Aims: To alert practitioners to complications regarding inflatable penile prostheses. Presentation of Case: A 56 year-old male with a history of an inflatable penile prosthesis and multiple revisions was found to have a small bowel obstruction. Computed tomography scan and subseq...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/10316
Background: The first attempted hemicorporectomy, also known as translumbar amputation (TLA), was reported in 1960. The first TLA with survival was performed in 1961. It is a lifesaving procedure initially designed for carefully selected patients with otherwise terminal cancer. T...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/13742
Aims: In the vast majority of instances, closure of abdominal wall defects relies on the tensile strength of transposed native tissue and/or prosthetic material. The purpose of this report is to alert clinicians to a different strategy for closure that we have used successfully o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16100
Objective: We aimed to determine whether the variability in surveillance strategies after curative-intent primary treatment of ovarian cancer is related to practitioner age. Materials and Methods: The 943 members of The Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) were surveyed by conve...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2015/16127