A 65-year-old man presented to the ED with 1 day of acute onset mid-thoracic and low back pain, difficulty ambulating and ...

He underwent thoracic posterior instrumented kyphosis correction and anterior reconstruction, with a T5-T6 partial corpectomy and corpectomy spacer placement, through a posterior midline incision. On ...

An inverted U-shaped incision was made, passing through the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The scalp was retracted. A 45 cm craniotomy was performed 1 cm medial to the midline and 1 cm ... Initially ...

In order to reduce any resulting unsightly scarring and, in particular, eliminate the anterior thoracic scar, both a dorsal S-shape and an axillary incision were made and the muscle flap was raised.

Comparison of laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma involving specific sites: A ...

The MiRCSP is a retrograde cardioplegia cannula for cardiac surgeons who seek to differentiate themselves through use of less invasive valve procedures performed through small thoracic incisions.

On Friday, Feb. 7, we are joining our partners at Intuitive (the company that develops surgical robots) to host a Thoracic Oncology ... more accuracy and smaller incisions, which means patients ...

The ninth rib was resected, and the lower thoracic esophagus mobilized by division ... A 2.5-cm. transverse incision was then made in the gastric fundus, permitting introduction of the surgeon's ...