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A patient recently had a tooth extraction, developed an infection and was admitted to our facility for surgical treatment of the abscess. She underwent incision and drainage of right abscess of flo...
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A patient found to have a tumor in the distal stomach underwent a distal gastrectomy with gastrojejunostomy (Billroth II). After completion of the distal gastrectomy, the proximal portion of the je...
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A patient with esophageal cancer underwent hybrid 3-hole esophagectomy and esophagogastrectomy with cervical esophagogastrostomy. During surgery, a gastric conduit was created which was brought up ...
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A newborn with polydactyly and a supernumerary digit of the fifth finger on the right hand underwent surgical excision. The surgery involved cutting through bone and other tissues to completely rem...
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A patient presented with thoracic outlet syndrome with a component of sympathetic dystrophic pain and vasomotor changes. Surgical intervention included thoracic outlet decompression and sympathecto...
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A patient underwent near total thyroidectomy due to multinodular thyroid gland. During surgery, both the right and left thyroid lobes were removed, except for a small quantity of thyroid tissue. Wh...
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A 36-year-old male with a chronic non-healing stump of the left upper extremity underwent irrigation and debridement with exchange of intramedullary antibiotic-impregnated spacer of the stump. The ...
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The patient is a 17-year-old male, who had previously undergone anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. He developed a complication of torn ACL graft and underwent further arthroscopic ACL...
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After a patient suffered a vertebrobasilar stroke, it was determined that there was a large amount of soft atheroma in the proximal left subclavian artery coming to within 5 to 6 mm of the vertebra...
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A patient underwent an open aortic and common iliac artery thrombectomy with infrarenal to bilateral distal common iliac artery bypass due to acute aortic thrombosis from the level of the renal art...
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