No abstract available.
Hemoperitoneum*

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Bile Ducts* ; Bile*

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Breast Neoplasms* ; Breast*

No abstract available.
Lymphoma*

No abstract available.
Breast Diseases* ; Breast* ; Estrogens* ; Progesterone* ; Receptors, Estrogen* ; Receptors, Progesterone*

The need for a relaparotomy shortly after an initial abdominal operation indicates a serious complication and may frequently constitute a surgical failure. Many of the postoperative symptoms that might indicate the onset of complications may be masked by the usual postoperative course. Reported findings vary widely. Thus there is no clear picture for a surgeon to use as a guide. In an attempt to obtain more definite guidelines regarding the indications for and the timing of reintervention a retrospective study based on a 7-year survey was undertaken to assess the problem of reoperation after abdominal surgery. This study consisted of a retrospective clinical analysis made an 95 patients who required reoperation due to postoperative complications and planned stage operations during 7 years from January 1990 to December 1996. The number of reoperations was 95 cases (24%) among 3932 patients who had undergone abdominal operations at our department. The sex distribution for the reoperations was 58 males and 37 cases in females. The peak age incidence was the 6th decade in 25 cases(26.3%). The most common physical findings of the patient who required reoperations were abdominal pain and tenderness (56.8%). The main cause necessitating reoperation was intestinal obstruction (25.3%). The most common types of reoperations were common bile duct exploration with T-tube insertion(24.2%). The time interval between initial operation and reoperation was within 10 days in 10 cases (10.5%) and 25 months grouped in separate admission in 36 cases (37.9%). The most frequent complication was wound infection(15.8%) and the mortality rate was 4 cases (4.2%). Conservative treatment cannot be recommended for severe complications, such as postoperative bleeding or peritonitis, due to free anastomotic leakage. However, in doubtful cases, when there is mild peritonitis of an undetermined origin, ileus, well-controlled billiary or duodenal leaks, and the like, the high mortality associated with reintervention should be borne in mind. In these cases, conservative treatment with close supervision of the patient may prove the most prudent course.
Abdomen ; Abdominal Pain ; Anastomotic Leak ; Common Bile Duct ; Female ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Ileus ; Incidence ; Intestinal Obstruction ; Male ; Masks ; Mortality ; Organization and Administration ; Peritonitis ; Postoperative Complications ; Reoperation* ; Retrospective Studies ; Sex Distribution ; Wounds and Injuries

The optimal treatment of primary or metastatic liver cancer is the complete surgical excision of the tumors. Hepatoma has a poor prognosis, especially in the case of unresectable hepatoma. In such cases, variable therapeutic modalities have been tried in attempts to improve the prognosis of the hepatoma patients. One of these modalities is hepatic cryosurgery, which has received increased attention recently. We have experienced four cases of hepatic cryosurgery on unresectable hepatomas at the ChungAng University Hospital in Korea, the first such cases, from September 1995 to December 1995. There was an excellent therapeutic outcome in one case. We expect that hepatic cryosurgery will serve as a new and effective therapeutic modality for unresectable hepatoma.
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular ; Cryosurgery* ; Humans ; Korea ; Liver Neoplasms ; Prognosis

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Korea*

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A few cases of femoral neuropathy that were developed after renal transplantation have been reported in western literature. The possible causes of this neuropahty that discussed in recent studies are compression of nerve by self-retaining retractor during operation, ischemia of femoral nerve by iliac muscle hematoma etc. We experienced one case of femoral nerve neuropathy after right iliac fossa renal transplantation that developed at first postoperative day without definitive etiology in all study. It was improved symptomatically after 2 weeks of postoperative day, so we reported this case with brief review of the literatures.
Femoral Nerve ; Femoral Neuropathy* ; Hematoma ; Ischemia ; Kidney Transplantation*