients 3 complie…

In utero repair of several life-threatening malformations in the human fetus is now a clinical reality, yet fetal surgery still poses significant risks to both the mother and the unborn child. Preterm labor is a major problem and is directl…

Among pediatric patients with laryngeal stenosis, acquired forms are now more common than congenital forms. External surgery is not always warranted except in complete or tight obstructions. After establishing the diagnosis by endoscopy, co…

Improved anesthesia and nutrition are permitting earlier safe cleft palate repair, with higher success rates. Three factors that are considered necessary to obtain satisfactory function of the soft palate for speech are (1) adequate length,…

Renewed interest in delayed closure for cleft palate subjects revealed that no evaluation had been undertaken of patients who underwent the original Gillies Fry procedure. In the present investigation, 10 subjects operated upon prior to 194…

A primary Orticochea pharyngoplasty with a primary palatoplasty was studied in 15 children with cleft palates. Although all children demonstrated velopharyngeal competence, radiographic, endoscopic, and oral examinations suggested that 54% …

Subcutaneous photographs of tissues treated by suction lipectomy have been obtained by adapting fiberoptic endoscopy equipment. These photographs document the presence of an intact neurovascular supply to the overlying skin and lend support…

We report 12 cases of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma that invaded the trachea. In all of these cases, we performed a hemithyroidectomy, including the isthmus, with an accompanying neck dissection and resection of the trachea. Six of …

Twelve patients with urinary incontinence from congenital cervico-urethral malformations were treated by bladder wall urethroplasty. Operation was that of Leadbetter (16 times) or Tanagho (twice) type. Results were satisfactory in 5 patient…

Eighteen patients required repeat surgery for urethral stenosis after internal urethrotomy. A single operation had been performed in 11 cases, 7 had had two operations and 1 patient had undergone 4 consecutive internal urethrotomies. Stenos…

When using fibrin glue we must distinguish, on the basis of the clinical results obtained, between an obsolute and a relative indication for glueing. Glueing of the oesophageal anastomosis in atresia effected by means of three of four fibre…

In the course of 18 years the authors performed transduodenal sphincterotomy on 289 and sphincteroplasty on 87 patients. The operations were connected, in 295 cases with primary in 81 cases with repeated biliary surgery. Twenty of the patie…

Twenty patients with lung cancer have undergone bronchoplastic procedures September, 1965, to June, 1976 in our hospital. Bronchoplastic procedures are considered to be indicated for early cases of hilar lung cancer rather than for somewhat…