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Essential Tips for Reconstruction After Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Pancreatico-enteric anastomosis is the most critical procedure in pancreaticoduodenectomy, because post-operative pancreatic fistula (POPF) sometimes causes severe morbidity and even mortality. Since pancreati...
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Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
This chapter is about the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer, serving as an introduction to help understand the breast cancer cases to be presented in the future. Breast cancer is the most common cancer ...
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Brief Overview of Breast Cancer Treatment
This chapter is a general overview briefly describing the treatment of breast cancer, intended to aid understanding of the various cases that will be mentioned in this book. Treatment for breast cancer include...
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Surgical Planning and the Division of the Intersegmental Plane During Thoracoscopic Segmentectomy
Although lobectomy remains the gold-standard surgical treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer, the frequency of thoracoscopic segmentectomy is increasing. Multiple factors must be considered in the choice of ...
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Mini-Thoracotomy and Microscopic Discectomy Without Fusion
Summary of background data
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Bilateral Axillo-Breast Approach (BABA) Robotic Thyroidectomy
Ten years ago, Bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) robotic thyroidectomy was first introduced at Seoul National University Hospital, and it has been used to treat many sort of benign and malignant thyroid ...
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Multifocal Choroiditis and Panuveitis
Multifocal choroiditis and panuveitis (MCP) is an idiopathic chorioretinal inflammatory disease. Prominent vitritis and anterior segment uveitis are commonly observed. The acute inner chorioretinal lesions sub...
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Pineal Tumors
The tumors of the pineal region, although rare, consist of variable histological entities including germ cell tumors most frequently followed by parenchymal pineal tumors, gliomas, and other miscellaneous tumo...
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LESS: Upper Tract, Lower Tract, and Robotic Surgery
Since the beginning of the laparoscopic surgery in urologic field, many kinds of urological surgeries have been performed laparoscopically. A laparo-endoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) using only one access ...
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Optical Coherence Tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a tool to visualize a cross section of the ocular tissue as difference of the reflectivity by measuring interference of the backscattered light. OCT provides images of the...
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Intraoperative Soft-Tissue Balance and Clinical Results (ROM, Function)
A good outcome in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) depends on many factors: joint alignment, range of motion (ROM), patella tracking, and ligament stability [1]. If correct soft-tissue balancing is not achieved a...
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Ocular Manifestations of Vitamin Disorders
Vitamins are essential micronutrients that must be obtained from the diet. Deficiencies of vitamins A, B complex, C, D, E, and K can cause nutritional disorders associated with ophthalmic manifestations. Signs...
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Wounds
O86.0 Infection of obstetric surgical wound
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Imaging Findings: CT and MRI with MRCP
Autoimmune pancreatitis has a wide range of possible imaging features, and there are overlaps in appearance with other pancreatic diseases. However, in the diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis, imaging finding...
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Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a progressive disease of heart muscle that is characterized by ventricular chamber enlargement and contractile dysfunction, and DCM is the third most common cause of heart failu...
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Glucocorticoids (as an Etiologic Factor)
Adrenocortical hormones were first prepared from the adrenal gland as a new compound by Kendall in 1935 [1]. Thirteen years later, Hench et al. [2] observed a miraculous effect of cortisone in a patient with s...
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Illustrations
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Introduction
Adnexal torsion is a partial or complete twisting of an ovary and/or fallopian tube on its ligamentous supports containing vessels for ovarian blood supply. Torsion may occur in normal ovaries, but occurs more...
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Introduction
This chapter discusses miscellaneous conditions of the uterus including intrauterine devices, changes and complications of the uterus and pelvis after surgery, radiation therapy and instrumentation, uterine pr...
