IdeasForSurgery provides you with details and insight of the most innovative developments in minimally invasive, endolumenal, and no scar procedures. Escape with IdeasForSurgery and focus on the most innovative and visionary treatment methods and device ideas. Join discussion...

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For serious cases of breast cancer, a double mastectomy is often the only option. However, there are many options for reconstruction, many of which use flaps of tissue from the back or abdomen to create a natural breast. However, for the extremely slender patients, they don't have a lot of tummy or back to donate to themselves. For these women, a silicone or saline implant was often the only option for reconstruction... until now. Join discussion...

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This site contains educational material aimed at those preparing for undergraduate and postgraduate surgical examinations. It includes clinical tutorials, a journal club, multiple choice questions, revision notes, slide library, discussion group and more... Join discussion...

Journal of Neurosurgery and American Association of Neurological Surgeons Join discussion...

A 68 year old female patient came to the E.D. with a chief complaint of sudden, severe epigastric pain, retching without vomitus and distention of the upper abdomen. Join discussion...

Heart bypass surgery creates a detour or "bypass" around the blocked part of a coronary artery to restore the blood supply to the heart muscle. The surgery is commonly called Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, or CABG Join discussion...

Open gastric bypass performed through a 10-cm incision matches laparoscopic surgery in terms of outcomes, including complications and length of stay, David Syn, MD, a surgeon at Covenant Medical Center, in Lubbock, Texas, reported at the 24th annual meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Join discussion...

Transanal excision (TA) is the most common method of surgically excising local rectal lesions, but data presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, in St. Louis, Missouri, suggests that transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) may offer certain advantages over the more standard procedure. In a study that compared TA with TEM, results showed that TEM was the technique of choice for excising local rectal neoplasms. While still relatively uncommon in the Un Join discussion...